Transformative philanthropy in practice: urban volunteers and the power and limits of the gift

There are growing calls that philanthropic foundations across the globe can and should advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Initial evidence indicates that foundations have indeed responded as evidenced by pledges to change practice, increased funding for racial justice, and the emergence of new networks to support equity and justice. However, there is also great skepticism about whether the field of foundations are, in fact, able to make lasting changes given numerous critiques of philanthropy and its structural limitations. In this article, we summarize these critiques that suggest factors that make institutional philanthropy resistant to calls for equity and justice. We posit that a core obstacle is a lack of conceptual coherence within and across academic and practitioner literature about the meanings of terms and their implications for practice. Therefore, we propose a transdisciplinary conceptual framework of justice philanthropy that integrates the fragmented literature on justice-related aspects of philanthropy emerging from different disciplinary traditions such as ethics, political theory and political science, social movement theory, geography, public administration, and community development.

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Six Blind Men and One Elephant: Proposing an Integrative Framework to Advance Research and Practice in Justice Philanthropy

Paarlberg

Walk

Merritt

2022

J. Public Nonprof Aff.

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“…Transformative Philanthropy 2018 Brings about long-term, lasting, and structural results in which the outcomes and impacts exceed the value of the initial gifts or investments (Goeke, 2021;Nickel, 2018) Reparations Philanthropy 2018 seeks "… to fund in communities most harmed through historic extraction, and explicitly fund Black and Indigenous organizations driving actual reparations campaigns. But this alone is insufficient.…”

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Six Blind Men and One Elephant – Proposing an Integrative Framework to Advance Research and Practice in Justice Philanthropy

2022

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Stiftungen der Gesellschaft

Goeke,

Moser,

Bahrami

et al. 2024

Global Studies &Amp; Theory of Society

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Gemeinnützige Stiftungen operieren im 21. Jahrhundert gesellschaftsweit und begegnen ihren Umwelten mit sehr ambitionierten Wirkungsansprüchen. Auf den Wegen zu ihren Zielen sind sie an ihre Eigenschaften als Organisation gebunden und mit der Komplexität einer funktional differenzierten Weltgesellschaft konfrontiert. Zur wissenschaftlichen Analyse dieser Einrichtungen eignen sich daher besonders organisations- und gesellschaftstheoretische Ansätze. Die Autor*innen nehmen diesen doppelten Zugriff auf und leisten eine systematisch-soziologische Einordnung von Stiftungen und ihren Strukturen - Einsichten, die auch für Praktiker*innen aus dem Stiftungswesen höchst relevant sind.

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Transformative philanthropy in practice: urban volunteers and the power and limits of the gift

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Six Blind Men and One Elephant: Proposing an Integrative Framework to Advance Research and Practice in Justice Philanthropy

Six Blind Men and One Elephant: Proposing an Integrative Framework to Advance Research and Practice in Justice Philanthropy

Six Blind Men and One Elephant – Proposing an Integrative Framework to Advance Research and Practice in Justice Philanthropy

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