# Donor control

`kaal:entity:donor-control`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `donor-control`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 1 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3981021-005](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3981021-005) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- 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.
  > 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.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3981021
- [3981021-006](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3981021-006) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- 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.
  > 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.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3981021
- [3981021-018](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3981021-018) [mechanism/argued] -- On chain governance takes the donation out of the hands of the individual donor, who may one sidedly or mistakenly allocate assets, and puts the asset allocation and policing decisions into the hands of the community of voting associates.
  > the donation out of the hands of the individual donor (who may one-sidedly or mistakenly allocate assets to further the donor's donative intent). Instead, the asset allocation and policing decisions are put into the hands of the community of CHARITYxDAO VAs.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3981021

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