The Business of Hope Professional Fundraising in Neoliberal Canada /

This open access book contributes to research on the ascendance of neoliberalism in Canada through the vantage point of professional fundraising in the 1990s and 2000s. Fifty high-ranking fundraisers from across Canada were interviewed through 2008 and 2009 about changes they had witnessed since sta...

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Main Author: Raddon, Mary-Beth (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research,
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: The Business of Hope
  • Chapter 2. The "Do or Die" Project of Creating a Culture of Philanthropy
  • Chapter 3. "In the Business to Change Lives": Fundraising as a Neoliberal Vocation
  • Chapter 4. The Generosity Gap: Canadian Fundraisers' Cross-National Comparisons
  • Chapter 5. "We Have to Fit the Men in Somewhere": Explaining Gender Inequality in Fundraising
  • Chapter 6. "I Have to Be Optimistic; I'm a Fundraiser": Professional Fundraising and the Politics of Hope
  • Appendix: Research Methods.