"He didn't really engage in any of the issues," the party member said, adding that while Mr. Bloomberg was personable and had commendable philanthropic interests, his answers to questions posed by party members were "very, very general".
But in the end, those who are trying to produce a philanthropic version of the capital markets must answer a billion-dollar question: how do you measure success?
The video is part of a series put together with the help of the John Templeton Foundation, a philanthropic organization whose mission is to help answer "Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality".
We rely in part on philanthropic donations to try and find these answers.
Steven Schroeder, the former president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation — the largest philanthropic organization in the United States devoted to health issues — had a definitive answer to my question about why Americans might be less healthy than their developed-country counterparts.
In August, "Janet" at Exxon Mobil in Irving, Texas, used Twitter to answer questions about the company's policies and to comment on its philanthropic activities.
(His intentions are philanthropic).
Rockefeller Foundation, U.S. philanthropic organization.
Others host lavish philanthropic galas.
