Tag: Philanthropy

January 26, 2024

For-Profit Philanthropy Elite Power and the Threat of Limited Liability Companies

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Free Download For-Profit Philanthropy: Elite Power and the Threat of Limited Liability Companies, Donor-Advised Funds, and Strategic Corporate Giving by Dana Brakman Reiser, Steven A. Dean
English | January 3, 2023 | ISBN: 0190074507 | 344 pages | PDF | 3.99 Mb
This book exposes a migration of business practices, players, and norms into philanthropy that strains the regulatory regime sustaining public trust in elite generosity through accountability and transparency and proposes legal reforms and private solutions to restore it.

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December 29, 2023

Philanthropy and the Future of Science and Technology

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Free Download Philanthropy and the Future of Science and Technology
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1138334928 | 228 Pages | EPUB | 1.2 MB
An increasingly important and often overlooked issue in science and technology policy is recognizing the role that philanthropies play in setting the direction of research. In an era where public and private resources for science are strained, the practices that foundations adopt to advance basic and applied research needs to be better understood. This first-of-its-kind study provides a detailed assessment of the current state of science philanthropy. This examination is particularly timely, given that science philanthropies will have an increasingly important and outsized role to play in advancing responsible innovation and in shaping how research is conducted.

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July 3, 2023

Female Philanthropy in the Interwar World Between Self and Other

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Free Download Eve Colpus, "Female Philanthropy in the Interwar World: Between Self and Other"
English | ISBN: 1474259685 | 2018 | 312 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Female philanthropy was at the heart of transformative thinking about society and the role of individuals in the interwar period. In Britain, in the aftermath of the First World War, professionalization; the authority of the social sciences; mass democracy; internationalism; and new media sounded the future and, for many, the death knell of elite practices of benevolence. Eve Colpus tells a new story about a world in which female philanthropists reshaped personal models of charity for modern projects of social connectedness, and new forms of cultural and political encounter.

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