Understanding philanthropy its meaning and mission /

Main Author: Payton, Robert L.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Moody, Michael P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.
Series:Philanthropic and nonprofit studies
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10235125
Table of Contents:
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Introduction: why this book?
  • Voluntary action for the public good
  • Because things go wrong: philanthropy as a response to the human problematic
  • The world can be made better: philanthropy as moral action
  • The social history of the moral imagination
  • Philanthropy, democracy, and the future
  • Notes
  • Suggestions for further reading
  • Index.