This size permits one to seek diversity geographically, ethnically, occupationally, and in terms of age, gender, and point of view. It permits one to raise the financial expectations for trustees, how much each is expected to give financially or to raise each year without offending board veterans who signed up with a different understanding in mind. Resources permitting, the rising tide of generosity, of classes of well-selected newcomers filled with energy, purposefulness, and charitable funds to spare tends to lift the giving patterns of others. In philanthropy, the power of the positive
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