Giving Well, Doing Good - Readings for Thoughtful Philanthropists

Informationen zum Autor edited by Amy A. Kass Klappentext Amy A. Kass is Senior Lecturer in the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. She is editor of The Perfect Gift: The Philanthropic Imagination in Poetry and Prose (IUP, 2002); American Lives: Cultural Differences, Individual Distinction; and Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying (with Leon Kass). Zusammenfassung Explores the enterprise of philanthropy - its assumptions, aspirations, and achievements. This work brings together key texts that can provide guidance to donors, trustees and professional staff of foundations, and leaders of nonprofit organizations. It seek to illuminate fundamental questions about the idea and practice of philanthropy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Goals and Intentions 2. Gifts, Donors, Recipients; Grants, Grantors, Grantees 3. Bequests and Legacies 4. Effectiveness 5. Accountability 6. Philanthropic Leadership Index

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• Authors: Amy A. Kass
• Assisted by: Edited by Amy a Kass (Editor), Amy Kass (Editor), Amy A Kass (Editor), Amy A. Kass (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2008
• EAN: 9780253219558
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21955-8
• No. of pages: 520
• Series: Philanthropic and Nonprofit St; Philanthropic and Nonprofit St; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries