Author: J. Howard Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Education is a top-priority funding area for corporate philanthropy, mostly because corporate leaders recognize that strategic investments in education can have long-term pay off for their companies as well as for students and schools. It is also one of the most visible and effective means for demonstrating a company's commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and branding itself as a good corporate citizen in its communities and among its employees and customers. But educational philanthropy can also be a black hole into which a lot of money can disappear without much obvious effect. Usually, this happens when a company practices "checkbook philanthropy," where money is given without clear goals, strategic alignment with business objectives, or sufficient oversight and accountability. This paper describes the following: (1) kind of returns corporate investors can expect in education; (2) best practices for high impact education philanthropy; and (3) how to get started with education partnerships.
Return on Investment (ROI) for Education Philanthropy
Author: J. Howard Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Education is a top-priority funding area for corporate philanthropy, mostly because corporate leaders recognize that strategic investments in education can have long-term pay off for their companies as well as for students and schools. It is also one of the most visible and effective means for demonstrating a company's commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and branding itself as a good corporate citizen in its communities and among its employees and customers. But educational philanthropy can also be a black hole into which a lot of money can disappear without much obvious effect. Usually, this happens when a company practices "checkbook philanthropy," where money is given without clear goals, strategic alignment with business objectives, or sufficient oversight and accountability. This paper describes the following: (1) kind of returns corporate investors can expect in education; (2) best practices for high impact education philanthropy; and (3) how to get started with education partnerships.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Education is a top-priority funding area for corporate philanthropy, mostly because corporate leaders recognize that strategic investments in education can have long-term pay off for their companies as well as for students and schools. It is also one of the most visible and effective means for demonstrating a company's commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and branding itself as a good corporate citizen in its communities and among its employees and customers. But educational philanthropy can also be a black hole into which a lot of money can disappear without much obvious effect. Usually, this happens when a company practices "checkbook philanthropy," where money is given without clear goals, strategic alignment with business objectives, or sufficient oversight and accountability. This paper describes the following: (1) kind of returns corporate investors can expect in education; (2) best practices for high impact education philanthropy; and (3) how to get started with education partnerships.
Philanthropy in Education
Author: Natasha Y. Ridge
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1789904129
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Challenging commonly held perceptions of philanthropic organisations, this book brings together a range of interdisciplinary contributors from across the globe to explore the most pressing issues facing those working in and with philanthropy and education. It focuses on the increasing influence of new philanthropic actors on the global education sector, offering a thorough insight into the topic.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1789904129
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Challenging commonly held perceptions of philanthropic organisations, this book brings together a range of interdisciplinary contributors from across the globe to explore the most pressing issues facing those working in and with philanthropy and education. It focuses on the increasing influence of new philanthropic actors on the global education sector, offering a thorough insight into the topic.
Facilitating Higher Education Growth through Fundraising and Philanthropy
Author: Alphin Jr., Henry C.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1466696656
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Many institutions facing dwindling state and government funding often rely on the patronage of others in order to establish monetary security. These donations assist in the overall success and development of the institution, as well as the students who attend. Facilitating Higher Education Growth through Fundraising and Philanthropy explores current and emergent approaches in the financial development and sustainability of higher education institutions through altruistic actions and financial assistance. Featuring global perspectives on the economics of philanthropy in educational settings and subsequent growth and development within these environments, this book is an exhaustive reference source for professors, researchers, educational administrators, and politicians interested in the effects of altruism on colleges and universities.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1466696656
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Many institutions facing dwindling state and government funding often rely on the patronage of others in order to establish monetary security. These donations assist in the overall success and development of the institution, as well as the students who attend. Facilitating Higher Education Growth through Fundraising and Philanthropy explores current and emergent approaches in the financial development and sustainability of higher education institutions through altruistic actions and financial assistance. Featuring global perspectives on the economics of philanthropy in educational settings and subsequent growth and development within these environments, this book is an exhaustive reference source for professors, researchers, educational administrators, and politicians interested in the effects of altruism on colleges and universities.
Investing in Education
Author: Samuel Conver
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Many contemporary policymakers and philanthropists interested in fixing problems in urban education look to business practices and market-based reforms. Venture Philanthropy (VP), draws its practices directly from the financial sector, using strategic investment to increase the capacity and achievement of funded organizations and to promote social goals. VP firms are increasingly a part of the education environment yet currently there is little empirical data on the specific meaning, ideas, and logic through which these organizations understand and investment in education, particularly urban education. This research sought to answer the research question, what is the theory of action of a venture philanthropy firm focusing on educational improvement and what new meanings and practices does it produce in one urban district? This study collected data using embedded ethnographic methods including over 200 hours of observations, 21 interviews, and document collection creating a case study of a single education VP, the Center for Educational Advancement (CEA). Using Foucauldian disciplinary theory to analyze CEA's perspective on and practice of educational investment, this study found that CEA sought to transform the instruction and culture within its portfolio of urban schools by using the disciplinary practices of observation, judgement, and examination, thereby producing for its donors a student achievement return on investment.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Many contemporary policymakers and philanthropists interested in fixing problems in urban education look to business practices and market-based reforms. Venture Philanthropy (VP), draws its practices directly from the financial sector, using strategic investment to increase the capacity and achievement of funded organizations and to promote social goals. VP firms are increasingly a part of the education environment yet currently there is little empirical data on the specific meaning, ideas, and logic through which these organizations understand and investment in education, particularly urban education. This research sought to answer the research question, what is the theory of action of a venture philanthropy firm focusing on educational improvement and what new meanings and practices does it produce in one urban district? This study collected data using embedded ethnographic methods including over 200 hours of observations, 21 interviews, and document collection creating a case study of a single education VP, the Center for Educational Advancement (CEA). Using Foucauldian disciplinary theory to analyze CEA's perspective on and practice of educational investment, this study found that CEA sought to transform the instruction and culture within its portfolio of urban schools by using the disciplinary practices of observation, judgement, and examination, thereby producing for its donors a student achievement return on investment.
A Good Investment?
Author: Amy Brown
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452945500
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Select students and teachers worked the room at a fundraising event for a New York City public high school Amy Brown calls College Preparatory Academy. It was their job to convince wealthy attendants that College Prep, with its largely minority and disadvantaged student body and its unusually high rate of graduation and college acceptance, was a worthy investment. To this end, students and teachers tried to seem needy and deserving, hoping to make supporters feel generous, important, and not threatened. How much, Brown asks, does competition for financing in urban public schools depend on marketing and perpetuating poverty in order to thrive? And are the actors in this drama deliberately playing up stereotypes of race and class? A Good Investment? offers a firsthand look behind the scenes of the philanthropic approach to funding public education—a process in which social change in education policy and practice is aligned with social entrepreneurship. The appearance of success, equity, or justice in education, Brown argues, might actually serve to maintain stark inequalities and inhibit democracy. Her book shows that models of corporate or philanthropic charity in education can in fact reinforce the race and class hierarchies that they purport to alleviate. As their voices reveal, the teachers and students on the receiving end of such a system can be critically conscious and ambivalent participants in a school’s racialized marketing and image management. Timely and provocative, this nuanced work exposes the unintended consequences of an education marketplace where charity masquerades as justice.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452945500
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Select students and teachers worked the room at a fundraising event for a New York City public high school Amy Brown calls College Preparatory Academy. It was their job to convince wealthy attendants that College Prep, with its largely minority and disadvantaged student body and its unusually high rate of graduation and college acceptance, was a worthy investment. To this end, students and teachers tried to seem needy and deserving, hoping to make supporters feel generous, important, and not threatened. How much, Brown asks, does competition for financing in urban public schools depend on marketing and perpetuating poverty in order to thrive? And are the actors in this drama deliberately playing up stereotypes of race and class? A Good Investment? offers a firsthand look behind the scenes of the philanthropic approach to funding public education—a process in which social change in education policy and practice is aligned with social entrepreneurship. The appearance of success, equity, or justice in education, Brown argues, might actually serve to maintain stark inequalities and inhibit democracy. Her book shows that models of corporate or philanthropic charity in education can in fact reinforce the race and class hierarchies that they purport to alleviate. As their voices reveal, the teachers and students on the receiving end of such a system can be critically conscious and ambivalent participants in a school’s racialized marketing and image management. Timely and provocative, this nuanced work exposes the unintended consequences of an education marketplace where charity masquerades as justice.
Philanthropy and American Higher Education
Author: J. Thelin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137318589
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Philanthropy and American Higher Education provides higher education professionals, leaders and scholars with a thoughtful, comprehensive introduction to the scope and development of philanthropy and fund raising as part of the essential life and work of colleges and universities in the United States.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137318589
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Philanthropy and American Higher Education provides higher education professionals, leaders and scholars with a thoughtful, comprehensive introduction to the scope and development of philanthropy and fund raising as part of the essential life and work of colleges and universities in the United States.
Philanthropy at Independent Schools
Author: Helen A. Colson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Disrupting Education Policy
Author: Marina Avelar
Publisher: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9781787076884
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Philanthropy is on the rise around the world, working in the fields of health, development and, most often, education. Different from charity, now donations are used as "social investment" with specific goals. In education, big corporations and wealthy businessmen strive to reform education through their philanthropic "giving", and have managed to assemble considerable influence in policymaking processes in many countries. But how do new philanthropy organisations promote education reform? And how does their policy work look like in practice? In this book, the author analyses the efforts of large foundations in Brazilian education governance to address these questions. Though having the main empirical setting of Brazilian institutions, this book analyses networks, policies and discourses that surpass national borders and also addresses how new philanthropists are connected to global networks. With support of network ethnography and concepts from Political Science and Human Geography, the author invites the readers to challenge preconceived ideas of how governments and new philanthropy operate, and observe the behind-the-scenes work of new philanthropy to reform education.
Publisher: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9781787076884
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Philanthropy is on the rise around the world, working in the fields of health, development and, most often, education. Different from charity, now donations are used as "social investment" with specific goals. In education, big corporations and wealthy businessmen strive to reform education through their philanthropic "giving", and have managed to assemble considerable influence in policymaking processes in many countries. But how do new philanthropy organisations promote education reform? And how does their policy work look like in practice? In this book, the author analyses the efforts of large foundations in Brazilian education governance to address these questions. Though having the main empirical setting of Brazilian institutions, this book analyses networks, policies and discourses that surpass national borders and also addresses how new philanthropists are connected to global networks. With support of network ethnography and concepts from Political Science and Human Geography, the author invites the readers to challenge preconceived ideas of how governments and new philanthropy operate, and observe the behind-the-scenes work of new philanthropy to reform education.
Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurs� Engagement in Philanthropy
Author: Marilyn L. Taylor
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1783471018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
øCurrently, very little academic research exists on the intersection of entrepreneurship and philanthropy. This unique Handbook fills that gap, exploring how and why entrepreneurs who drive success in the for-profit world become engaged in philanthropy
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1783471018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
øCurrently, very little academic research exists on the intersection of entrepreneurship and philanthropy. This unique Handbook fills that gap, exploring how and why entrepreneurs who drive success in the for-profit world become engaged in philanthropy
Education and Philanthropy
Author: John Alford Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description