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Wang, Xiaoyun.

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Building Civic Infrastructure Organizations: The Lilly Endowment's Experiment to Grow Community Foundations.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Building Civic Infrastructure Organizations: The Lilly Endowment's Experiment to Grow Community Foundations./
Author:	Wang, Xiaoyun.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	201 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-12A.
Subject:	Social research. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13883504
ISBN:	9781392194843

Building Civic Infrastructure Organizations: The Lilly Endowment's Experiment to Grow Community Foundations.
Wang, Xiaoyun.

Building Civic Infrastructure Organizations: The Lilly Endowment's Experiment to Grow Community Foundations. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 201 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, 2019.

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In the past 50 years, we have seen significant public and philanthropic investment in building civil society in countries around the globe. This includes initiating community foundations to support the development of vibrant communities and civic life. Yet we have little knowledge about why some initiatives bear fruit and others fail to do so. More specifically, why some community foundations initiated by institutional funders are able to garner local giving necessary to sustain themselves and others are not. This dissertation contributes to our knowledge about such initiatives by researching the Lilly Endowment's GIFT Initiative (Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow), a project providing incentives to start nearly 60 new community foundations and revive 17 existing community foundations in Indiana since 1990. I employed mixed methods and three sources of data: historical archives, statistics of community foundations' financial information and community demographics, and case studies of four community foundations. First, I found two existing explanations offered in the literature did not account for the lack of local support for the community foundations I studied. More specifically, I found that high level of income and wealth does not necessarily lead to high level of giving to community foundations and the lack of community identity is not the primary reason explaining community foundations' struggles in attracting local donations. Rather the study shows that social capital is crucial for garnering local giving through the mechanism of facilitating information sharing. Second, I examined the long-term effects of matching grants, a key strategy used by Lilly Endowment to leverage local giving. I found that long-term provision of matching grants might reduce organizations' incentives to seek funding sources on their own. My dissertation lends further insight into the sustainability of civic infrastructure organizations, a popular institutional model for building local civil society even today.

ISBN: 9781392194843Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122687
Social research.
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Civil society

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