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Stellar group of trans-disciplinary experts Addresses major
questions for the future of social science research Topical
coverage of issues such as artificial intelligence, political
polarization and global financial systems
Stellar group of trans-disciplinary experts Addresses major
questions for the future of social science research Topical
coverage of issues such as artificial intelligence, political
polarization and global financial systems
The Nonprofit sector is a major aspect of the US economy,
encompassing over ten percent of private employment and accounting
for around six percent of GDP This book provides a comprehensive,
authoritative overview of the US non-profit sector, as well as
global comparative perspectives provided by authors with
international expertise and recognition Pedagogical features to
support students include learning objectives, key concepts, review
questions, and recommendations for further reading in every chapter
The over-arching introduction provided by this book is unique, with
other textbooks focusing on specific areas such as the voluntary
sector, or social enterprise
The Nonprofit sector is a major aspect of the US economy,
encompassing over ten percent of private employment and accounting
for around six percent of GDP This book provides a comprehensive,
authoritative overview of the US non-profit sector, as well as
global comparative perspectives provided by authors with
international expertise and recognition Pedagogical features to
support students include learning objectives, key concepts, review
questions, and recommendations for further reading in every chapter
The over-arching introduction provided by this book is unique, with
other textbooks focusing on specific areas such as the voluntary
sector, or social enterprise
Philanthropy and endowed foundation are good and vitally important
institutions of modern society. They fit in well with the way
advanced market economies are developing, in particular with the
nexus between private and public benefit in an era of "small"
government and greater social diversity. As institutions, however,
they are facing new threats: declining resources relative to needs,
and questions about their accountability and performance. In recent
years individual philanthropists and foundation leaders have looked
to strategic philanthropy as a way of becoming more effective and
efficient. Strategic philanthropy can help foundations to think
about structures and processes, but it does not provide any answer
to the more fundamental questions about foundations' distinctive
roles in contributing to public good. This important new book
provides an overview of creative philanthropy along with an
analysis of the theory and practice of philanthropy. The authors
spell out the implications of their study for management and policy
and provide readers with the tools and techniques of creative
philanthropy. Essential reading for all those who study or work
infFoundations, philanthropy and nonprofit organizations this
important new book explicates this complicated but vital subject
area.
Philanthropy and endowed foundation are good and vitally important
institutions of modern society. They fit in well with the way
advanced market economies are developing, in particular with the
nexus between private and public benefit in an era of "small"
government and greater social diversity. As institutions, however,
they are facing new threats: declining resources relative to needs,
and questions about their accountability and performance. In recent
years individual philanthropists and foundation leaders have looked
to strategic philanthropy as a way of becoming more effective and
efficient. Strategic philanthropy can help foundations to think
about structures and processes, but it does not provide any answer
to the more fundamental questions about foundations' distinctive
roles in contributing to public good. This important new book
provides an overview of creative philanthropy along with an
analysis of the theory and practice of philanthropy. The authors
spell out the implications of their study for management and policy
and provide readers with the tools and techniques of creative
philanthropy. Essential reading for all those who study or work
infFoundations, philanthropy and nonprofit organizations this
important new book explicates this complicated but vital subject
area.
Contents: 1. Introduction: third sector policy at the crossroads: continuity and change in the world of nonprofit organizations Helmut K. Anheier, Lisa Carlson and Jeremy Kendall 2. The nonprofit sector at a crossroads: the case of America Lester M. Salamon 3. Putting narrow-mindedness out of countenance: the UK voluntary sector in the new millennium Nicholas Deakin 4. Decentering America's nonprofit sector: reflections on Salamon's crisis analysis Jennifer Wolch 5. What crises, what challenges? When nonprofitness makes no difference Paul Dekker 6. The role of philanthropic foundations: lessons from America's experience with private foundations Julian Wolpert and Elizabeth T. Boris 7. Corporate philanthropy's future Dwight F. Burlingame 8. On the role of Philanthropic foundations: lessons from America's experience with private foundations Diana Leat 9. Corporatism revisited: the legacy of history and the German nonprofit sector Annette Zimmer 10. The third sector and the European Union policy process: an initial evaluation Jeremy Kendall and Helmut K. Anheier 11. The distortion between institutionalized and noninstitutionalized NPOs: new policy initiatives and nonprofit organizations in Japan Masayuki Deguchi 12. The American third sector at the end of the twentieth century: public and private revisited Eleanor L. Brilliant 13. NGOs and their vulnerabilities during the time of transition: the case of Poland Joanna Regulska 14. Different eastern European countries at different crossroads Éva Kuti 15. Civil organizations in Mexico: recent evolutions and current prospects José Luis Méndez 16. Beyond the crossroads: policy issues for the Philippine nonprofit sector Ledivina V. Cariño 17. South Africa: anti-apartheid NGOs in transition Adam Habib and Rupert Taylor 18. Conclusion: the third sector at the crossroads? Social, political and economic dynamics Helmut K. Anheier and Jeremy Kendall
"Foundations play an essential part in the philanthropic activity
that defines so much of American life. No other nation provides its
foundations with so much autonomy and freedom of action as does the
United States. Liberated both from the daily discipline of the
market and from direct control by government, American foundations
understandably attract great attention. As David Hammack and Helmut
Anheier note in this volume, ""Americans have criticized
foundations for... their alleged conservatism, liberalism, elitism,
radicalism, devotion to religious tradition, hostility to
religion-in short, for commitments to causes whose significance can
be measured, in part, by the controversies they provoke. Americans
have also criticized foundations for ineffectiveness and even
foolishness."" Their size alone conveys some sense of the
significance of American foundations, whose assets amounted to over
$530 billion in 2008 despite a dramatic decline of almost 22
percent in the previous year. And in 2008 foundation grants totaled
over $45 billion. But what roles have foundations actually played
over time, and what distinctive roles do they fill today? How have
they shaped American society, how much difference do they make?
What roles are foundations likely to play in the future? This
comprehensive volume, the product of a three-year project supported
by the Aspen Institute's program on the Nonprofit Sector and
Philanthropy, provides the most thorough effort ever to assess the
impact and significance of the nation's large foundations. In it,
leading researchers explore how foundations have shaped-or failed
to shape-each of the key fields of foundation work. American
Foundations takes the reader on a wide-ranging tour, evaluating
foundation efforts in education, scientific and medical research,
health care, social welfare, international relations, arts and
culture, religion, and social change. "
This book is the result of case studies conducted as part of the
International Network on Strategic Philanthropy, which focus on the
role of philanthropy in the globalization process and in lesser
developed economies. Throughout, they emphasize the lessons in
innovation that can be taken from them, and together demonstrate
that emerging philanthropic institutions can develop their own
methods and offer criteria that the Western world might learn
from.
Philanthropy has been around for thousands of years but the study
of philanthropic organizations and their role in a civil society is
still recent. Most of the research focuses on organizations and
institutions in developed market economies, in particular the
United States. But in looking at other areas such as the global
south and central and eastern Europe, major differences in a number
of critical aspects emerge that challenge conventional assumptions
and models of philanthropy. There, frequently resource-poor and
hybrid organizations are very different from the professional,
large-scale foundation in the US or western Europe, but they are
nonetheless philanthropic institutions that are more reflective of
local needs and capacities, and often with greater innovative
potential rather than some ready-made, imported legal form could
offer. This book is the result of case studies conducted as part of
the International Network on Strategic Philanthropy.
This volume addresses the need to revisit the very economic
theories that in the past two decades have contributed so much to
the development of a concentrated research agenda on nonprofit
organizations. Long neglected as a topic of theorizing and
empirical investigation by mainstream economics in particular,
these initial theories of nonprofit organizations, introduced by
Burton Weisbrod (see Chapter 3 by Kingma and Chapter 4 by
Slivinsky) and Henry Hansmann (see Chapter 5 by Ortmann and
Schlesinger and Chapter 6 by Hansmann) and others in the late
1970sand early 1980s, continue to shape theoretical and conceptual
efforts. Importantly, their influence extends beyond economics and
informs sociological and political science approaches to the set of
organizations and institutions located between the market firm and
the state agency as well (see Chapter 10 by Wolpert, Chapter 11 by
Salamon, and Chapter 12 by Wolch; also Anheier & Ben-Ner, 1997;
DiMaggio & Anheier, 1990). While the theoretical map of
nonprofit research has expanded beyond these early attempts and now
includes several other major theories such as stakeholder
approaches (Chapter I by Ben-Ner and Gui, and Chapter 7 by
Krashinsky), supply-side or entrepreneurial theories (Chapter 8 by
Badelt and Chapter 9 by Young), institutional theories (Chapter 17
by DiMaggio), and comparative approaches (Chapter 15 by Anheier;
see also Salamon & Anheier, 1998), we nonethelesssuggest that
it is time to takestockand reexamine some of the very basics from
which these economic theories operate. This is the main purpose
ofthe book.
Comparative information detailing the cultural, legal and
historical environments of foundations in international settings
has been scarce - until now. Written by scholars from six
countries, this text covers philanthropic foundations in the
world's busiest commercial centers - the U.S. and Eastern and
Western Europe. It reports on the structures and mindsets that
shape foundations' gift giving, and discusses different aspects of
foundation management. Case studies of the French and Italian
foundation communities and a comparative legal chapter are
especially notable.
This volume addresses the need to revisit the very economic
theories that in the past two decades have contributed so much to
the development of a concentrated research agenda on nonprofit
organizations. Long neglected as a topic of theorizing and
empirical investigation by mainstream economics in particular,
these initial theories of nonprofit organizations, introduced by
Burton Weisbrod (see Chapter 3 by Kingma and Chapter 4 by
Slivinsky) and Henry Hansmann (see Chapter 5 by Ortmann and
Schlesinger and Chapter 6 by Hansmann) and others in the late
1970sand early 1980s, continue to shape theoretical and conceptual
efforts. Importantly, their influence extends beyond economics and
informs sociological and political science approaches to the set of
organizations and institutions located between the market firm and
the state agency as well (see Chapter 10 by Wolpert, Chapter 11 by
Salamon, and Chapter 12 by Wolch; also Anheier & Ben-Ner, 1997;
DiMaggio & Anheier, 1990). While the theoretical map of
nonprofit research has expanded beyond these early attempts and now
includes several other major theories such as stakeholder
approaches (Chapter I by Ben-Ner and Gui, and Chapter 7 by
Krashinsky), supply-side or entrepreneurial theories (Chapter 8 by
Badelt and Chapter 9 by Young), institutional theories (Chapter 17
by DiMaggio), and comparative approaches (Chapter 15 by Anheier;
see also Salamon & Anheier, 1998), we nonethelesssuggest that
it is time to takestockand reexamine some of the very basics from
which these economic theories operate. This is the main purpose
ofthe book.
Comparative information detailing the cultural, legal and
historical environments of foundations in international settings
has been scarce - until now. Written by scholars from six
countries, this text covers philanthropic foundations in the
world's busiest commercial centers - the U.S. and Eastern and
Western Europe. It reports on the structures and mindsets that
shape foundations' gift giving, and discusses different aspects of
foundation management. Case studies of the French and Italian
foundation communities and a comparative legal chapter are
especially notable.
Stiftungen bewegen sich mit ihren Zielen zwischen der Bewahrung von
Tradition und Kultur, gesellschaftlichem Wandel und Fursorge. Viele
Stiftungen sehen sich als eigenstandige innovative Kraft, andere
als Foerderer der Zivilgesellschaft oder als karitative
Einrichtungen. Ersetzen oder erganzen Stiftungen staatliches
Handeln? Welche Rollen verfolgen sie und was ist ihr
gesellschaftlicher Beitrag? Eine Forschungsgruppe der Hertie School
of Governance und des Centre for Social Investment der Universitat
Heidelberg um Helmut K. Anheier hat in einem mehrjahrigen Projekt
das deutsche Stiftungswesen systematisch und auf Grundlage einer
breiten empirischen Basis untersucht. Die Beitrage des Sammelbands
bieten detaillierte Analysen von Stiftungen in den Bereichen
Bildung und Erziehung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, Soziales, Kunst
und Kultur sowie Advocacy und zeigen Handlungsempfehlungen auf.
Soziale Investitionen bezeichnen unterschiedliche Formen privater
Beitrage zum Gemeinwohl. Was jedoch als Beitrag zum Gemeinwohl
verstanden werden kann, unterliegt dem Diskurs in Zivilgesellschaft
und politischer Offentlichkeit. Aus der Perspektive wirtschafts-
und sozialwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen prufen die Forscher des
Heidelberger Centrums fur Soziale Investitionen und Innovationen
den Erklarungsgehalt dieses neuen forschungsleitenden Konzepts
Sozialer Investition. Das Konzept beansprucht die prinzipielle
Vergleichbarkeit unterschiedlicher Beitrage zum Gemeinwohl, wie die
Arbeit von Stiftungen, Spenden, freiwilliges burgerschaftliches
Engagement und Sozialunternehmertum."
Today is a new metropolitan age and for the first time ever more
people live in cities than they do anywhere else. As cities
strengthen their international and cultural influence, the global
world is acted out most articulately in the world's urban hubs -
through its diverse cultures, broad networks and innovative styles
of governance. Looking at the city through its internal dynamics,
the book examines how governance and cultural policy play out in a
national and international framework.
Making a truly global contribution to the literature, editors
Isar and Anheier bring together a truly international and
highly-respected collection of scholars. In doing so, they
skilfully steer debates beyond the city as an economic powerhouse,
to cover issues that fully comprehend a city's cultural dynamics
and its impact on policy including alternative economies,
creativity, migration, diversity, sustainability, education and
urban planning.
Innovative in its approach and content, this book is ideal for
students, scholars and researchers interested in sociology, urban
studies, cultural studies, and public policy.
'This volume of one of the most comprehensive in the field. Its
three themes are critical for the study of culture and
globalization with its condensation of space, time and memory.
Exploring the intersection between these three processes, the
essays are learned, deeply researched and insightful, and the
comparative range is impressive. The volume is certain to become a
standard reference text for scholars and the general reader alike'
- Professor Stuart Hall, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, The Open
University Heritage, memory and identity are closely connected
keywords of our time, each endowed with considerable rhetorical
power. Different human groups define certain objects and practices
as 'heritage'; they envision heritage to reflect some form of
collective memory, either lived or imagined; and they combine both
to construct cultural identities. Today, the three terms raise
conjoined issues of practice, policy and politics in an
increasingly globalized world. Bringing together a truly global
range of scholars, this volume explores heritage, memory and
identity through a diverse set of subjects, including heritage
sites, practices of memorialization, museums, sites of
contestation, and human rights.
'In the globalization 'game' there are no absolute winners and
losers. Neither homogenisation nor diversity can capture its
contradictory movement and character. The essays and papers
collected here offer, from a variety of perspectives, a rich
exploration of creativity and innovation, cultural expressions and
globalization. This volume of essays, in all their diversity of
contents and theoretical perspectives, demonstrates the rich value
of this paradoxical, oxymoronic approach' - Stuart Hall, Emeritus
Professor of Sociology at the Open University Volume 3 of the
Cultures & Globalization series, Creativity and Innovations,
explores the interactions between globalization and the forms of
cultural expression that are their basic resource. Bringing
together over 25 high-profile authors from around the world, this
volume addresses such questions as: What impacts does globalization
have on cultural creativity and innovation? How is the evolving
world 'map' of creativity related to the drivers and patterns of
globalization? What are the relationships between creative acts,
clusters, genres or institutions and cultural diversity? The volume
is an indispensable reference tool for all scholars and students of
contemporary arts and culture.
To understand success, you must first understand failure. This understanding is especially critical since failure is a phenomenon that is much more common to everyday life, businesses, and government practice than standard theory would lead us to assume. Failure manifests itself in many ways, including breakdowns, bankruptcies, and other forms of organizational catastrophes and fiascoes. Thus, learning from failure will enable success. When Things Go Wrong brings together contributions from 24 leading scholars who examine the causes, patterns, process, and outcomes of such failures from economic, managerial, cognitive and political perspectives. This book presents failure as a relative concept in terms of the expectations and strategies of stakeholders putting a claim on the performance of the organization and the notion of success. It challenges future research in this field to combine both economic and non-economic performance measures to assess organizational tendencies toward success and failure and to differentiate between failure as process and failure as an outcome.
America's grantmaking foundations have grown rapidly over the
course of recent decades, even in the face of financial and
economic crises. Foundations have a great deal of freedom, enjoy
widespread legitimacy, and wield considerable influence. In this
book, David Hammack and Helmut Anheier follow up their edited
volume, American Foundations, with a comprehensive historical
account of what American foundations have done with that
independence and power. While philanthropic foundations play
important roles in other parts of the world, the U.S. sector stands
out as exceptional. Nowhere else are they so numerous, prominent,
or autonomous. What have been the main contributions of
philanthropic foundations to American society? And what might the
future hold for them? A Versatile American Institution considers
foundations in a new way. Previous accounts typically focused
narrowly on their organization, donors, and leaders, and their
intentions - but not on the outcome of philanthropy. Rather than
looking at foundations in a vacuum, Hammack and Anheier consider
their roles and contributions in the context of their times and
their economic and political circumstances.
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