Understanding Philanthropy: Its Meaning and Mission

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Index AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), 57 Abramoff, Jack, 7 absolute good, 57 action, 28, 55–56 Addams, Jane, 149–151 advocacy, 32, 55–56, 60, 162–164, 181n13; political groups, 32 advocacy organizations, 32 advocacy role, 34, 156 affirmative conception of philanthropy, 27–40, 33–35, 97 affirmative term, philanthropy as, 35–38 agape, 38, 137–138 allocentric, 116 alms, 29 almsgiving, 135, 143–144 altruism, 29, 84–85, 114, 187n7, 190n16 Amherst College, 145 Andover House, 150 Anheier, Helmut, 85–86, 175n6, 181n6 Aquinas, Thomas, 138 Aristotle, 64 artists, philanthropic patronage of, 13 Asian traditions, 137 audience, 24–25 autobiography, philanthropic, 14–15, 21–23, 98 Autrey, Wesley, 73, 106 Backus, Isaac, 142–143 Bacon, Francis, 100 Bakker, Jim and Tammy Faye, 113 balance, 127 barbarism, 64 Barnett, Samuel, 149 Barzun, Jacques, 171 Bellah, Robert, 142 beneficence, 37, 115, 180n2 benevolence, 29, 37, 180n2 Berry, Jeffrey, 162 better, concept of, 126–127 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 7, 153, 175n11 Boulding, Kenneth, 54, 107 boundaries among sectors, 51–52, 171 Bremner, Robert, 143 Buffett, Warren, 7, 117–118, 153 business, wealth as essence of, 48–49 bystander intervention, 105 Calhoun, Craig, 60 Calvin, John, 119 capacity, 72–73 capitalist system, 49–50 caritas, 38, 182n26 Carnegie, Andrew, 15, 21–22, 75, 117, 144, 145 categorical constraint, 87 Center on Philanthropy (Indiana University ), 101 challenges of moral action, 108–112 Chalmers, Thomas, 145 chambers of commerce, 32 Channing, William Ellery, 143 charitable trusts, 141–142 charity, 37, 64, 115, 134; as agape, 137–138; as term, 29, 31, 38–40 Charity Organisation Society, 83, 145 charity organization movement, 145–148 Charity Organization Society (Indianapolis ), 146 children, philanthropic groups for, 89–90 Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), 101 choice, 53–54 Christianity, 137–139, 143 Christian Socialism, 83 Cicero, 117, 140, 143 civic and political engagement, 34 civic role of philanthropy, 35, 156 CIVICUS, 31 civil disobedience, 56 civil rights movement, 56, 103 civil society, 30, 31, 182n21 civil society organizations, 31 classical origins of philanthropy, 139–140 Clinton, William Jefferson, 1 college volunteers, 55, 150 Columbia University School of Social Work, 148 Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs (Filer Commission ), 46–47, 184n44 common humanity, 114 commons, the, 31 community, 16, 28, 134–140; classical origins of philanthropy and, 139–140 community agencies, 8 community organizations, 31 compassion, 134–140, 192n6; religious origins of philanthropy and, 135–139 compassion fatigue, 110 complementary role of philanthropy, 88–90 concepts, 6; contested, 29–32 Constitution, 160–162; Preamble to, 157–158 corporal works of mercy, 138 corporate philanthropy, 51–52, 59 courage, 106–107 critical thinking, 10 criticisms of philanthropy, 44, 51, 57, 59, 95, 116–117, 186n58; teleopathy , 119–121 cross-sectoral governance, 88–89, 188n25, 195n2 cultural patterns in philanthropy, 95 cultural role of philanthropy, 34, 99 Curti, Merle, 137 Dahrendorf, Ralf, 68–69 Decretum, 138–139, 143 democracy, 34, 45, 194–195n1; advocacy and social movements, 162–164; constitutional, goals of, 157–158; freedom of assembly, 160–161; importance of voluntary associations to, 160–162; philanthropy as essential to, 155–166; stewardship and, 167–173; threat of faction, 165–166; trust in, 164–165 Democracy in America (Tocqueville), 161–162 deservingness, 77, 109–111, 143–144 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), 126 DiMaggio, Paul, 181n6 dime and penny banks, 146 disasters, 8–9, 17; Hurricane Katrina, 7, 67, 91–94; natural world, 65–68; September 11, 2001 attacks, 7, 37, 92 doctrine, 124, 129 Donee Group, 47, 184n43 Douglas, James, 87, 184–185n45 dual failure theory, 87–88 Ducks Unlimited, 102 duty to assist clause, 106 Economic Outreach and Action Project (SDS), 150 economic stratification, 17 economists, 58 Economy and Society (Weber), 68 Economy of Love and Fear, The (Boulding ), 54 education, 18, 26, 80, 141, 145; philanthropy in, 168, 169–173; public teachers, 23–26 education nonprofits, 40, 179n37 effectiveness of philanthropy, 87–88 egoism, 84–85 Ehrlich, Paul, 125 Eighteenth Amendment, 151, 163 eleemosynary, 29 Eliot, George, 123 Eliot, T. S., 167 empathy, 22, 66, 107–108 employment in philanthropic sector, 19, 168 ethical questions, 16, 108–109; guiding principles, 114–119; tough questions about philanthropy, 121–122; what business is it of 200 / Index ours?, 113–114; what is going on, 16–23, 112–113 ethical scandals, 7 Ethiopia, famine, 67 euergetism, 139, 193n16 expressive rationale, 34 Exxon Mobil Foundation, 51 Exxon Valdez spill, 165 faction, 57–58...