| Ellen Condliffe Lagemann - Social Science - 1999 - 518 pages
"Foundations are socially and politically significant, but this simple fact... has mostly been ignored by students of American history.... This collection represents an ... | |
| Olivier Zunz - History - 2014 - 401 pages
How philanthropy has shaped America in the twentieth century American philanthropy today expands knowledge, champions social movements, defines active citizenship, influences ... | |
| Mark Dowie - History - 2002 - 368 pages
In American Foundations, Mark Dowie argues that organized philanthropy is on the verge of an evolutionary shift that will transform America's nearly 50,000 foundations from ... | |
| Joel L. Fleishman - History - 2007 - 464 pages
Foundations are a peculiarly American institution. They have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the last century. Yet they are cloaked ... | |
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