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You might find some of these reports useful. Some reports are held as PDF documents within the site and others link to other sites.

Value led, market driven: Social enterprise solutions to public policy goals (2001)
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Institute of Public Policy Research
This 2001 report from the Institute of Public Policy Research explores the many possibilities of soc ially-oriented enterprise and some of their opportunities and barriers to development. Social enterprises -...
Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain: The Disinherited Spirit (2006)
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Prochaska is probably the most readable contemporary historian of UK philanthropy and readers will gain useful insights from any of his publications. The focus of this latest book is the importance of Christianity as an inspiration for political and social...
The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, 2nd edition (2006)
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Whilst weighted towards the American experience, this book provides an exhaustive account of what is known about non-profits from a range of academic disciplines. Philanthropy is explained by economists, sociologists, historians, lawyers and social policy experts. It’s not a light...
English Philanthropy 1660-1960 (pub 1965)
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Owen’s panoramic study is the starting point for most people who want to learn about the history of English philanthropy. Sprinkled with fascinating facts and quotes, this is literally a treasure trove of a book, as well as a learned...
Philanthropy in England 1480-1660: A study of the changing pattern of English social aspirations (1959)
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The first of the two major histories of English philanthropy to be published in the mid-twentieth century, Jordan bases his work on a comprehensive study of all charitable legacies made within this period from the late 15th to mid 17th...
Philanthropy in the World’s Traditions (1998)
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A treasure-trove of a book looking at how philanthropy has contributed to, and been shaped by, the various historical periods and different cultures in which it has existed. The scope of the essays is vast, including pre-colonial Africa, twentieth-century Russia...
Strategic Giving: the art and science of philanthropy (2006)
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Based on interactions with over 100 donors, Frumkin identifies five functions of philanthropy: change, innovation, redistribution, pluralism and enabling donors to find meaning and purpose in their lives. This book also provides a framework for ‘strategic philanthropy’: once donors find...
Taking Philanthropy Seriously, Beyond Noble Intentions to Responsible Giving (2006)
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This collection of essays features contributions from many of the most interesting current thinkers on philanthropy. It has an unusual angle – the potential of philanthropy to fail in its goals and even to do harm because, as the foreword...
Philanthropy, Patronage and Civil Society: Experiences from Germany, Great Britain and North America (2004)
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These ten essays are intended to help re-assess current approaches to philanthropy and offer a fresh perspective on how existing attitudes to charity have been formed. The style is at times too esoteric for the general reader but it is...
Philanthropy Reconsidered: Private initiatives – public good – quality of life (2008)
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This small book has a big aim: to illuminate what is happening in American philanthropy today, and what it all means. Taking a scholarly approach, drawing on philosophy, the classics and history, it claims to re-interpret philanthropy and provide a...

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