| Description |
1 online resource. |
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Palgrave studies in third sector research |
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Palgrave studies in third sector research.
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| Access |
Open access. GW5XE |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Business of Hope -- Chapter 2. The Do or Die Project of Creating a Culture of Philanthropy -- Chapter 3. In the Business to Change Lives: Fundraising as a Neoliberal Vocation -- Chapter 4. The Generosity Gap: Canadian Fundraisers Cross-National Comparisons -- Chapter 5. We Have to Fit the Men in Somewhere: Explaining Gender Inequality in Fundraising -- Chapter 6. I Have to Be Optimistic; Im a Fundraiser: Professional Fundraising and the Politics of Hope -- Appendix: Research Methods. |
| Summary |
This open access book contributes to research on the ascendance of neoliberalism in Canada through the vantage point of professional fundraising in the 1990s and 2000s. Fifty high-ranking fundraisers from across Canada were interviewed through 2008 and 2009 about changes they had witnessed since starting their careers. Fundraising as an occupation was burgeoning in this period in response to the devolution of state responsibility across the major domains of nonprofit activity: education, health care, social services, the arts, recreation, overseas humanitarian activities, and environmental protection. Welfare state retrenchment left the nonprofit and voluntary sector competing for private sources of funding with the help of these newly hired expert staff. As fundraisers worked to instill a culture of philanthropy, while targeting the ultra-rich and advocating for tax-favourable treatment of major gifts, they became both products and promoters of the neoliberal political and cultural reconstruction of Canadian society. Mary-Beth Raddon is Associate Professor at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. She is the current chair of the Department of Sociology and a former graduate program director of the MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies. She is a qualitative researcher in the field of economic sociology. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
Springer Nature Springer Nature - SpringerLink eBooks - Fully Open Access |
| Subject |
Neoliberalism -- Canada.
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Fund raising -- Canada.
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Fund raising
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Neoliberalism
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Canada https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkMHVW4rfVXPrhVP4VwG3
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Raddon, Mary-Beth. Business of hope. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 9783031188367 (OCoLC)1350352168 |
| ISBN |
9783031188374 electronic book |
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3031188373 electronic book |
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9783031188367 |
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3031188365 |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-3-031-18837-4 doi |
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