Anyone can be a philanthropist regardless of their social or financial status. A true philanthropist is someone who strives to connect to the good and to make a positive change through that good.  The study of economics has always fascinated me, particularly the supply and demand aspect of it. To understand economics is to understand that “scarcity” goes hand in hand with supply and demand as most people have unlimited wants but our resources are limited. When I say “resources” I am referring to our natural resources such as minerals, metals, food supply from our oceans, lumber from trees and the air we breathe. So what does economics have to do with philanthropy? Let’s just say that the average person does not wake up in the morning saying to themselves that their time and the earths natural resources are limited. Yet if you ask a philanthropist, activist, or a humanitarian why they do what they do; their response will predictably include a detailed description of how the human population is rapidly depleting and destroying our earth and that we do not have much time to correct it. You will experience an electric charge of urgency within their beingness, drawn into their passionate expression as your soul awakens with conviction. At least this is how I feel when I am together with one or more of my fellow change agent gurus!  The more invested I became in my philanthropic work, the more I was exposed to how philanthropy can also be used to mislead people in making a company look good for its stakeholders, pay fewer taxes, or leverage a cover-up from human and animal rights activists.