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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Grantmaking"”.
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Community Grantmaking Committees: Pravalence, Conceptualization, And Funding Decisions
… in funding decisions; (2) how these community grantmaking committees (CGCs) are conceptualized and operate; and (3) whether they can deliver on the promise of a “front-row take” on community problems and the organizations best suited to address them. This three-paper mixed-methods dissertation …
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Board and Staff Representation and Grantmaking in Community Foundations: The Effect of Racial Representation, Intersectionality, and Donor Control
As the United States continues its significant demographic shift, concerns persist about philanthropic responsiveness to the needs of diverse communities. While foundations aim to address societal challenges, historical leadership structures can pose barriers to equitable outcomes. This raises …
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“Impact is our true North”: a relational approach to the global distribution of U.S. foundations’ philanthropic gifts
… to understand how foundations select their grantmaking strategies and grantees, especially in the international realm. Employing a relational approach to the study of philanthropy, in which attention is paid to the effects of the field in which foundations are embedded, I conducted more than …
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Awarding Equitably: a process design framework for city grantmakers
… processes such as hiring, procurement, and grantmaking are the hidden engine that power the delivery of local government services. My research begins with a case study on designing the City of Boston’s organization-wide grantmaking process to standardize procedures. This effort became a …
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Community Foundations as Community Leaders
… operational roles, including asset building, grantmaking, and community leadership. While asset building and grantmaking have methods available to quantify and measure their impact, community leadership has remained an elusive concept for community foundations for many years.</p> <p>This study …
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Bürgerstiftungen als Akteure der Stadtentwicklung : Erkundung der Beiträge von Bürgerstiftungen zur Entwicklung von Stadt und Region
… is utmost need to go beyond the traditional grantmaking role of community foundations. On the one hand, most of the community foundations’ assets are concentrated in a handful of organisations, so that the majority of foundations only have little financial capability. On the other hand, …
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Beyond the Grant: Multidimensional Power in Foundation-Nonprofit Relationships
… relationships. In foundation-nonprofit grantmaking, foundations control financial resources and are therefore widely assumed to dominate the relationship. While existing scholarship documents this structural asymmetry, less attention has been given to how nonprofit grantees exercise …
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Recipient perspectives of privately funded aid in Tanzania
… recipient voice, nonprofit management, grantmaking, development aid, unintended consequences, aid dependency, theory of change, guiding principles