Origin Stories – PurposePhil Concept Book, Episode 1

This little concept book introduces the idea that philanthropy as it looks today, in the West, emerged in response to increasing inequalities based in land ownership and agricultural surpluses thousands of years ago. Those disparitie gave rise to both unmet human need and the desire of social stability.

Giving practices predate agrarian society and (as far as we know) extend to every society on record.