Nonprofit Sector’s New Reality Show

By Nathaniel Whittemore

If you thought the NBC series The Philanthropist made some waves, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

This fall, the Canadian cable channel Showcase will debut “The Foundation,” an extremely unfriendly skewering of a fictional philanthropist who runs the foundation begun by his death-bedridden tycoon father with all the cynical, corrupt aplomb you would expect from a TV anti-hero.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Give and Take blog wrote about the show this afternoon and it’s already begun to make waves around the philanthropy Twittersphere, with Tactical Philanthropy’s Sean Stannard-Stockton saying “OMG. If South Park re-did The Philanthropist. Appalling.” and “Philanthrocapitalism” author Matthew Bishop writes “This may be a work of genius…”

So far, all we have is the link to the trailer, which as you can see for yourself, isn’t super kind in it’s stereotyping of the field:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d1qTTzSg7w


Source: Change.org