If you are an Asian millionaire, please look away now!
The last few posts have stressed the need for action where East African Asians, the community I know best, have been urged to examine how they can take concerted action on charitable giving in order to make a difference. This is a call for taking a programme approach, based on policies, strategies and action plans aimed at generating long-term impact. It calls for the volunteering of management and organisational skills which have made the communities successful in the first place!
A word of caution, though. The Asian millionaire community in the UK must be already supporting charitable projects. But it is likely that these initiatives are personal and private rather than community based. They are certainly not aimed at leveraging funds from other sources. Private donations have their own place in charitable giving but a better option is to attract more funds to match the Asian pound.
The impact of community wide and organised philanthropy must be achieved sooner rather than later. This post is a challenge, an invitation and a plea - all rolled into one, and in one word - an appeal for joint action.
I am inviting East African millionaires living in the UK to come forward and to discuss the scope for a major and long-term community initiative. They would be placed in control of policy and sponsorship, and I will recruit senior volunteers to respond to their challenge by working on a policy framework and by producing a work programme for extensive scrutiny by 'the donor group'.
My aim is to work with the Asian millionaire community in the UK to get this going. If you have read this far, then you may be converted to working with me. Please email me. kalwant.ajimal@btinternet.com
The last few posts have stressed the need for action where East African Asians, the community I know best, have been urged to examine how they can take concerted action on charitable giving in order to make a difference. This is a call for taking a programme approach, based on policies, strategies and action plans aimed at generating long-term impact. It calls for the volunteering of management and organisational skills which have made the communities successful in the first place!
A word of caution, though. The Asian millionaire community in the UK must be already supporting charitable projects. But it is likely that these initiatives are personal and private rather than community based. They are certainly not aimed at leveraging funds from other sources. Private donations have their own place in charitable giving but a better option is to attract more funds to match the Asian pound.
The impact of community wide and organised philanthropy must be achieved sooner rather than later. This post is a challenge, an invitation and a plea - all rolled into one, and in one word - an appeal for joint action.
I am inviting East African millionaires living in the UK to come forward and to discuss the scope for a major and long-term community initiative. They would be placed in control of policy and sponsorship, and I will recruit senior volunteers to respond to their challenge by working on a policy framework and by producing a work programme for extensive scrutiny by 'the donor group'.
My aim is to work with the Asian millionaire community in the UK to get this going. If you have read this far, then you may be converted to working with me. Please email me. kalwant.ajimal@btinternet.com
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