{"title":"Ties May Come and Ties May Go: The Formation and Dissolution of Funding Relationships in the Network of Foundations Giving to Charter Schools","authors":"David K. Diehl","doi":"10.2979/phileduc.3.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/phileduc.3.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A growing body of research has described the convergence of education-related grant making by major foundations. This paper adds to that work by examining the underlying dynamics of convergence: what causes the creation, persistence, and dissolution of funding ties between large foundations and charter school-related organizations. I do so by modeling the evolution of the network of funding to charter school-related organizations by 33 major foundations in California from 2004 through 2013. Using separable temporal exponential random graph modeling, I investigate how four common network mechanisms shape the evolution of the network: preferential attachment, transitivity, propinquity, and homophily. Results suggest different social mechanisms drive the formation and persistence of funding ties. More specifically, the formation of funding ties was more related to characteristics of the recipients while the persistence of funding relationships was more related to the characteristics of funders.","PeriodicalId":343186,"journal":{"name":"Philanthropy & Education","volume":"79 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116273758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Encouraging Repeated Memorial Donations to a Scholarship Fund: An Experimental Test of Permanence Goals and Anniversary Acknowledgements","authors":"R. James","doi":"10.2979/PHILEDUC.2.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/PHILEDUC.2.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Encouraging repeated memorial gifts can be challenging. Donors commonly view such donations as a one-time, funeral-related event. Further, donors may care little about the underlying charitable cause, such as the decedent's alma mater or favored scholarship fund. Research in mortality salience and bereavement suggests that the death of a loved one may generate a desire for permanence in memorialization, particularly during important anniversaries. Different memorial scholarship fund gift acknowledgement messages were randomly assigned to 10 groups totaling 4,873 participants. Adding a permanence component to an educational scholarship fundraising goal and timing the acknowledgement near the death anniversary significantly increased willingness to make a second memorial gift in the scenarios presented. Adding a permanence component also increased the estimated gift size. Although neither strategy increased sympathy for the charity's work, both increased charitable giving motivations of family obligation, sense of loss, and potential regret from failing to make a second gift.","PeriodicalId":343186,"journal":{"name":"Philanthropy & Education","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116293522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consumption Capital and Distinctive Characteristics of Donors to Education","authors":"Jennifer Lehman","doi":"10.2979/PHILEDUC.4.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/PHILEDUC.4.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Consumption capital applies to experiences that require early investment in relatively less pleasant practice in order to increase future enjoyment. Some types of charity, such as education, represent support for causes that require such accumulated practice (consumption capital) in order to fully appreciate their benefits. This paper explores several implications of a consumption capital accumulation model applied to educational philanthropy. Regression results indicate that level of education is positively associated with giving to education as well as giving exclusively to education, and religious practice and education donations are complementary goods. This study helps understand personal characteristics that may indicate greater likelihood of donating to an educational organization, thus aiding educational organizations in targeting potential donors. Fundraising has become essential for schools and universities during this era of Covid-19, yet fundraising revenue is expected to decline and an increasing number of colleges are expected to close.","PeriodicalId":343186,"journal":{"name":"Philanthropy & Education","volume":"889 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131473970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Libraries and Literacy: Andrew Carnegie's Philanthropy in the American Midwest","authors":"Kristen M. Schuster","doi":"10.2979/phileduc.2.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/phileduc.2.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:At the turn of the 20th Century (1890–1910), Andrew Carnegie's philanthropy for public libraries invigorated public discourses on literacy and self-improvement. His philanthropy offers a unique lens for analyzing how local communities used popular attitudes towards literacy and education to justify the expense of a public library. This paper investigates the broad narratives and perceptions of Carnegie's philanthropy in the context of Midwestern social and cultural interests in reading as a form of self-improvement. A description of historical trends in literacy initiatives and library development contextualizes analyses of three applications selected for their ability to represent the average community in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio between 1900 and 1910. These analyses support a focused discussion about the roles Carnegie's philanthropy played in civic leaders’ endeavors to use tax dollars to develop sustainable (visible) cultural and social amenities in their communities.","PeriodicalId":343186,"journal":{"name":"Philanthropy & Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134449117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reciprocity as a Foundational Concept in Teaching Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies","authors":"Elizabeth J. Dale","doi":"10.2979/PHILEDUC.1.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/PHILEDUC.1.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Reciprocity is a potentially transformational social relation based on acting “with” and not “for” others, decreasing traditionally hierarchical roles and replacing power with shared responsibility. In this essay, I consider three ways reciprocity informs my teaching and has the potential to shape nonprofit and philanthropic education: it negates the dualistic perspective of student/teacher, it provides the context in which to build a classroom community, and it ensures a self-reflexive pedagogical practice. I also consider how reciprocity is embedded in the philanthropic impulse, highlighting the nature of teaching as a human endeavor designed to improve the public good.","PeriodicalId":343186,"journal":{"name":"Philanthropy & Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126064413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Raising Social Awareness Through Philately and Its Effect on Philanthropy","authors":"S. Walczak, Angela Elizabeth Switzer","doi":"10.2979/phileduc.3.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/phileduc.3.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Philately is one channel for governments to educate the populace and affect social awareness. This article examines how postage stamps may be used in educating both local and international populations about social causes and is measured by evaluating the consequent philanthropic behavior towards medical needs and goals of a specific nation. Philanthropic donations to medically-related organizations are evaluated for the year of issuance of a postage stamp on the same topic as well as donations for following years. The research results find that for the majority of medical organizations studied, philanthropic contributions increase in the zero to two years following a topically related stamp's issuance, indicating the effectiveness of philatelic materials for educating the population and raising social awareness of medical causes.","PeriodicalId":343186,"journal":{"name":"Philanthropy & Education","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115714606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corporate Philanthropy and Beyond","authors":"Morgan R. Clevenger, C. MacGregor","doi":"10.2979/phileduc.5.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/phileduc.5.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Corporate philanthropy still endures, yet businesses have expanded the nature of their partnerships with higher education over the past 50 years. Companies have responsibilities and demands they are expected to perform to be perceived as ‘good’ and contributing to society in beneficial ways. With public funding declines and competition for tuition dollars, both public and private higher education have become more reliant on corporate resources. The resulting inter-organizational partnerships include corporate engagement such as pro bono work or volunteerism, support for educational resources, sponsored programming, basic as well as applied research, economic development, entrepreneurship, and protection of environmental sustainability. This research note explores these relationships through The Academy-Business Inter-Organizational Partnership Typology (ABIOPT), a framework with four partnership categories: philanthropic, transactional, symbiotic, and synergistic. This model is built on historical perspectives of these partnerships. The research usefulness of the model is explored, including a call to action for more empirical data regarding the inter-organizational relationships between higher education and businesses.","PeriodicalId":343186,"journal":{"name":"Philanthropy & Education","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121966259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Philanthropy & Education: Setting the Mission and Vision for a New Journal within the Landscape of Our Field","authors":"Noah D. Drezner","doi":"10.2979/PHILEDUC.1.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/PHILEDUC.1.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":343186,"journal":{"name":"Philanthropy & Education","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122516339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning by Grant Writing (LxGW): Exploring the Impacts on Student Philanthropy Attitudes and Intentions","authors":"L. Trull, D. Henry","doi":"10.2979/phileduc.4.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/phileduc.4.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Evidence exists for the importance of grant writing skills among professionals in nonprofit settings, indicating an emerging need for courses teaching these skills. Less is known about the impact of learning grant writing skills on attitudes toward philanthropy. The purpose of this research note was to explore attitudes toward philanthropy and perception of grant writing skills using a pre- and post-test, comparison group design. Data were collected from 56 students enrolled in elective grant writing courses and a comparison course. Variables included demographics, attitudes toward philanthropy, and perceived impact on grant writing skills. At post-test, those who took the grant-writing course had more positive attitudes toward philanthropy and working in the nonprofit sector. Substantial improvement in writing and researching skills for a small sample indicate this type of course should be required for health and human services programs to provide students opportunities to have a meaningful positive impact on the nonprofit sector.","PeriodicalId":343186,"journal":{"name":"Philanthropy & Education","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127925750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The “Pots of Water” Emerging Framework for Alumni Engagement: Examining How Alumni Make Sense of Their Relationships with their Alma Maters","authors":"Kevin Fleming","doi":"10.2979/phileduc.3.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/phileduc.3.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This research note explores the factors that comprise alumni engagement and how they inform alumni relationships with their alma maters. I employ grounded theory utilizing interviews with highly involved alumni to elucidate elements that comprise alumni engagement and ways in which alumni weave them together to inform their ongoing relationship with their alma mater. I identify five central concepts within alumni engagement, each consisting of several subcategories: personal values, perceived institutional integrity, connectedness, commitment, and sense of fulfillment. Personal values are the foundational concept whereby strongly held beliefs about higher education determine alumni expectations of their alma mater, how connected they feel, how they interact with the institution, and the meanings they derive from these interactions. Alumni engagement is the coalescence of beliefs, thoughts, actions, and emotions about and towards their alma mater, and an individual's level of engagement is the degree to which they come together.","PeriodicalId":343186,"journal":{"name":"Philanthropy & Education","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129066097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}