Conde Nast Traveler Magazine: Philanthropic Travelers

Seeing a cheetah is great, but facing up to poverty can reshape the way you see the your world. 
The Globalization of Empathy
Suddenly, sundowner cocktails are interrupted as the tracker shouts “Get in the jeep-now!” Fifteen yards away, a cheetah has killed an impala -not an unusual scene in any number ofExquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel southern Africa (Botswana, [...]

Socially Conscious Travel: Americans Helping Americans

Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel announces Americans helping Americans Philanthropic Travel: Leaving the Mines Behind Empowering Appalachia: May 31 to June 7, 2009
“Creating a Philanthropic Travel experience that inspires, educates and empowers both traveler/donor as well as host/beneficiaries highlighting Appalachia’s American spirit, music, crafts and the individual sacrifice that families have endured as a result of [...]

Native American Potlatch: Philanthropic Travel

Black Rock Solar 60kW dedication Potlatch on Pauite Tribal Land Wadsworth, Nevada -David Chamberlain
“And the avarice of mankind is insatiable…for it is in the nature of desire to be unlimited, and most men live only for the gratification of it. -Aristotle
We can learn much from the Native American tradition of the potlatch. It is a [...]

Venture Philanthropy

“Most companies today generally fall into one of two buckets, for-profit and non-profit. However, a third kind of company is growing in popularity with entrepreneurs, like myself, that threatens to change the paradigm of what it means to be in business. We call ourselves Social Entrepreneurs.
What it means to be a Social Entrepreneur is evolving, [...]

Destination Philanthropy

Destination Philanthropy
In the Beginning
In 1972 my grandfather, grandmother and I visited the poorest country in the western hemisphere: Haiti. Much to my grandmother’s dismay, my grandfather decided that our adventure for the day would be exploring the countryside with a Port Au Prince taxi cab driver as our guide. After an hour driving down a [...]

Understanding Travelers Philanthropy

“Philanthropic Travel is the ultimate luxury and a WIN-WIN-WIN formula on many, many levels.” -David Chamberlain CEO Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic Travel Worldwide
WINNER #1 Destination Communities
Destination communities win when philanthropic travelers arrive with open hearts and philanthropic intent. The economic generosity of those travelers allows communities to move past the daily march for survival by gifting [...]

The Evolution of Philanthropy

A Brief History: Creating Deeper Philanthropic Relationships
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” -Anais Nin
Intimate Personal Reality: Philanthropic Travel

Virtual Reality: Click Here to Collaborate
Virtual Reality: Click Here to Donate
Virtual Reality: Checkbook Charity
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Baby Boomers: Philanthropic Travelers

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Travel Philanthropist?

What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
Where waves of hunger roar?
Shall we set out across the sea of faces
In search of more and more applause?
Shall we buy a new guitar?
Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night?
Shall we get into [...]

Learn to Be Kind: Philanthropic Travel

New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds that we can acquire a greater capacity for compassion through meditation training, in much the same way as athletes or musicians train to improve their skill.
We’re in the midst of a revolution in brain science. The long held dogma that brain connections are unchangeable after age five, [...]