Minority and women donors. Fifty years ago, neither group was considered a significant philanthropic force. However, that's changing. He was the wage earner, he had the self-confidence. But now women are more in charge of their financial destinies than they once were.
Hunt compares the future of women's philanthropy to the future of women in politics.
Black Americans, notes Emmett Carson, president of the Minneapolis Foundation, have a long history of being charitable. That's what the late Reginald Lewis did. They're no longer the barons of oil, railroads and heavy industry, but the new titans of technology, media and Wall Street. And it falls on Walter Annenberg, and his gifts of unprecedented sums to educational reform efforts. And on Ted Turner, who puts his money where his mouth is.