Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2008. / Department of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Adrian Sargeant, Dwight F. Burlingame, Richard Gunderman, Leslie Lenkowsky. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-131).

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2010. / Title from screen (viewed on July 19, 2010). Department of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Dwight F. Burlingame, Philip V. Scarpino, Frances A. Huehls. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-154).

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2007. / Department of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Advisor(s): William Brescia, Frances A. Huehls, Dwight Burlingame. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-113).

abstract: This study explores how grantmakers conceptualize their work with respect to issues of social justice. It seeks to answer two primary questions: What role, if any, does the philanthropic community ascribe to itself in not just ameliorating but helping solve our greatest social challenges? And if philanthropy does see itself as an agent of change, what are the barriers that limit its potential? After painting a portrait of contemporary American philanthropy, this paper applies Iris Marion Young's critique of distributive justice to philanthropy's dilemma between downstream charitable aid and upstream structural change. The thesis then turns to analysis of semi-structured interviews with eighteen of Arizona's foundation leaders to assess whether and how state-level philanthropic leaders see their work vis-á -vis social justice, and understand how external factors limit philanthropy's ability to effect maximum social change. Participants express a desire to engage in genuinely meaningful philanthropy which does more than just maintain the status quo, but identify multiple constraints, including legal barriers to fully utilizing advocacy as a tool, governmental infringement on philanthropic autonomy, the channeling of philanthropic resources toward basic needs as a result of the recession, and a grantmaking orientation that prioritizes short term programs that yield swift, measurable results as opposed to longer term efforts. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Justice Studies 2011

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of philanthropic interventions in public high schools in Mutasa district of Zimbabwe. Three research questions guided the study. The investigation focused on finding out the types of philanthropic interventions in the public high school and to evaluate their impact on the schools and students involved from an educational management perspective. The investigation was a mixed methods research using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Data was collected by questionnaire, interview and documentary sources. Principals of twenty nine high schools responded to a questionnaire. Interview data was gathered from two representatives of non-governmental organisations. One NGO also provided documents for more data. Two individual philanthropists from the district were also interviewed. The results of the study indicate that philanthropic interventions have made significant improvements to the physical infrastructure of some schools. During the 2014 study there were about 700 students from poor backgrounds on various school fees assistance programmes. School enrolment and completion rates have increased. School drop-outs have decreased. Over 6 500 former beneficiaries of fees from one donor organisation have formed an alumni association to assist other children in disadvantaged circumstances. It is strongly recommended that schools in the district and elsewhere use online social network platforms to organise alumni associations from a wider catchment area beyond national borders. Alumni associations are a potentially rich source of philanthropic revenue hardly tapped in the district. Schools should create their own websites to be exposed to a global audience of donors for possible funding of their projects. / Educational Leadership and Management / D. Ed. (Education Management)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-12-19Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:15:22Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 souza_se_me_assis.pdf: 853453 bytes, checksum: 4ed51f94e6a5f608611f9d93c70077e1 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / As realidades políticas e sociais são determinantes na explicação da prevalência de modelos de caridade e assistência em detrimento de outros. No Reino Português o sistema assistencial acompanhou a evolução do modelo europeu, estruturado nos valores do Cristianismo, em que couberam à comunidade as respostas para os problemas sociais. Com base na filosofia das Luzes, além de questões de cunho técnico-científico em busca do progresso econômico, ou com a garantia das fronteiras territoriais, nota-se após a transferência da Corte para o Brasil, e principalmente após a Independência, um despertar para a realidade social brasileira, em que ação do Estado na intervenção na questão assistencial esteve ligada não só à preocupação de que esse cuidado não caísse sobre si, mas também à política de manutenção da ordem tradicional. Pensando nisso, essa pesquisa procurou conhecer o comportamento do Estado monárquico constitucional brasileiro diante dos .socorros públicos. no momento da organização de suas bases jurídicas e administrativas. As principais fontes que a fundamentaram foram as Leis e Decisões de Governo do Império do Brasil de 1822 a 1834, cuja análise permitiu dimensionar as mudanças na concepção das obrigações do Estado e o discurso que ele próprio produzia de si, tornando explícita a estreita relação entre pobreza, desordem, trabalho e o desenvolvimento de uma moral, logo, a intimidade da questão da assistência com os interesses do Estado. / Political and social realities are determining factors in the explanation of the predominance of certain charity and social assistance models. In the Portuguese Kingdom the social assistance system followed the evolution of the European model, based on Christian values, in which the community was in charge of responding to social problems. Based on the Enlightment philosophy, apart from technical scientific issues in search of economic progress or guarantees for territorial frontiers, after the transfer of the Royal Court to Brazil and especially after Independence, an awakening is observed as to Brazil.s social reality, in which State agency in social assistance issues was tied not only to the preoccupation that such care would not be devolved to the State itself but also to the policy of maintaining traditional order. With such in mind, this research seeks to reveal the behavior of the Brazilian Constitutional Monarchy as to public social aid at the moment of organizing her legal and administrative foundations. The main sources that grounded these were the Leis e Decisões de Governo do Império do Brasil de 1822 a 1834 (Laws and Decisions of the Government of the Empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1832), the analysis of which enabled dimensioning the changes in the conception of the State.s responsibilities and the discourse it produced on itself, revealing the tight relation between poverty, disorder, work and the development of a moral, therefore, between the intimacy of the social assistance issue and the concerns of the State.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-03-03Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:58:26Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 chahine_ma_me_assis.pdf: 328441 bytes, checksum: 6fd037c9920260ef415fd0ffae9c1ff0 (MD5) / Este trabalho versa sobre a questão do atendimento infantil em instituições filantrópicas. Faz um percurso sobre a história destas instituições no Brasil, a concepção de infância que permeia sua existência e a forma de atendimento oferecida. Apresenta as mudanças na legislação e os movimentos sociais que impulsionaram tais transformações. Delimita seu objeto, constituindo-se em um estudo de caso de uma instituição filantrópica de atendimento da cidade de Londrina, Estado do Paraná. Apresenta o contexto histórico social da cidade e suas instituições de atendimento assistenciais, privilegiando as de atendimento à infância; também apresenta as adequações à legislação, no que se refere à transição da responsabilidade sobre as instituições do âmbito da Secretaria de Assistência para a da Educação, assim como as transformações nas instituições de acordo com as novas exigências legais. Define como objetivo investigar a motivação das pessoas envolvidas com o atendimento filantrópico nesta instituição, bem como sua concepção de infância e educação. Utiliza a metodologia qualitativa e o referencial sócio-histórico construcionista, sendo os instrumentos de coleta de dados: conversas, observações, participação no cotidiano, entrevistas semi-dirigidas e apreciação de documentos. Constata que a educação infantil no município é constituída predominantemente por instituições filantrópicas, que apresentam dificuldades em termos de recursos financeiros e de apoio funcional do poder público no que tange a orientação pedagógica, capacitação de profissionais e materiais de trabalho. Constata também que o principal motivador da existência da instituição pesquisada é o religioso, seguido da insuficiência de serviços públicos de atendimento... / This work discusses the issue of child assistance in philanthropic institutions. It gives an overview about the history of such institutions in Brazil, the concept if childhood that underlies their existence and the form of assistance given. It presents the changes in the legislation and the social movements that fostered such transformations. Its focus is a study case of a philanthropic assistance institution in the city of Londrina, state of Paraná. It presents the social-historical context of the city and its assistance institutions, concentrating on those which provide assistance to children. Also, it presents the changes in the legislation regarding the shift of responsibility from the Secretariat of Assistance to the Secretariat of Education, as well as the transformations in the institutions according to the new legal demands. The work defines as its object of study to investigate the motivation of the people involved with philanthropic assistance in that institution and their concept of childhood and education. It uses qualitative methodology and a socio-historical constructivist framework. The following instruments were used to collect data: talks, observations, daily participation, semi-structured interviews and document analysis. The work verifies that child education in the city constitutes predominantly of philanthropic institutions which have difficulties regarding financial resources and functional support from the public sector as far as pedagogic orientation, professional qualification and work resources are concerned. It also verifies that the main motivating factor for the existence of the institution under study is religious, followed by the inadequacy of public assistance services... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below)

This study aims to understand what drives individuals to engage specifically in mobilizing the fight against childhood cancer in the city of Aracaju, Sergipe, with the field of analysis and research volunteer leaders and not leaders of the Association of Voluntary Service of Oncology Sergipe (AVOSOS) and the Support Group for Children with Cancer of Sergipe (GACC / SE), two institutions that provide social services and which are characterized as philanthropic and nonprofit organizations. The survey sought to identify, through a case study with eighteen participants, the mechanisms and social logics that are related to a type of political engagement. Making use of exploratory research was used to collect and analyze data from a combination of technical case studies designed to investigate the trajectories of social activists and participant observation. The work discussed in the first chapter the history of social practices in Brazil, considering the changes in ways of doing philanthropy and relationship with this new type of political activism. In the second and third chapters are investigated respectively the social characteristics in the various individual agents who conducted the investigation for the cause of cancer, their justifications, meanings and reasons which lead them to invest more intensively in this type of mobilization. The results indicate combinations of variables that involve the political context, elements of family socialization, education, especially religious and the presence of formal and informal social networks. Among the main considerations that we identified that the interest in participating in the mobilization for the cause of cancer, may vary the trajectories and the combination of resources which structure configurations of the political practices of each participant, and the meanings that the engagement will to represent these. / Neste estudo buscamos compreender o que leva indivíduos a se engajar especificamente na mobilização do combate ao câncer infanto-juvenil na cidade de Aracaju, Sergipe, tendo como campo de análise e pesquisa voluntários dirigentes e não dirigentes da Associação de Voluntários à Serviço da Oncologia de Sergipe (AVOSOS) e do Grupo de Apoio à Criança com Câncer de Sergipe (GACC/SE), duas instituições que prestam serviços de assistência social e que se caracterizam como filantrópicas e sem fins lucrativos. A pesquisa buscou identificar, mediante estudo de caso com dezoito participantes, os mecanismos e lógicas sociais que estão relacionados a um tipo de engajamento político. Fazendo uso da pesquisa exploratória foi adotado na coleta e análise de dados uma combinação da técnica de estudo de casos visando investigar as trajetórias sociais dos ativistas e observação participante. O trabalho abordou no primeiro capítulo a trajetória das práticas sociais no Brasil, considerando as transformações das formas de se fazer filantropia e a relação desta com o novo tipo de ativismo político. No segundo e terceiro capítulo são investigados respectivamente as características sociais individuais presentes nos diferentes agentes investigados que os conduziram para a causa do câncer, suas justificativas, significados e razões que os levam a investirem de forma mais intensa nesse tipo de mobilização. Os resultados apontam para combinações de variáveis que envolvem o contexto político, elementos de socialização familiar, escolar, sobretudo, religiosa e a presença das redes sociais formais e informais. Dentre as principais considerações a que chegamos identificamos que o interesse em participar na mobilização pela causa do câncer, pode variar conforme as trajetórias e a combinação de recursos os quais estruturam as configurações das práticas políticas de cada um dos participantes, além dos significados que o engajamento vai representar para estes.

The Master's Thesis deals with the motivation of art patrons, with a special emphasis on contemporary patrons promoting art and culture in the Czech environment. The theoretical part focuses on defining the basic terminology and presents selected studies of volunteering and donation in the non-profit sector with a special focus on culture. The current status in this field is described from the general economic aspects of the support of arts in the Czech Republic to the psychological aspects of individuals. The second part of the thesis is devoted to the patronage of art and introduces the most important patrons of art, considering the historical context and development of the patronage in the history of Czech art. The practical part is based on the media analysis and the interview analysis and the resulting summary of the motivation of the patrons of art.