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David Andrew Baggs – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to understand the strength of the relationship between commitment, trust, satisfaction, involvement, and stewardship activities and donor retention as measured by lapsed giving, repeat giving, increased giving, and planned giving. The goal of the study was to support with data the key variables that impact donor…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Fund Raising, Donors, Private Financial Support
Sunya Young-Dewese – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The study explored the impact of motivations and organizational ethos on foundation giving to small colleges and universities seeking to enhance funding streams and educational opportunities within these institutions. Employing a qualitative research approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with former foundation executives to delve…
Descriptors: Motivation, Organizational Culture, Small Colleges, Private Financial Support
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Enete, Shane; Heckman, Stuart; Lawson, Derek – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2021
Why do people give away their money? Charitable giving has traditionally been modeled using socioeconomic (i.e., age, income, education) and psychographic variables (i.e., self-esteem, guilt, pity). However, given that charitable giving is, inherently, a financial activity, would financial variables with a psychographic element (i.e., financial…
Descriptors: Money Management, Attitudes, Private Financial Support, Donors
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Hu, Xiaodan; Fernandez, Frank; Gándara, Denisa – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
We examine the impact of the Texas Research Incentive Program (TRIP), a state policy that offers matching funds to incentivize private-sector donations to certain public universities. We use a national dataset and employ a generalized difference-in-differences approach with matching procedures to estimate the treatment effect of TRIP on revenues…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Educational Policy, Research Universities, Educational Finance
Marybeth Gasman; Levon T. Esters – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play a pivotal role in promoting social and economic mobility for African Americans and in mentoring the next generation of Black leaders. In "HBCU," Marybeth Gasman and Levon T. Esters explore the remarkable impact and contributions of these significant institutions. Through inspiring…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Role, Student Empowerment, African American Students
David Michael Sears – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With community colleges struggling with the completion rates of their students, it is important to understand the social and academic integration of community college students and their relationships to retention and completion. Research focuses on the critical role of internal college actors such as faculty, staff, and students in these…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Donors, School Holding Power, Community College Students
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
Miller, Daniel C.; Maricle, Denise E. – Communique, 2022
Texas Woman's University offers a unique combination of programs and opportunities, not only to its students and faculty, but to researchers and practitioners across the country. To a significant extent, these programs owe their existence to the professional and financial support of Dr. Richard W. Woodcock and the Woodcock Institute for the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Academic Support Services, Cognitive Processes, School Psychology
Ashley Morgan Carter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative collective case study aimed to explore that attitudes and perceptions of alumni engagement at a private women's college in the Southeastern United States. A total of thirteen alumni from one of two generational cohorts: baby boomers or millennials, were interviewed and six participated in two focus group sessions. Interviews and…
Descriptors: Alumni, Private Colleges, Single Sex Colleges, Attitudes
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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Campbell, David A.; Appe, Susan; Rozansky, Matthew J. – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2023
Experiential philanthropy courses have proliferated in recent years in the context of a reinvigorated debate about the nature of elite philanthropy. This paper analyzes the content faculty use to teach philanthropy in 33 courses funded by the Learning by Giving Foundation. We find that courses prioritize materials that address formal philanthropy,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Private Financial Support, Courses, Course Content
Scott P. Rembold – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Transformational philanthropic gifts to American universities have dramatically increased in number, size and scope over the past 20 years. During the past ten years, the proliferation of these gifts, defined in this study as $50 million or more, has been especially profound. While such gifts have become almost commonplace at many elite private…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Donors, Higher Education, Administrator Role
Feit, Benjamin N. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Multistate networks are arguably the purest expression of the charter sector's original promise as an engine of innovation within the public school system. On its face, this contention may appear somewhat counterintuitive; the proliferation of schools affiliated with charter management organizations (CMOs) that have siphoned market share away from…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Instructional Leadership, Administrative Organization, Organizations (Groups)
Global Partnership for Education, 2021
The business and foundation communities are a vital part of GPE, bringing in-kind strategic capabilities and philanthropic financial co-investment to the drive to transform education systems in lower-income countries.
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Partnerships in Education, Educational Finance, Educational Change
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Luís Miguel Carvalho; Sofia Viseu – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
This paper addresses the ways through which new philanthropy in education is being enacted in Portugal, focusing on one of its significant imaginaries: social inclusion. We analyse EPIS (Entrepreneurs for Social Inclusion), a top association dedicated to corporate philanthropy with a growing presence in the education system. Drawing on Popkewitz's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Financial Support, Educational Finance, Corporate Support
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