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Understanding philanthropy : its meaning and mission / Robert L. Payton and Michael P. Moody.
Van Pelt Library BJ1533.P5 P39 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Payton, Robert L.
- Series:
- Philanthropic and nonprofit studies
- Philanthropy and nonprofit studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Charity.
- Charities.
- Humanitarianism.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 205 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Introduction: why this book?
- Voluntary action for the public good
- Because things go wrong: philanthropy as a response to the human problematic
- The world can be made better: philanthropy as moral action
- The social history of the moral imagination
- Philanthropy, democracy, and the future
- Notes
- Suggestions for further reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253350497
- 0253350492
- OCLC:
- 171151580
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