From ‘shadowy cabal’ to new profession: Networks of cooperation and competition in UK Higher Education fundraising

Warren, Adam P.; Hoyler, Michael; Bell, Morag

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“…Philanthropy research is substantially focused on donors' motivations for giving, institutional forms of philanthropy and their history, the potential of philanthropy for positive change, and its tendency for harm (Damon & Verducci, 2006;Mack, 2013;Reich et al, 2016). The scant academic research on fundraising has explored topics such as professionalization (Proper & Caboni, 2014;Warren et al, 2016); characteristics of the fundraising workforce (Lindahl & Conley, 2002); the regulation, management, and ethics of fundraising (Lee, 2003;Phillips, 2012); the public image of fundraisers (McGee & Donoghue, 2009); and comparative analysis of national fundraising regimes (Breeze & Scaife, 2015).…”

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Introduction: Fundraising and Neoliberalization in Canada

Raddon

2023

Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research

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In this chapter, I introduce the idea that professional fundraising is, in the words of one Canadian fundraiser, a “business of hope.” I argue that successful fundraising careers provide a lens for understanding Canada’s neoliberalization. However, to avoid reducing neoliberalism to a broad abstraction, I make three commitments in this book: first, to show the meaning of neoliberalism through fundraisers’ perspectives and through the policy context of their careers in the late 1990s and early 2000s; second, to contrast neoliberalism with the shape of the welfare state that came before; and third, to take a dual political-economic and cultural theoretical approach, holding neoliberalism to be both economic doctrine and governing rationality, revealing neoliberal change to be both structural and cultural.

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Introduction: Fundraising and Neoliberalization in Canada

Raddon

2023

Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research

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“…To assess how university characteristics such as student and staff bodies and financial position influence their engagement in crowdfunding activities, we augmented this dataset with data obtained from UK universities themselves. We selected the UK higher education system owing to its institutional diversity, student and staff heterogeneity, marketized higher education system, performativity drive, and HEI engagement in fundraising activities to complement public funding (Warren et al, 2016).…”

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Crowdfunding in higher education: evidence from UK Universities

2021

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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 crowdfunding platforms, our study adds to previous crowdfunding research in academic settings that have, thus far, focused on research projects, and assesses who is participating, their level of engagement and the resources they have gathered from crowdfunding. Our findings show that crowdfunding is used more by universities that have fewer resources. These universities are more teaching-oriented, less prestigious, and have a student body largely derived from lower socio-economic sectors of society. The popularity of crowdfunding in this type of university suggests that crowdfunding may enhance the democratization of higher education funding. However, as optimal crowdfunding participation and engagement requires high academic-to-student ratios and total-staff-to-academic-staff ratios, universities facing a greater financial precarity may be disadvantaged in their access to and engagement with crowdfunding. Differentials between part-time and full-time student ratios may exacerbate this disadvantage. Our study suggests that crowdfunding is a viable means of obtaining additional financing for learning activities complementing the fundings from other sources, but raises concerns about the use of crowdfunding as a burden to academics and students to find resources to meet learning experiences that ought to be provided by universities in the first place.

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Debate: Collapsing collegiality in universities’ fundraising?

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Jung

2017

Public Money & Management

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From ‘shadowy cabal’ to new profession: Networks of cooperation and competition in UK Higher Education fundraising

Cited by 5 publications

References 65 publications

Introduction: Fundraising and Neoliberalization in Canada

Introduction: Fundraising and Neoliberalization in Canada

Crowdfunding in higher education: evidence from UK Universities

Debate: Collapsing collegiality in universities’ fundraising?

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