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Arvin Johnson; Tak Cheung Chan – Educational Planning, 2024
This study examines the effort of one higher education college in China to see how it secures external funding resources to enhance its educational programs. The college is known for its success in getting external funding in addition to public revenue appropriations. The researchers took a case study approach by first reviewing the current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Finance, Financial Support
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Heather N. McCambly – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
This paper uses critical archival analysis, paired with textual analysis of grant descriptions, to understand how nine foundations -- all with endowments derived from the student loan industry -- have motivated their college completion work and the relationship between these commitments and grantmaking over time (2000-2019). Mobilizing concepts of…
Descriptors: Racism, Educational Change, Organizational Change, Postsecondary Education
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Horta, Hugo; Meoli, Michele; Vismara, Silvio – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
In contemporary higher education systems, funding is increasingly associated with performativity, assessment, and competition, and universities are seeking different forms of financing their activities. One of these new forms is crowdfunding, a tool enabled by the digitalization of finance. Based on data from the UK higher education system and two…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Private Financial Support, Higher Education, Universities
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Sonmezoglu, Ugur – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
The aim of this research is to examine the philanthropy tendencies of university students in terms of whether they have received sports education or not and some variables. Survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the research. SPSS 26 statistical program was used for the analysis of the data. Descriptive statistics of…
Descriptors: College Students, Athletics, Sports Medicine, Foreign Countries
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
Peter Erle Robertson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative case study explored the LGBTQ+ allyship affiliations of 16 participants, and their motivations for giving within a higher education and state-funded institution setting. The study utilized a primary theoretical framework, identity-based motivation, and two secondary frameworks, philanthropic mirroring, and identity-based…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Higher Education, Social Support Groups, Donors
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Liang, Xianping; Su, You; Shang, Weiwei – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Few studies have been conducted to investigate the role that alumni's prior campus experience may play in future donation behavior. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the affect theory of social exchange were applied to examine the underlying relationship between campus experience and donation behavior by incorporating relevant factors…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Alumni, Donors, Private Financial Support
Coggins, Celine; Komprathoum, Kara; Smith, Rebecca – Grantmakers for Education, 2023
Socioeconomic factors such as income have historically driven equity-focused education grant funding. The events of 2020, from the murder of George Floyd and other Black Americans to the COVID-19 pandemic, heightened scrutiny into ongoing racial injustice and disparities in the United States. In fall 2021, Grantmakers for Education set out to…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Grants, Minority Group Students, Race
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Alessandro Muscio; Sotaro Shibayama – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
This paper investigates employment outcomes for a large sample of Ph.D. students who were enrolled in a doctoral training program in Italy in the period 2008-14. The empirical analysis is based on survey data obtained from a questionnaire distributed to 23,500 individuals in 2016. In Italy, student enrolment in a Ph.D. involves a university-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Private Financial Support, Private Sector
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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
David B. Ortendahl – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As millions of U.S. citizens began to shelter in their homes due to the COVID-19 global pandemic in 2020, another phenomenon began to take shape in the late spring. The murder of George Floyd had been committed and shared widely on the news and social media. As it did, a groundswell of discussions and social activism through a revitalized Black…
Descriptors: Universities, Industry, School Business Relationship, Corporations
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Abbie Cohen – Children & Schools, 2024
In the wake of the federal government's retrenchment from urban America in the 1970s and 1980s and the resulting rise in inequality, youth-serving, out-of-school time (OST) nonprofits took on a greater role in supporting urban public schools and students. Since then, many educational OST nonprofits have become enriching spaces for youth outside of…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Community Organizations, Nonprofit Organizations, Urban Schools
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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
James Clark – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined the lived experience of 10 activist teachers at the kindergarten through 12th grade level. All participants were veteran teachers with 10 or more years of public school experience who have come to terms with bureaucratic elements inside the system and yet continue to practice active resistance to policies, practices, and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Teachers, Activism
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