Browsing by Subject "foundations"

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    All in for Women & Girls: How women’s fund and foundation donors are leading through philanthropy
    (2019-07-23) Dale, Elizabeth J.; Watkins, Betsy; Mesch, Debra; Osili, Una; Bergdoll, Jonathan; Pactor, Andrea; Ackerman, Jacqueline; Skidmore, Tessa
    To date, studies of women’s funds and foundations have been qualitative in nature, and have studied the organizations more than their donors. This study examines, in a comprehensive and quantitative manner, the impact of women’s fund and foundation donors on women’s and girls’ causes. Previous research has shed light on women’s funds and foundations, on giving to women and girls, and on the impact of high-net-worth donors. This report addresses the intersection of these three factors to ask: What unique role do high-net-worth donors to women’s funds and foundations play in catalyzing support for women’s and girls’ causes?
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    An Annotated Bibliography of Recent Literature on Current Developments in Philanthropy
    (2019-02) Osili, Una; Horvath, Kinga Zsofia; Zarins, Sasha; Kou, Xiaonan; Staashelm, Jennifer; Sherrin, Steven; Mohseni, Afsoon; Vaughan, Edward
    As philanthropic organizations play an increasingly important role in societies around the world, the research on philanthropy – from giving and volunteering practices to regulatory frameworks to digital innovations – has also evolved in recent decades. It is important to develop a thorough overview of the relevant scientific discourses and literature on current developments in philanthropy. This will allow researchers and practitioners to enhance the understanding of philanthropy and to improve its practice worldwide. This report provides new insights on current developments and important changes in the global philanthropic landscape, including trends in global philanthropy and its interaction with other sectors of society.
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    Change Agents: The Goals and Impact of Women’s Foundations and Funds
    (2019-12-10) Gillespie, Elizabeth
    This research extends knowledge of women’s foundations and funds in the U.S. following the publication of a landscape scan of these organizations in May 2019. The landscape scan revealed that women’s foundations and funds use philanthropy to empower women, create positive change, and impact women and the broader community. They foster empowerment, change, and impact through grantmaking and by engaging in other activities, including advocacy and collaboration. The landscape scan also found that women’s foundations and funds often apply grantmaking philosophies, such as social change and gender lens philanthropy, and carry out their work through a variety of approaches. This study builds on the landscape scan to better understand how these organizations set goals, measure impact, and take action to advance the causes they care about.
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    Change Agents: The Goals and Impact of Women’s Foundations and Funds - Executive Summary
    (2019-12-10) Gillespie, Elizabeth
    An earlier landscape scan of women’s foundations and funds in the U.S. revealed that they use philanthropy to empower women and create positive change that benefits women and the broader community. Change Agents builds on that landscape scan, extending knowledge of women’s foundations and funds to better understand how these organizations set goals, measure impact, and take action to advance women.
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    Change Agents: The Goals and Impact of Women’s Foundations and Funds - Infographic
    (2019-12-10) Gillespie, Elizabeth
    This study adds a much-needed gender focus to grantmaking foundation literature, including new knowledge about the impact of investing in women.
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    Economic Effects on Million Dollar Giving
    (2014-12) Osili, Una; Ackerman, Jacqueline; Li, Yannan
    This study investigates the impact of economic factors on the number of charitable gifts of one million dollars or more within the United States using the Million Dollar List dataset. We investigate key donor groups: individuals, corporations, and foundations. Results indicate that individual donors are particularly responsive to underlying economic conditions; giving by foundations tends to be counter-cyclical, and corporate giving is not significantly associated with macroeconomic factors. We also find that economic conditions vary in their influence on giving to subsectors, and gifts to public benefit and human services organizations increase significantly during periods of recession. Findings from our study have direct implications for philanthropists, fundraisers, and policy makes as they seek to understand how economic conditions impact large gifts.
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    Six Blind Men and One Elephant – Proposing an Integrative Framework to Advance Research and Practice in Justice Philanthropy
    (Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2022) Paarlberg, Laurie E.; Walk, Marlene; Merritt, Cullen C.
    There are growing calls that philanthropic foundations across the globe can and should advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Initial evidence indicates that foundations have indeed responded as evidenced by pledges to change practice, increased funding for racial justice, and the emergence of new networks to support equity and justice. However, there is also great skepticism about whether the field of foundations are, in fact, able to make lasting changes given numerous critiques of philanthropy and its structural limitations. In this article, we summarize these critiques that suggest factors that make institutional philanthropy resistant to calls for equity and justice. We posit that a core obstacle is a lack of conceptual coherence within and across academic and practitioner literature about the meanings of terms and their implications for practice. Therefore, we propose a transdisciplinary conceptual framework of justice philanthropy that integrates the fragmented literature on justice-related aspects of philanthropy emerging from different disciplinary traditions such as ethics, political theory and political science, social movement theory, geography, public administration, and community development.
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    Unrestricted impact: Field note on a mixed-method project studying the effects of unrestricted funding on grantees’ organisational and project impact
    (Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) Sabinet: https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-1f215954fc, 2020-09-01) Wiepking, Pamala; De Wit, Arjen
    This field note is an invitation for interested researchers to join an innovative global study dedicated to describing, analysing, and understanding the ways in which the provision of unrestricted grant funding unfolds in terms of organisational behaviour and project outcomes.
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    Women's Foundations and Funds: A Landscape Study
    (2019-05-14) Gillespie, Elizabeth M.
    This research is a landscape scan of all women’s foundations and funds in the U.S. Women’s foundations and funds, which expressly award grants to programs and organizations benefiting women, have grown in number over the past five decades. Yet, there is a gap in knowledge about these organizations and their work to advance women and associated populations (girls, children, and families). Any significant research is now a decade old, even though these organizations continue to be active in the field of philanthropy. Women’s foundations and funds award millions in grants each year, as well as contribute resources and knowledge about the status of and issues facing women.