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cord-326029-oya0fc6d	Fuentenebro, Pablo	Will philanthropy save us all? Rethinking urban philanthropy in a time of crisis	2020-09-22		.txt	text/plain	3781	142	54	In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, billionaires, celebrities and philanthropy at large were quick to react, organising local and international campaigns to mobilise funds and put the spotlight on a global health issue that, as we would only come to realize much later, most governments outside Asia were too slow to react to: from the initial $125 million donated by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to the $14.5 million by Jack Ma -former CEO and founder of e-commerce portal Ali Baba-to the $1 billion pledged by Twitter CEO and cofounder Jack Dorsey, the list of donations, pledges and commitments made by the super-rich read almost like Forbes' Top 25 billionaires list. In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, while it would be hard to deny that philanthropy has supported or, at times, filled in a vacuum left by local (and even) national governments -providing resources and funds to cities and community-based organizations-often times the ways in which such engagements and partnerships have been articulated has raised a number of questions on the role of philanthropy in urban governance (Sandler, 2020; Teachout and Garofalo, 2020) .	./cache/cord-326029-oya0fc6d.txt	./txt/cord-326029-oya0fc6d.txt