Giving Well Doing Good

<p>This anthology explores the enterprise of philanthropy--assumptions aspirations and achievements. It brings together key texts that can provide guidance to current and prospective donors trustees and professional staff of foundations and leaders of nonprofit organizations. Organized thematically these texts seek to illuminate fundamental questions about the idea and practice of philanthropy to promote more thoughtful discussion about practical issues facing the philanthropic sector and to point a way toward a philanthropic practice that is more responsible more effective and more civic-spirited. <br /><br />Amy A. Kass has selected readings from sources that range from the classics to the contemporary from foundational statements on philanthropy to reflections on key issues of novelists and poets. Each illuminates some aspect of philanthropy. The book is arranged according to themes: goals and intentions; gifts donors and recipients; grants grantors grantees; bequests and legacies; effectiveness; accountability; and leadership.</p>