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It's also important to recognize there are fears in our world of philanthropy born from the very real dangers we sometimes face.

In 2018, Open Society Foundations had to move 100 employees out of their office in Budapest to Berlin, because of the repressive and hostile environment created by the Hungarian government's arbitrary interference.⁵ Richard and Rhoda Goldman created the Goldman Environmental Prize to honor the achievements and leadership of grassroots environmental activists from around the world. Many of the prize winners faced harassment, physical abuse, intimidation, false criminalization, unjust arrests, and jail sentences (two were murdered after receiving the prize).⁶ Activist donors who accompanied human rights leaders during El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s were often at physical risk for their safety.

Similarly, several globally recognized philanthropy leaders were happy to be interviewed for this book but were unwilling to be acknowledged or quoted, out of fear. Some work in countries with shrinking space for civil society and feared negative political and professional repercussions for sharing certain opinions.

The danger that some funders face can become tremendous obstacles to doing good in the world.

But these situations are by far the exception and not the rule.