From Vancouver. Social organizing is not philanthropy and most philanthropists do not fund it. What then is the connection between those two modalities of "private action in a public space"? Two visions and two methods of making the world a better place, from two different positions in the present articulations of power? We all want "Change," as Obama understood. We all want to change or preserve something. And we come at it with what we have: for some money and board seats and linkages at the highest levels of policy and governance; for others the ability to reach laterally and engage a few friends, who engage a few friends. Philanthropy measures, manages, fixes at the margins; activism, shakes the tree so that the philanthropists fall out like ripe fruit. That too could be measured and managed. But few MBAs go into that unpaid or poorly paid work. So the cultures of philanthropy and social change meet at the margins, in a pile of grant applications stamped, "Rejected." But even just getting the grant applications must be gratifying to those in charge.