The RELX SDG Inspiration Day 2025 is dedicated to exploring The Future of Philanthropy. It addresses the critical question: can philanthropy bridge the funding gap necessary to advance the Sustainable Development Goals? On June 3, join thought leaders—including actor, comedian, and philanthropist Sir Lenny Henry, and 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon—as they discuss the vital role of philanthropy in achieving the UN SDGs. To mark this occasion, Elsevier has curated a free-to-access Special Collection featuring the latest research articles and book chapters on this important topic.
Evaluation and Program Planning, Volume 111, August 2025
Given the climate crisis, all sectors must make choices that serve people and planet well into the future. The establishment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 shifted the global debates on these issues particularly recognizing that sustainability as a critical lens must be applied not only by public and not-for-profit sectors, but also by philanthropy and private sector.
Encyclopedia of Libraries, Librarianship, and Information Science, Volume 3, 2025, Pages 128-132
Philanthropic giving has a long history in libraries and remains a source of critical funding. Cultivating giving from individuals through fundraising expands the reputation of libraries and can relieve some of the strain from the decline in funding from traditional funding sources such as from government and, in the case of academic libraries, higher education institutions.
The Covid-19 Response in New York City: Crisis Management in the Epicenter of the Epicenter, 2024, Pages 235-245
When news of the unprecedented surge at NYC Health+Hospitals hit the media, donations from all over the world poured into the facilities and health system. It was a heartwarming and heartbreaking response, and overwhelming all at the same time. How the system was able to handle the massive influx of well-intended goods from around the globe that were suddenly on the hospital's doorstep.
Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond, 2024, Pages 429-455
This chapter aims to provide a thoughtful and balanced scientific review and analysis of financial philanthropy gaps and impediments to global public health security, provide a vision of an improved approach, and suggest actions to mitigate infectious disease pandemics. Despite improvements, significant gaps and difficulties exist in global pandemic preparedness measures; only about one-fourth of countries in the world could sufficiently prevent, detect, and respond to public health emergencies.
International Encyclopedia of Education (Fourth Edition), 2023, Pages 423-428
This article provides a discussion of the history and the contemporary issues pertaining to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the United States. It draws upon relevant literature and provides an in depth understanding of HBCUs. In particular, the article focuses on the impact of industrial philanthropy on the leadership and curriculum of HBCUs; the intersection of the law with HBCUs, especially as it pertains to desegregation; the role of HBCUs in the civil rights movement; and the impact of Federal recognition of these institutions.
International Encyclopedia of Education (Fourth Edition), 2023, Pages 586-590
This chapter details how global educational philanthropy contributes to worsening rather than ameliorating dire public problems. It suggests that the tendency toward supporting market based educational reform concentrators private governance over education and undermines public and democratic purposes of public education.
International Encyclopedia of Education (Fourth Edition), 2023, Pages 565-573
The essay reviews important trends and issues in the scholarship on NGOs and discusses transformations in the NGO sector that need further research and analysis. The focus of the essay is on critical scholarship in NGO Studies that theorizes the impact of neoliberalism on the NGO sector, the NGOization of development and the neoliberal strategy of public-private partnerships in education and development. We analyze the growth of philanthrocapitalism, particularly in education and its implications for NGOs.
Elsevier Reference Module in Social Sciences, 2025
Engaging in philanthropic activities is being pursued by many well-established supply chains. Donations are a form of charitable activities that not only promote the social responsibility of a corporation but also enhance its public image, which in turn creates more benefits for the supply chain. Prosocial preferences of customers are considered the primary drivers that persuade supply chains to donate. In this chapter, various donation programs within supply chains are introduced, and the challenges associated with them are briefly discussed.
Elsevier Reference Module in Social Sciences, 2024
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is perceived as a valuable practice by business organizations to demonstrate their commitment towards social, economic, and environmental causes, and it actively contributes towards the well-being of the community at large. CSR as an ethical practice has gained considerable attention in the last decades as it contributes to sustainable development and maximizing organizations business performance. It reflects the top management’s vision and values and thereby also allows the firm to differentiate itself from its competitors.
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Intellectually Impaired People: The Ongoing Battle, 2023, Pages 231-237
Parents’ associations try to improve the fate of their children. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) was established by parents of children with cystic fibrosis when their children’s life expectancy was only a few years. They invested money they had collected in for-profit pharmaceutical companies that they assumed had good chances to develop effective therapies. They had breakthrough success with it, were able to sell the shares of these companies at a great profit, and have now more resources to further promote cystic fibrosis research and care.
