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Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

Marvin Olasky

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Marvin Olasky
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 12
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