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The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake increased the need for disaster relief and reconstruction projects in China. This disaster created an upsurge of Chinese grant-making foundations, which then increased funding expectations. Many grassroots social organizations (SOs) in China believed that going forward, this level of funding would continue. However, the majority of grassroots SOs in China are currently facing an existential crisis. Their survival is being threatened by a shortage of funding from both local and foreign grant-making foundations. This research uses an empirical analysis of grant-making foundations and in-depth interviews, as well as observational evidence accumulated over a 10-year period, to explore the distribution of funding from foundations to grassroots SOs in China. The findings show that there are a limited number of Chinese grant-making foundations and that the foundations that exist do not include grassroots SOs in their funding scheme.

Chapter 1 Social Role, Strategic Profiles and Management Tools of Foundations -- Chapter 2 The First Survey on the "Governance" of Foundations: The Original Model -- Chapter 3 The Second Survey on the Governance and Actions to Support Strategic Philanthropy: The Integrated Model -- Chapter 4 Data on Governance and Strategy of Italian Foundations -- Chapter 5 A Virtuous Symbiosis: Determinism and Solidarity in the Strategic Action of Foundations -- Chapter 6 Conclusions

Italian Cultural Firms have increasingly suffered of financial cuttings especially as regards State and Local Authorities Funds for decades. New Patrons have crowded the fund-giving scenario with new expertise and subsidiary roles lately. Among them, Bank Foundations today represent the most deeply involved Italian Cultural Patron. Next to other grant-making foundations, Public Administrations, the National Lottery, citizens, firms, they perpetuate their fund-giving role – as savings banks – and engage in the role of destination managers of Italian cultural landscapes. Nevertheless, bank foundations are not only grant-makers. Having collected arts and heritages through their past and today's bank investing policies and services they are now realizing their exhibiting potentials. Through a cluster analysis of bank foundations assets, main accounting results and granting performances and thanks to interviews with a verified panel, it will be discussed of strategies and polarities of grant-making and operating in the arts.

Debate on the role of charitable grant-making foundations often references concerns about their lack of transparency. There has, however, been limited empirical investigation of foundation transparency levels. In this study, we report the largest-ever investigation of transparency among grant-making foundations in England and Wales. Based on a novel dataset, which captures the level of grant-specific data published by more than 2,200 foundations over five years from 2014 to 2018 (inclusive), we find that: (a) overall, these foundations are transparent in their disclosure of grant-specific data; (b) the results also paint a picture of stability – of those foundations with published trustees' annual reports and accounts in all five years of this study, 78 per cent had the same disclosure practice throughout; and (c) a specific regulatory change mandating grant-specific disclosure has not substantially increased levels of disclosure. This study therefore provides detailed evidence that contributes to and expands the conversation on English and Welsh foundation transparency.

As announced in the Society's letter No. 8 to members, the Society has received from the Ford Foundation a grant of $500,000 to support the Society's expanding program of studies and research on foreign investment and economic development, space activities, federalism, and disarmament.

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy provides grant funding in the major areas of the social sciences for scholars who are in the initial phases of their research careers. For more information on the Horowitz Foundation awards, visit http://www.horowitzfoundation.org. Following are the 2007 grant recipients in political science.

This article summarizes findings from the Foundation Center's 1997 benchmark study International Grantmaking: A Report on U.S. Foundation Trends. The study's purpose study was to foster better understanding among funders and the international community about the role foundations play in the international field and the ways they practice international grant making and to identify changes in giving patterns and practice in the post-cold war era. Over the past 15 years, the share of funding for international programs has doubled. Such growth suggests a dynamic area whose directions need to be understood. Those involved with international grant making and the international community-in the United States and overseas-need to understand changes in funding patterns within the context of domestic funding policies and in response to external factors. Deeper understanding of recent trends can also encourage dialogue about the evolving purpose of international grant making in the era of globalization.