# kaal:claim:3981021-005

**Claim.** Modern philanthropic strategies entrust donors with identifying which problems need to be solved and with providing the solutions, rather than trusting the solutions proposed by the nonprofits themselves, which makes the approach more centralized and less grassroots.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- modern donor driven philanthropic strategies

**Source quote.**

> strategies that entrust donors with identifying which problems need to be solved and then provide the perceived appropriate solutions; rather than trusting the solutions proposed by the non-profits themselves.38 This approach is more centralized and less grassroots39 for solving societal issues.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving* (2021), Motivation, Power Imbalances, page 11

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3981021

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**Failure mode.** Donor centralization of problem definition  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** decentralization

**Keywords.** donor-control, centralization, grassroots, power-imbalance, philanthropy

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