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Razo, Bridget Frances – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Community colleges educate nearly 50% of students who complete a degree at a four-year university. Yet, California community college funding remains lower than per student funding for the UC, CSU, and K-12 systems. Community college non-profit 501(c)3 foundations provide the opportunity to generate millions in support of their colleges, and yet…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Philanthropic Foundations, Private Financial Support, Nonprofit Organizations
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Miglani, Neha; Burch, Patricia – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
This paper unpacks the discursive work of global education philanthropies to shed light on how the work of educational actors inscribes and directs global forces, connections and imaginaries to specific local ends. We do so by analyzing the discursive work of two educational philanthropies -- in the US and India -- that are similar but also vary…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Philanthropic Foundations, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
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Rowe, Emma E. – ECNU Review of Education, 2023
Purpose: This article maps the rise of venture philanthropy in public education in Australia, exploring how policy networks mobilize high-level systemic reform and governance technologies. This is "philanthrocapitalism," a fundamental shift for policy mobility and modes of redistribution. Design/Approach/Methods: Drawing upon network…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Financial Support, Social Systems, Educational Change
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Catherine E. Draper; Caylee J. Cook; Riedewhaan Allie; Steven J. Howard; Hleliwe Makaula; Rebecca Merkley; Mbulelo Mshudulu; Nafeesa Rahbeeni; Nosibusiso Tshetu; Gaia Scerif – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
The majority of the world's children live in low- and middle-income countries, yet the majority of early childhood cognitive research is done with a small proportion of high-income countries. These findings cannot be assumed to apply across all contexts. It is therefore necessary to confront entrenched systems of power and privilege in early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Young Children, Child Development
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Siegal, Kim M. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2022
Social return on investment (SROI), an evaluation method that compares monetized social value generated to costs invested, is in ascendance. Conceptually akin to cost-benefit analysis, it shares some of its challenges; however, these are heightened due to the expressed promise of using SROI to compare programs and inform philanthropic and public…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Entrepreneurship
Jung, Minna – Grantmakers for Education, 2022
In part shaped by movements like Black Lives Matter, the crisis of the global pandemic, and the political and social turbulence of recent years, many thoughtful conversations have taken place in the philanthropic sector that question the power and privilege inherent in grantmaking and challenge whether conventional norms and practices in…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Race, Equal Education, Private Financial Support
Novello, Amanda – Commonfund Institute, 2023
Affirmative action, a practice used since the 1960s to edge toward equity and address historical and ongoing injustice through higher education attainment, was struck down last month by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The immediate and longer term direct and indirect impacts of this ruling are vast and, in some cases, murky. In…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Endowment Funds, Philanthropic Foundations, Court Litigation
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Rosenberg, Dennis – Health Education Journal, 2023
Objective: To examine the association between older adults' trust in cancer information and their preference for sources of this type of information. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: The USA. Method: The data were obtained from Health Information National Trends Survey 5 Cycle 4 (2020). The sample included older Internet users (N = 1,223).…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Trust (Psychology), Cancer, Information Sources
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Lawson, Cornelia; Salter, Ammon – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Examining academics 'engagement with non-academics in industry, public agencies and charities, this paper examines gender gaps between men and women. Using a large-scale survey of UK academics, we find that although there is difference between women and men in the commercial areas of engagement, with men being more active in this domain than their…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Gender Differences, Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship
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Patton, Michael Quinn – American Journal of Evaluation, 2021
In 2004, Robert Stake published a provocative article that asked: "How Far Dare an Evaluator Go Toward Saving the World?" This question raises the issue of what role evaluators' values play in the conduct of evaluations. Following review of Stake's premises, I present value statements from a diverse group of 40 evaluators working with…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Role, Advocacy, Values
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Sarah Haavind – School Science and Mathematics, 2024
According to the Next Generation Science Standards, three-dimensional teaching challenges educators to adopt an inquiry approach through science and engineering practices aligned with disciplinary core ideas and crosscutting concepts. Few teachers today feel confident in their ability to orchestrate such lessons. Teaching inquiry science takes…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Academic Standards, Inquiry, Educational Practices
Janae Asali Oliver – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study explored the influence of racialized lived experiences (RLEs) on equitable decision-making among philanthropic leaders, employing a narrative inquiry approach. It examined how diversity within philanthropy, beyond tokenistic representation, can introduce a wide range of perspectives that enhance equitable decision-making…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Philanthropic Foundations, Private Financial Support, Grantsmanship
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Guth, Douglas J. – Community College Journal, 2020
Although endowments at two-year colleges cannot compare to similar funding at a typical powerhouse university, community college endowments have grown an average of 76 percent over the past 20 years, according to the Center for Community College Advancement at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Foundation creation among…
Descriptors: Endowment Funds, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Fund Raising
Frank Swanzy Essien Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Performance measurement and research are key components of the operations of philanthropic organizations (both grant-making [GM] and grant-seeking [GS] organizations)--particularly those in the higher education subsector. Both conventionally and historically, performance measurement and research practices have been portrayed as rational tools that…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Educational Research, Higher Education, Philanthropic Foundations
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Kinarsky, Alana; Christie, Christina A. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
Between 2010-2014, foundations spent at least $301 million on evaluation of education-related causes. To govern their evaluation practice foundations are developing evaluation policies. Evaluation policies encompass most aspects of evaluation practice and theory, making it a critical area of research on evaluation (Trochim, 2009). They can aid or…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Philanthropic Foundations, Evaluation, Policy
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