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Record Nr.

UNINA9911020057403321

Autore

Goldberg Steven H. <1954->

Titolo

Billions of drops in millions of buckets : why philanthropy doesn't advance social progress / / Steven H. Goldberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, 2009

ISBN

9786612188367

9780470488287

047048828X

9781282188365

1282188364

9781118386309

1118386302

9780470488171

0470488174

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

361.7

658.15/224

Soggetti

Endowments - Economic aspects - United States

Endowments - United States - Management

Nonprofit organizations - United States - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets: Why Philanthropy Doesn't Advance Social Progress; About the Author; Contents; Prelude: "The Great Recession"; Preface; Chapter 1: The Disheartening Problem of "Scale"; Chapter 2: The American Underclass; Chapter 3: Fragmentation; Chapter 4: Intermediation; Chapter 5: Growth Capital; Chapter 6: A Performance-Based Funding Market; Chapter 7: Prediction Markets; Chapter 8: The Impact Index; Chapter 9: Crossing the Fundraising Chasm; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Praise for BILLIONS OF DROPS in MILLIONS OF BUCKETS ""Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets provides a bracing and original look at philan-thropy that offers a much-needed corrective to conventional



wisdom. Steve Goldberg combines a resolve to understand why so much philanthropy accomplishes so little enduring social change with a timely and serious proposal to reinvigorate nonprofit capital markets through the simplest of insights: getting more of the money to where it can do the most good. This book will change how forward-looking philanthropists, foundations, and policyma