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Taking Philanthropy Seriously, Beyond Noble Intentions to Responsible Giving (2006)
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This collection of essays features contributions from many of the most interesting current thinkers on philanthropy. It has an unusual angle – the potential of philanthropy to fail in its goals and even to do harm because, as the foreword...
Philanthropy, Patronage and Civil Society: Experiences from Germany, Great Britain and North America (2004)
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These ten essays are intended to help re-assess current approaches to philanthropy and offer a fresh perspective on how existing attitudes to charity have been formed. The style is at times too esoteric for the general reader but it is...
Philanthropy Reconsidered: Private initiatives – public good – quality of life (2008)
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This small book has a big aim: to illuminate what is happening in American philanthropy today, and what it all means. Taking a scholarly approach, drawing on philosophy, the classics and history, it claims to re-interpret philanthropy and provide a...
The First Principle of Voluntary Action: Essays on the independence of the voluntary sector (2010)
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Baring Foundation
Since 2006 the Baring Foundation’s grants programme ‘Strengthening the Voluntary Sector’, has taken a close interest in deepening understanding of the changing nature of the independence of voluntary action. Given...
Globalization, Philanthropy and Civil Society: Projecting institutional logics abroad (2009)
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The foreword to this edited volume correctly notes that, “Analytically constructed studies of philanthropy are in short supply” and books that do appear tend to be either “self-congratulatory, mostly boring insider accounts” or “shrill denunciations by outsiders” . Yet as...
The State of Giving Research in Europe: Household donations to charitable organizations in twelve European countries (2009)
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Amsterdam University Press
This publication is an output of a meeting held in January 2008 at VU University in Amsterdam, attended by many of the leading European academics who focus on charitable giving...
Charitable Giving by UK households at Christmas (2009)
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Cass Business School, City University London
Charities in the UK have traditionally launched special appeals for donations in the period before Christmas. Christmas is a time of giving and they hope to persuade the public to...
The application of learning & research to the practice of philanthropy (2009)
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European Philanthropy Research And Teaching Initiative
The report outlines the current state of philanthropy research and teaching within Europe, and suggests a stronger and more effective framework could be built to ‘close the gap’ between learning...
What makes a third sector organisation tick? Interactions of foresight, enterprise, capability and impact (2010)
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Northern Rock Foundation
This briefing paper summarises the findings of the second working paper from the Northern Rock Foundation Third Sector Trends Study (TSTS). It reports on ‘TSO50’, a study of 50 Third...
Beyond ‘flat-earth’ maps of the third sector: Enhancing our understanding of the contribution of ‘below-the-radar’ organisations (2010)
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Northern Rock Foundation
This paper summarises a fuller report on research commissioned by the Northern Rock Foundation’s Third Sector Trends Study (TSTS) to assess the scale and distribution of ‘below-the-radar’ (BTR) organisations. The...

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