Unequal Partnerships: Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration

by Ira Silver

Overview

Through an examination of the Chicago Initiative, Silver analyzes how elite philanthropists exercise social control over community organizations that do work in poor neighborhoods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135870256
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/03/2005
Series:	New Approaches in Sociology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ira Silver

Table of Contents

Part I Private Philanthropy and Urban Poverty; Chapter 1 Preventing Fires while Feeling the Heat; Chapter 2 As American as Apple Pie: The Tradition of Private and Local Antipoverty Reform in the U.S.; Part II Venturing Inside the Chicago Initiative; Chapter 3 Organizational Motivations for Sponsorship; Chapter 4 Community-based Reasons for Getting Involved; Chapter 5 Collaboration Becomes Old News; Part III Giving a Little, Getting a Lot; Chapter 6 Unmasking Collaboration; Chapter 7 Philanthropy and the Media Spotlight; The Future of Philanthropic Collaboration;