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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"History of Philanthropy"”.
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Riding the Wave: How the Philanthropic Revolution will Impact Museums in the United States and Canada
<p>This capstone project explores the history of philanthropy from 1970 to the present, and presents a strategy for museums to leverage contemporary trends in nonprofit giving. The methods proposed in this project are specifically targeted at engaging new community leaders and the family members of …
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Organising Tataland, the modern nation : a history of development in post/colonial India
… world is premised on the twin logics of modernization and nation-building, of which the latter has received little attention in post-development studies, and relatedly Management and Organisation Studies (MOS). This thesis interrogates – historically and critically – the imaginaries of …
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The Sisters of Charity in Nineteenth-Century America: Civil War Nurses and Philanthropic Pioneers
… the following question: What was the legacy of the Sisters of Charity in the history of philanthropy, women’s history, medicine and nursing? The Sisters of Charity was a Catholic religious order that provided volunteer nurses, and became highly visible, during the American Civil War. Several …
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Philanthropic Colonialism: New England Philanthropy in Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1860
… the Kansas-Nebraska bill which left the question of slavery in the territory up to a vote of popular sovereignty. Upon the passage of the bill, New England’s most elite class of citizens, led by Eli Thayer, mobilized their networks of philanthropy in New England to ensure the Kansas-Nebraska …