Download e-book for kindle: Philanthropic Foundations, Public Good and Public Policy by Diana Leat

By Diana Leat

ISBN-10: 1137482885

ISBN-13: 9781137482884

This
book discusses a sequence of comparable yet self sustaining demanding situations confronted by
philanthropic foundations, drawing on foreign, modern and
historical data.  in the course of the world,
private philanthropic foundations spend large sums of cash for public good
while the media, policy-makers and the general public have little figuring out of what
they do and why. Diana Leat considers
the following questions: Are philanthropic foundations greater than warehouses of
wealth? the place does origin cash come from, and is there a rigidity among a
foundation’s ongoing resources of source of revenue and its pursuit of public sturdy? How are
foundations regulated and held in charge in society? Is there any evidence
that foundations are powerful in what they do? Is it attainable to have too much
philanthropy? In posing those questions, the publication explores a few of the key
tensions in how foundations paintings, and their position in democratic societies.

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