Rational Generosity: The Indianapolis Foundation and the Community Foundation Response to the Great Depression

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2010-07-19T17:37:34Z
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Kienker, James Robert
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American English
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Burlingame, Dwight F.
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Scarpino, Philip V.
Huehls, Frances A.
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M.A.
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2010
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Philanthropic Studies
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Indiana University
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A historical analysis of the philanthropic response to the Great Depression by community foundations; the thesis uses the individual story of the Indianapolis Foundation as a case study to provide detailed examples of how community foundations modified their grant-making behavior in response to the Great Depression’s economic effects.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
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private giving, community trust, economic recession, Great Depression, philanthropy, community foundation, Indianapolis Foundation
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Community foundations -- United States, Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
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https://hdl.handle.net/1805/2190
 http://dx.doi.org/10.7912/C2/586
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