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Atlantic Philanthropies' CEO Gara LaMarche on reclaiming the moral life of philantrophy

Presented by the Center for International Studies — Starr Forum

MIT World

October 27, 2010

Gara LaMarche believes the nation’s charitable organizations have lost “moral clarity,” growing more concerned with “the fix, the intervention, than about reasons for doing or caring about what is right.”

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