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The future of philanthropic foundations.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Symposium on the Future of Philanthropic Foundations (1974 : London, England)
- Symposium on the Future of Philanthropic Foundations
- Series:
- Ciba Foundation symposium ; new ser. 30.
- Ciba Foundation symposium (new series) ; 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Charities--Congresses.
- Charities.
- Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations--Congresses.
- Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North-Holland, 1975.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.
- Contents:
- The Future of Philanthropic Foundations; Contents; Introduction; Foundations and their fields; Discussion; Independence, scale and experiment: the experience of the Ciba Foundation; Discussion; Foundations and the State in the Federal Republic of Germany: some comments; The special role and problems of a foundation established by the State; Discussion; The moral and social responsibilities of the trustees of foundations; The role of the foundation trustee; Discussion of the two preceding papers; Independence and experiment : the experience of the Wellcome Trust; Discussion
- The means to the ends of The Rockefeller Foundation; Discussion; On the selection of priorities for an emerging foundation of national scope; Discussion; International foundations and the development of higher education in developing countries; Discussion; International foundations and the development of health services in underprivileged areas; Discussion; A new task for small philanthropic foundations in helping developing countries; Discussion; The next twenty-five years; Discussion; The influence of science and technology on medicine: a forecast; Discussion
- The future of foundations: the Jeffersonian potential; Discussion; Summing up; Closing remarks; Biographies of the participants; Index of contributors; Subject index
- Notes:
- "Held jointly with the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation."
- "Ciba Foundation 25th Anniversary Symposium on the Future of Philanthropic Foundations held jointly with the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation at the Ciba Foundation, London, on 17-19 June 1974"--Participants page.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613693846
- 9781280783456
- 1280783451
- 9780470720127
- 0470720123
- 9780470717806
- 0470717807
- OCLC:
- 797918325
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