Disney: We are working on it. We have not worked the smoke-filled rooms yet, but I think we are in a position to do so.

Christine Grumm: The Atlanta Women’s Foundation actually did help work with local churches and community groups so that pimping underage women would be made a felony rather than just a misdemeanor. Before they made an issue of it, no one was touching it, but Atlanta had become a major place for sex traffic in women coming from Southeast Asia.

Hunt: Another example: I worked closely with a group of women working with an organization called Women for Afghani Women. These women in Afghanistan had two national conferences, and then met with the [members of] congress as they created their constitution. They were able to put in some women’s perspectives and needs and requests as the constitution was being written.

Worth: The Bush administration is always eager to have the private sector take on responsibility for social spending. But how much can philanthropy accomplish alone?

Disney: Philanthropy will never, ever, ever replace government
money. It is just a drop in the bucket as compared with what the government can accomplish. What we should be doing is looking for
cost-effective and strategic, alternative, new ways of looking at social programs, and modeling them, and rolling them out for the government to follow.