IFC Roundup: Major Donors — The Personal View

We asked him to talk to us about the kinds of people who become philanthropists in Europe. His view is that the emergence of new wealth in Europe is helping to create new philanthropists, but that also there is a shift in opinion, with philanthropy becoming something that some people, particularly younger people, can talk about. Older families, particularly in Holland, tend to be very modest about their philanthropy — to the point that one of the foundations he manages is completely anonymous, with the founder invisible even to those who work there.