A column on the people and ideas reshaping philanthropy in Brazil
Joana Ribeiro Mortari has spent years pushing Brazil’s philanthropic sector to look beyond what it funds and examine how it practices philanthropy in the first place.
In Aprofundando a Filantropia, Mortari brings a critical – and sometimes playful –eye to the habits, assumptions and power dynamics that shape giving. From putting strategic philanthropy “on the therapy couch” to exploring care, reflection and regenerative practice, she asks what philanthropy looks like when donors are willing to interrogate their own roles, relinquish control and change themselves along with the world they hope to change.
