Paul Farmer’s Approach Shaped Our Foundation and Embodied the True Meaning of Giving [philanthropy.com]
By Wendy Schmidt, Photo: Nadia Todres/The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 28, 2022 With the death last week of Paul Farmer, the world lost a living saint. Farmer, who founded Partners in Health and provided health care and hope to impoverished people around the world, inspired our approach to philanthropy at the Schmidt Family Foundation in fundamental ways. His philosophy of what he called “ accompaniment ” — or the practice of literally accompanying those...