Naina Batra, chief executive of the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network, thinks the sector gives too much power to philanthropists — and not enough to those they fund. And she’s trying to change it.
“Philanthropy is the only sector where the nonexperts tell the experts what to do,” she told Devex.
It’s not the first time Batra has said these words. Earlier this year she said the same thing at the Skoll World Forum — the annual gathering in Oxford, the United Kingdom, for social entrepreneurs — where her words struck a chord, and were repeated by speakers and delegates many times.