Annual Philanthropy Talk 2019: Good Bankers and Good Citizens

School of Management The Gateway, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

For the Centre for the Study of Philanthropy & Public Good's Annual Philanthropy Talk 2019, we are delighted to welcome Alexander Hoare of C.Hoare & Co., the UK's oldest privately owned bank, who will be talking about his and his family tradition of, experience with, and approach to philanthropy. Alexander graduated from the University of…

Workshop on Engaged Philanthropy

Janis Petzinger will lead a session on engaged philanthropy. The session, forming part of this year's Rank Foundation conference, will explore how foundations have approached relationships with beneficiaries through history and how organisations are now reframing relationships, introducing and using a high/low trust versus high/low embeddedness matrix.

Exploring relational philanthropy – Mercers Company

Dr Janis Petzinger will present her research on relational philanthropy to the philanthropy team at London’s Mercers Company. Discussing the lexicon of ‘added-value philanthropy’ that resembles a pull between philanthrocapitalism and relational philanthropy, Dr Petzinger will explore the promises and pitfalls of philanthrocapitalism and financialised philanthropy, and how the UK foundation world is shifting best…

Exploring UK foundations’ grantmaking approaches – Catalyst for Impact

Dr Janis Petzinger will lead a session at the ‘Catalyst for Impact’ charity network event exploring UK foundations' historic and contemporary grantmaking approaches. She will show how foundations have tackled poverty through different forms of knowledge: a top-down approach, whereby foundations pull from rationalist, financialised approaches, and a bottom-up approach, where foundations embed themselves locally…

Strengthening Community Philanthropy

Spread across multiple settings, fields and disciplines, the notion of community philanthropy is appealing and multi-faceted; it presents an ever-changing arrangement of principles, practices, patterns and perceptions that cover a…