The Foundation 1000 2006 2007

This leading print resource on the 1,000 wealthiest U.S. foundations features key facts and analysis of their giving priorities. Each profile includes contact information, comprehensive program descriptions, and the total picture of the funder's grantmaking interests. The latest edition includes more than 750 new giving profiles. For each of the top 1,000 funders, you'll find: - statement of purpose - names of key officials - giving limitations - current financial data - foundation background - application guidelines - support areas

Essays examining the origins, development, and achievements of charitable organizations in key US cities and regions. Once largely confined to the biggest cities in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, philanthropic foundations now play a significant role in nearly every state. Wide-ranging and incisive, the essays in American Philanthropic Foundations: Regional Difference and Change examine the origins, development, and accomplishments of philanthropic foundations in key cities and regions of the United States. Each contributor assesses foundation efforts to address social and economic inequalities, and to encourage cultural and creative life in their home regions and elsewhere. This fascinating and timely study of contemporary America’s philanthropic foundations vividly illustrates foundations’ commonalities and differences as they strive to address pressing public problems.

This leading print resource on the 1,000 wealthiest U.S. foundations features key facts and analysis of their giving priorities. Each profile includes contact information, comprehensive program descriptions, and the total picture of the funder's grantmaking interests. The latest edition includes more than 750 new giving profiles. For each of the top 1,000 funders, you'll find: - statement of purpose - names of key officials - giving limitations - current financial data - foundation background - application guidelines - support areas

The nonprofit sector in China (including nongovernmental organizations, foundations, and charities) is fairly new, especially to foreigners, since the rapid development of this "third sector" has not been widely studied in Western scholarship. The contributors to this volume have been engaged in research of China's nonprofit sector for many years, and are intimately familiar with the operation of Chinese nonprofit organizations. China's Nonprofit Sector describes the development of China's nonprofit sector since 1995, including discussions on the rise of corporate responsibility and charitable foundations, grassroots organizations, and the microphilanthropy that arose after the Sichuan earthquake in 2008. It enumerates the shifting legal framework, the complex relationship between government-affiliated and private sector organizations, the media's role, the emergence of microphilanthropy, and the lack of knowledge of the general public regarding philanthropic enterprises. This volume, in Transaction's Asian Studies series, directly addresses the topic of China's nonprofit sector and gives a coherent and comprehensive account of its development and challenges. This work will be of value for all policy specialists, Asian Studies scholars, and all individuals interested in China.