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A front-page story in the New York Times on December 24, 2012, brought attention to an unusual occurrence: in France officials for famous museums and cultural institutions were seeking private donors. It was hard for curators and boards to engage in what they called “begging,” simply because the nation had a long, universally accepted tradition of government support for spending on cultural institutions.1
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Doreen Carvajal, “In Need, French Museums Turn to Masses, Chapeaux in Hand,” The New York Times (December 24, 2012) pp. A1, A3.
James Howell Smith, Honorable Beggars: The Middlemen of American Philanthropy (Madison: University of Wisconsin PhD Dissertation, 1968).
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Kirk Semple, “Affluent Asians in U.S. Turning to Philanthropy,” The New York Times (January 9, 2013) pp. A1, A20.
Tamar Lewin, “Maryland Renames Law School after Gift: $30 Million Grant and Big Ambitions,” The New York Times (April 25, 2011) p. A14.
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Thelin, J.R., Trollinger, R.W. (2014). Introduction. In: Philanthropy and American Higher Education. Philanthropy and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318589_1
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