Jackie Copeland-Carson

Jackie Copeland-Carson is USA Executive Director of the African Women’s Development Fund,USA. She is founder and chair of the Pan-African Women's Philanthropy Network and the philanthropy blogger for the Huffington Post Black Voices community

Pan-Africanising women’s philanthropy: anatomy of an emerging social movement

The traditional noblesse oblige notion of philanthropy as giving by a wealthy, more privileged class to a poor, less privileged class has been turned on its head. Jackie Copeland-Carson reports on a movement that is democratising philanthropy

By Jackie Copeland-Carson

/ 18 Oct 2011