Results 261 to 270 of about 3,366 (303)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
Strategic Philanthropy in Foundations: The Board Members’ Perspective
Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance, 2018Recent literature has investigated the composition, responsibilities and characteristics of non-profits’ boards, but there is a lack of research on the link between governance practices and preferences related to philanthropic strategy. This study integrates the strategic philanthropy literature with recent works in the area of governance to understand
Giacomo Boesso, Fabrizio Cerbioni
exaly +3 more sources
Strategic issues for charities and philanthropies
Long Range Planning, 1988Abstract This article explores the need for charities and philanthropic bodies to develop strategies which emphasize efficiency and service and the examples and evidence presented highlight some important issues for fundraisers. The most obvious implication is the need for charitable bodies to institute environmental scanning and strategic planning.
James W. Harvey, Kevin F. McCrohan
openaire +1 more source
A global strategic plan for corporate philanthropy
Corporate Communications, 2007PurposeCriticisms of corporate philanthropy (CP) are different across cultures. In essence, opponents of CP fear the lack of economic returns or the lack of social efficacy of corporate donations. The purpose of this paper is to propose a theoretical model that may overcome both set of criticisms, so that CP plans can be globally designed and ...
Carmen Valor
exaly +2 more sources
Strategic Philanthropy for a Complex World
2014Foundations need to adopt a more emergent approach to strategic philanthropy.
Kramer, Mark +2 more
openaire +1 more source
Foundations' Governance for Strategic Philanthropy [PDF]
, 2012 This paper examines whether effective governance plays a major role in driving foundations’ strategy when it comes to making the choice between reactive or proactive philanthropy models. More specifically, we investigate the relationships between philanthropic strategy (expressive, receptive, proactive and collaborative) and [a] board capital ...
Giacomo Boesso +3 more
openaire
Global corporate philanthropy: a strategic framework
International Marketing Review, 1995Over the past decade, corporate philanthropy has undergone two fundamental transformations – strategic refocusing and globalization. Faced with scarcer resources and downsizing, leading firms have redefined philanthropy by tying it directly to corporate strategies and business units. Philanthropy is now seen as a component of long‐term competitiveness,
exaly +2 more sources
Strategic Philanthropy Reconsidered
2018The authors of <em>Money Well Spent</em> reconsider their original arguments a second time around.
openaire +1 more source
Financing Faith: Religion and Strategic Philanthropy
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2010Over the last century, a new form of strategic philanthropy arose-that of the private foundation. Foundations do not account for a large portion of donations received by religious organizations, but they can deploy important resources at critical moments.
D. Michael Lindsay, Robert Wuthnow
openaire +1 more source
A Strategic Approach to Climate Philanthropy
2016The chapter looks at how, over the course of the 1990s and in response to a shifting political context, a group of prominent climate funders adopted a more focused and strategic approach to grantmaking. While staying true to the core principles of liberal philanthropy, this new approach combined collaborative, proactive, outcome-oriented and evaluation-
openaire +1 more source
Administration in Social Work, 1996
The study is a national survey of corporate philanthropy programs. The original problem underlying the study is the long-term decline in the percentage of total corporate contributions to health and human services. A questionnaire, mailed in May of 1993, was used to investigate the impact of strategic philanthropy on the relationship between ...
openaire +3 more sources
The study is a national survey of corporate philanthropy programs. The original problem underlying the study is the long-term decline in the percentage of total corporate contributions to health and human services. A questionnaire, mailed in May of 1993, was used to investigate the impact of strategic philanthropy on the relationship between ...
openaire +3 more sources