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oapen-20.500.12657-629672024-03-28T08:18:50Z The Business of Hope Raddon, Mary-Beth Canada Fundraising politics of philanthropy professions neoliberalism political economy market fundamentalism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJV Ownership and organization of enterprises::KJVX Non-profitmaking organizations 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 starting their careers. Fundraising as an occupation was burgeoning in this period in response to the devolution of state responsibility across the major domains of nonprofit activity: education, health care, social services, the arts, recreation, overseas humanitarian activities, and environmental protection. Welfare state retrenchment left the nonprofit and voluntary sector competing for private sources of funding with the help of these newly hired expert staff. As fundraisers worked to instill a culture of philanthropy, while targeting the ultra-rich and advocating for tax-favourable treatment of major gifts, they became both products and promoters of the neoliberal political and cultural reconstruction of Canadian society. This is an open access book. 2023-05-16T15:05:43Z 2023-05-16T15:05:43Z 2023 book ONIX_20230516_9783031188374_12 9783031188374 9783031188367 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62967 eng Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-18837-4.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-18837-4 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-18837-4 10.1007/978-3-031-18837-4 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 3c11b866-b710-4de6-9470-2db167f65e21 9783031188374 9783031188367 Palgrave Macmillan 120 Cham [...] Brock University open access
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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 starting their careers. Fundraising as an occupation was burgeoning in this period in response to the devolution of state responsibility across the major domains of nonprofit activity: education, health care, social services, the arts, recreation, overseas humanitarian activities, and environmental protection. Welfare state retrenchment left the nonprofit and voluntary sector competing for private sources of funding with the help of these newly hired expert staff. As fundraisers worked to instill a culture of philanthropy, while targeting the ultra-rich and advocating for tax-favourable treatment of major gifts, they became both products and promoters of the neoliberal political and cultural reconstruction of Canadian society. This is an open access book.
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