Marcelle speller biography of mahatma
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Marcelle speller biography of mahatma gandhi
Successful entrepreneur Marcelle Speller used her winning business skills to connect under-the -radar local charities with philanthropists. Here she shares her enriching journey.
My philanthropic journey started in 2005, after the sale of Holiday-Rentals.com which I had co-founded nine years previously.
Without the need to make money, I could now focus on something that had always been a goal – to do something worthwhile. It’s hard to describe without clichés, it’s not “giving back” as that infers you’ve taken away; maybe it’s as simple as trying to leave the world a better place in some small way.
After a few false starts, I took the Institute for Philanthropy Workshop.
We visited charities and NGOs in the UK, Vietnam and New York.
Marcelle speller biography of mahatma
But wherever we went it was the small local charities that inspired me. They are directly accountable to their beneficiaries - the glue that holds local communities together. In the UK they are seriously threatened by government spending cuts, and