Beth Breeze
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781447325000
- eISBN:
- 9781447325314
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447325000.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Behavioural Economics
This book is the first academic study of the profession of fundraising in the UK. Fundraising is an essential yet largely invisible career, despite its growing importance during a period of extensive ...
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This book is the first academic study of the profession of fundraising in the UK. Fundraising is an essential yet largely invisible career, despite its growing importance during a period of extensive public spending cuts and growing reliance on charities. There is a growing body of work focused on donors, such that the identity and motivation of those who provide resources are increasingly understood. Yet little is known about the motivation and characteristics of those who ask for voluntary support, despite almost every donation being solicited. As it is not possible to understand charitable giving without accounting for the role of fundraising, this book provides the first empirically-grounded and theorised account of the identity, characteristics and motivation of fundraisers in the UK. Based on original data collected during a 3-year study of over 1,200 fundraisers, the book describes the complexity and subtlety of their everyday practices and makes an argument that the ‘new fundraisers’ have recently emerged in a necessarily complementary relationship with the far more widely discussed phenomenon of the ‘new philanthropists’. As well as a corrective to the lack of meaningful academic interest in this subject, this book is also a response to the growing hostility to fundraising in both the public and political spheres. It provides a better understanding of this important aspect of social life, and challenges the illogical position whereby charities are widely admired, but the people who keep them in business are not.Less
This book is the first academic study of the profession of fundraising in the UK. Fundraising is an essential yet largely invisible career, despite its growing importance during a period of extensive public spending cuts and growing reliance on charities. There is a growing body of work focused on donors, such that the identity and motivation of those who provide resources are increasingly understood. Yet little is known about the motivation and characteristics of those who ask for voluntary support, despite almost every donation being solicited. As it is not possible to understand charitable giving without accounting for the role of fundraising, this book provides the first empirically-grounded and theorised account of the identity, characteristics and motivation of fundraisers in the UK. Based on original data collected during a 3-year study of over 1,200 fundraisers, the book describes the complexity and subtlety of their everyday practices and makes an argument that the ‘new fundraisers’ have recently emerged in a necessarily complementary relationship with the far more widely discussed phenomenon of the ‘new philanthropists’. As well as a corrective to the lack of meaningful academic interest in this subject, this book is also a response to the growing hostility to fundraising in both the public and political spheres. It provides a better understanding of this important aspect of social life, and challenges the illogical position whereby charities are widely admired, but the people who keep them in business are not.
Ron Formisano
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041273
- eISBN:
- 9780252099878
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041273.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
Almost all studies of the nation’s extreme inequality of income and wealth have overlooked a critical, overarching cause of the creation of The New Gilded Age. The permanent political class has ...
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Almost all studies of the nation’s extreme inequality of income and wealth have overlooked a critical, overarching cause of the creation of The New Gilded Age. The permanent political class has driven and sustained economic and political inequality not only with the government policies it has crafted over the past four decades. It has created inequality by becoming a self-dealing, self-serving nepotistic oligarchy that is enabling the One Percent and the .01 Percent to create an American aristocracy of wealth.
American Oligarchy describes a multifaceted culture of self-dealing and corruption reaching into every sector of American society. The political class’s direct creation of economic inequality by channeling the flow of income and wealth to elites, has been described extensively; less exposed has been how its self-aggrandizement indirectly—but hidden in plain sight—creates a culture of corruption that infects the entire society.Less
Almost all studies of the nation’s extreme inequality of income and wealth have overlooked a critical, overarching cause of the creation of The New Gilded Age. The permanent political class has driven and sustained economic and political inequality not only with the government policies it has crafted over the past four decades. It has created inequality by becoming a self-dealing, self-serving nepotistic oligarchy that is enabling the One Percent and the .01 Percent to create an American aristocracy of wealth.
American Oligarchy describes a multifaceted culture of self-dealing and corruption reaching into every sector of American society. The political class’s direct creation of economic inequality by channeling the flow of income and wealth to elites, has been described extensively; less exposed has been how its self-aggrandizement indirectly—but hidden in plain sight—creates a culture of corruption that infects the entire society.
John McCallum
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474427272
- eISBN:
- 9781474453929
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474427272.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
This chapter analyses the key features of the relief system whose establishment and extent was traced in the previous chapters. It focuses on the fundraising mechanisms used by kirk sessions as well ...
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This chapter analyses the key features of the relief system whose establishment and extent was traced in the previous chapters. It focuses on the fundraising mechanisms used by kirk sessions as well as their approach to the distribution of resources. It also provides a detailed analysis of the people involved: although deacons were theoretically in charge of relief there was some flexibility, and the treasurer was shown to have a particularly important role (as did the minister). The chapter demonstrates the seriousness and organisation with which sessions approached relief, and argues that they were careful and sometimes innovative in acquiring resources for relief, and flexible and responsive in distributing them to the needy.Less
This chapter analyses the key features of the relief system whose establishment and extent was traced in the previous chapters. It focuses on the fundraising mechanisms used by kirk sessions as well as their approach to the distribution of resources. It also provides a detailed analysis of the people involved: although deacons were theoretically in charge of relief there was some flexibility, and the treasurer was shown to have a particularly important role (as did the minister). The chapter demonstrates the seriousness and organisation with which sessions approached relief, and argues that they were careful and sometimes innovative in acquiring resources for relief, and flexible and responsive in distributing them to the needy.
Luis Perez-Breva and Nick Fuhrer
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262035354
- eISBN:
- 9780262336680
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035354.003.0010
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Innovation
Organizations don’t just grown on their own. You build them, and you may end up building multiple organizations, each one atop the previous one. The scale-up logic is straightforward: You present ...
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Organizations don’t just grown on their own. You build them, and you may end up building multiple organizations, each one atop the previous one. The scale-up logic is straightforward: You present what you did (the past) to motivate where you will go (the future), but what you work on is the middle (the present). Most emerging organizations fail because they build for the future having ignored the entire present. But you don’t have to worry about whether a decision is optimal for that rosy future—it just needs to work today. As you build the next organization, you’ll reuse parts from the old one and you’ll get to implement everything you’ve learned. Growth and scale-up work like problem solving: no one cares how you first came up with the solution. The organization that systematizes your current innovation prototype is your first big milestone.Less
Organizations don’t just grown on their own. You build them, and you may end up building multiple organizations, each one atop the previous one. The scale-up logic is straightforward: You present what you did (the past) to motivate where you will go (the future), but what you work on is the middle (the present). Most emerging organizations fail because they build for the future having ignored the entire present. But you don’t have to worry about whether a decision is optimal for that rosy future—it just needs to work today. As you build the next organization, you’ll reuse parts from the old one and you’ll get to implement everything you’ve learned. Growth and scale-up work like problem solving: no one cares how you first came up with the solution. The organization that systematizes your current innovation prototype is your first big milestone.
Abigail Payne, Kimberley Scharf, and Sarah Smith
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262035651
- eISBN:
- 9780262337915
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035651.003.0014
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, History of Economic Thought
This paper presents new insights into online individual fundraising using a large dataset drawn from the UK’s largest online fundraising platform. The evidence shows that the “personal ask” is highly ...
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This paper presents new insights into online individual fundraising using a large dataset drawn from the UK’s largest online fundraising platform. The evidence shows that the “personal ask” is highly effective in this context, compared to peer-to-peer fundraising. We argue that donations may be motivated by a “relational warm glow” that the donor feels towards the fundraiser.Less
This paper presents new insights into online individual fundraising using a large dataset drawn from the UK’s largest online fundraising platform. The evidence shows that the “personal ask” is highly effective in this context, compared to peer-to-peer fundraising. We argue that donations may be motivated by a “relational warm glow” that the donor feels towards the fundraiser.
Ron Formisano
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041273
- eISBN:
- 9780252099878
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041273.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
Across the political spectrum many observers of Washington, D.C., have recognized the existence of a self-perpetuating and self-aggrandizing political class. But the phenomenon extends well beyond ...
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Across the political spectrum many observers of Washington, D.C., have recognized the existence of a self-perpetuating and self-aggrandizing political class. But the phenomenon extends well beyond Washington to embrace regional and state political and economic elites occupying a broad array of institutions in and out of government, tied together by ambition, interest and mutual benefit.Less
Across the political spectrum many observers of Washington, D.C., have recognized the existence of a self-perpetuating and self-aggrandizing political class. But the phenomenon extends well beyond Washington to embrace regional and state political and economic elites occupying a broad array of institutions in and out of government, tied together by ambition, interest and mutual benefit.
Ron Formisano
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041273
- eISBN:
- 9780252099878
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041273.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
Most members of Congress are now millionaires; for all “serving” in Congress enables most to live like millionaires. The affluence of many members of the political class causes them to lose ...
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Most members of Congress are now millionaires; for all “serving” in Congress enables most to live like millionaires. The affluence of many members of the political class causes them to lose connection with ordinary Americans.Less
Most members of Congress are now millionaires; for all “serving” in Congress enables most to live like millionaires. The affluence of many members of the political class causes them to lose connection with ordinary Americans.
Gordon Boyce
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780986497391
- eISBN:
- 9781786944450
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780986497391.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Maritime History
This chapter explores Furness Withy’s financial structure and performance, data that offers insights into the policies of a firm operating solidly while the shipping industry and British business in ...
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This chapter explores Furness Withy’s financial structure and performance, data that offers insights into the policies of a firm operating solidly while the shipping industry and British business in general went through a period of substantial modification. It provides analysis of Christopher Furness and his successors strategies when attempting to attract capital. It devotes particular attention to how chief decision makers developed communication strategies and adapted information channels to secure funds. It also considers the financial aspects of running a family business, and the balance between relying on profit and outside money to support growth, and paying dividends and reinvesting profits. The conclusion states that Furness had a particular fundraising system that involved inter-related elements - a mixture of personal commitments, long-term supporters, risk/reward strategies, and the preservation of personal control. It was after his death that the shift from personal to corporate financial operations took place, though he attempted to instigate this shift during his lifetime.Less
This chapter explores Furness Withy’s financial structure and performance, data that offers insights into the policies of a firm operating solidly while the shipping industry and British business in general went through a period of substantial modification. It provides analysis of Christopher Furness and his successors strategies when attempting to attract capital. It devotes particular attention to how chief decision makers developed communication strategies and adapted information channels to secure funds. It also considers the financial aspects of running a family business, and the balance between relying on profit and outside money to support growth, and paying dividends and reinvesting profits. The conclusion states that Furness had a particular fundraising system that involved inter-related elements - a mixture of personal commitments, long-term supporters, risk/reward strategies, and the preservation of personal control. It was after his death that the shift from personal to corporate financial operations took place, though he attempted to instigate this shift during his lifetime.
Gretchen Buggeln
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816694952
- eISBN:
- 9781452953557
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816694952.003.0003
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
From idea to building, this chapter traces the processes of design, fundraising, and construction. Considers the local understanding and appropriation of (or resistance to) the modern style and the ...
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From idea to building, this chapter traces the processes of design, fundraising, and construction. Considers the local understanding and appropriation of (or resistance to) the modern style and the complexities of planning and paying for a church.Less
From idea to building, this chapter traces the processes of design, fundraising, and construction. Considers the local understanding and appropriation of (or resistance to) the modern style and the complexities of planning and paying for a church.
