The law relating to charitable gifts to schools is described, and fund raising considerations are addressed. The first of four chapters, "Education Fund Raising in the Legal Context," reviews the history of the law of charity over the past 400 years (i.e., law in England during 1500-1800 and law in America during 1800-1900). "The Donor and the…

Approaches taken by corporations and foundations to help low-income students from the inner city plan and pay for college are described and discussed. The Cleveland (Ohio) Scholarship Programs were launched in 1967 to provide supplementary scholarship assistance and financial aid counseling to over 1,000 area students annually. Also in Cleveland,…

The development report for Pittsburg State University's (PSU) fiscal year 1988 is presented. The most important objective of PSU's development program is to provide funding beyond the state support in order to distinguish the university among its U.S. peers. Chapters include an overview of FY 1988 development activities, the Annual Fund, the…

Research that occurs in universities under conditions of patronage is distinguished from research that occurs under less distorted market conditions. It is claimed that academic research is shifting from an area of patronage consumption to one of economic development investment. In addition to considering the markets for academic research and…

Colleges and universities are joining a growing number of philanthropists in guaranteeing middle-school students tuition for college and all the tutoring and assistance they'll need to make it there. (MSE)

The Hazen Foundation screens proposals, scouts projects in all parts of the country and annually funds three dozen programs and organizations. The foundation's overriding and continuing concern has been American youth and the environment and values that guide the development of young people. (MLW)

Higher education institutions of all kinds are investing in the improvement of their instruction through programs for the development of faculty teaching skills. The "teaching centers" are funded by foundations or by the institutions themselves and have been found to result in improved teaching. (MSE)

Tables showing financial support of higher education 1983-84 are presented. Purposes of support, sources of support, forms of giving, support through the annual fund, gifts of property, and corporations' matching gifts for both public and private institutions are covered. (MLW)

The National Endowment for the Humanities is criticized for not providing greater leadership both within the government and among potential sources of private financial support for the humanities. (MSE)

A sampling of projects resulting from the Sloan Foundation's program of grants to encourage a central place for quantitative reasoning and technology in the college curriculum is presented. (MSE)

Nonprofit management centers, dedicated to teaching the management of nonprofit organizations have become a mechanism through which higher education can become more responsive to the communities it serves and move beyond the boundaries of academic departments. This paper examines how centers can become more permanent or sustainable parts of their…

Service learning is an undergraduate education strategy found across four program areas funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF). This cross-foundation, retrospective evaluation examines 35 projects of $100,000 or more funded between 1985-95. Study information was based on qualitative data and approaches, with the majority of project…

Since 1962 this private, non profit American Host Foundation has brought 2700 teachers from 13 countries to live with American families under a program of free optional activities. (IR)

Higher education can no longer treat lifelong learning and nontraditional education as add-on activities peripheral to the mainstream of the college's functions. The W. K. Kellogg Foundation is reassessing its support program to meet the needs of a changing society. (MSE)

Human resources internal to the college or university (presidents and development staff) and external (trustees, volunteers, parents, alumni, political figures) can be indispensible in making personal contacts and impressions for fund-raising. Written materials and followup procedures are also important fund-raising elements. (MSE)