To hear him tell it, there was no specific moment of inspiration or event that prompted Amazon's brass to venture down this charitable road, just a desire to build things the company thinks its customers will "love".
Assuming that these charitable urges sprang from the desire not to spoil future generations with inherited wealth, Scroggin started advising his clients to graft a host of conditions onto a family trust instead.
The event will provide the liquidity desired by the charitable trust set up by the late granddaughter of Cargill's founder.
While his newly established organization One Coin For Life founded on the belief that the electronic music industry is in a position to help others and channel its assets to have an impact on global communities is beginning to satisfy those desires on a charitable end, I get the notion that 'Origins' is Luciano's creative vehicle for it.
He believes that the faltering efforts of the latter to engage are motivated merely by a desire "to justify their charitable status".
In the struggle between the charitable demands of faith and the desire to hold on to and accumulate personal possessions, mammon appears to be winning.
Deciding to make a charitable contribution can arise from a desire to help others, a passionate commitment to a cause or the aim to give back to a group that once helped you or a loved one.
He also cites the desire for "direct engagement in charitable activities, venture philanthropy and an interest in maintaining a greater sense of philanthropic or family legacy" as the top motivations for establishing a private foundation.
For Ighalo, the money he sends back to Nigeria is the least he can do and the desire now is to extend his charitable work further.
As religious freedom progresses in Vietnam, religious groups are increasingly demanding more from the government than the right to worship freely -- including the desire to be more involved in charitable activities and seeking resolution to longstanding property disputes.
This owes its impetus to a desire to read Plato as charitably as possible, and a belief that a charitable reading of Plato's works will minimise their dependence on the theory of Forms.
