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David C. Hammack

A Versatile American Institution

The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations

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America's grantmaking foundations have grown rapidly over the course of recent decades, even in the face of financial and economic crises. Foundations have a great deal of freedom, enjoy widespread legitimacy, and wield considerable influence. In this book, David Hammack and Helmut Anheier follow up their edited volume, American Foundations, with a comprehensive historical account of what American foundations have done with that independence and power.While philanthropic foundations play important roles in other parts of the world, the U.S. sector stands out as exceptional. Nowhere else are they so numerous, prominent, or autonomous. What hav… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Anheier, Helmut K.
  • ISBN: 978-0-8157-2195-6
  • EAN: 9780815721956
  • Produktnummer: 22220039
  • Verlag: Brookings Institution Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 273 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 963 KB

Über den Autor


David C. Hammack is the Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and a past president of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). Helmut K. Anheier is dean of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany, serves as academic director of the Center for Social Investment at Heidelberg University, and is senior fellow at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Policy. Anheier and Hammack are the coeditors of American Foundations: Roles and Contributions (Brookings, 2010).

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