# kaal:claim:3981021-006

**Claim.** Modern philanthropy limits the autonomy of grassroots charitable organizations and substitutes a leveraged and exploitive relationship in which the goals of the donor are served above all.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- grassroots charitable organizations receiving major private philanthropic funding

**Source quote.**

> there is a growing concern amongst commentators that modern philanthropy limits the autonomy of grassroots charitable organizations and replaces it with a leveraged and exploitive relationship where the goals of the donor are served above all.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving* (2021), Motivation, Power Imbalances, page 12

**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.** Loss of grassroots autonomy  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** ai-and-agents

**Keywords.** autonomy, grassroots, donor-control, exploitation, philanthropy

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