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In addition to publishing Alliance, APT started publishing books in 2008. Below you can find information on existing titles, reviews of the books and information on how to order them. You can also download selected titles in PDF format directly from this page.
Just published
How donors choose charities: findings of a study of donor perception of the nature and distribution of charitable benefit
Published by the Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy and Alliance Publishing Trust
ISBN 978-1-907376-05-4
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About the book
There are tens of thousands of charities in the UK, and even the most generous donors can support only a tiny fraction of these good causes. This paper examines how donors go about choosing which organisations to give their money to.
Based on interviews with 60 committed donors, it explores how people define charity, what they think about charitable beneficiaries, and the rationale behind their giving decisions. Despite widespread assumptions that need is the primary driver of charitable donations, this study finds that giving decisions are also based on other factors, notably donors’ tastes, personal experiences, perceptions of charities’ competence and a desire for personal impact.
About the author
Dr Beth Breeze is a researcher within the ESRC Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy, based at the University of Kent.
Existing titles
Laying the Foundations: 20 Years of the EFC
Published by European Foundation Centre and Alliance Publishing Trust
ISBN 978-1-907376-03-0
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About the book
A current snapshot of the EFC shows a thriving membership association, with 230+ member foundations from more than 40 different countries around the globe. The EFC’s 20th anniversary celebrations, held on 9-10 November 2009 in Berlin, not only showcased the vital work carried out by the Centre over its first two decades, but also more generally marked the maturation of a flourishing European foundation community.
Yet to reach this point, a cast of characters had to build the EFC from the ground up, relying on their own entrepreneurship, perseverance and, once in a while, a bit of good luck. Laying the Foundations recounts the full, previously undocumented, history of the EFC, starting from the Centre’s humble beginnings when the original seven founding members came together on 9 November 1989, up until the present.
A story told from the perspective of the members, the book presents a side to the EFC that one may not have been aware of otherwise. What was the role that Spanish foundations played in the establishment of the Centre that they still speak about so proudly today? Was it really just a historical coincidence that the EFC was founded on the same day the Berlin Wall fell? What was the ‘Great Vasa Project’, and why would certain members and EFC Secretariat staff prefer to forget it? Compiled following an extensive series of interviews, this book provides answers to these questions, among many others, and pays homage to those who have left their unique, indelible marks on the European foundation sector.
Religion and Prejudice in Europe: New empirical findings
Dr Beate Küpper and Dr Andreas Zick
Published by Network of European Foundations' Initiative on Religion and Democracy in Europe and Alliance Publishing Trust
ISBN: 9781907376023
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About the book
World religions usually call for peace and brotherhood, and religious people around the globe support others in need and contribute generously to charity. However, in the name of religion we also see hate, violence and inter-group conflicts. Religion is sometimes used by religious people to legitimize the devaluation of others because of their group membership, beliefs, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation. Knowing more about the relationship between individual religiousness and tolerance can help us understand the role of religious actors in social cohesion, individual behaviour, and the structuring of institutions.
Religion and Prejudice in Europe presents new empirical findings on the relationship between individual religiousness and prejudice towards a variety of target groups that have been identified by the European Union as needing protection from discrimination. The findings were realized within the study ‘Group-focused Enmity in Europe’ and based on representative surveys conducted in eight European countries, which were selected for their different religious make-up. Findings reveal that religious people have a greater tendency to be prejudiced towards various groups (in particular women and homosexuals) than non-religious people.
About the authors
Dr Beate Küpper is managing researcher of the survey study ‘Group-focused Enmity in Europe’ at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence at the University of Bielefeld.
Dr Andreas Zick is professor of sociology and conflict at the University of Bielefeld. His research is in the field of intergroup conflict, with a special focus on prejudice and discrimination, a subject on which he has published extensively.
Understanding European Research Foundations: Findings from the FOREMAP project
Published by European Foundation Centre and Alliance Publishing Trust
ISBN: 9781907376009
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About the book
What do you know about foundations’ contribution to research in your country?
Research is ever-present in all aspects of our lives, from driving innovation and economic development to contributing to the development of therapies and informing policymaking.
In every European country foundations are supporting research, yet how much do we know and understand of their contribution, beyond the anecdotal? In an era in which research is of increasing strategic importance, it is crucial that we seek answers to this question in order to gain a better understanding of foundations’ added value, which lies beyond the purely monetary.
Understanding European Research Foundations details the work of the FOREMAP project. The project sought to develop a mapping methodology and tools to document foundations’ support for research, and to enable the collection of comparable data across countries to give a Europe-wide picture of their activity. The report also provides a glimpse of how foundations are supporting research in Germany, Portugal, Slovakia and Sweden, where the FOREMAP mapping methodology was tested.
Foundations, associations of foundations, policymakers and scientists would all benefit from a greater understanding of research-funding foundations. What role can these stakeholders play in this respect, and how can they build on the work of FOREMAP? Readers should consider this report as the first step in a process of obtaining a global picture of how and why foundations support research in Europe.
Contributors
Mathieu Cantegreil
Marco Demarie
Inês Seixas Duarte
Stefan Einarsson
Raquel Campos Franco
Caroline Gijselinckx
Lenka Ilanovska
Triona Keaveney
Inês De Oliveira Magalhães
Karolina Merai
Veijo Ismo Ritola
Mats Rolén
Tobias Vahlpahl
Philanthropy in the 21st Century
Lindsay Driscoll and Peter Grant
Published by Cass Business School and Alliance Publishing Trust
ISBN 9781907376016
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About the book
Philanthropy in the 21st Century is the result of a research study commissioned by the Honorary Treasurers Forum. The authors questioned a wide range of practitioners, academics and thinkers to explore ideas that might increase the effectiveness of philanthropic giving.
The onset of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s acted as a backdrop to the study, which posits a number of wide-ranging, sometimes controversial ideas.
Proposals for government include: establishing a range of umbrella charities with donor advised funds set up with government seed funding; enhanced tax incentives for donations to these donor advised funds; the possible introduction of a minimum percentage payout for foundations, and revisiting the rules around remainder trusts.
Proposals for foundations are that they: review their current commitments and policies to ensure their funding models are impact based and take into account the life cycle of recipients; review their governance and grantmaking procedures to ensure that they focus on strategy and that risk is appropriately managed; and report on the added value of their grant-giving in the context of public benefit.
About the authors
Lindsay Driscoll is a former Charity Commissioner, now a consultant for the law firm Bates, Wells and Braithwaite.
Peter Grant is a former Director of Operations of major public grantmaking bodies and is now Senior Fellow in Grantmaking, Philanthropy and Social Investment at Cass Business School, London.
Teaching about Religions in European School Systems: Policy issue and trends
Luce Pepin
Published by Network of European Foundations' Initiative on Religion and Democracy in Europe and Alliance Publishing Trust
ISBN: 9780955880483
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About the book
Why and how should public education teach about religions? The issue has become increasingly topical. Young people lack knowledge about the growing diversity of religions in European societies, which are becoming ever more multicultural and secular. This ignorance and a growing lack of religious and cultural references cut them off from their own roots and lay the foundations for intolerance and prejudice.
Teaching about religions and other convictions could play an important role in reversing this trend. While confessional education remains the most widespread approach, non-confessional and pluri-religious teaching, as well as teaching about ‘religious facts’, seems to be gaining ground, in line with recommendations adopted at European level.
Looking in particular at the situation in seven EU member states, this report identifies trends, key issues and challenges facing EU education systems if teaching about religions is to contribute to intercultural and citizenship education and puts forward some recommendations to help bring this about.
About the author
Luce Pépin is a consultant. She is the former (1992–2001) head of the European unit of Eurydice, the EU information network on education in Europe and author of the History of European Cooperation in the Fields of Education and Training (European Commission, 2006).
Conflicts over Mosques in Europe: Policy issues and trends
Stefano Allievi
Published by Network of European Foundations' Initiative on Religion and Democracy in Europe and Alliance Publishing Trust
ISBN: 9780955880476
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About the book
The presence of Islam in Europe’s public space provokes debate and tension for a host of reasons – historical, cultural, religious, political and social. The most significant and widespread of these debates centres around mosques as they have very powerful symbolic implications. These disputes are not limited to the establishment of places of worship; they also relate to the question of their visibility in European cities, for instance through the building of minarets. Related questions concern the broadcasting of the adhan, the call to prayer, and Muslim cemeteries.
Based on new research in several European countries and on detailed national overviews, this report analyses a wide range of conflicts over mosques and proposes an interpretation of such conflicts in a wider frame, in order to understand the reasons why they emerge, how they develop, the role of the different actors involved, and the lessons that can be learned from them in terms of social dynamics and governance.
About the author
Stefano Allievi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Padua. He specializes in migration issues and in sociology of religion and cultural change. He has particularly focused his studies and researches on the presence of Islam in Europe, to which he has dedicated many publications.
Religion and Healthcare in the European Union: Policy issues and trends
Dimitrina Petrova and Jarlath Clifford
Published by Network of European Foundations' Initiative on Religion and Democracy in Europe and Alliance Publishing Trust
ISBN: 9780955880469
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About the book
The impact of religious doctrine on the law, policy and practice of healthcare is becoming increasingly significant for a whole range of issues – from euthanasia to fertility treatment; from belief-based exemption from performing abortion for doctors to the medication and dietary needs of religious patients; from organ donation to contraception; from circumcision to suicide. The relationship between religion and healthcare has a long history of evoking tension and debate in Europe. While developments in medical technologies and techniques question the religious beliefs of policy-makers, practitioners and patients across the European Union, research into the legal and policy responses by EU member states on such issues remains underdeveloped.
The challenge of health policy, which is common across the European Union, is to balance fundamental human rights such as the right to equality, the right to health and the right to freedom of religion while adhering to secular principles.
This report aims to map out the major issues at stake and to initiate a broader discussion on how the religious needs of the community, religious doctrine and religious practices across the European Union affect public health policy.
About the authors
Jarlath Clifford is Legal Officer at The Equal Rights Trust.
Dimitrina Petrova is Executive Director of The Equal Rights Trust.
Small Money, Big Impact: The importance of philanthropic contributions to social justice and peacebuilding work in divided and conflict-torn societies.
Foundations for Peace
Published by Alliance Publishing Trust
ISBN: 9780955880452
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Small Money, Big Impact is a report drawn from the combined experiences of nine independent charitable trusts and foundations that are members of the Foundations for Peace Network. What is both unique and compelling about these organizations is that they are all indigenous to, and working in, societies that have been marked by deep communal divisions and violent conflict. They share a commitment to social justice and peacebuilding in often difficult and complex circumstances.
Drawing on nine detailed case studies from eight countries in Asia, Latin American and Europe, this illustrated report discusses the relationship between social justice and peacebuilding while reflecting on the added value of using indigenous foundations to deliver local programmes in areas of conflict and division. A common theme is how small amounts of money can leverage major impact in terms of building solidarity and partnerships for social change.
The Foundations for Peace Network was initiated in 2003 with the mission of developing a network of independent indigenous funders that work locally in order to advance social justice and peacebuilding in areas of entrenched and persistent communal conflict. The Foundations for Peace Network believes that philanthropy both can and should make a commitment to addressing these issues in partnership with local independent funders to draw maximum long-term benefit locally while contributing to global learning.
Contributors
The Abraham Fund Initiatives, Israel and USA
Community Foundation for Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland
Dalit Foundation, India
Fundación AlvarAlice, Colombia
Manusher Jonno Foundation, Bangladesh
Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust, Sri Lanka
Nirnaya, India
Reconstruction Women’s Fund (RWF), Serbia
Tewa, Nepal
Family Foundation Philanthropy 2009 UK, Germany, Italy, US
Edited by Cathy Pharoah
Published by Alliance Publishing Trust
ISBN: 978 0 9558804 4 5
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About the book
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation currently provides the most concerted challenge to government approaches to tackling problems of global health. At the same time, the foundation set up by business billionaire Hans-Werner Hector made, in 2008, the largest single donation ever to a German state university, causing national controversy over the status of so-called ‘elite universities’. In the light of these and other strategic initiatives, the influential role of family foundation philanthropy in social policy and practice has never been more topical.
Family Foundation Philanthropy 2009 updates and compares trends in the charitable spending of major family foundations in the UK and US. It also presents new data on family foundations in two contrasting continental European countries, Germany and Italy. The historical, legal and political contexts in which such foundations operate in these countries are shown to be significantly different, yet in spite of these differences philanthropy of this kind has constantly found ways to re-emerge and reconfigure itself.
The research presented here demonstrates the strength of family foundation philanthropy and the extent to which it has become a vehicle for successful entrepreneurs and other donors not only to support, but often to strategically influence, the scientific, cultural, social and economic progress of their time. The study also raises questions about the common themes and overarching motivations which give family foundation philanthropy a continuing role under sometimes difficult conditions and in different times, contexts and places.
About the editor
Cathy Pharoah is Professor of Charity Funding and Co-Director of the ESRC Research Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy, Cass Business School, London
Contributors
Deborah Bolognesi
Thomas Ebermann
Giuliana Gemelli
Charles Keidan
Henrik Neuke
Cathy Pharoah
Susan Crites Price
Rupert Strachwitz
A New Agenda? The European Union in the Age of Culture
Hans Erik Naess
Published by Alliance Publishing Trust
ISBN 978 0 9558804 3 8
About the book
Throughout the last couple of decades, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to globalization issues of today, various aspects of culture seem to affect the lives of European citizens more and more. As a reply the European Union (EU) in 2007 endorsed ‘A European agenda for culture in a globalising world’, evidently their ‘first –ever strategy for culture’.
To anyone familiar with the history of the EU, this was groundbreaking news. Culture had for the first time been elevated into the premier league of EU politics. In this book, which ranges from cosmopolitan philosophy to Playstation games, Norwegian sociologist Hans Erik Naess investigates the case further: what is the content of this strategy, what is new about it, and how will it affect European and national cultures?
This book allows the reader to explore these questions. Written in an easily accessible style, putting emphasis on exploration rather than tutoring, it provides students, philanthropists, culture journalists, artists, NGO staff, politicians and the like with a creative introduction to the interactions between EU policies and European culture.
About the author
Hans Erik Naess (b 1978). He has a Master of Arts in Society, Science and Technology in Europe (ESST) and a Master’s degree in Sociology, both from the University of Oslo. Currently he works as a teacher at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. He can be reached at anewculturalagenda@gmail.com
To order
The book is avialable direct from Alliance Publishing Trust at a cost of only £4.99 plus £2.75 P&P. Please contact publishing@alliancemagazine.org to order your copy or click here to purchase from Amazon.
Schools for society - Learning democracy in Europe - A handbook of ideas for action
Susanne Frank and Ted Huddleston
Published by Alliance Publishing Trust
ISBN 978 0 9558804 2 1
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About the book
As we launch this handbook, democracy is experiencing unprecedented challenges throughout Europe, as a result of the impact of the credit crunch and economic recession. Globalization, unemployment, migration, social justice and human rights are high on everyone’s agenda, and at the same time citizens increasingly question the effectiveness of present political parties to meet these challenges. Education for citizenship assumes even greater significance and schools have to adapt their mission, governance and working methods to play their crucial part in delivering opportunities for young people to prepare to live and work in this rapidly changing world. What lessons and insights can be drawn from European experience?
Schools for Society maps out a range of ways in which schools can help to nurture the civic skills and values of cities in Europe, both young and old, through closer cooperation and partnership with civil society. It shows how civil society organizations can act as catalysts for new thinking and practices in democratic education, and identifies a number of strategies and approaches by which this can be achieved – with illustrative case studies taken from 11 different countries, from England and France to Poland and Turkey. In doing so, this handbook goes beyond conventional understandings of democratic schooling, often restricted to pupil participation, to open up a new agenda for democratic learning and action in and through schools in Europe. While written primarily with foundations and civil society organizations in mind, it contains valuable insights for anyone interested in democratic education.
Schools for Society was researched and written in a collaborative project undertaken by the DeGeDe (German Society for Democratic Education) and RAA (Regional Centre for Education, Integration and Democracy), Berlin, and the Citizenship Foundation, London – with a contribution from Viola B Georgi of the Free University of Berlin. This project was commissioned and funded via the Network of European Foundations (NEF), which set up a special Steering Committee to oversee the Initiative for Learning Democracy in Europe (ILDE), in close cooperation with the Council of Europe.
About the authors
Susanne Frank is a consultant in civic and intercultural education and a member of the DeGeDe in Germany.
Ted Huddleston is a consultant in civic and citizenship education and an associate of the Citizenship Foundation in England.
To order
Copies are available on request from NEF.
Email project.assistant@nefic.org
Religion and Democracy in Contemporary Europe
Edited by Gabriel Motzkin and Yochi Fischer
Published by Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Network of European Foundations and APT
ISBN 978 0 9558804 1 4
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About the book
The resurgence of religion in contemporary European culture is challenging older notions of the ‘secular’ and ‘secular democratic’ state. This debate goes to the roots of European identities, calling into question conventionally accepted political ideas and raising many key issues. To what extent can or should states impose limits on religions? How can some measure of European collective identity be achieved? What is the function of education with respect to religion?
The frequency of tensions and conflicts associated with religion has increased sharply in Europe, yet many research projects and policy-oriented initiatives have failed to assess the place of religion in the wider context of other social, cultural and political processes. Religion and Democracy in Contemporary Europe fills this scholarly lacuna.
The papers in this volume were first presented at an international conference at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in September 2007. The conference, part of the Religion and Democracy Initiative of the Network of European Foundations, brought together leading experts on the study of religion, democracy and secularism. Their various contributions, collected here, offer innovative ideas and solutions to the dilemmas that will confront Europe over the coming decades.
About the editors
Gabriel Motzkin is director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Ahad Ha’am Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Yochi Fischer is research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
To order
Copies are available on request from NEF.
Email cristina.pineda@nefic.org
Philanthropy in Europe: A rich past, a promising future
Edited by Norine MacDonald and Luc Tayart de Borms
Published May 2008 by Mercator Fund, NEF and APT
ISBN 978 0 9558804 0 7
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About the book
While numerous books have been published on American philanthropy – its origins, its heroes, its achievements and its shortcomings – philanthropy in Europe has been almost neglected. This book will start to fill this gap.
The purpose of the book is to examine the tradition, history and diverse roles of philanthropy in Europe through portraits, stories and essays. The book contains 13 portraits and stories about philanthropic endeavours in Europe. Some will feature individuals, such as Calouste Gulbenkian, Bernard van Leer and Henry Wellcome. Others will portray living donors of today or describe foundations not established by individuals such as Compagnia di San Paolo and the Fondation de France. Each portrait will focus on the past as well as the future.
These portraits will be followed by six essays written by practitioners and experts focusing on the diverse roles foundations play in our societies and insights on the different origins of philanthropy in Europe.
Contributors
Filiz Bikmen Anna Cantaluppi Caroline Hartnell Diana Leat Wilhem Krull Maximilian Martin Dianna Rienstra Gerry Salole Hildy Simmons António José Teixeira Gottfried Wagner David Watkiss
To order
Copies are available on request from EFC.
Email efc@efc.be
See the September issue of Alliance for a review by Paavo Hohti
