American Foundations
Subtitle: An Investigative History
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: April 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780262041898
Subjects: American studies; Central government policies; Charities & voluntary services; Community Organization Of Social Welfare; Foundations (Endowments); Social Science; Sociology; USA; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Philanthropy & Charity; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Social Work; Charities; Endowments; History; United States
First sentence: Although from its earliest days organized philanthropy has been integral to American culture, foundations are not an American invention.
Description: "In American Foundations, Mark Dowie argues that organized philanthropy is on the verge of an evolutionary shift that will transform America's nearly 50,000 foundations from covert to overt mediators of public policy, from polite arbiters of knowledge and culture to aggressive creators of new orthodoxy. He questions the wisdom of placing so much power at the disposal of nondemocratic institutions."--BOOK JACKET.