Charity Philanthropy And Reform

Author : Hugh Cunningham,Joanna Innes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349266814

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Charity, Philanthropy and Reform by Hugh Cunningham,Joanna Innes Pdf

The essays in this volume explore continuities and changes in the role of philanthropic organizations in Europe and North America in the period around the French Revolution. They aim to make connections between research on the early modern and late modern periods, and to analyze policies towards poverty in different countries within Europe and across the Atlantic. Cunningham and Innes highlight the new role for voluntary organizations emerging in the late eighteenth century and draws out the implications of this for received accounts of the development of welfare states.

Author : Hugh Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349266833

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Charity, Philanthropy and Reform by Hugh Cunningham Pdf

Author : Dawn M. Greeley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253059116

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Beyond Benevolence by Dawn M. Greeley Pdf

A comprehensive history of one of the largest charitable organizations in early modern America. Drawing on extensive archival records, Beyond Benevolence tells the fascinating story of the New York Charity Organization Society. The period between 1880 and 1935 marked a seminal, heavily debated change in American social welfare and philanthropy. The New York Charity Organization Society was at the center of these changes and played a key role in helping to reshape the philanthropic landscape. Greeley uncovers rarely seen letters written to wealthy donors by working-class people, along with letters from donors and case entries. These letters reveal the myriad complex relationships, power struggles, and shifting alliances that developed among donors, clients, and charity workers over decades as they negotiated the meaning of charity, the basis of entitlement, and the extent of the obligation between classes in New York. Meticulously researched and uniquely focused on the day-to-day practice of scientific charity as much as its theory, Beyond Benevolence offers a powerful glimpse into how the trajectory of one charitable organization reflected a nation's momentous social, economic, and political upheavals as it moved into the 20th century.

Author : Lawrence J. Friedman,Mark D. McGarvie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052181989X

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Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History by Lawrence J. Friedman,Mark D. McGarvie Pdf

This book presents professional historians addressing the dominant issues and theories offered to explain the history of American philanthropy and its role in American society. The essays develop and enlighten the major themes proposed by the books' editors, oftentimes taking issue with each other in the process. The overarching premise is that philanthropic activity in America has its roots in the desires of individuals to impose their visions of societal ideals or conceptions of truth upon their society. To do so, they have organized in groups, frequently defining themselves and their group's role in society in the process.

Author : Robert H. Bremner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1988-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226073255

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American Philanthropy by Robert H. Bremner Pdf

In this revised and enlarged edition of his classic work, Robert H. Bremner provides a social history of American philanthropy from colonial times to the present, showing the ways in which Americans have sought to do good in such fields as religion, education, humanitarian reform, social service, war relief, and foreign aid. Three new chapters have been added that concisely cover the course of philanthropy and voluntarism in the United States over the past twenty-five years, a period in which total giving by individuals, foundations, and corporations has more than doubled in real terms and in which major revisions of tax laws have changed patterns of giving. This new edition also includes an updated chronology of important dates, and a completely revised bibliographic essay to guide readers on literature in the field. "[This] book, as Bremner points out, is not encyclopedic. It is what he intended it to be, a pleasant narrative, seasoned with humorous comments, briefly but interestingly treating its principal persons and subjects. It should serve teacher and student as a springboard for further study of individuals, institutions and movements."—Karl De Schweinitz, American Historical Review "[American Philanthropy] is the starting point for both casual readers and academic scholars. . . . a readable book, important beyond its diminutive size."—Richard Magat, Foundation News

Author : Martin Gorsky
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bristol (England)
ISBN : 0861932455

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Patterns of Philanthropy by Martin Gorsky Pdf

Bristol in the 19th century was characterized by the development of voluntary organizations, which set out to address problems and promote good. This text is a study of the debate over control of civic charities during this era of municipal reform.

Author : Brent Ruswick
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253006349

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Almost Worthy by Brent Ruswick Pdf

Introduction: Big Moll and the science of scientific charity -- "Armies of vice": evolution, heredity, and the pauper menace -- Friendly visitors or scientific investigators? Befriending and measuring the poor -- Opposition, depression, and the rejection of pauperism -- "I see no terrible army": environmental reform and radicalism in the scientific charity movement -- The potentially normal poor: professional social work, psychology, and the end of scientific charity.

Author : Amos Griswold Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Charities
ISBN : HARVARD:HNHBUA

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American Charities; a Study in Philanthropy and Economics by Amos Griswold Warner Pdf

Author : International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148100050611R

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International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthrophy, Chicago, June 1893: Reports by International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy Pdf

Author : Donna T. Andrew
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400860630

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Philanthropy and Police by Donna T. Andrew Pdf

In this study of voluntary charities in eighteenth-century London, Donna Andrew reconsiders the adequacy of humanitarianism as an explanation for the wave of charitable theorizing and experimentation that characterized this period. Focusing on London, the most visible area of both destitution and social experimentation, this book examines the political as well as benevolent motives behind the great expansion of public institutions--nondenominational organizations seeking not only to relieve hardship, but to benefit the nation directly--funded and run by voluntary associations of citizens. The needs of police, the maintaining of civil order and the refining of society, were thought by many ordinary citizens to be central to the expansion of England's role in the world and to the upholding of the country's peace at home. Drawing on previously unexplored and unsynthesized materials, this work reveals the interaction between charitable theorizing and practical efforts to improve the condition of the poor. The author argues that it is impossible to comprehend eighteenth-century charity without taking into account its perceived social utility, which altered as circumstances mandated. For example, the charities of the 1740s and 1750s, founded to aid in the strengthening of England's international supremacy, lost their public support as current opinions of England's most urgent needs changed. Creating and responding to new visions of what well-directed charities might accomplish, late-century philanthropists tried using charitable institutions to reknit what they believed was a badly damaged social fabric. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Rob Reich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691202273

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Just Giving by Rob Reich Pdf

The troubling ethics and politics of philanthropy Is philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today’s democracy? Though we may laud wealthy individuals who give away their money for society’s benefit, Just Giving shows how such generosity not only isn’t the unassailable good we think it to be but might also undermine democratic values. Big philanthropy is often an exercise of power, the conversion of private assets into public influence. And it is a form of power that is largely unaccountable and lavishly tax-advantaged. Philanthropy currently fails democracy, but Rob Reich argues that it can be redeemed. Just Giving investigates the ethical and political dimensions of philanthropy and considers how giving might better support democratic values and promote justice.

Author : Marina Avelar
Publisher : Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Education
ISBN : 1787076881

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Disrupting Education Policy by Marina Avelar Pdf

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.

Author : Myron Magnet
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015049997870

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What Makes Charity Work? by Myron Magnet Pdf

A compassionate America has spent more than $5 trillion on welfare programs over three decades, but the poor haven't vanished, and the self-destructive behavior that imprisons many in poverty has become an intergenerational inheritance. Drawing on the City Journal's superlative reporting, What Makes Charity Work? shows in concrete and compelling detail how government assistance to the poor is doomed to failure -- because it treats them as victims of forces beyond their control, robs them of a sense of personal responsibility, and neglects the virtues they need to escape poverty. Contrasting case studies of charities both old and new show how charity can succeed spectacularly when it encourages the poor to take control of their own lives and teaches them habits of self-reliance and the traditional virtues. Here are accounts of charities that follow these precepts and have not only brought individuals into the economic and social mainstream but have delivered whole classes of people from poverty and degradation into the middle class in a single generation. As welfare reform unfolds, and as the nation calculates how to implement the "charitable choice" provision of the 1996 welfare reform act that allows government to use private and religious charities in helping the poor, policymakers and concerned Americans will find both encouraging and cautionary case studies in What Makes Charity Work? Here is an urgent issue considered in vivid, practical, and unfailingly absorbing fashion.

Author : Rhodri Davies
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529226942

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What Is Philanthropy For? by Rhodri Davies Pdf

Does charitable giving still matter but need to change? Philanthropy, the use of private assets for public good, has been much criticised in recent years. Do elite philanthropists wield too much power? Is big-money philanthropy unaccountable and therefore anti-democratic? And what about so-called “tainted donations” and “dark money” funding pseudo-philanthropic political projects? The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified many of these criticisms, leading some to conclude that philanthropy needs to be fundamentally reshaped if it is to play a positive role in our future. Rhodri Davies, drawing on his deep knowledge of the past and present landscape of philanthropy, explains why it’s important to ask what philanthropy is for because it has for centuries played a major role in shaping our world. Considering the alternatives, including charity, justice, taxation, the state, democracy and the market, he examines the pressing questions that philanthropy must tackle if it is to be equal to the challenges of the 21st century.

Author : Kathleen D. McCarthy
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0253339189

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Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society by Kathleen D. McCarthy Pdf

"This volume, which grows out of a research project on women and philanthropy sponsored by the Center for the Study of Philanthropy at the City University of New York, expands our understanding of female beneficence in shaping diverse political cultures ... As in the United States, this activity often enabled women to create parallel power structures that resembled, but rarely replicated, the commercial and political arenas of men. From nuns who managed charitable and educational institutions to political activists demanding an end ot discriminatory practices against women and children, many of the women whose lives are documented in these pages claimed distinctive public roles through the nonprofit sphere. The authors are from Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, Egypt, India, and Asia. Their essays cover nations on every continent, representing a variety of political and religious systems ... The essays in this book illustrate the extent to which government, the market, and religion have shaped the role of female philanthropy and philanthropists in different national settings. By shifting the focus from organizations to donors and volunteers, they begin to assess the relative importance of each of these factors in creating opportunities for citizen participation, as well as the role of female philanthropy in opening a space for women in the public sphere"--From publisher's description.