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"Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left."
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Source: The Charitable-Industrial Complex by Peter Buffett, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 2013.
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