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- Title
The Fine Points of Giving Money Away—and Trying to Do It Right.
- Authors
Daniels, Arlene Kaplan
- Abstract
The article focuses on two books "Money and Change: Social Movement Philanthropy at Haymarket People's Fund," by Susan A. Ostrander, and "Looking Good and Doing Good: Corporate Philanthropy and Corporate Power," by Jerome L. Himmelstein. Books like those of Ostrander and Himmelstein offer opportunities for considering how and why people give money away and with what effect. But they also offer the glimpse of larger issues: possibilities for social change; resistance to and support for the status quo and, for students of work and occupations, the development of new careers. Ostrander focuses, as her subtitle indicates, on how progressive and social reform ideas have emerged in social movement philanthropy at one location. Ostrander's major argument, based on Haymarket's grant making practice, is that the risk of undue influence from donors can be mitigated through the way movement philanthropy is socially organized. Himmelstein has set his research project within the framework of corporate politics in general and so he examines the problems that corporations become emerged in when they give money away.
- Subjects
SOCIAL movements; MONEY &; Change: Social Movement Philanthropy at Haymarket People's Fund (Book); LOOKING Good &; Doing Good: Corporate Philanthropy &; Corporate Power (Book); OSTRANDER, Susan A.; HIMMELSTEIN, Jerome L.; SOCIAL change
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1999, Vol 22, Issue 3, p259
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1023/A:1022909922369