Philanthropic Foundations: New Scholarship, New Possibilities

by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

Overview

"Foundations are socially and politically significant, but this simple fact . . . has mostly been ignored by students of American history. . . . This collection represents an important contribution to an emerging field." —Kenneth Prewitt, Social Science Research Council

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253335005
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	07/22/1999
Series:	Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

ELLEN CONDLIFFE LAGEMANN is professor in the Center for the Study of American Culture and Education at New York University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Foundations in History: New Possibilities for Scholarship and Practice /Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
Part I. Foundations as Organizations
1. Resolving the Dilemmas of Democratic Governance: The Historical Development of Trusteeship in America, 1636-1996 /Peter Dobkin Hall
2. Foundations in the American Polity, 1900-1950 /David Hammack
3. Private Foundations as Public Institutions: Regulation, Professionalization, and the Redefinition of Organized Philanthropy /Peter Frumkin
Part II. Case Studies in Early Twentieth Century Foundation Philanthropy
4. Constructing a New Political Economy: Philanthropy, Institution-Building, and Consumer Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century /Meg Jacobs
5. Selling the Public on Public Health: The Commonwealth and Milbank Health Demonstrations and the Meaning of Community Health Education /Elizabeth Toon
6. Constructing the Normal Child: The Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Science of Child Development, 1918-1940 /Julia Grant
7. Mary van Kleeck of the Russell Sage Foundation: Religion, Social Science, and the Ironies of Parasitic Modernity /Guy Alchon
Part III: Foundations and Recent Social Memory
8. The Ford Foundation and Philanthropic Activism in the 1960s /Alice O'Connor
9. The Ford Foundation's War on Poverty: Private Philanthropy and Race Relations in New York City, 1948-1968 /Gregory K. Raynor
10. Grassrooting the System: The Development and Impact of Social Movement Philanthropy, 1953-1990 /J. Craig Jenkins and Abigail Halcli
11. When Grantees Become Grantors: Accountability, Democracy, and Social Movement Philanthropy /Susan Ostrander
12. The Ford Foundation and Women's Studies in American Higher Education: Seeds of Change /Rosa Proietto
Part IV: Writing the History of Foundations
13. Going for Broke: The Historian's Commitment to Philanthropy /Barry D. Karl
14. In Search of the Ford Foundation /Richard Magat
15. The History of Philanthropy as Life-History: A Biographer's View of Mrs. Russell Sage /Ruth Hutchinson Crocker
16. Local Philanthropy Matters: Pressing Issues for Research and Practice /William S. McKersie
17. The Future of Foundation History: Suggestions for Research and Practice /Lucy Bernholz
Bibliography: Recent Writings about Foundations in History /Susan Kastan
Contributors
Index