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Philanthropy in Contemporary Africa

Author : Jacob Mwathi Mati
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004339949
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Philanthropy in Contemporary Africa written by Jacob Mwathi Mati and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the availability of a wide range of literature on what is can be construed to be philanthropic behaviour in Africa, there is limited conceptual discussion on what constitutes philanthropy in African context(s). Yet, philanthropic behaviour is culturally rooted phenomena manifesting in diverse forms, expressions, and models. This review contributes to a growing body of literature on conceptions and manifestations of African philanthropy. The review illustrates a complex plurality of actions that fall under cultures and practices of giving in Africa. These include the giving of money, time, knowledge, influence and visibility in support of a cause, valuable goods, and body parts/organs from living and dead. While some of these actions conform to dominant Western notions of philanthropy, others do not. From an analysis of these practices, this paper proposes that African philanthropy can be conceptually structured on the basis of spheres of philanthropic practice, and the underlying bases and motivations for philanthropy. On spheres of philanthropic practice, at least three forms of philanthropy exist: institutional (formal); non-institutional (non-formal/informal/direct); and a hybrid form that blends practices from the formal and informal spheres. On motivations for giving, the predominant forms are based on mutuality, solidarity and counter-obligation inherent in collectivist and humanistic African philosophies of life. Further, motivations are drawn from religious obligations, institutional requirements on corporate bodies, and institutional arrangements in the development process. There are, nonetheless, significant overlaps between spheres of practice and motivations in contemporary philanthropic practices in Africa. For instance, philanthropic culture in Africa manifests as religious giving, donations to individuals or institutions, mutual aid, reciprocal, self-help revolving fund organisations, corporate social responsibility activities, and individual/family donations to public benefit organisations. These practices highlight a rich tapestry of spheres of practice and motivations for giving practices, where the wealthy and the poor are equally involved. The review, concentrates (by choice) on giving of money and time (volunteering, especially informal volunteering) due to dearth of academic literature on other forms of giving as philanthropy in Africa

Giving to Help, Helping to Give

Author : Tade Akin Aina
Publisher : Amalion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 2359260219
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book Giving to Help, Helping to Give written by Tade Akin Aina and published by Amalion Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has seen a flowering of philanthropic activities across many parts of Africa. Unlike before, this flowering has the distinct character of African agency, energy and engagement. Philanthropy is no longer about narratives of passive, poor and miserable Africans receiving help from rich, fortunate and often Western outsiders. The emerging narratives about philanthropy in Africa are about an increasingly confident and knowledgeable assertion of African capacities to give not only to help but also to transform and seek to address the root causes of injustice, want, ignorance and disease. The narratives are also about the increasing questioning of the role and place of Africans in the world’s philanthropic traditions and what constitutes African specificities but also African differences and varieties. This book is about African philanthropic experiences, their varieties, challenges and opportunities. It is about documenting, investigating, describing, questioning and reflecting on philanthropy in Africa. Because Africa is not a monolithic entity with one single history, cultural, political and economic experience, this ground-breaking book rightly tackles the varied modes, forms, vehicles and means in which the philanthropic experiences are expressed in Africa. It is a pioneering and ambitious effort in a field and community of practice that is new both in terms of scholarship and in professional practice. Many of the chapters boldly engage the burden of reflections, questions, ambivalences and ambiguities that one often finds in an emerging field, innovatively positing the outlines, concepts, frameworks and theories of scholarship and practice for a field critical to development on the continent.

Philanthropy in the World's Traditions

Author : Warren Frederick Ilchman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253333926
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Philanthropy in the World's Traditions written by Warren Frederick Ilchman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though voluntary association for the public good is often thought of as a peculiarly Western, even Christian concept, this book demonstrates that there are rich traditions of philanthropy in cultures throughout the world. Essays study philanthropy in Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish, and Native American religious traditions, as well as many other cultures.

White Philanthropy

Author : Maribel Morey
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469664755
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book White Philanthropy written by Maribel Morey and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1944, many Americans have described Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma as a defining text on U.S. race relations. Here, Maribel Morey confirms with historical evidence what many critics of the book have suspected: An American Dilemma was not commissioned, funded, or written with the goal of challenging white supremacy. Instead, Morey reveals it was commissioned by Carnegie Corporation president Frederick Keppel, and researched and written by Myrdal, with the intent of solidifying white rule over Black people in the United States. Morey details the complex global origins of An American Dilemma, illustrating its links to Carnegie Corporation's funding of social science research meant to help white policymakers in the Anglo-American world address perceived problems in their governance of Black people. Morey also unpacks the text itself, arguing that Myrdal ultimately complemented his funder's intentions for the project by keeping white Americans as his principal audience and guiding them towards a national policy program on Black Americans that would keep intact white domination. Because for Myrdal and Carnegie Corporation alike, international order rested on white Anglo-Americans' continued ability to dominate effectively.

The Life You Can Save

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812981561
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Life You Can Save written by Peter Singer and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that for the first time in history we're in a position to end extreme poverty throughout the world, both because of our unprecedented wealth and advances in technology, therefore we can no longer consider ourselves good people unless we give more to the poor. Reprint.

African Philanthropy

Author : Bhekinkosi Moyo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803927879
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book African Philanthropy written by Bhekinkosi Moyo and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening novel avenues of knowledge in the study of African philanthropy and development, this incisive book provides a critical assessment of philanthropic responses during crisis and non-crisis periods. It explores how collaboration between multilateral institutions and philanthropic organisations during a crisis can be harnessed and replicated to address the continent’s developmental challenges during non-crisis periods.

Reimagining Philanthropy in the Global South

Author : Clare Woodcraft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009400541
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Philanthropy in the Global South written by Clare Woodcraft and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores some COVID-induced sectoral changes of traditional philanthropic best practice and the responses to them in emerging markets.

Philanthropy in America

Author : Olivier Zunz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140085024X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Philanthropy in America written by Olivier Zunz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How philanthropy has shaped America in the twentieth century American philanthropy today expands knowledge, champions social movements, defines active citizenship, influences policymaking, and addresses humanitarian crises. How did philanthropy become such a powerful and integral force in American society? Philanthropy in America is the first book to explore in depth the twentieth-century growth of this unique phenomenon. Ranging from the influential large-scale foundations established by tycoons such as John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and the mass mobilization of small donors by the Red Cross and March of Dimes, to the recent social advocacy of individuals like Bill Gates and George Soros, respected historian Olivier Zunz chronicles the tight connections between private giving and public affairs, and shows how this union has enlarged democracy and shaped history. Demonstrating that America has cultivated and relied on philanthropy more than any other country, Philanthropy in America examines how giving for the betterment of all became embedded in the fabric of the nation's civic democracy.

In Defence of Philanthropy

Author : Beth Breeze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788212601
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book In Defence of Philanthropy written by Beth Breeze and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running down "do-gooders" has become a popular pastime in recent years. Journalists and academics alike have lampooned and criticized philanthropists and big donors for their charitable activities, which are often characterized as a means of self-aggrandisement or tax evasion. Yet, it is widely acknowledged that philanthropy - from the establishment of Carnegie libraries in the nineteenth century to the recent global health interventions of the Gates Foundation - has played a critical role in both developed and developing societies. In an impassioned defence of the role of philanthropy in society, Beth Breeze tackles the main critiques levelled at philanthropy and questions the rationale for undermining and disparaging philanthropic acts. She contends that although it might be flawed, philanthropy is a sector that ought to be celebrated and championed so that an abundance of causes and interests can flourish.

New Frontiers of Philanthropy

Author : Lester M. Salamon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199357544
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book New Frontiers of Philanthropy written by Lester M. Salamon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the first comprehensive and authoritative account of the new actors and tools revolutionizing global philanthropy and social investment at the present time. At a time of declining government resources and limited charitable capability, this development represents one of the most hopeful signs for gaining meaningful traction on the globe's escalating problems of poverty, environmental degradation, and despair.

Finding Charity’s Folk

Author : Jessica Millward
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820348791
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Finding Charity’s Folk written by Jessica Millward and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre. Millward opens with a striking discussion about how researching the life of a single enslaved woman, Charity Folks, transforms our understanding of slavery and freedom in Revolutionary America. For African American women such as Folks, freedom, like enslavement, was tied to a bondwoman’s reproductive capacities. Their offspring were used to perpetuate the slave economy. Finding loopholes in the law meant that enslaved women could give birth to and raise free children. For Millward, Folks demonstrates the fluidity of the boundaries between slavery and freedom, which was due largely to the gendered space occupied by enslaved women. The gendering of freedom influenced notions of liberty, equality, and race in what became the new nation and had profound implications for African American women’s future interactions with the state.

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Author : Walter Rodney
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788731204
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa written by Walter Rodney and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A call to arms in the class struggle for racial equity”—the hugely influential work of political theory and history, now powerfully introduced by Angela Davis (Los Angeles Review of Books). This legendary classic on European colonialism in Africa stands alongside C.L.R. James’ Black Jacobins, Eric Williams’ Capitalism & Slavery, and W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.

Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Social Science

Author : David L Seim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317319907
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Social Science written by David L Seim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making use of untapped resources, Seim looks at the impact of the Rockefellers, viewed through the lens of their philanthropic support of social science from 1890-1940. Focusing specifically on the Rockefeller Foundation and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, Seim connects the family's business success with its philanthropic enterprises.

The Givers

Author : David Callahan
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101947055
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Givers written by David Callahan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad. While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. David Callahan charts the rise of these new power players and the ways they are converting the fortunes of a second Gilded Age into influence. He shows how this elite works behind the scenes on education, the environment, science, LGBT rights, and many other issues--with deep impact on government policy. Above all, he shows that the influence of the Givers is only just beginning, as new waves of billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg turn to philanthropy. Based on extensive research and interviews with countless donors and policy experts, this is not a brief for or against the Givers, but a fascinating investigation of a power shift in American society that has implications for us all.

Give Smart

Author : Thomas J Tierney
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586489895
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Give Smart written by Thomas J Tierney and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade ago, Thomas J. Tierney left Bain & Company to cofound The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit focused on helping donors and nonprofit leaders to develop and execute strategies to accelerate social change. In Give Smart, Tierney pools his hands-on knowledge with Duke professor Joel L. Fleishman's expertise to create a much-needed primer for philanthropists and the nonprofit organizations they support. Drawing from personal experiences, research spanning twentieth- and twenty-first-century philanthropy, contemporary interviews, and Bridgespan's extensive field work, Give Smart presents the definitive guide to engaged philanthropy.

Reinventing Philanthropy

Author : Eric Friedman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1612345727
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Philanthropy written by Eric Friedman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to get the biggest bang for your donation

Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums

Author : Patricia A. Banks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351164341
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums written by Patricia A. Banks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums is the first scholarly book to analyze contemporary African American museums from a multifaceted perspective. While it puts a spotlight on the issues and challenges related to racial politics that black museums collectively face in the 21st century, it also shines a light on how they intersect with corporate culture, youth culture, and the broader cultural world. Turning the lens to philanthropy in the contemporary era, Banks throws light on the establishment side of African American museums and demonstrates how this contrasts with their grassroots foundations. Drawing on over 80 in-depth interviews with trustees and other supporters of African American museums across the United States, this book offers an inside look at the world of cultural philanthropy. While patrons are bound together by being among the distinct group of cultural philanthropists who support black museums, the motivations and meanings underlying their giving depart in both subtle and considerable ways depending on race and ethnicity, profession, generation, and lifestyle. Revealing not only why black museums matter in the eyes of supporters, the book also complicates the conventional view that social class drives giving to cultural nonprofits. It also paints a vivid portrait of how diversity colors cultural philanthropy, and philanthropy more broadly, in the 21st century. Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums will be a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners engaged with African American heritage. It will also offer important insights for academics, as well as cultural administrators, nonprofit leaders, and fundraisers who are concerned with philanthropy and diversity.