Over the course of the twentieth century, the pharmaceutical industry evolved into its modern form. Individual pharmaceutical companies formed trade organizations in the early 1900s and experienced exponential growth in the 1930s and onward with the development of lifesaving and…
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This dissertation systematically explores the origins and evolution of the charter school movement in the United States from 1985 to 2015. I begin by analyzing the role of governors in K-12 education policymaking and find that while governors have generally placed greater emphas…
Service-learning is a classroom-based pedagogy that combines curricular goals with community service to facilitate reciprocal benefit. It works best when there is adequate preparation, student voice in designing projects, systematic formative and summative reflection, and is men…
Dramatic cutbacks in government funding and the economic slowdown have caused critical financial shortfalls in college and university budgets. Despite record-breaking growth in private donations, American higher education institutions have been unable to keep pace with the costs…
This dissertation examines the politics of Ottoman welfare system and philanthropy during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876–909) and the Second Constitutional Period before World War I (1908–1914). The study first focuses on the Hamidian system of benevolence, a monarchica…
When Frank Prochaska first published his studies on philanthropy, he provided the most in-depth scholarship to date. But this research is now over 20 years old and is ready for review. It is also a purely historical analysis, with little archaeological content. This research see…
The purpose of this thesis is to look at the motivations behind the life and work of Caroline Chisholm, nee Jones, 1808-1877, and to ascertain why British historians have chosen to ignore her contribution to the nineteenth century emigration movement, while attending closely to …
Between 1847 and 1903, spanning the first three episcopates of the newly-created Diocese of Manchester, 228 churches were built, or significantly extended, in the largest by far of its five deaneries, the Deanery of Manchester. Exploration of diocesan, Mancunian, and parochial a…
This dissertation comprises five essays on the subject of entrepreneurship and postconflict reconstruction. The first essay serves as the introduction, and outlines the political economy of conflict and postconflict reconstruction, and the potential and requirements for entrepre…
This dissertation explores the ineffectiveness of development assistance as an intervention into a complex system, and makes a contribution in explaining how and why this is so. Specifically, this issue is explored within a charity-philanthropy context. As the build component of…
This dissertation provides an analysis of Turkish-American diaspora philanthropy - done through social and human capital transfers - and its role in impacting local development in Turkey. The study offers the consideration of a new kind of diaspora philanthropy, namely innovativ…
This thesis explores the efforts of the Rockefeller Foundation in Nigeria's University of Ibadan during the years 1960 to 1969. I argue that the Foundation, though ostensibly nonpartisan, in truth served as an extension of the existing U.S. foreign policy apparatus. To promote A…
This study explores the external environment within which Israeli environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) operate, with particular attention to their relationships with, and dependence on, philanthropic foundations. A growing body of literature has been devoted in re…
By 1900, Hampton Institute was the wealthiest school for African Americans. Its philosophy–stressing vocational education and forsaking political equality–was at its most influential during this time, attracting numerous followers as well detractors. Critics, both contemporary a…
This thesis is a cultural, gendered, and religious history of activities of the National Council of Jewish Women in the first fifty years of their existence, with a focus on the Progressive Era. Through examining the philanthropic endeavors of the Council, their distinctly Jewis…
In a time of constant threat to funding, elimination of the National Endowment, and competition over resources, philanthropy in the arts and culture sector is indispensable to the vibrancy and economic development of a city’s core. The arts and culture sector is considered to ta…
With state and federal funding sources shrinking for higher education, it is becoming evident that the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) must become more intentional and strategic in seeking to diversify their revenue stream through such methods as ca…
Here in the United States, there is very little governmental support to help sustain nonprofit cultural and art organizations. This circumstance makes it necessary for museums and cultural institutions to rely heavily on charitable funding. Philanthropy, as it relates to the cha…
The literature on the cultural Cold War acknowledges that American philanthropic foundations provided funding to various Cold War projects, but does not provide a close analysis of the foundations’ involvement or examine how philanthropies and government agencies coordinated the…