Author: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
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Category : Endowments
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
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Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Author: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
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Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: Joseph Kiger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351499866
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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The modern American foundation as an instrumentality for charitable and philanthropic giving is in many ways a unique and complex social/economic/political institution. This is particularly the case for foundations with large assets. As a social phenomenon, the foundation has deep roots in the past. At the beginnings of any degree of civilization charitable giving and rudimentary forms of foundations emerge. This is the case in many regions of the world. The pattern is consistent: once enough property or wealth beyond primitive human needs is accumulated, some of it begins to be set aside for what the donors of such wealth consider worthwhile purposes.The serious literature contributing greatly to public perception of philanthropy and foundations has been relatively sparse. Much of what is available is quantitative and statistical in nature. There has been limited objective attention to the motives or reasons spurring individual philanthropists to engage or not to engage in creating foundations; such motivation needs historical and comparative analysis. Major investigations and studies of foundations, together with ancillary national, regional, and international organizations to facilitate such study, have received spotty consideration.Philanthropists and Foundation Globalization addresses three interrelated aspects of foundation history. First, it reviews biographical-historical profiles of the founding philanthropists and their heirs engaged in international giving. Second, it discusses major governmental and non-governmental investigations and studies of foundations including domestic ones, and also foreign ones in which U.S. participants have played a prominent role, spanning the period 1912 to the present. Third, it chronicles foundation developments and activities in Europe at the close of the twentieth century. The volume provides a historical account of some U.S. foundations' international activity in a particular region in a specific time period and their a

Author: Foundation Center
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Category : Endowments
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Melissa Ramsdell
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Author: Rockefeller Foundation
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Category : Endowment of research
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1168

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Author: Conservation Foundation
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Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Dwight F. Burlingame
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576078612
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 945

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A landmark three-volume reference work documenting philanthropy and the nonprofit sector throughout American history, edited by the field's most widely recognized authority. Developed under the guidance of Dr. Dwight Burlingame of the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, one of the nation's premier institutes for the study of philanthropy, the three-volume Philanthropy in America: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia is the definitive work on philanthropic, charitable, and nonprofit endeavors in the United States. The first section of the encyclopedia contains over 200 A–Z entries covering the lives of important philanthropists, the missions and practices of key institutions and organizations, and the impact of seminal events throughout the history of the nonprofit sector in America, from precolonial times to the present. Discussions of philanthropic traditions in ancient civilizations, in Europe during colonial times, and in countries around the world today provide fascinating contexts for understanding how the American philanthropic experience has developed. The encyclopedia also includes a collection of primary source documents (legislation, foundation reports, mission statements, etc.) for convenient review and further research.