Philanthropy: Are We a Profession? Should We Be? doi: 10.4087/FOUNDATIONREVIEW-D-10-00026

· When philanthropy is assessed against seven standards for what constitutes a profession, it meets only 3 of them. · Questions remain about the core concepts of the field, and how the field builds and disseminates knowledge. · There is much discussion about “scientific philan-thropy, ” but the inability to answer these questions limits the field’s ability to function scientifically. · Wisdom, rigor, and learning may be better ap-proaches to philanthropy that a scientific ap-proach