Essays examining the origins, development, and achievements of charitable organizations in key US cities and regions. Once largely confined to the biggest cities in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, philanthropic foundations now play a significant role in nearly every state. Wide-ranging and incisive, the essays in American Philanthropic Foundations: Regional Difference and Change examine the origins, development, and accomplishments of philanthropic foundations in key cities and regions of the United States. Each contributor assesses foundation efforts to address social and economic inequalities, and to encourage cultural and creative life in their home regions and elsewhere. This fascinating and timely study of contemporary America’s philanthropic foundations vividly illustrates foundations’ commonalities and differences as they strive to address pressing public problems.
Originally published in 1938, this is a classic muckraking account of the role of philanthropic foundations.
This book is essential reading for established donors and potential foundation creators, as well as legal and financial advisors working for wealthy families and foundations and fund-raisers for museums, churches, colleges, and other ...
The Destiny of Wealth: An Analysis of American Philanthropic Foundations from a Chinese Perspective
This book focuses on the influence of philanthropic foundations in global development, and on how the global south has engaged with them.
As David Hammack and Helmut Anheier note in this volume, "Americans have criticized foundations for... their alleged conservatism, liberalism, elitism, radicalism, devotion to religious tradition, hostility to religion—in short, for ...
... and Income in Mexico,” World Development 4, no. 1 (1976): 17. Borlaug, “Sixty-Two Years of Fighting Hunger,” 292. Ross, The Malthus Factor, 150. Michael K. Roberts, C. Micheal Schwartz, Michael S. Stohl and Harry R. Targ, ...
... of the Humanitarian NGO Sector (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020); David P. King, God's Internationalists: World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).
By addressing both the contours of philanthropic power as well as the processes through which that power has been enacted, it is hoped that this collection will reinforce and amplify the critical study of philanthropy's history.
William R. Lawrence's Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence (1855) is illuminating; ... Homer Folks, Care of Destitute, Neglected and Deliquent Children (1902), and Henry W. Thurston, The Dependent Child: ...
Adorno, Theodor W., Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford. 1950. The Authoritarian Personality. Studies in Prejudice Series vol. 1. Harper and Row. Aksartova, Sada. 2009. “Promoting Civil Society or Diffusing NGO's?