Giving: Celebrated, Scrutinized, and Studied

Summary

Giving, especially big giving, is being celebrated, scrutinized, dis­cussed, and increasingly studied as never before. The emergence of enormous new fortunes, the proliferation of foundations, and philanthropy’s ever-increasing scale and ambition, have provoked a series of books recently ranging from broad critiques of the implications of large-scale private wealth applied to fundamentally public processes to how-to manuals for grantmakers.