English-Portuguese translations for philanthropy

• filantropia
  Os fundos estruturais para os países da coesão não são uma mera manifestação de filantropia, antes representam também o interesse dos países mais ricos. Structural Funds for cohesion countries are not merely a matter of philanthropy, but are also in the interests of the richer countries.
  Tem de existir transparência, tem de existir algo mais do que filantropia nesta noção de responsabilidade social das empresas. There must be transparency, there must be more than philanthropy in this notion of corporate social responsibility.
  E quando falamos de ajuda, não falamos de filantropia, falamos da necessidade que tem a União Europeia de não voltar a ver fogos destes à sua porta. And when we talk of aid, we are not talking of philanthropy. We are talking of the need of the European Union never to see such conflagrations at its door again.

Definition of philanthropy

• Benevolent altruism with the intention of increasing the well-being of humankind
• Charitable giving, charity
• A philanthropic act
• A charitable foundation

Examples

• As public funding is reduced, we depend increasingly on private philanthropy
• His tombstone lists his various philanthropies
• the Rockefeller philanthropies

Related words

• philanthropic
• philanthropist
• philanthropically
• philanthropical
• philanthrope
• philanthrocapitalism
• philanthropinism
• philanthropism