Unequal Partnerships: Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration

by Silver; Ira

• ISBN13: 9780415974462
• ISBN10: 0415974461
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Through an examination of the Chicago Initiative, a local collaboration created by foundations and corporate funders following the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, Ira Silver analyzes how elite philanthropists exercise social control over community organizations that do work in poor neighborhoods.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Section I Private Philanthropy and Urban Poverty	1	(38)
Preventing Fires while Feeling the Heat	3	(12)
As American as Apple Pie: The Tradition of Private and Local Antipoverty Reform in the U.S.	15	(24)
Section II Venturing Inside the Chicago Initiative	39	(64)
Organizational Motivations for Sponsorship	41	(22)
Community-based Reasons for Getting Involved	63	(18)
Collaboration Becomes Old News	81	(22)
Section III Giving a Little, Getting a Lot	103	(18)
Unmasking Collaboration	105	(8)
Philanthropy and the Media Spotlight	113	(8)
Afterword The Future of Philanthropic Collaboration	121	(2)
Appendix A The Challenges and Rewards of Undertaking this Study	123	(4)
Appendix B Key Dates in the History of the Chicago Initiative	127	(6)
Notes	133	(4)
Bibliography	137	(10)
Index	147