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The Poor Philanthropist III: A Practice-relevant Guide for Community Philanthropy

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This guide has its origins in a research study carried out between 2003 and 2005, the purpose of
which was to explore the local ethos of caring and sharing in poor African communities. Focus
groups carried out by national research teams in Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe
generated rich narrative text revealing what the term ‘help’ means to the poor, who helps and is
helped in poor communities, the forms help takes and, finally, why people help each other. This
knowledge informed the first systematic understanding of ‘indigenous philanthropy’ in southern
Africa. To emphasise the local ethos of caring and sharing and make it more visible to development
organisations, it was named. The term ‘horizontal philanthropy’ or ‘philanthropy of community’
(PoC) was coined and the research findings documented in a 2005 monograph entitled, The Poor
Philanthropist: How and Why the Poor Help Each Other (Wilkinson-Maposa, Fowler, Oliver-Evans &
Mulenga 2005).

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AWDF.0941

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Southern Africa : Southern Africa–United States Centre for Leadership and Public Values., 2009

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English

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978 1 920299 03 3

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