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Author Eikenberry, Angela M.

Title Giving circles : philanthropy, voluntary association, and democracy / Angela M. Eikenberry.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2009]
©2009
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 172 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Philanthropic and nonprofit studies
Philanthropic and nonprofit studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : giving circles and democratic governance -- Democracy, voluntary association, and philanthropy -- The modernization and marketization of voluntarism -- The democratization and new shape of voluntarism -- The giving circle landscape -- The democratic effects of giving circles -- Voluntarism and governing beyond the state.
Summary In the contemporary United States, third parties are being relied upon to deliver social services that were once chiefly the responsibility of government. Among the new philanthropic associations that have arisen in this environment are voluntary groups known as giving circles. Their purpose is to bring people together to pool resources and then collectively decide how to distribute them. Giving circles have been seen as the most democratic of philanthropic mechanisms, working to meet social needs and sol.
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Subject Charities -- United States.
Charities.
United States.
Public-private sector cooperation -- United States.
Public-private sector cooperation.
Voluntarism -- United States.
Voluntarism.
Humanitarianism.
Humanitarianism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Eikenberry, Angela M. Giving circles. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2009 9780253353191 (DLC) 2008044987 (OCoLC)261176952
ISBN 9780253003348 (electronic book)
0253003342 (electronic book)
9780253353191 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
025335319X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780253220851 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0253220858 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

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