# The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/routledge-companion-philanthropy/
- Published: 2013-08-01T21:09:34+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy is published in the Routledge Companions
in Business, Management and Accounting series.**

Philanthropy – the use of private funds for public benefit and social change – is
undergoing a transformation, both in practice and as an emerging field of study.
The increased internationalisation and competition for philanthropic funding is 
prompting governments to examine how their policy, tax and regulatory frameworks
can create stronger incentives for giving and can retain philanthropic capital ‘
at home’, while ensuring appropriate accountability and transparency.

As the recent financial crisis which caused endowments to decline precipitously 
demonstrated, however, there can be an underlying fragility to philanthropy. One
consequence of the crisis has been to accentuate existing pressures for professionalization
of philanthropic management and for greater performance measurement: what impact
does philanthropy have? How can it be managed more effectively to produce sustainable,
scalable public benefits?

The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy provides the first comprehensive, critical
assessment of the history, recent developments and emerging challenges in the field
of philanthropy. It will be international in focus with contributions by leading
scholars from a broad range of countries and disciplines – reflecting the multifaceted
nature of the philanthropy field – and ambitious in intent: to define the current
state of the field and shape the future of philanthropy research for the next decade.