Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 322
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Trim: 7 x 9¼
978-0-7425-4987-6 • Hardback • September 2005 • $162.00 • (£125.00)
978-0-7425-4988-3 • Paperback • September 2005 • $61.00 • (£47.00)
978-0-7425-8043-5 • eBook • September 2005 • $57.50 • (£44.00)
Daniel Faber is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University. He specializes in sociology of philanthropy, the political/economy of the environment, and globalization. Deborah McCarthy is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the College of Charleston. She specializes in environmental sociology, social movements, the sociology of philanthropy, and urban studies.
Chapter 1 Legacy and Promise for Social Justice Funding: Charitable Foundations and Progressive Social Movements, Past and Present
Chapter 2 Liberal Foundations: Impediments or Supports for Social Change?
Chapter 3 Moving Public Policy to the Right: The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations
Chapter 4 Up Against Conservative Public Policy: Alternatives to Mainstream Philanthropy
Chapter 5 Foundations and the Environmental Movement: Priorities, Strategies, and Impact
Chapter 6 Breaking the Funding Barriers: Philanthropic Activism in Support of the Environmental Justice Movement
Chapter 7 The Politics of Philanthropy and Social Change: Challenges for Racial Justice
Chapter 8 Living Up to the Promise of Collaboration: Foundations and Community Organizations as Partners in the Revitalization of Poor Neighborhoods
Chapter 9 Coming Out of the Green Closet: Wealth Discourse and the Construction of Social Change Philanthropists
Chapter 10 Mobilizing Money Strategically: Opportunities for Grantees to be Active Agents in Social Movement Philanthropy
<I<Foundations for Change provides an excellent overview of the relationship between philanthropic foundations and social movement organizations from a critical perspective.
— Leslie King, Smith College
The book provides a well-documented response of philanthropy to the social, economic and ecological crises that characterize the current decade. This book will be useful to foundation officials in setting the terms of dialogue about the promise and pitfalls of contemporary philanthropy. It will also inform social movement activists about the structural limitations of their own strategies for social change.
— Sandra Meucci, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Gibson & Associates
Foundations for Social Change is an astute, clearly written, and empirically rich book on the layered world of U.S. philanthropic foundations and the world they try to regulate. The editors brought together a group of writers well-versed in the topic, each with a distinct expertise in U.S. philanthropy. It is a wonderful source for thoughtful discussion and ideas that help elucidate what is at stake in this complex historical conjuncture of rapidly increasing forms of philanthropy and neoliberalized social welfarism. I recommend it to scholars, students, and activists alike.
— Michael Goldman; Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 17, No. 3, Sept. 2006
provides an excellent overview of the relationship between philanthropic foundations and social movement organizations from a critical perspective.
— Leslie King, Smith College