Involuntary philanthropy, with Jeremy Heimans
25 April 2018
Our first podcast interview is with Jeremy Heimans, co-author of bestselling book 'New Power'. We discussed Jeremy and his co-author Henry Timms' thesis on why the nature of power has changed in the 21st Century and what this might mean for philanthropy and civil society. We covered a whole range of issues including:
- The challenges of giving away power
- The benefits and downsides of decentralisation
- Whether giving control to the crowd could marginalise unpopular causes
- Changing organisational culture to embrace technology
- Whether New Power provides a use case for blockchain
- Is New Power an opportunity or a threat for existing philathropic organisations?