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Classes provide "how to" and "how come": Jason Chandler is a practicing philanthropologist.(SPECIAL FOCUS--PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT)
Non-profit Times, The, October, 2007 by McNamara, Don
Is that a new designation available to those who toil in the nonprofit/philanthropic community, something awarded by universities with nonprofit studies programs?
No, it is Chandler's own word, of which he is quite proud.
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On his resume, Chandler is the senior director of development at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. Also on that resume is a Master of Arts degree from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
So, "philanthropologist"?
"One of the things to me is that philanthropy is voluntary action for the public good or love of human kind. And if I'm a student of the love of human kind, then I'm a practicing philanthropologist," Chandler said.
"I coined the phrase...
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