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When companies sponsor social good, who benefits?

Clip: 3/24/2017 | 2m 38s

Social justice causes get money and sponsors get the benefit of looking good.

Corporate-funded art or culture can easily be called a win-win, says contemporary art curator Nato Thompson. Social justice causes get money and sponsors get the benefit of looking good. But what's the difference between advertisement and actual social good? Thompson offers his humble opinion.

03/24/2017 | Rating NR

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