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Download full textPifer, Alan – 1974
The question of whether foundations should engage in activities having a bearing on public policy development is discussed. Tax exempt private foundations have had a long, controversial history of participation in public policy formation. They contribute to policy development by means of various techniques that include support of established…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Credibility, Decision Making, Foundation Programs
Leeson, Jim – Race Relations Reporter, 1973
Reviews a major critical study of the nation's 33 major grant-giving foundations: W.A. Nielsen's The Big Foundations.''
Descriptors: Foundation Programs, Grants, Policy Formation, Private Agencies
Cabot, Louis W. – Harvard Business Review, 1978
Nothing is better calculated to drive a wedge between the corporate community and our universities than efforts on the part of business to dictate to a community of scholars how it shall fulfill its mission. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Business Responsibility, College Environment, Foundation Programs
Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC. – 1977
Twelve papers discuss future changes and trends in philanthropic giving and activities. The report is Volume II, Part II of a five volume series examining the relationship between nonprofit institutions and their donors. The opening paper reviews the needs for better definition of the government's role in contracting and grant making, and for…
Descriptors: Capital, Federal Aid, Financial Support, Foundation Programs
Ford Foundation, New York, NY. – 1973
Urban and rural development requires an innovative problem-solving mechanism that would better use the leverage inherent in available resources. There is a model of such an institution now evolving in depressed areas which warrants a substantial investment of Ford Foundation funds: the Community Development Corporation (CDC)--an organization whose…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Community Control, Community Development, Employment Programs
Weischadle, David E. – 1977
Foundation involvement in policy development for public education raises basic questions concerning the control of a prime societal function. During the Cold War era (1945-1970) the Carnegie Corporation of New York funded projects according to its philosophical interests, using its financial and organizational prominence and cooperative strategies…
Descriptors: Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Foundation Programs
Anderson, James M., Comp.; Snyder, Tom, Comp. – 1993
This collection of resources and information about community college foundations includes brief articles, selected data, materials from foundations, sample mission statements and articles of incorporation, sample forms and correspondence, relevant educational legislation, and other related materials from specific active foundations at two-year…
Descriptors: Budgets, Community Colleges, Costs, Donors
