Table of Contents

Contents.- 1. Focus on Foundtions.- 2. Definitions and Distinctions.- 3. How Foundations Work: An Overview.- 4. From Charity to Change, Brussels to Beijing.- 5. Public Benefit or Playthings of the Rich?.- 6. Sources of Wealth and Income.- 7. Warehouses of Wealth: Payout and Perpetuity.- 8. Cash Machines or More?.- 9. Missing Measurement, Misunderstanding Measurement?.- 10. Foundations and Democracy: Threat or Promise?.- 11. Dark Corridors or Glass Pockets?.- 12. The Future is Monstrous?.- 

About the Author

Diana Leat is Visiting Professor at Cass Business School, London, UK, and at the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, QUT Brisbane, Australia.  She is author of over 120 articles and books on the non-profit sector and social policy, and has held research posts in universities and think tanks in the UK, the US and Australia. Diana spent a year with the Carnegie Trust developing the first research centre for philanthropy in the UK, and until its closure in 2013 was a trustee of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.