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Showing 1 to 20 of 182 for “"philanthropy"”.
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Philanthropy
<p>'Philanthropy' is a collection of short stories exploring how people connect with, or become disconnected from, one another in times of difficulty or crisis.</p>
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The Impact of Philanthropy
<p>Forwarding a narrative framework of philanthropic impact this thesis problematizes the evaluation methods used by social engagement organizations to measure the impact or change that they are contributing to in a community. By focusing on the example of food access, and the corresponding …
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Beyond Generosity: The Action Logics in Philanthropy
… decision processes of donors when they engage in philanthropy? This study employed developmental psychology to explore this question. Developmental theorists agree that an adult develops in sequential stages over the course of a lifetime, gradually adopting an increasingly complex mental map. An …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Philanthropy
<p>This dissertation studies the economics of prosocial behavior. More specifically, I investigate experimentally how prosocial incentives, pledges, and altruistic self-concept affect individuals' prosocial behaviors in three chapters. Chapter 1 studies the role of self-chosen goals in shaping …
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Do tax aggressive executives influence corporate philanthropy?
… tax aggressive executives pursue corporate philanthropy. Relative to a control group, corporate philanthropy increases by 3.0 percent, on average, following personal tax aggression events by executives. Put another way, every $1 of personal tax gain by executives is associated with $2.01 of …
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The pictured child in Victorian philanthropy 1869-1908
… that forms part of the archive of Victorian philanthropy in general, and temperance in particular, remains largely untapped. The study is a response to this scholarly neglect, with the uses made by charity of the pictured child forming its central site of inquiry. Philanthropic images of …
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Major Donor Philanthropy and the Effects of Social Capital
There is little extant philanthropy research on wealthy donors in the U.S. This qualitative research study is an in-depth examination of actual charitable giving experiences described by wealthy donors. It is based on interviews with 32 wealthy major donors who gave 5-7 figure donations to large …
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Venture Philanthropy: A Case Study of Three Nonprofit Organizations
<p>Beginning in the 1990s, a new kind of philanthropy emerged that was formulated on the premise of merging philanthropy with investing. The concept of turning philanthropy into social investing was coined venture philanthropy and has received substantial attention since its inception. Generally …
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The conscience of capital: philanthropy at the Chautauqua Institution
This work seeks to demonstrate that philanthropy at Chautauqua Institution is a way of promoting, designing, preserving and protecting an idealized intellectual, aesthetic, spiritual, and emotional “way of life.” Of central importance is an understanding of how and why donors give and how the …
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Poverty alleviation, development and philanthropy in contemporary South Africa
This project was concerned at looking at philanthropy with regards to poverty alleviation and development. This was achieved by looking at the literature around philanthropy and fieldwork. The literature helped in providing an understanding of philanthropy and the politics around it. Most of the …
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Reasons, Goals, and Incentives for Corporate Philanthropy to Arts Organizations
… relationship with its publics is to use philanthropy to not- for-profit organizations such as the arts. From a communication point of view, this action may be looked upon as a gesture between the corporation, the recipient, and the publics which involves messages both sent and received. …
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Westfield War Memorial Village : disability, paternalism and philanthropy, 1915-2015
Despite a growing amount of study into war-related disability, little research has been undertaken into the role played by the paternalistic philanthropists and volunteers who did so much to support the individuals directly affected. This thesis endeavours to go some way towards redressing the …
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Philanthropic Colonialism: New England Philanthropy in Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1860
… led by Eli Thayer, mobilized their networks of philanthropy in New England to ensure the Kansas-Nebraska territory did not embrace slavery. The effort by the New England elite to make the territories free was intertwined in a larger web of philanthropic motivations aimed to steer the future of …
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Investing in Education: Venture Philanthropy and the Marketized Practice of Educational Improvement
… 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 …
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The effects of strategic corporate philanthropy on consumer perceptions: an experimental assessment
… examines current models of corporate philanthropy and develops a new model for the use of philanthropy in crisis management using stakeholder theory. Finally it presents experimental assessments of various types of philanthropy based on the classification schema. Philanthropic activity …
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Philanthropy, Scholarships and Student navigations in a changing South African educational landscape
… explores the intersection of public education, philanthropy, and private sector funding in South Africa, and the different ways that students that receive scholarships via private funding navigate their respective educational spaces. The discussion focuses on how debates on scholarships, …
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Nonprofit disease foundation investments in biotechnology companies : an evaluation of venture philanthropy
In the past decade, the practice of venture philanthropy, defined in this research as the provision of capital by a nonprofit entity to a for-profit company, has become an increasingly common asset allocation strategy for nonprofit disease-focused foundations.' Both nonprofit organizations and …
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American Muslim Philanthropy in Flux: Effects of Community Building and Identity Formation
American Muslim Philanthropy in flux is concerned with several interlinked ideas. From a discussion of how American Muslim communities have emerged, to the role of identity and philanthropy in creating them, this study is a careful examination of the central role that philanthropy has played in …
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