Books by Joan Marie Johnson
“Before reading it, I had not appreciated the extent to which some wealthy women have used their privilege, including their monetary power, to make positive change happen for all women. This idea that philanthropy is power is often said as if that’s obviously a bad thing: any use of power is necessarily an abuse of power. What Johnson shows is that ‘Yes, people do have power with resources, and you can use it well.’ Her book includes the powerful example of Mary Garrett, who offered to fund the medical school at Johns Hopkins University, but only if women students were allowed to enter on equal terms with male applicants, and become doctors. Imposing that condition was clearly an example of a wealthy donor exerting financial power, but I think we would all agree today that was a good use of power. Johns Hopkins didn’t let women students in because it was the right thing to do, they were forced to do so in order to receive the funding they wanted.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Joan Marie Johnson were recommended
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No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
by Linsey McGoey -
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Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
by Edgar Villanueva -
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Giving to Help, Helping to Give: The Context and Politics of African Philanthropy
Tade Aina and Bhekinkosi Moyo (editors) -
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Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow
by Tyrone McKinley Freeman -
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Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967
by Joan Marie Johnson
The best books on Philanthropy, recommended by Beth Breeze
The best books on Philanthropy, recommended by Beth Breeze
Philanthropy is everywhere—and that means we need an informed debate about what it is and how to do it better, rather than resorting to populist critiques of donors and their motives, argues Beth Breeze, Director of the Centre for Philanthropy at the University of Kent. Here she recommends five books to help encourage a more careful and nuanced look at philanthropy, an activity that affects all of us every day but is particularly critical in the lives of the most vulnerable.
