WuDunn GS '88, Kristof discuss educating girls at panel
Zaynab ZamanFocusing on charity’s outcomes and educating girls will help to effect positive change in the world, University Trustee andformer New York Times editor Sheryl WuDunn GS ’88 andNew York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof said at a panel discussion on Monday. The panel washeld to discuss Kristof and WuDunn’s book, “A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity,” which focuses on problems faced by women and girls around the world and what can be done to expand their opportunities. Though some aspects of giving and charity are done well globally, there are also a number of things the charitable world does not do well, WuDunn said. “We believe that the charitable world is in need of a revolution,” WuDunn said. There is a need for an increasing focus on outcomes, she said, noting the new trend toward so-called effective altruism. The story of a nonprofit executive, Dan Pallotta, whose foundation raised around $72 million for breast cancer and AIDS relief in 2002 but was taken over by the Avon Products Foundation after criticism surrounding the level of the executive’s compensation, was an example of having the right intentions but leading to an ineffective outcome, WuDunn said.
