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Charles T. Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics and Law at Duke University. He is also Director of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism at Duke and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Thomas Ehrlich is Distinguished University Scholar, California State University, and Senior Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He is also President Emeritus, Indiana University; the former Provost, University of Pennsylvania; and former Dean, Stanford Law School.
List of contents
Table of Contents:
Introduction/Charles Clotfelter and Thomas Ehrlich
1. The Nonprofit Sector in the 1990s/Elizabeth T. Boris
2. The Evolving Role of American Foundations/James Allen Smith
3. Foundations and the Government: A Tale of Conflict and Consensus/Barry D. Karl and Alice W. Karl
4. The Economy and Philanthropy/Edward Wolff
5. Corporate Philanthropy Comes of Age: Its Size, Its Import, Its Future/Reynold Levy
6. Reinventing Philanthropy/Leslie Lenkowsky
7. Nonprofit Organizations and Public Policies in the Delivery of Human Services/Kristen A. Grønbjerg and Steven Rathgeb Smith
8. Public Trust in Not-for-Profit Organizations and the Need for Regulatory Reform/Joel Fleishman
9. Accountability in a Changing Philanthropic Environment: Trustees and Self-Government at the End of the Century/Warren F. Ilchman and Dwight F. Burlingame
10. Patterns and Purposes of Philanthropic Giving/Eleanor Brown
11. Communities, Networks, and the Future of Philanthropy/Julian Wolpert
12. The Roles of Indigenous and Institutional Philanthropy in Advancing Social Justice/Emmett D. Carson
13. Philanthropy and the Case of the Latino Communities in America/William A. Diaz
14. The Case of Minnesota: Institutionalizing Public Spirit/Jon Pratt
15. The Case of Kansas City/David O. Renz
16. Children in Poverty: Reflections on the Roles of Philanthropy and Public Policy/Ruby Takinishi
17. The Changing Face of Health Care/Bradford H. Gray
18. Lessons for the Future of Philanthropy: Local Foundations and Urban School Reform/William S. McKersie and Anthony Markward
19. Philanthropy and American Higher Education/Michael Rothschild
20. Environmental Philanthropy and Public Policy/Richard L. Revesz
21. Philanthropy and Outcomes: Dilemmas in the Quest for Accountability/Gary Walker and Jean Grossman
22. Philanthropy and Culture: Patterns, Context, and Change/Margaret J. Wyszomirski
23. A Tradition in Jeapordy/Robert L. Payton
24. The World We Must Build/Charles T. Clotfelter and Thomas Ehrlich
Appendix¿Trust, Service, and the Common Purpose
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
Charles T. Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics and Law at Duke University. He is also Director of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism at Duke and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Thomas Ehrlich is Distinguished University Scholar, California State University, and Senior Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He is also President Emeritus, Indiana University; the former Provost, University of Pennsylvania; and former Dean, Stanford Law School.
Summary
An agenda-setting overview of the state of philanthropy in the United States.
