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Item Can Private Philanthropy Step in for Government?(2013-03-14) Page, Ben; Stone, MelissaItem Gay for Pay: The Role of Philanthropy in Upholding Homonormative Nonprofit Agendas in LGBT Advocacy Organizations(Hubert H Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, 2009-05-11) Nelson, EricaA misguided notion that gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender identified individuals constituted a demographic that possessed substantial wealth emerged in the early 1990s. Since this time, scholars have conducted randomized, representative research indicating that LGBT incomes are comparable to, if not lower than their heterosexual counterparts. While most LGBT organizations, both mainstream and progressive, have critiqued the myth of affluence among their communities, organizational agendas and practices often times continue to perpetuate this stereotype. These trends in giving have contributed to a problem among LGBT organizations which some have coined “homonormativity,” a term Lisa Duggan defines as “a privatized, depoliticized gay culture anchored in domesticity and consumption” (Duggan 2003, 50).Item Internationalizing the Advancement Agenda: A Multi-Case Study of Advancement Practices at Universities with Very High Research Activity(2014-05) Weiner, BradleyInstitutions of higher education seek alternative revenue sources due to increasing educational costs and diminished public financing. One potential revenue stream includes philanthropic support from international alumni and donors. This multi-case study investigates the process by which two very high research activity universities, have adapted their institutional advancement strategies to engage international constituents. This study also investigates whether those processes differ by public or private institutional authority. By employing a conceptual framework based on the accumulation of Market Knowledge in for-profit firms, this study extends those concepts into the context of non-profit sphere by providing a foundation for understanding how the internationalization of the advancement agenda aligns with earlier literature on globalization, university internationalization, and institutional advancement. Market Knowledge is explored as three different knowledge domains defined as Business Knowledge, Institutional Knowledge, and Internationalization Knowledge. Each of these domains contributes meaningfully to total amount of Market Knowledge but Business Knowledge, which includes awareness of alumni names, contact information, and philanthropic history, emerged as the most important in the context of international advancement. Internationalization Knowledge, which includes the awareness of internal resources and capacity for this agenda emerged as the least important for moving toward further international commitments, but may be the most efficient in times of resource scarcity. This study also suggests that there are few differences between public and private universities with regard to the actual mechanics of building international relationships, but that public university constituents may find the agenda less defensible, even in times of waning public financing. These findings provide theoretical context for understanding an important component of the campus internationalization strategy that has been previously hidden and underexplored. Furthermore, it provides guidance to both scholars and practitioners on ways in which international partners can be engaged as lifelong supporters and prospective donors to institutions that increasingly rely on external revenue.Item Minnesota Philanthropic Support for the Disadvantaged, 1984. A report on who benefits from grantmaking.(Minneapolis: The Philanthropy Project, 1985) Pratt, Jon; Aburto, RosangelicaItem Minnesota Philanthropic Support for the Disadvantaged.(Minneapolis: The Philanthropy Project., 1984) Pratt, Jon; Aburto, RosangelicaItem Minnesota Philanthropy and Disadvantaged People: A Report on Who Benefits from Grantmaking.(Minneapolis: The Philanthropy Project., 1986) Pratt, Jon; Aburto, Rosangelica; Smith, Frederick W.Item Philanthropy as Gendered Global Governance: Philanthrocapitalism, Branded Citizenship, and the Selling of Corporate Social Responsibility(2014-07) Schowalter, Dana MarieEvery decade since their inception in the 1940s, the United Nations and the World Bank have advocated for increased investments in educational opportunities for women and girls, claiming that education is necessary for the development of full personhood (Jain, 2005). A series of studies funded by Goldman Sachs and the Nike Foundation during the mid-2000s offered a different perspective on investments in women's education: instead of arguing that education is important to human development, these corporations argued that women's education was important to markets and profits. World Bank President Robert Zoellick called this renewed push for gender equality "smart economics" and incorporated this reasoning into global education policy. My dissertation develops the argument that this form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) expands the neoliberal paradigm (the process of privatizing and creating market incentives for services previously provided by the state) by relegating efforts to achieve gender justice to the private sector, where they serve corporate profit-making agendas over those of social justice.In my dissertation, I theorize global CSR partnerships and the financialization of women's lives and argue that recipients of corporate aid are defined as valuable insofar as they are vehicles for corporate profit. I show how corporations use these campaigns to add value to their brands in two ways. First, they construct global networks of business and government officials when they launch global philanthropies and later rely on these networks to obtain profitable business contracts in developing nations. Second, they rely on coverage in mainstream and social media to increase brand value among consumers in first world nations. Media are central to this project as they are vital to the construction and dissemination of definitions about the appropriate roles for women in a society; as such, my dissertation strives to show how media contribute to the construction of citizenship for women and girls in the Global South.Item Philanthropy Project. 1986 Minnesota Foundations List.(Minneapolis: The Philanthropy Project., 1986) Philanthropy ProjectItem Proceedings from a Forum and Consultation on the Church as Partner in Community Economic Development.(Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota., 1990) Williams, Theatrice; Bakama, B.; Miller, Victoria L.Item United Negro College Fund (Minnesota): Donor Profile 1992.(1992) Sridhar, Vengesana R.