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Young industrialist Alex von Furstenberg is venturing on the type of goodness that Henry David Thoreau once agreed to be the only “investment that never fails.” Consistently keeping philanthropy at work, he recognizes the side of life where reaching out to people gives new meaning to success and puts forth a symbol of genuine corporate charity that honestly seeks to empower people and affect positive social changes.
As a long-time supporter of various noble causes, Furstenberg displays an example of a man who values the betterment of people as the road to social progress. Philanthropy is more than charity; it’s more than giving aid. What drives real philanthropy, as Alex von Furstenberg has shown throughout the years as director and secretary of The Diller–von Furstenberg Family Foundation, is the desire to see people find their potential to grow, witness communities discover their strengths and improve, and break the barriers of social apathy, intolerance, and mediocrity on both sides of any reality.
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What drowns hopes of poor people is neither the state of being disadvantaged nor the lack of opportunities. What puts people further down into the most abject condition is the inability to rise above situations and confront challenges. For Furstenberg, philanthropy works when it doesn’t totally give a crutch, but helps people realize that they have to create one out of something they have.
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