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The day time peaceful protests? Or riots?The government would proclaim it is listening and then do whatever it was going to do anyway.There are numerous precedents for protests.Fuel protests around 2000/2001 also 2010. The government said they would listen and increased fuel duty anyway. The government then ‘leaned’ on the leaders of the fuel protests. Also a lot of black propaganda started appearing against the fuel protest leaders.Leaned - TV news at the time showed ‘negotiations’ I remember Skynews covering it. In short it looked like the UK government sent around some heavies to threaten the leaders.Black propaganda - News stories started appearing in the red top (tabloid) newspapers. The leaders of the fuel protests apparently had a premium rate phone number people were to call and use to donate money. Stories of how the leaders were splashing out on their wealth appeared.The public also turned against the fuel protests after a week when hospitals ran out of supplies and many people couldn’t get to work.In short the government machinery moved against the leaders and waited them out until they lost public support.Iraq war 2 protests 2002 - UK government saw a huge protest march. The government said it was listening. There were strikes to make the government listen. The UK government bombed and invaded Iraq anyway.For riots?We have the 2011 riots to look at. What happened? Notable things happened:The UK police (there are only 400 police per million in the UK vs about 1400 per million in HK) pretty much cracked down on the riots. They would go out in force and use a shield wall snatch strategy. The square shields form the wall and round shields are grab squads. The UK police used a containment and arrest strategy. So rioters would be completely cornered and surrounded. The rioters would then get hammer and anvil’d (See Alexander the Great) and everybody who was caught in the pincer movement was arrested.The UK court system made examples of looters and people damaging things.A notable case was a teenager who stole a bottle of water. 2 years in prison (paroled after 13 months).The UK army was also deployed here and there.Another notable event was the 2011 riots saw communities come together. In Bradford and Manchester various ethnic groups rallied together to defend their communities.In Bradford the Pakistani, Bangladeshi communities formed defensive groups to protect their neighbourhoods.In Manchester the same happened with the African community as well as the Jewish groups. Even the Manchester triads came out and they had patrols around China town.In short the riots were pretty much stomped on and ended as quickly as they started.

This is fromThe Top 10 GOOD NEWS Stories of 2012It never ceases to amaze me how much nice news happens with no one knowing anything about it..10) India Hails its First Polio-Free Year$1 billion and 23 years of volunteer work donated by Rotary club members worldwide made the dream a reality. The incidence of infection plunged during that time from 350,000 cases in 1988 to fewer than 1,000 cases in 2010. Tens of millions of dollars was also donated to the cause by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who declared, "Children in India are now protected against this debilitating, but preventable disease."9) In Age of Bullying, Special Needs Student Elected Prom KingIn May, Scott Shaver and Katie Buell were crowned prom king and queen at Westview High School in San Diego. Katie is an all-American girl, class president, champion in girls basketball, and an absolute sweetheart, according to her teachers. Yet, it seems every student, no matter their ability, is accepted and treasured. Scotty, as the kids call him, is a HUGE personality at the school, brought out of his shell over four years by the nurturing attention given, not only by specialized staff who have tutored him as a special needs student with autism, but by the accepting student body.The senior class nominated Scotty to the ballot not as a joke, said Scott Wild, a teacher and student advisor at the school, "but as a sincere tribute to him because they love him, respect him, and appreciate him." (Read more)8) Aung San Suu Kyi 'Wins Landslide Landmark Election' as Burma RejoicesThe Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, along with other leaders in the National League for Democracy claimed a landslide victory in a series of election contests in April, after spending much of the last two decades under arrest. They were freed in 2010 in a surprise move by Myanmar officials, and benefitted from a series of political reforms, which ended that country's isolation. President Obama visited the country, formerly known as Burma, in November, to help sustain the momentum toward change.7) Stray Pit Bull Saves a Woman and Child From AttackerEven though pit bulls are known to attack and maim, they canalso be wonderful pets -- and often, heroes. In May, a bull named Lilly pulled her unconscious owner from the path of a freight train, and was severely hurt in the process.But another story, in March, truly revealed an instinct of this breed to protect, even if the person is a stranger. A Florida woman was leaving a playground with her toddler in Port Charlotte when a man approached her in the parking lot and threatened her at knife point. Suddenly a Pit Bull who had been wandering the area charged the man, growling and barking until the attacker fled in surrender. The dog had never met the woman or child before, yet defended them as their guardian angel.6) London Olympics: Most Decorated Athlete Ever and the Uplift of a NationSwimmer Michael Phelps won 4 gold and 2 silver medals in the London games -- his 18th career gold medal and 22nd overall -- becoming the most decorated Olympian ever. Other stories of athletic achievement also warmed our hearts for two weeks in August. The Games of the XXX Olympiad were also the greenest Olympics ever, planned with an emphasis on sustainability.The most precious and unexpected result of the London Olympics, though, was the mood of national confidence and enthusiasm they generated in Great Britain. "Hosting the Olympics has boosted national morale more than any single event in most people's living memory," reported the Independent. "The capital and the country have been transformed." British audiences applauded even victorious rivals, and displayed special affection toward those who came in last.5) Three Major Cancer Breakthroughs, One is Discovered by a 15-Year-old-- Three independent studies have now shown that our understanding of the physical makeup of cancer tumors may have been based on a myth. Researchers have identified "cancer stem cells" to be responsible for causing a tumor to grow and develop.-- A new breakthrough that provides early detection for the most lethal form of cancer was created by a15-year-old Maryland teen, after his mom drove him to Johns Hopkins University every night after school to test his theory in a lab. Jack Andraka won the top prize at the Intel Science Fair for his new and simple dip-stick method to detect pancreatic, lung and ovarian cancer, which is 90% accurate and 28 times less expensive.-- Stanford researchers identified an antibody that was found to dramatically shrink or eradicate human cancer tumors that were transplanted into laboratory mice, no matter which type of cancer created the tumor. The research is unique because seven different types of cancer responded to the antibody.4) Entire Town Turns the Table on Bullying School PranksWhen so many examples of bullying were in the news this year, it is heartening to hear of several uplifting outcomes. Atiny farming town in Michigan rallied around a 16-year-old girl in September who became humiliated when her high school voted to elevate her to the homecoming court as a joke and then laughed at her in the hallways. In an inspiring turnaround, Whitney Kropp's embarrassment gained her thousands of friends and supporters who helped make her night unforgettable.Also in the Midwest, a high school football captain seeing classmates taunted on Twitter decided that online bullying should not be a spectator sport for his Minnesota town. So the 17-year-old, Kevin Curwick, quietly set up a Twitter account, @OsseoNiceThings, to praise students in need of a social facelift. Since then, Twitter posts attacking his classmates have disappeared -- and other towns are copying his uplifting actions. (See more inspiring stories about anti-bully heroes here, and here.)3) Mars Rover Beats the Odds, Lands on Red PlanetCuriosity, the largest and most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet, stuck an extraordinary landing in triumphant and flawless fashion on August 5. NASA's $2.5-billion mission involved the work of more than 5,000 people from 37 states, some of whom had labored for 10 years to hear the two words, “Touchdown confirmed.” Inside mission control, engineers who had been chewing the insides of their cheeks and bouncing their legs nervously leapt to their feet, embracing, high-fiving and, in some cases, weeping with joy, wrote Scott Gold in the LA Times. (Watch the video of scientists cheering)2) Strangers Raise $600,000 to Give Bullied Bus Driver a VacationA former bus driver, who in her senior years works as a bus monitor, sat patiently through ten minutes of relentless and brutal bullying by middle school kids on her route, while a video camera recorded the sorry scene. The video went viral and an online social media community so sympathized with her that they raised money to send her on a vacation -- to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The woman, Karen Huff Klein, now retired, started a foundation with some of the money.1) 2 Billion More Get Safe Water to Drink; UN Goal AchievedThe goal of reducing by half the number of people without access to safe drinking water has been achieved well ahead of the 2015 deadline for reaching the globally agreed target. Over two billion people gained access to improved drinking water sources between 1990 and 2010, the United Nations said in March.“Today we recognize a great achievement for the people of the world,”Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said upon the release of the report. “The successful efforts to provide greater access to drinking water are a testament to all who see the Millennium Development Goals not as a dream, but as a vital tool for improving the lives of millions of those in extreme poverty.”

It is difficult to answer this question with a simple list because the very meaning of the term 'philanthropy' has changed over the last 50 years. Many of the new forms of philanthropy have been quite successful (some examples are given shortly).If one considers only the large philanthropic foundations that typically characterised philanthropy of 50 or more years ago, then there has been little success. However entirely new models and forms of philanthropy have emerged largely due to changing social dynamics. For more on this see Looking Out for the Future: An Orientation for Twenty-first Century Philanthropists http://bit.ly/92JWCIA major factor has been the emergence of privatisation and growing private wealth. Hence the wealth of a society is no longer located mainly in government and a few large institutional funds. Now the wealth is spread much more broadly. Hence even though the large funds are playing less of a role there is nevertheless a growing philanthropic culture.In 1970, 70 percent of the capital flows to the developing world were from the government sector and 30 percent were from the private sector. In 2003, only 20 percent were from the government sector and 80 percent were from the private sector. (Looking Out for the Future: An Orientation for Twenty-first Century Philanthropists http://bit.ly/92JWCI)Most of the philanthropic capital is now flowing in a more distributed, diverse and strategic manner (for example, through http://www.avaaz.org/). It is often in the form of many small private donations of money, time, attention and other forms of support that are gathered for a specific purpose and targeted at solving a small component of a larger systemic problem.These efforts are combined with other approaches and thus it is difficult to say to what degree the solution of the problem depended on philanthropic support and to what degree it depended on governmental support or other economic / social activities.Some recent examples of social issues successfully addressed by Avaaz in only the past few weeks (Oct 2010) are:Canada (420,000 Avaaz members), we just took on an alliance of a media empire and a prime minister to subvert the independence of the country's media in their favour, and won.Brazil (730,000 members) we took a civil society movement online and drove an anti-corruption law through congress that is putting large numbers of corrupt politicians out of a job - widely hailed as a political revolution.Italy (240,000) we rallied opposition to the Prime Minister's bill to tie the hands of Italy's corruption investigators - commentators hailed the victory as the first time in Italian history online mobilization had shifted the parliamentary agenda.Argentina (60,000) we surged to protect crucial glaciers from what looked like certain destruction by mining companies, and won.South Africa (70,000) we built a massive public outcry against sweeping new censorship powers over the press, forcing the government to alter its media regulation law.Germany (480,000) thousands of last-minute phone calls from our members helped stop the government from drastically cutting its aid budget.The above is quoted from an email from Avaaz. For more on these stories see http://www.avaaz.org/en/global_victory_report/?cl=785161353&v=7357Avaaz is just one example of the new face of philanthropy / social giving. Various online micro-credit systems are also distributing increasing amounts of philanthropic capital from wealthier populations to developing societies http://bit.ly/aZYzBy. Also google "microcredit success stories" http://www.google.com/search?q=microcredit+success+stories .There are also many other different forms of philanthropy around today and more emerging, hence it is rather difficult to define exactly what constitutes 'philanthropy' and what its social impact has been. However the general trend has been towards greater capital flow, more distributed sources of capital, more diverse issues addressed, more strategic approaches and greater influence.