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May 31, 2003

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Why did Claire Mackintosh launch ShareGift?

It's an easy assumption that the creator of a charity must be motivated by the desire to improve the lot of the disadvantaged. But it would be wrong in the case of Claire Mackintosh, the founder of London-based charity ShareGift. Claire Mackintosh – aka Lady Mackintosh (she's a viscountess) – is delighted the charity she created in 1996 has passed on well over £3 mn ($4.8 mn) to worthy causes. But that was not her primary goal in launching it: 'I certainly didn't think, I

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Janet Dignan

Janet Dignan is a graduate of Otago University in New Zealand, where she read philosophy. From 1979 to1982 she was head of information at Linklaters, with responsibility for internal and external information resources for its offices in London, Hong...
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