Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Now, after two days of demolishing the reputation of Wyclef Jean’s charity, Yele, using evidence presented in an exhaustive article in New York Times (October 11, 2012), the Times reporter settles down to presenting the material for a corruption indictment: [...]
[Continued from yesterday''s Part 1.] By:David A. Smith Yesterday’s post used a thorough and heartbreaking article in New York Times (October 11, 2012) to introduce Wyclef Jean’s now-defunct charity, Yele, and showed how it was part and parcel of a life story he was weaving in which heroic young Wyclef makes a success [...]
By:David A. Smith Charity is easy; work is hard; so ‘charitable work’ may be an oxymoron, and this most recent celebrity flameout demonstrates that of all the people with whom one might entrust one’s philanthropy, celebrities are surely the worst, for their fame deludes both them and us into thinking they are competent at [...]
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday we sought reasons why celebrity charities so often flame out, from Louise Ciccone’s (Madonna’s) Raising Malawi, which not only abandoned its attempt to build a school but also is entangled with an IRS investigation to potential fraud and tax evasion, as reported in [...]
By: David A. Smith What is it with celebrities and philanthropy? Look grateful, honey I have a theory. Put a dollar sign on it, Albert It’s easy to see why celebrities are adopting charitable causes. For those for whom personal brand is the basis of economic value, philanthropy has become [...]
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