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Philanthropy classics now available online
Howard Lake | 13 June 2006 | News
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University is republishing classic texts on philanthropy from the past century.
The Philanthropy Classics Access Project features books and articles from a range of scholarly disciplines. The project republishes the original unedited texts in PDF/Adobe Acrobat format, introduced by essays written by leading scholars.
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Available titles include Francis Goodale’s “Literature of Philanthropy” of 1893, Frank Dekker Watson’s “The Charity Organization Movement in the United States: A Study in American Philanthropy” of 1922, and William Rhinelander Stewart’s “The Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, Containing a Biographical Sketch of Her Life, Together with a Selection of Her Public Papers and Private Letters” of 1922.
The Philanthropy Classics Access Project
is sponsored by the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. It has been funded by the Charles Stewart Mott and Surdna Foundations.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.