Overview
- An original academic work drawing on the as-yet-unstudied perspectives of fundraisers in North America
- Makes fundraisers visible as neoliberal subjects grappling with the political and moral implications of social change
- Valuable not only to economic and political sociologists, but also those working in non-profit and fundraising
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research (PSTSR)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 culturalreconstruction of Canadian society.
This is an open access book.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Mary-Beth Raddon is Associate Professor at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. She is the current chair of the Department of Sociology and a former graduate program director of the MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies. She is a qualitative researcher in the field of economic sociology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Business of Hope
Book Subtitle: Professional Fundraising in Neoliberal Canada
Authors: Mary-Beth Raddon
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18837-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18836-7Published: 25 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18837-4Published: 24 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-690X
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6918
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 120
Topics: Political Sociology, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work, Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises