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American foundations : an investigative history /

In American Foundations, Mark Dowie argues that organized philanthropy is on the verge of an evolutionary shift that will transform America's nearly 50,000 foundations from covert arbiters of knowledge and culture to overt mediators of public policy and aggressive creators of new orthodoxy. He...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dowie, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, 2001.
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