Major Donors and Higher Education: Are STEM Donors Different from Other Donors?

Nwakpuda, Emily

doi:10.1177/0899764020907153

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“…Despite the exceptional amount of research and policy focus on national funding, there is limited quantitative understanding of philanthropic giving. Also, most of the existing knowledge relies on interviews and hand-curated datasets 15 – 17 , with advanced computational methods only beginning to enter the field of philanthropic studies more generally 22 . Here we focused on funding information that can be extracted from US tax forms, offering a foundation for unbiased big-data-driven research to understand philanthropic giving and potentially improve access to philanthropic funds.…”

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Mapping philanthropic support of science

Shekhtman,

Gates,

Barabási

2024

Sci Rep

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While philanthropic support for science has increased in the past decade, there is limited quantitative knowledge about the patterns that characterize it and the mechanisms that drive its distribution. Here, we map philanthropic funding to universities and research institutions based on IRS tax forms from 685,397 non-profit organizations. We identify nearly one million grants supporting institutions involved in science and higher education, finding that in volume and scope, philanthropy is a significant source of funds, reaching an amount that rivals some of the key federal agencies like the NSF and NIH. Our analysis also reveals that philanthropic funders tend to focus locally, indicating that criteria beyond research excellence play an important role in funding decisions, and that funding relationships are stable, i.e. once a grant-giving relationship begins, it tends to continue in time. Finally, we show that the bipartite funder-recipient network displays a highly overrepresented motif indicating that funders who share one recipient also share other recipients and we show that this motif contains predictive power for future funding relationships. We discuss the policy implications of our findings on inequality in science, scientific progress, and the role of quantitative approaches to philanthropy.

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Mapping philanthropic support of science

Shekhtman,

Gates,

Barabási

2024

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“…Quantile regressions reveal a positive and statistically significant relationship between major donors' entrepreneurial status and gift amounts at the 99th quantile (worth US$100 million or more). As major funding sources for academic STEM are increasingly threatened, these findings are pertinent to academic institutions seeking to leverage major donors as an alternative source of funding [23].…”

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The legal and social stance of non-state non-profit organizations in the context of an unusual situation in the Czech Republic

Stárek¹,

Zpěvák²

2023

P Sci Edu

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Introduction. A person is forced every day to expend significant will to figure out diverse life situations. Often difficult situations occur that a person cannot manage on their own. A situation's sudden appearance and extemporaneousness can negatively influence an individual, their family, community, and broader social circle. This simplification can define an unusual situation. Unusual situations can cause to involved people a certain level of affliction. Nevertheless, over time humankind developed instincts for how to ease, eliminate, or avoid these situations. So, whether we talk about help from neighbours or professional services, it still helps people. One type of help in these unusual situations is non-profit organisations. Study participants and methods. The main aim of this research was to find out and describe how chosen non-profit organisations in the Czech Republic prepared for unusual situations. Further, we researched the involvement of nonprofit organisations in education about unusual situations. As a method, we decided to carry out structured interviews with two workers from two non-profit organisations well known throughout the whole Czech Republic. In unusual situations, the participants were chosen deliberately concerning their job position – humanitarian aid in the Czech Republic. Regarding the established research goal, we decided on qualitative research – specifically, the interview method. Therefore, we conducted five semi-structured interviews with which the respondents agreed to be shared for the research. All interviews were recorded, and respondents knew about that and agreed with it. The outcome for every involved company was the creation of a SWOT analysis. Results. Based on the findings, we can claim that non-state non-profit organisations have a crucial role in managing floods. Similarly, as during any other unusual situation, these non-state non-profit organisations bring to the affected areas some extra resources. Plus, they function as a mediator through which any gifts from people. Also, in some situations, their reactions and aid are more operative and flexible than help from state organisations. Therefore, all non-state non-profit organisations involved in this research are well prepared for unusual situations. However, each organisation provides different support during an unusual situation. Therefore, all mentioned organisations cannot be involved similarly. The concrete result for each company is provided in the SWOT analysis. Practical significance. The qualitative research was conducted via interviews with specialists who orient in this area, and from them arise that non-state non-profit organisations are crucial in managing unusual situations. The concrete roles are these three. The first role is compensation which replaces state failure. This is done by delegating specific duties via a legal agreement between non-profit organisations which are able and willing to help. This compensation is intentional. Another identified role is the complementary role which is a cooperation between non-state non-profit organisations and state organisations or state aid systems. Finally, the last role is closely linked with the second role, which is the mediator's role. This role is responsible for delivering and distributing gifts and additional resources from people. Keywords: Czech Republic, legislation, non-state non-profit organisation, unusual situation

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“…There is a parallel, mutually reinforcing concentration of large‐scale philanthropic resources on prestigious causes like medical research. Numerous scientific research centres, like the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, launched in 2004 to discover new treatments for human diseases through the application of genomics, would not exist without elite philanthropy (Nwakpuda, 2020; Stevens, 2019).…”

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Elite philanthropy in the United States and United Kingdom in the new age of inequalities

Maclean

Harvey

Yang

et al. 2021

Int J Management Reviews

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Elite philanthropy—voluntary giving at scale by wealthy individuals, couples and families—is intimately bound up with the exercise of power by elites. This theoretically oriented review examines how big philanthropy in the United States and United Kingdom serves to extend elite control from the domain of the economic to the domains of the social and political, and with what results. Elite philanthropy, we argue, is not simply a benign force for good, born of altruism, but is heavily implicated in what we call the new age of inequalities, certainly as consequence and potentially as cause. Philanthropy at scale pays dividends to donors as much as it brings sustenance to beneficiaries. The research contribution we make is fourfold. First, we demonstrate that the true nature and effects of elite philanthropy can only be understood in the context of what Bourdieu calls the field of power, which maintains the economic, social and political hegemony of the super‐rich, nationally and globally. Second, we demonstrate how elite philanthropy systemically concentrates power in the hands of mega foundations and the most prestigious endowed charitable organizations. Third, we explicate the similarities and differences between the four main types of elite philanthropy—institutionally supportive, market‐oriented, developmental and transformational—revealing how and why different sections within the elite express themselves through philanthropy. Fourth, we show how elite philanthropy functions to lock in and perpetuate inequalities rather than remedying them. We conclude by outlining proposals for future research, recognizing that under‐specification of constructs has hitherto limited the integration of philanthropy within the mainstream of management and organizational research.

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Major Donors and Higher Education: Are STEM Donors Different from Other Donors?

Cited by 8 publications

References 52 publications

Mapping philanthropic support of science

Mapping philanthropic support of science

The legal and social stance of non-state non-profit organizations in the context of an unusual situation in the Czech Republic

Elite philanthropy in the United States and United Kingdom in the new age of inequalities

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