Private Wealth, Philanthropy, and Social Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Barchi ◽  
Guosheng Deng ◽  
Chien-Chung Huang ◽  
Carolyn Isles ◽  
Juliann Vikse
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Income Gap ◽  
Supportive Environment ◽  
Performance Based Funding ◽  
Opportunity Gaps

Growing income inequality has created excessive barriers to social mobility for the poor. Charitable giving by the wealthy can reduce the societal effects of the income gap by reinvestment in public goods such as education. We apply the cipp model to investigate the role of philanthropy in advancing educational opportunities in the United States and China, using historical and contemporary cases of individual philanthropists. The findings suggest that the cases reviewed in this study created mechanisms by which to contribute to social development in their respective countries. Government policies play a key role in philanthropic development, particularly in China. It is important to continue to foster a supportive environment for the sector to grow, which may include expanding tax incentives, emphasizing performance-based funding, and eliminating administrative barriers. In short, educational philanthropy holds great promise for reducing opportunity gaps and economic inequality, by providing the key to success for future generations.

scholarly journals The role of The University Center for Social Development in the regional innovation ecosystem of social assistance.

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-39
Author(s):  
Valeriy Kovalevskiy ◽  
Liudmila G. Klimatckaia ◽  
Yulija Yu. Bocharova
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
University Center ◽  
State Pedagogical ◽  
The University

The stable innovation system generation is one of the Russian economic policy priorities. Universities have the role of a central hub in the regional innovation systems formation. This article presents a study of factors influencing the formation and development of the university’s innovation environment and examples of innovation activities of the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University V.P. Astafyev (KSPU) in the regional innovation ecosystem of social assistance. The second section of the article is devoted to the exchange of experience and the results of the university becoming the center of social development in the regional innovation ecosystem of social assistance. An important aspect of this part is a positive result in several key areas: Globalization - mobility and increased competition between universities in China, South Korea, Japan, Poland, Germany, France, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and the United States; Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary - the integration of science, technology and design, teams from different faculties and universities; and Corporatization - specialized institutes of applied research, and extension of stakeholders. The final section presents the Transformation Program of the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University at the University Center for Social Development of the Krasnoyarsk Territory for current and future operations. The program includes both initiatives and ongoing projects. Today, many successful examples prove that the Center for Social Development in the field of social assistance of the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University plays an important role in the development of the region. Conclusion. Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University really stands on the route to the social entrepreneurship development and influx of new technologies, introduction of innovative approaches, and becomes the center of social and project competencies of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, one of the leading drivers of social development and of social assistance of the region.

The new role of higher education in emergency management

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
B. Wayne Blanchard, PhD, CEM
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Disaster Losses ◽  
Risk And Crisis Management ◽  
National Approach

This paper discusses the role of higher education in hazard, disaster, emergency, risk, and crisis management, as it pertains to escalating disaster losses in the United States and an evolving emergency management profession. Given that these losses have been escalating for decades and are projected to become even larger, what is being done today in terms of emergency management is not adequate. The time is now for a new national approach to disaster-related emergency management, one that calls on colleges and universities to help bridge the gap between the emergency management body of knowledge and current practices. This paper describes one tool for bridging this gap—FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute Higher Education Project—as well as evolving educational opportunities for students and emergency management practitioners.

scholarly journals Human Resources, Poverty, and Regional Development (The Sultan S. Hashmi Memorial Lecture)

2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin W. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Educational Opportunity ◽  
International Comparisons ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Working Age ◽  
To Come

Human development has moved to centre stage in development theory. Education makes an important contribution to economic growth, but achievement of mass education is important for a number of other reasons as well. Inequality of access to education is a serious issue everywhere, and serves to reinforce the inequality of income. Inequality is evident from the viewpoint of socio-economic background, of gender, and of regional disparities. In a poverty alleviation programme, tackling regional inequalities in education may be crucial, yet it raises many issues. Will expanding educational opportunities only result in frustration if appropriate jobs are not available? Is the key role of education in poor regions to enable educated young people to migrate elsewhere to find better jobs? In international comparisons, Pakistan appears well behind comparable countries in educational development. “Path dependency” means that the legacy of past deficiencies in expanding education will adversely affect Pakistan’s development for decades to come, and what is done now in education will affect development for half a century. A simple projection shows that even with the highly optimistic assumption that by 2030, Pakistan will reach the enrolment rates currently achieved in the United States, the proportion of the working-age population in that year with no education or only primary school education would still be as high as 35 percent. This underlines the need for a strong drive to expand educational opportunity.

Capital and Philanthropy

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-263
Author(s):  
Morgan Clark ◽  
Chien-Chung Huang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
The United States ◽  
Asset Size ◽  
Wealthy Donors ◽  
Over Time

This paper examines charitable giving from wealthy individuals in both the United States and China. It assesses the motivations of wealthy donors and analyzes the donation trends from the top fifty philanthropists in the last decade in both countries. The data depicts that in both the United States and China, asset size increases more rapidly than donation rates over time. Capitalism offers a possible way to advance social development; however, increasing income inequality may damage the advancement. While substantial philanthropic engagement from wealthy individuals may be an important mechanism to balance capitalism and income inequality, the data indicates that collective sharing of capital continues to have room to further develop.

Bailing out the food banks? Hunger relief, food waste, and crisis in Central Appalachia

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 350-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Lohnes ◽  
Bradley Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Banks ◽  
Food Bank ◽  
Affective Labor ◽  
Tax Relief ◽  
Central Appalachia

In 2015, West Virginia’s flagship food bank confronted a financial crisis that threatened to cut off the supply of emergency food to some 600 agencies serving 300,000 people a month. Focusing on this crisis, we explore the evolution of charitable food networks across the United States with a particular focus on the role of food banking within agro-industrial supply chains. Drawing on a three year institutional ethnography of West Virginia’s food banking economy, we analyze the transition from producer to buyer driven supply chains in a network that is dependent on charitable giving and affective labor to process surplus foods and revalue obsolete corporate inventories. We argue that food banks and their affiliate agencies have become key institutions within a vast food destruction network increasingly serving the needs of large food firms. While food banks and their affiliate agencies provide tax relief for food corporations and offer a highly efficient vent for state subsidized and corporate food waste, they are primarily funded by community-based organizations who are themselves stretched thin by economic crises within their own locales. The entrenchment and evolution of the food waste qua hunger relief circuit is producing new tensions in a network that is conflicted over whom they are ultimately working for, and sheds light on the paradox of hunger relief in the 21st-century.

The Role of Gender and Sensation Seeking in Film Choice

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smita C. Banerjee ◽  
Kathryn Greene ◽  
Marina Krcmar ◽  
Zhanna Bagdasarov ◽  
Dovile Ruginyte
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Arousal ◽  
Subject Design ◽  
Happy Mood

This study demonstrates the significance of individual difference factors, particularly gender and sensation seeking, in predicting media choice (examined through hypothetical descriptions of films that participants anticipated they would view). This study used a 2 (Positive mood/negative mood) × 2 (High arousal/low arousal) within-subject design with 544 undergraduate students recruited from a large northeastern university in the United States. Results showed that happy films and high arousal films were preferred over sad films and low-arousal films, respectively. In terms of gender differences, female viewers reported a greater preference than male viewers for happy-mood films. Also, male viewers reported a greater preference for high-arousal films compared to female viewers, and female viewers reported a greater preference for low-arousal films compared to male viewers. Finally, high sensation seekers reported a preference for high-arousal films. Implications for research design and importance of exploring media characteristics are discussed.

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