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New HistPhil post: @LeahMGReisman on key themes w/in her new book, Consulting to Nonprofits, including benefits & drawbacks of consultants' "empathetic customization"--the close customization they perform to fit their nonprofit clients’ particularities. histphil.org/2024/12/23/con…

In honor of the passing of Ratan Tata, here's an early HistPhil post from Mircea Raianu on Tata philanthropy and the making of modern India. histphil.org/2016/02/25/tat…

In this new HistPhil post, Damon Circosta and @KAGoss celebrate the rich philanthropic legacy of Joel Fleishman, their colleague at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, who passed away on September 30, 2024. histphil.org/2024/10/10/a-t…

New HistPhil post: Jared Berkowitz reviews Kyle E Williams’ Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation, which "reveals the intended & untended consequences of how the corp has been imagined & reimagined w/in Am pol & econ life." histphil.org/2024/09/24/leg…

Is the situation confronting progressive nonprofits as dire as contemporary alarms might suggest? In a new HistPost post, @JeffreyMBerry responds to a recent article by @rkuttnerwrites on "The Left's Fragile Foundations" & argues they are still secure. histphil.org/2024/08/27/the…

New HistPhil post: How do you tell stories abt the History of Philanthropy Through Objects? @AmandaMoniz1 introduces a recent special issue of journal The Public Historian, which explores material culture as a methodology for the history of philanthropy. histphil.org/2024/08/19/bed…

New HistPhil post: What does it mean to consider the general-purpose foundation as a mode of capital? Sam Gill offers a new theory, based on his article in The Foundation Review, of the foundation's imperative "to expand our collective imagination." histphil.org/2024/07/29/the…

New HistPhil post: A powerful excerpt from @NJKenworthy's new book, Crowded Out, on the dark side of Crowdfunding Healthcare and its historical precedents, including 19th century "charity electioneering." histphil.org/2024/07/12/cro…

Call for contributions to peer-reviewed volume “Philanthropy: Key debates and contending perspectives,” to be edited by Pamala Wiepking & Femida Handy, commissioned by Edgar Elgar. See link for more details: drive.google.com/file/d/1pf7Ch5…

HistPhil is pleased to pass on this call for contributors to a six-volume History of Philanthropy, to be published with Bloomsbury Press in March 2028, and edited by @ProfThomasAdam. histphil.org/2024/06/17/cal…

New post: @AneliseHShrout writes on her new book, Aiding Ireland, which recounts the politics of how the Great Irish Famine of 1845-55 became "one of the first events to garner widespread philanthropic attention" & taught ppl to give to distant strangers histphil.org/2024/06/13/aid…

New post: Catherine Milton, the first executive director of the Commission on National and Community Service (which laid the foundation for AmeriCorps), recounts the creation of the agency. histphil.org/2024/04/09/cre…

Who are the precedents to today's activist-alumni higher ed donors? A recent HistPhil post argued they were a contemp phenom, but Joan Johnson suggests we look to 19th & 20th C. feminist donors. Doing so compels us to rethink what donor coercion means. histphil.org/2024/04/01/wha…

Richard Trollinger & John Thelin, scholars of philanthropy & higher ed, seek to place the recent higher ed "donor revolt" in historical context. How new is what the NYT called the "new playbook" being used by donors like Bill Ackman and Marc Rowan? histphil.org/2024/03/27/his…

Jonathan Cohen introduces the Health & Human Rights Oral History Project, a new collection of oral histories documenting 30 yrs of investment in the field of global public health by George Soros's Open Society Foundations, housed at USC Digital Library. histphil.org/2024/02/27/usi…

Shaivya Verma and Divya Chopra, researchers at Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy, Ashoka University, discuss a path-breaking longitudinal study of household giving patterns in India the Centre led & detail findings from two reports based on it. histphil.org/2024/02/21/how…

What is the classical concept of "Magnificence," & how does it relate to "munificence," or the more modern "philanthropy?" And what does that relation tell us abt the one btw private wealth & the public good? @guido_alfani explains, based on his new book. histphil.org/2024/02/19/mag…

New post: Dennis Kilama continues HistPhil‘s forum on the Inclusive Study of Global Philanthropy, with a perspective from Uganda, and on a tradition of giving as doing AND being--as a form of gift and presence. https:// histphil.org/2024/01/29/giv…

New HistPhil post: @JaeJaeykim2 on SNF Agora Institute's research on the uneven associational landscape of civic opportunity in the United States. histphil.org/2024/01/25/the…

New HistPhil post: Jeremy Snyder examines the often invisible role of crowdfunding platforms as charitable intermediaries. histphil.org/2023/11/29/the…