"A guide to the complex landscape of charitable giving that empowers readers to give with intention and greater impact and demonstrates the power of giving to our communities and democracies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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 covert arbiters of knowledge and culture to overt mediators of public policy and aggressive creators of new orthodoxy. He questions the wisdom of placing so much power at the disposal of nondemocratic institutions. As Ameriā¦