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Building Civic Infrastructure Organizations: The Lilly Endowment's Experiment to Grow Community FoundationsWang, Xiaoyun 05 1900 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In the past 50 years, we have seen significant public and philanthropic investment in building civil society in countries around the globe. This includes initiating community foundations to support the development of vibrant communities and civic life. Yet we have little knowledge about why some initiatives bear fruit and others fail to do so. More specifically, why some community foundations initiated by institutional funders are able to garner local giving necessary to sustain themselves and others are not.
This dissertation contributes to our knowledge about such initiatives by researching the Lilly Endowment’s GIFT Initiative (Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow), a project providing incentives to start nearly 60 new community foundations and revive 17 existing community foundations in Indiana since 1990. I employed mixed methods and three sources of data: historical archives, statistics of community foundations’ financial information and community demographics, and case studies of four community foundations.
First, I found two existing explanations offered in the literature did not account for the lack of local support for the community foundations I studied. More specifically, I found that high level of income and wealth does not necessarily lead to high level of giving to community foundations and the lack of community identity is not the primary reason explaining community foundations’ struggles in attracting local donations. Rather the study shows that social capital is crucial for garnering local giving through the mechanism of facilitating information sharing. Second, I examined the long-term effects of matching grants, a key strategy used by Lilly Endowment to leverage local giving. I found that long-term provision of matching grants might reduce organizations’ incentives to seek funding sources on their own. My dissertation lends further insight into the sustainability of civic infrastructure organizations, a popular institutional model for building local civil society even today.
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Rational Generosity: The Indianapolis Foundation and the Community Foundation Response to the Great DepressionKienker, James Robert 19 July 2010 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / A historical analysis of the philanthropic response to the Great Depression by community foundations; the thesis uses the individual story of the Indianapolis Foundation as a case study to provide detailed examples of how community foundations modified their grant-making behavior in response to the Great Depression’s economic effects.
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Fundações comunitárias como promotoras de coprodução do bem público: o caso do Instituto Comunitário Grande Florianópolis (ICom) / Community Foundations promoting the coproduction of the public goods: the case of Instituto Comunitário Grande Florianópolis (ICom)Silva, Anderson Giovani da 24 August 2011 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2011-08-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation aims to comprehend how community foundations promote coproduction of public goods. Community foundations are non-profit organisations that aim for a better quality of life in the communities they serve. They connect people and organisations to promote community development. Some of the characteristics of community foundations are (a) they have a board that reflects the diversity of the community; (b) they serve a defined territory; (c) they raise funds from a variety of sources and they are grantmakers; and (d) they seek to build endowments. Due to such characteristics, community foundations have potential to perform the role of convenors and community leaders, roles that indicate they are able to promote coproduction, an approach applied to public administration that consists of a large participation of citizens individually or organised in formal or informal groups in processes of creation, definition, implementation, control, and evaluation of public policies. In coproduction, citizens and public agents share roles and responsibilities. In order to comprehend how community foundations work to promote coproduction of public goods, a case study was undertaken with one Brazilian community foundation, Instituto Comunitário Grande Florianópolis (ICom). Two of the initiatives of ICom which involved coproduction were examined through the analysis of documents and by interviewing public agents and ICom s professionals that participated in the activities. The results of the research show that, in order to promote coproduction, community foundations (a) count on their reputation and history of work and achievements, and look for alliances that contribute to inspire trust in order to bring together other actors that improve the production of public goods; (b) use the influence of their board members; (c) have the ability to use their financial resources to produce results in the short term, building an environment of confidence among the actors involved; (d) define the focus of the initiatives and the public good/service to be produced, in partnership with local actors, and make clear the results to be achieved collectively; (e) community foundations show technical skills; and (f) they are able to conduct the mobilisation of local actors to be engaged in coproduction / A presente dissertação tem por objetivo compreender como as fundações comunitárias atuam na promoção de coprodução do bem público, a partir do estudo de caso de uma organização que atua na região da Grande Florianópolis (SC). As fundações comunitárias são organizações sem fins lucrativos que buscam melhorar a qualidade de vida em uma determinada área geográfica, articulando pessoas e organizações na promoção do desenvolvimento comunitário. Suas principais características são a) seu conselho diretor reflete a diversidade de atores locais; b) atuam em um área geográfica definida; c) mobilizam recursos de diversas fontes e fazem doações; d) buscam formar fundos patrimoniais permanentes. Dadas as suas características, apresentam o potencial de atuar como organizações articuladoras e de assumir o papel de liderança na comunidade. Por isso, as fundações comunitárias parecem estar em posição de atuar promovendo a coprodução do bem público, uma abordagem que consiste na elaboração, delimitação, implementação, controle e avaliação dos bens e serviços públicos, em que se verifica participação e engajamento dos cidadãos individualmente ou por meio de organizações em todas as etapas do processo, compartilhando papéis e responsabilidades com agentes públicos governamentais. Para compreender como as fundações comunitárias atuam na promoção de coprodução do bem público, foi feito um estudo do caso de uma das fundações comunitárias brasileiras, o Instituto Comunitário Grande Florianópolis (ICom), com o exame de sua ação em duas iniciativas nas quais verificou-se coprodução. A partir de entrevistas com agentes públicos governamentais e profissionais da fundação, além da análise de documentos, verificou-se que para a promoção de coprodução são importantes para a fundação comunitária a) sua reputação e histórico, fortalecido pela aliança com parceiros capazes de enriquecer a proposta de ação e de emprestar credibilidade para atrair novos atores à coprodução; b) a influência das lideranças que compõem sua governança; c) a possibilidade de contar com recursos financeiros para fazer doações de maneira ágil, que representam gestos concretos aos demais atores em articulação; d) definição e foco na causa, no bem ou serviço público a ser produzido, em conjunto com atores locais, e com clareza dos resultados a serem alcançados; e) competência técnica; e f) habilidade de conduzir processos de mobilização de atores locais
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Komunitní nadace a jejich specifika / Community foundations and their specificsProcházková, Jitka January 2018 (has links)
Today, community foundations undoubtedly play a significant role in building community philanthropy and strengthening civil society through civic engagement. They are unique by their specific connection to the community, ie. to a particular geographically defined area, where this foundation financially supports activities, events, individuals or groups in the form of grants. These grants provide from a collection of donated funds from many donors and the impact on the community is that it addresses its diverse problems and needs. Thanks to this collection and the endowment can address these needs in the long run. In the submitted diploma thesis, is based on analysis of professional literature, the specifics of community foundations are derived and based on the analysis of the documents of the foundations, it is shown how many Czech community foundations correspond to this ideal. Keywords: Community, foundations, community foundations, community philanthropy, social capital, board of directors, community foundation history, foundation growth, specifics of community foundations
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Defining community need through the lens of the elite : a history of the Indianapolis Foundation and its funding of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, 1893-1984Hardy, Marc Alan 16 November 2012 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This history investigates the beginnings of community foundations in general and the creation of the Indianapolis Foundation specifically and its eventual funding of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. My findings reveal that, contrary to previous histories that have been written, the creation of community foundations was not driven by benevolence but by changes in federal and state banking laws starting in 1913 that allowed banks to have trust departments that broke the monopoly that trust companies had long enjoyed. In response, trust company executives chartered community trusts to publicly position themselves as benevolent, community-minded businessmen. This distinguished them as trustworthy compared to the greedy bankers of the day, which helped trust companies gain trust customers. Community trusts were responsible for identifying and disbursing funds to deserving beneficiaries, thereby relieving trust companies of a costly and time consuming burden. Even more important, the trust companies retained control over the community trusts by appointing surrogate board members. In addition, none of the trust companies that chartered the Indianapolis Foundation donated their own money, yet appeared charitable. All of these factors made community foundations a very lucrative arrangement.
Funding the areas of arts and culture was not designated in the Indianapolis Foundation’s original purpose statement, yet the Indiana State Symphony Society was funded at the height of the Great Depression while many Indianapolis citizens went hungry. The love of music played a very small part in efforts by the wealthy elite to garner support from the Indianapolis Foundation for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. The public justifications for funding the symphony began with giving psychological relief to the citizens of Indianapolis from the pressures of the Great Depression, to the need of employment for musicians, then the importance of musical education of children, expanding to the importance of the symphony to the city’s reputation, and finally, in the 1980s, the symphony as a community asset that helped rejuvenate downtown Indianapolis. However, the real reason for funding was that the wealthy elite wanted the symphony to use as a flattering cultural institution that would elevate their social status and attract fellow elites and businesses to Indianapolis.
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Challenges and potentials of channeling local philanthropy towards development and aocial justice and the role of waqf (Islamic and Arab-civic endowments) in building community foundationsDaly, Marwa El 16 May 2012 (has links)
Diese Arbeit bietet eine solide theoretische Grundlage zu Philanthropie und religiös motivierten Spendenaktivitäten und deren Einfluss auf Wohltätigkeitstrends, Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und einer auf dem Gedanken der sozialen Gerechtigkeit beruhenden Philanthropie. Untersucht werden dafür die Strukturen religiös motivierte Spenden, für die in der islamischen Tradition die Begriffe „zakat“, „Waqf“ oder im Plural auch „awqaf-“ oder „Sadaqa“ verwendet werden, der christliche Begriff dafür lautet „tithes“ oder „ushour“. Aufbauend auf diesem theoretischen Rahmenwerk analysiert die qualitative und quantitative Feldstudie auf nationaler Ebene, wie die ägyptische Öffentlichkeit Philanthropie, soziale Gerechtigkeit, Menschenrechte, Spenden, Freiwilligenarbeit und andere Konzepte des zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements wahrnimmt. Um eine umfassende und repräsentative Datengrundlage zu erhalten, wurden 2000 Haushalte, 200 zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen erfasst, sowie Spender, Empfänger, religiöse Wohltäter und andere Akteure interviewt. Die so gewonnen Erkenntnisse lassen aussagekräftige Aufschlüsse über philanthropische Trends zu. Erstmals wird so auch eine finanzielle Einschätzung und Bewertung der Aktivitäten im lokalen Wohltätigkeitsbereich möglich, die sich auf mehr als eine Billion US-Dollar beziffern lassen. Die Erhebung weist nach, dass gemessen an den Pro-Kopf-Aufwendungen die privaten Spendenaktivitäten weitaus wichtiger sind als auswärtige wirtschaftliche Hilfe für Ägypten. Das wiederum lässt Rückschlüsse zu, welche Bedeutung lokale Wohltätigkeit erlangen kann, wenn sie richtig gesteuert wird und nicht wie bislang oft im Teufelskreis von ad-hoc-Spenden oder Hilfen von Privatperson an Privatperson gefangen ist. Die Studie stellt außerdem eine Verbindung her zwischen lokalen Wohltätigkeits-Mechanismen, die meist auf religiösen und kulturellen Werten beruhen, und modernen Strukturen, wie etwa Gemeinde-Stiftungen oder Gemeinde-„waqf“, innerhalb derer die Spenden eine nachhaltige Veränderung bewirken können. Daher bietet diese Arbeit also eine umfassende wissenschaftliche Grundlage, die nicht nur ein besseres Verständnis, sondern auch den nachhaltiger Aus- und Aufbau lokaler Wohltätigkeitsstrukturen in Ägypten ermöglicht. Zentral ist dabei vor allem die Rolle lokaler, individueller Spenden, die beispielsweise für Stiftungen auf der Gemeindeebene eingesetzt, wesentlich zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung beitragen könnten – und das nicht nur in Ägypten, sondern in der gesamten arabischen Region. Als konkretes Ergebnis dieser Arbeit, wurde ein innovatives Modell entwickelt, dass neben den wissenschaftlichen Daten das Konzept der „waqf“ berücksichtigt. Der Wissenschaftlerin und einem engagierten Vorstand ist es auf dieser Grundlage gelungen, die Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation (WMCF) zu gründen, die nicht nur ein Modell für eine Bürgerstiftung ist, sondern auch das tradierte Konzept der „waqf“ als praktikable und verbürgte Wohlstätigkeitsstruktur sinnvoll weiterentwickelt. / This work provides a solid theoretical base on philanthropy, religious giving (Islamic zakat, ‘ushour, Waqf -plural: awqaf-, Sadaqa and Christian tithes or ‘ushour), and their implications on giving trends, development work, social justice philanthropy. The field study (quantitative and qualitative) that supports the theoretical framework reflects at a national level the Egyptian public’s perceptions on philanthropy, social justice, human rights, giving and volunteering and other concepts that determine the peoples’ civic engagement. The statistics cover 2000 households, 200 Civil Society Organizations distributed all over Egypt and interviews donors, recipients, religious people and other stakeholders. The numbers reflect philanthropic trends and for the first time provide a monetary estimate of local philanthropy of over USD 1 Billion annually. The survey proves that the per capita share of philanthropy outweighs the per capita share of foreign economic assistance to Egypt, which implies the significance of local giving if properly channeled, and not as it is actually consumed in the vicious circle of ad-hoc, person to person charity. In addition, the study relates local giving mechanisms derived from religion and culture to modern actual structures, like community foundations or community waqf that could bring about sustainable change in the communities. In sum, the work provides a comprehensive scientific base to help understand- and build on local philanthropy in Egypt. It explores the role that local individual giving could play in achieving sustainable development and building a new wave of community foundations not only in Egypt but in the Arab region at large. As a tangible result of this thesis, an innovative model that revives the concept of waqf and builds on the study’s results was created by the researcher and a dedicated board of trustees who succeeded in establishing Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation (WMCF) that not only introduces the community foundation model to Egypt, but revives and modernizes the waqf as a practical authentic philanthropic structure.
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