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Gender and Socio-economic Class
Nonprofit Organization
Social Movement Philanthropy
Women and Philanthropy
Community Organizing
University Civic Engagement
Books:
Acting Civically: From Local Neighborhoods to Higher Education. Co-edited volume with Kent Portney. University of New England Press, 2007.
Money for Change: Social Movement Philanthropy at Haymarket People's Fund, 1995, Temple U. Press
Shifting the Debate: Public/Private Relations in the Modern Welfare State, 1987, Transaction Press (Senior Editor with Jon Van Til)
Women of the Upper class, 1984, Temple Univ. Press
Selected Recent Articles/Books Chapters:
"The Growth of Donor Control." 2007. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (special Forum), 36, 2 (June): 356 - 382.
"Innovation, Accountability, and Independence at Three Private Foundations Funding Higher Education Civic Engagement, 1995 to 2005." 2007. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 18,2 (Winter):237 - 253.
"Legacy and Promise for Social Justice Funding: Charitable
Foundations and Progressive Social Movements." In Foundations for Social Change. Edited by D. Faber and D. McCarthy, Rowman and Littlefield. 2005.
"Mobilizing Money Strategically: Opportunities for Grantees to be Active Agents in Social Movement Philanthropy," (co-athors I. Silver and D. McCarthy). In Foundations for Social Change. Edited by D. Faber and D. McCarthy. Rowman and Littlefield. 2005.
Co-editor (with David Horton Smith), "Special Issue: Community and Grassroots Associations/Organizations," Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, forthcoming March 2004
Moderating Contradictions of Feminist Philanthropy: Women's Community Organizations and the Boston Women's Fund," Gender & Society, forthcoming March 2004
"Democracy, Civic Participation, and the University: A Comparative Study of Civic Engagement on Five Campuses", forthcoming in March 2004 issue of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
"Gender and Race in a Pro-feminist, Progressive, Mixed-Gender, Mixed Race Organization," Gender & Society 13,5 (Oct. 1999)" 628-642
"When Grantees Become Grantors: Accountability, Democracy, and Social Movement Philanthropy," in Philanthropic Foundations, ed. E. C. Langemann, Indiana U. Press, 1999
"Women Giving Money/Women Raising Money: What Difference for Philanthropy?" in Taking Fundraising Seriously, ed. D.F. Burlingame, Jossey Bass, 1995
"Giving and Getting: Philanthropy as Social Relation" (with P.G. Schervish), in Critical Issues in American Philanthropy, ed. Jon Van Til, Jossey Bass, 1990
Selected Current Professional Activities/Consulting:
Editorial Boards: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Qualitative Sociology
Vice Chair, Cambridge Human Rights Commission, 2002 to present (member since 1999)
Co-chair, National Board, Women's Funding Network, 1998 to 2001
Pro-Seminar Leader, "Doing Qualitative Case Study Research in Nonprofit Organizations," Urban Institute, April 2000
Evaluation (part of team), National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, June 1997
Development Committee and Program Committee, Boston Women's Fund
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