Can we save the world through generosity? Philanthropy scholarship in the age of the megafoundation

Greetings, ISTR colleagues. It is a pleasure to meet with you in this very beautiful city, and of course a great honor to have been invited to give this Prize Lecture for the Society. My charge is to “reflect on my work in the field of Third Sector Studies as well as on the development of the field” over the course of my forty year career in the field. I will begin with my understanding the how the field of Third Sector studies has developed, and I will conclude with observations on the manner in which the recent transformation in the distribution of wealth is shaping so many of the phenomena that we, as scholars of the Third Sector, study.