The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money.
What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?
Networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals.
I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.
If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.
If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.