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Bagcioglu, C. "Shared governance practices in Turkish private (foundation) universities." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2017. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3007612/.
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As Turkish Higher Education has been facing rapid and significant growth in recent decades, the creation of Foundation Universities (private but not-for-profit) has both supported this growth and presented new challenges. One of these challenges has been the visible absence of effective governance models and practices, specifically the involvement of internal and external stakeholders in decision-making processes. The aim of this research is to identify the factors affecting the emergence of established shared governance practices in Turkish private (Foundation) universities, in order to contribute to effective policy making and application by administrators and managers in higher education. Primarily based on qualitative data gathering methods through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with leading educators in Turkey, the thesis also utilizes publicly available data from official reports. The thesis identified several factors, such as Turkish Higher Education Culture, Politics, Regulations and Higher Education Law, Founding Principles and Trust, Loyalty and Ownership as being significantly influential in shaping an institution’s participatory governance practices; the level of institutionalization, or kurumsallaşma, however, has been found to be a mediating filter that determines the impact of these factors on the school. Claiming that Culture remains the dominating factor in preventing the establishment of shared governance mechanisms, this thesis concludes by making a variety of policy and practice recommendations ranging from regulatory changes to the entire system, to obtaining specific external audits and to establishing certain committee structures to increase internal stakeholder participation, as well as creating a culture that balances collegiality and corporate practices by placing individuals with skills in both modes of thinking to key nodes of governance.
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Kienker, James R. "Rational generosity the Indianapolis Foundation and the community foundation response to the Great Depression /." Connect to resource online, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2190.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2010.<br>Title from screen (viewed on July 19, 2010). Department of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Dwight F. Burlingame, Philip V. Scarpino, Frances A. Huehls. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-154).
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Baur, Lianna. "A Philanthropic Fix to Education? A Case Study of a Corporate Foundation in India." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34453.
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The involvement of private philanthropic actors in education in developing countries has grown significantly in recent years. While it is the subject of much conceptual discussion, there are few in-depth studies examining the actions and influence of these actors. This MA thesis responds to that gap by conducting a case study of one elementary education program (the Satya Bharti School (SBS) program) in Rajasthan, India run by the Bharti Foundation, a major Indian corporate foundation and philanthropic arm of Indian telecommunications conglomerate, Bharti Group. The study draws on new institutional theory, specifically the literature on embedded agency and institutional change (DiMaggio, 1988), to examine the Foundation’s objectives, and how it mediated and influenced regulatory frameworks for education to achieve these objectives. Primary data were collected in 2012 through semi-structured interviews, field observations, and documentary analysis at different sites, including the Bharti Foundation’s headquarters, field offices, and SBS schools in rural Rajasthan.
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Ahlenius, Erik. "Finansiering av medicinsk forskning genom stiftelsen Therese och Johan Anderssons minne, 1931-1964." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-314013.
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In the first half of the 20th century, the researchers in the medical sciences in Sweden were dependent on funding from private foundations. Earlier research has shown that the foundation Stiftelsen Therese och Johan Anderssons Minne was a financier of great importance especially for the 1920s until the 1950s. This paper is written with the purpose of examining how the financing has changed over time, by analyzing the foundations yearly accounts from 1931 until 1963. I will show that physiologists and chemists took a dominant position in the fight for funds. In conclusion, it seems that the fact that the colleague of teachers at Karolinska had the power to decide who to fund were an important factor for the foundations activity. The characteristics of the medical research exercised by the researchers applying for funds were not the sole factor which affected the outcome.
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Fini, Riccardo <1978>. "Do Academic and Private Entrepreneurs differ? An empirical analysis of the Micro-Foundation of Entrepreneurial Orientation." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2008. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/1158/.
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This Doctoral Thesis focuses on the study of individual behaviours as a result of
organizational affiliation. The objective is to assess the Entrepreneurial Orientation of individuals
proving the existence of a set of antecedents to that measure returning a structural model of its
micro-foundation. Relying on the developed measurement model, I address the issue whether some
Entrepreneurs experience different behaviours as a result of their academic affiliation, comparing a
sample of ‘Academic Entrepreneurs’ to a control sample of ‘Private Entrepreneurs’ affiliated to a
matched sample of Academic Spin-offs and Private Start-ups.
Building on the Theory of the Planned Behaviour, proposed by Ajzen (1991), I present a
model of causal antecedents of Entrepreneurial Orientation on constructs extensively used and
validated, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective, in sociological and psychological
studies. I focus my investigation on five major domains: (a) Situationally Specific Motivation, (b)
Personal Traits and Characteristics, (c) Individual Skills, (d) Perception of the Business
Environment and (e) Entrepreneurial Orientation Related Dimensions.
I rely on a sample of 200 Entrepreneurs, affiliated to a matched sample of 72 Academic
Spin-offs and Private Start-ups. Firms are matched by Industry, Year of Establishment and
Localization and they are all located in the Emilia Romagna region, in northern Italy. I’ve gathered
data by face to face interviews and used a Structural Equation Modeling technique (Lisrel 8.80,
Joreskog, K., & Sorbom, D. 2006) to perform the empirical analysis.
The results show that Entrepreneurial Orientation is a multi-dimensional micro-founded
construct which can be better represented by a Second-Order Model. The t-tests on the latent means
reveal that the Academic Entrepreneurs differ in terms of: Risk taking, Passion, Procedural and
Organizational Skills, Perception of the Government, Context and University Supports. The
Structural models also reveal that the main differences between the two groups lay in the predicting
power of Technical Skills, Perceived Context Support and Perceived University Support in
explaining the Entrepreneurial Orientation Related Dimensions.
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Kim, Angie. "The Mediating Role of Payout in the Relationship Between Private Foundations and Grantee Organizations' Financial Health." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1267.
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Although private foundations are assumed to be beneficial, their impact on grantee organizations is not well understood. This quantitative research explored how private, nonoperating foundations influence grantees' financial capacity to pursue their missions. Principal-agent theory was applied to rationalize foundations' social good purpose, along with subsidy theory of public charities' need for capital accumulation, thus comprising a unique framework for identifying pathways of relationships amongst influencer variables of foundations' operating characteristics; the outcome of grantees' months of unrestricted, liquid net assets (MULNA); and the mediator of foundations' payout rate. Multiple regression and indirect effects analyses of data on 612 cases from NCCS and tax returns revealed that the sector focus and characteristics of certain types of funders (i.e., oldest, largest, smallest, volunteer and professionally staffed, aggressive and average charitable spenders, and arts-focused foundations) affected payout behavior. In addition, large foundations' payout rate influenced MULNA, especially among financially strong grantees. Finally, payout mediated the association between age and MULNA among the largest foundations, and between sector focus and MULNA among the oldest foundations. This research contributes to the discourse on foundations' effectiveness in three ways: (a) associations were significant among segmented data, thus affirming the usefulness of examining specific types of foundations; (b) wealth distribution by the largest and oldest foundations was of tangible importance to their grantees, knowledge of which can be used in grant decision making and in informing policies on payout; and (c) principal-agent theory can be applied to hold foundations accountable to public interests.
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Dias, Daniel Pires Novais. "Negócio jurídico fundacional." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/6055.
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Previous issue date: 2012-12-04<br>This dissertation aims to examine closely the business foundation, which is the legal
business through which the process of creating a private foundation in Brazilian law
begins. It is a insufficiently addressed subject by the Brazilian doctrine: specialized
works on Private Foundations approach the subject only indirectly and in a superficial
vision, which is, from a perspective centered on the artificial foundational person,
which implies a vision without pretensions of unity and coherence over the
foundational business. This fragmentation has as negative consequence, a partial view
on the foundational phenomenon, with special reflections on the process of creating
the foundation and that, in practice, has corresponded to a disregard of the value of
the negotiating freedom of the settlor. In the analysis of the foundational business we
start from its formation, nearing the end of its extinction and juristic nature. The
methodology used was the literature research of national and international authors and
judicial decisions. Among the foreign authors, emphasis was placed on the German,
Italian and Portuguese doctrines, because of the similarity of the theoretical bases and
greater depth in which the subject is approached in these countries compared to the
Brazilian law. The main problems faced are the interpretations of the requirement
"free goods", contained in art. 62 of the Civil Code and also about the limit of the
stipulation of the foundational purposes, predicted in the single paragraph of that
article and, finally, the lawfulness of the reversal of the foundational residual
patrimony in the event of termination of the foundation. The conclusions reached in
each of these problems respectively were: the requirement free goods imposes that
endowed goods to the foundation are not subject to the real rights of guaranty or
under lien and its transmission is valid, the settlor can only create foundations for
purposes of pursuing the collective interest, and, finally, the settlor may provide a
reversal of patrimony that he himself transferred the property<br>A presente dissertação de mestrado tem por objetivo analisar detidamente o negócio
fundacional, que é o negócio jurídico por meio do qual se dá início ao processo de
criação de uma fundação privada no Direito brasileiro. Trata-se de tema
insuficientemente abordado pela doutrina brasileira: as obras especializadas sobre
Fundações Privadas abordam o assunto apenas de maneira pontual e indireta, isto é,
partindo de uma perspectiva centrada na pessoa jurídica da fundação, o que implica
em uma visão sem pretensões de unidade e coerência sobre o negócio fundacional.
Esta fragmentação tem como consequência negativa uma visão parcial do fenômeno
fundacional, com especiais reflexos sobre o processo de criação da fundação e que, na
prática, tem correspondido a uma desconsideração do valor da liberdade negocial do
instituidor. Na análise do negócio fundacional parte-se da sua formação, chegando ao
final à sua extinção e natureza jurídica. A metodologia utilizada foi de pesquisa
bibliográfica de autores nacionais e estrangeiros e consulta a decisões judiciais. Entre
os autores estrangeiros, deu-se ênfase às doutrinas alemã, italiana e portuguesa, pela
semelhança das bases teóricas e maior profundidade com que o tema é abordado
nestes países em comparação ao Direito brasileiro. Os principais problemas
enfrentados são as interpretações do requisito bens livres , contido no art. 62 do
Código Civil e também do limite para estipulação dos fins fundacionais, previsto no
parágrafo único do referido artigo e, por fim, a licitude da reversão dos bens
fundacionais residuais em caso de extinção da fundação. Os resultados a que se
chegou em cada um destes problemas respectivamente foram: que o requisito bens
livres impõe que os bens dotados à fundação não estejam sujeitos a direitos reais de
garantia ou sob penhora e sua transmissão seja válida; o instituidor só poderá criar
fundações para perseguir fins de interesse coletivo; e, por fim, o instituidor poderá
estipular a reversão dos bens que ele mesmo transferiu à propriedade
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Peirson, Stacey Jean. "Private collecting, teaching and institutionalisation : the percival david foundation and the field of chinese art in Britain, 1920 -1960." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496597.
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Lee, Keith D. "Supporting the need a comparative investigation of public and private arts endowments supporting state arts agencies /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1195162789.
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Carvalho, Medianeira da Silva [UNIFESP]. "A produção discursiva da Revista Gestão Escolar sobre a gestão da escola: um “manual” para a equipe de gestão e o alinhamento às orientações de agências internacionais." Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2018. http://repositorio.unifesp.br/11600/41743.
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Previous issue date: 2018-02-27<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>O OBJETIVO desta pesquisa é analisar a produção discursiva da Revista Gestão Escolar (RGE) sobre a gestão da escola. A questão que instiga o trabalho é identificar qual modelo de gestão é valorizado pela RGE e, para tanto, trabalhamos com a HIPÓTESE de que o periódico orienta a escola a adotar uma gestão escolar gerencialista com o slogan “gestão democrática e compartilhada” e, ao mesmo tempo, se aproxima das orientações preconizadas por organismos internacionais, entre eles o BM a UNESCO e a OCDE, com vistas ao aumento da produtividade e eficiência, mensurados por meio de avaliações em larga escala, e ao maior alinhamento da escola às necessidades do mercado. O PROBLEMA que estimulou esta investigação é a assunção de que a boa qualidade da educação (seja na condução da educação nacional, seja na condução do que ocorre dentro da escola) decorre, fundamentalmente, apenas do modelo de gestão adotado; nesse sentido, parece que a eficiência das unidades escolares – geralmente determinada por índices de desempenho – passa a ser um problema tipicamente de gestão, ignorando-se os diferentes matizes que marcam discursos multifacetados sobre gestão escolar, bem como a existência de outros fatores intervenientes para a almejada boa qualidade da educação. Para compreender o discurso da revista tratamos, também, de questões que sustentam a argumentação do periódico como as proposições dos Organismos Internacionais sobre gestão escolar e as concepções acerca das parcerias público-privadas (PPP) na educação brasileira. As trajetórias das Fundações Victor Civita (FVC) e Lemann (FL) são abordadas no intuito de melhor conhecer a organização, estrutura e circulação do periódico em análise, identificando as estratégias discursivas que buscam legitimar um discurso sobre a gestão da escola. Para a realização da investigação, foram analisadas 53 (cinquenta e três) edições do periódico, sendo 29 edições impressas e 24 on-line, no período de agosto/2009 a dezembro/2016, além de entrevista com a direção de edição e produtos da Associação Nova Escola (ANE). Para fundamentar as análises trabalhamos com os conceitos de “linguagem autorizada” e “descrever e prescrever” em Bourdieu (2008); de slogan e metáfora, em Scheffler (1974); de ciclo de políticas, gerencialismo e performatividade em Ball (1989, 2001); de “rede de legitimidade” em Ricardo Filho (2005); além das contribuições de Shiroma et al (2005); Victo Paro (1988); Felix (1984) e Ravitch (2011).<br>The OBJECTIVE of this research is to analyze the discursive production of the School Management Magazine (RGE) on school management. The question that instigates the work is to identify which management model is valued by RGE. We work with the HYPOTHESIS that the periodical guides the school to adopt a managerial school model management with the slogan "democratic and shared management" and, at the same time, utilizes the guidelines recommended by international organizations, among which, the World Bank, UNESCO and OECD, with the purpose of increasing productivity and efficiency, measured through large-scale assessments, and of attaining better aligning between the schools and the needs of the market economy. The ISSUE that stimulated this research is the assumption that the good quality of education (whether in the conduct of the national education or in the conduct of what happens inside the school) is fundamentally based only on the management model adopted. In this sense, it seems that the efficiency of the school units - usually determined by performance indexes - becomes a typical management problem, ignoring the different tints that mark the multifaceted discourses about school management, as well as the existence of other intervening factors for the desired good quality of education. In order to understand the discourse of the journal, we also address issues that support the journal's arguments, such as the proposals of the International Organizations on school management and the conceptions about public-private partnerships (PPP) in Brazilian education. The trajectories of the Victor Civita (FVC) and Lemann (FL) Foundations are approached in order to understand better the organization, structure and circulation of the periodical under analysis, identifying the discursive strategies that seek to legitimize a discourse about school management. In order to carry out the research, 53 (fifty-three) editions of the journal were analyzed, being 29 printed editions and 24 online editions, from August/2009 to December/2016. We have also interviewed the directors of editing and of products of the New School Association (ANE). To substantiate our reviews, we use the following theories: the concepts of "authorized language" and "describe and prescribe" in Bourdieu (2008); the concept of slogan and metaphor in Scheffler (1974); the notions of policy cycle, managerialism and performativity in Ball (1989, 2001) and the idea of "legitimacy network" in Ricardo Filho (2005). In addition to those, we have also utilized contributions from Shiroma et al (2005); Victo Paro (1988); Felix (1984) and Ravitch (2011).
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Santos, Tamira Naia dos. "Fundação Crespi-Prado: trajetória de uma coleção museológica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/103/103131/tde-27092016-143828/.
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A presente pesquisa tem por tema o estudo da trajetória de uma coleção privada, desde sua formação, por um casal da elite paulistana, até sua publicização, por meio da constituição de uma fundação e de exposições realizadas em instituições afins da cidade de São Paulo. Trata-se da coleção hoje pertencente à Fundação Crespi-Prado, instituição criada, em 1975, por iniciativa de Renata Crespi, viúva de Fábio da Silva Prado (Prefeito de São Paulo entre 1934 e 1938), para incentivar as artes e a cultura e salvaguardar a coleção constituída pelo casal. Ela, filha de um importante industrial italiano imigrado para o Brasil, e ele, membro de uma das mais tradicionais e ricas famílias do Estado de São Paulo, materializaram a união entre novas e velhas elites, dimensão perceptível também em sua coleção. Reunida ao longo da primeira metade do século XX, tal coleção é representativa de uma prática social de colecionismo que se difundia entre os membros da elite da cidade de São Paulo, podendo ser considerada um de seus exemplos mais extensos. Percorrer a formação desta coleção, sua institucionalização e sua posterior musealização é o objetivo principal desta pesquisa, tendo em vista o relevo do casal de colecionadores para a elite paulistana da época e de sua iniciativa de criar uma das poucas fundações da cidade a proteger um legado artístico privado em uma instituição de caráter museológico.<br>This research studies a private collection, from its gathering, by a couple of the elite of the city of São Paulo, to its publicization, by the constitution of a foundation and the development of exhibitions in similar institutions in the city. The collection in question belongs to the Crespi-Prado Foundation, an institution created in 1975, by the initiative of Renata Crespi, widow of Fábio da Silva Prado (mayor of São Paulo between 1934 and 1938), to promote the Arts and Culture and to safeguard the collection built by the couple. Renata Crespi, daughter of an important Italian industrialist immigrated to Brazil, and her husband, member of one of the oldest and wealthiest families of the State of São Paulo, materialized the union of the new and old elites, a dimension that is perceived in their collection. Assembled during the first half of the 20th century, such collection is representative of a social practice of collecting that was spreading amongst the elite of the city, and can be considered one of its most extensive examples. To study the gathering of this collection, its institutionalization and its further musealization is the main object of this research, considering the role of the collecting couple to the city elite of their time and the importance of their initiative of creating one of the few foundations of the city to preserve a private artistic legacy through an institution of museological character.
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Carr, Kerstin. "American commute travel behavior and the possibility of modal split management by private enterprises : Theoretical foundation, methodological approaches, empirical research, and transportation demand management development in Columbus, Ohio." kostenfrei, 2008. http://www.opus-bayern.de/uni-regensburg/volltexte/2009/1354/.
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Silva, Inajara Iana da 1986. "A atuação da Fundação Pitágoras na educação pública de Alecrim/SP : análise sobre as implicações para gestão escolar." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/251253.
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Previous issue date: 2012<br>Resumo: Esta dissertação teve como objetivo central analisar as consequências para a gestão escolar da utilização do Sistema de Gestão Integrado (SGI) na rede municipal de ensino fundamental de Alecrim/SP. O SGI é uma tecnologia de gestão idealizada pela Fundação Pitágoras que foi implantada no município por meio de uma parceria entre esta fundação e a prefeitura municipal em 2006. Este estudo de caso investigou as esferas envolvidas na parceria utilizando-se de entrevistas semiestruturadas com representantes de equipes gestoras das unidades escolares municipais de ensino fundamental e da instituição privada em questão. Foi possível observar que os dirigentes escolares utilizaram-se das técnicas do SGI, entretanto, a frequência e as formas de utilização foram diferentes em cada unidade escolar. Neste trabalho, teve importância singular, a descrição detalhada do SGI adotado pela Fundação Pitágoras que encontra suas raízes na Gestão de Qualidade Total, modelo de gestão que teve seu auge na educação brasileira na década de 1990.<br>Abstract: This thesis aimed to examine the consequences to the school management of the use of the Integrated Management System (IMS) in the municipal primary school of Alecrim / SP. The SGI is a management technology designed by Pitágoras Foundation which was established in the city through a partnership between this foundation and the municipal government in 2006. This case study aims to investigate the spheres involved in the partnership using semi-structured interviews with school management representatives of the municipal school units and private institution in question. This case study. It was observed that the school leaders have used the techniques of SGI, however, the frequency and the shapes of this uses were different at each school. It is also of singular importance to this work a detailed description of the SGI adopted by Pitágoras Foundation that finds its roots in Total Quality Management, a management model that had its heyday in Brazilian education in the 1990s.<br>Mestrado<br>Politicas, Administração e Sistemas Educacionais<br>Mestra em Educação
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Frank, Horst. "Les fondations en Allemagne. Comparaisons avec la France." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030103.
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Le système des fondations en Allemagne et en France présente des différences. En France, la fondation se limite à la poursuite des fins d’utilité publique. En Allemagne, le droit de fondation requiert la création d’une organe indépendant de l’État. La France compte en 2010 un total de Fondations et Fonds de dotation de 2 264 unités, en Allemagne 18 162 fondations de droit privé étaient enregistrées. Favorisé par des privilèges fiscaux, l’Allemagne a connu dans la dernière décade de nombreuses créations de fondations privées. Il en résulte une multiplication des types de fondations qui entraîne une hétérogénéité du secteur. La question de la légitimité des fondations se pose. Les fondations doivent se considérer comme faisant partie de la société civile. En France, c’est l’État qui répond à la question de la légitimité des fondations. Les fonds de dotation apportent-ils une solution?<br>The system of foundations in Germany and France manifests obvious differences. In France a foundation is limited by definition to public charity, in Germany the legal status of a foundation is an independent body. In 2010 there are 2 264 foundations and fonds de dotation in France, while 18 162 foundations of private law were registered in Germany. Receiving a range of fiscal benefits, the creation of foundations of private law has boomed in Germany in the past decade, thus leading to a multiformity of the sector. The question of legitimacy of foundations will arise. Foundations should see themselves as part of the civil society. In France, the state will have to solve the question of trust of foundations. Will the institut of the fonds de dotation bring a solution?
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Vidler, Sacha. "Pension reform an analysis of the economic foundations of private pensions /." University of Sydney. Political Economy, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/577.
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The dissertation investigates support by economists for the global policy shift away from unfunded public pension schemes towards funded private pension schemes. Influential economists and institutions, including the World Bank, present a suite of economic arguments that suggest that this shift will have positive effects on national economies, particularly in the context of aging. The arguments may be categorised according to their relation to the operation of three sets of institutions: capital markets, labour markets and political systems. In capital markets, the transition is purported to increase private and national saving, increase the quantity and quality of investment, and provide more efficient private administration. In labour markets, it is claimed that the shift will reduce labour market distortions associated with public pensions, which inhibit competitiveness, produce unemployment and encourage early retirement. According to the World Bank, public pensions systems cause these distortions without achieving their stated objective of reducing inequality. In the political sphere, the shift is purported to insulate the pension system from political pressures, which otherwise inevitably lead to crisis. The thesis provides evidence which refutes these claims. The best research, including studies by orthodox economists, indicate that the shift does not increase savings or investment, or improve the quality of financial investment. The main effect of tax concessions associated with private pension systems is to divert to private pension funds savings that would occur in any case via other mechanisms. The tax concessions are also regressive, even in systems with compulsory elements. Private administration of pensions, particularly in a plural consumer market setting, is highly inefficient, with customers at a disadvantage in dealing with providers due to the complexity and opacity of products and pricing. A negative relationship is found between public pension spending and levels of elderly poverty, suggesting that reducing public pension spending increases levels of elderly inequality. Public pensions are found not to explain differences in economic growth between regions. Elements of system design which distort labour markets, such as by encouraging early retirement, can easily be adjusted. However, such elements are explicit government policy in several countries. A review of public and private pensions finds that examples of public system crisis are associated with instances of economic and political collapse, rather than system design. Private funded systems are found to be more vulnerable, not less, to the same external influences. Relatively generous universal public pension systems are found to be financially sustainable despite demographic change, assuming modest levels of economic growth.
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Morehouse, Albert E. "Proposal writing for private foundations an alternate source of church income /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.
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Weis, Stephen August 1978. "New foundations for efficient authentication, commutative cryptography, and private disjointness testing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37842.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2006.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-115).<br>This dissertation presents new constructions and security definitions related to three areas: authentication, cascadable and commutative crytpography, and private set operations. Existing works relevant to each of these areas fall into one of two categories: efficient solutions lacking formal proofs of security or provably-secure, but highly inefficient solutions. This work will bridge this gap by presenting new constructions and definitions that are both practical and provably-secure. The first contribution in the area of efficient authentication is a provably-secure authentication protocol named HB+. The HB+ protocol is efficient enough to be implemented on extremely low-cost devices, or even by a patient human with a coin to flip. The security of HB+ is based on the hardness of a long-standing learning problem that is closely related to coding theory. HB+ is the first authentication protocol that is both practical for low-cost devices, like radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, and provably secure against active adversaries. The second contribution of this work is a new framework for defining and proving the security of cascadable cryptosystems, specifically commutative cryptosystems.<br>(cont.) This new framework addresses a gap in existing security definitions that fail to handle cryptosystems where ciphertexts produced by cascadable encryption and decryption perations may contain some message-independent history. Several cryptosystems, including a new, practical commutative cryptosystem, are proven secure under this new framework. Finally, a new and efficient private disjointness testing construction named HW is offered. Unlike previous constructions, HW is secure in the face of malicious parties, but without the need for random oracles or expensive zero-knowledge protocols. HW is as efficient as previous constructions and may be implemented using standard software libraries. The security of HW is based on a novel use of subgroup assumptions. These assumptions may prove useful in solving many other private set operation problems.<br>by Stephen A. Weis.<br>Ph.D.
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McElroy, Caitlin. "Corporate foundations in the mining industry : institutional challenges to private sector involvement in development." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.606396.
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This thesis investigates the rise and performance of corporate foundations in the mining industry. Corporate foundations work to distribute the benefits of mining activities in developing countries. They are a hybrid organizational form that is connected to the funding and founding corporation, and yet to different degrees they independently govern their resources and activities. In addressing the problem of uneven benefit distribution, they are related to a growing interest in improved corporate social responsibility. This thesis examines corporate foundations' forms and functions from an economic geography perspective that situates their rise and performance within the diversity and heterogeneity of economic activities that formulate the current context of the political economy of the mining industry. Through an overarching framework of organization and institutional theory the thesis investigates if: J) corporate foundations in the mining industry are fit for purpose; 2) how the form of corporate foundations influences function, and vice-versa; and 3) how are these foundations shaped by, and in turn shaping, their (corporate/local/regional/national economic/regulatory/political/social) environments? It finds that corporate foundations in the mining industry currently lack a larger strategy to articulate the goal of their long-term performance. This is based on the findings of the empirical chapters that: I) the organizational legitimacy of corporate foundations is particularly related to their form; 2) that problems of local failure to distribute benefit are an underdeveloped aspect of the resource curse, and requires close coordination with the technical changes of the mining industry and their effects on the regional population to manage; 3) that corporate foundations represent the path dependency of the mining industry. but when operated with a specific strategy for change are able to affect evolutionary institution al change in corporations; and 4) that the hybrid form of corporate foundations is best suited to build capacity and foster partnerships that facilitate processes of regional economic development through improved economic linkages with the mining industry. From these findings, the conclusion proposes that corporate foundations should adopt a strategy to serve as a mediator between mining corporations and the region to build institutional capacities and partnerships to facilitate the distribution of benefits from mining.
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Garrett, Declan. "Private security career paths : establishing the foundations of a structured progression model for the manned guarding sector." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2016. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/private-security-career-paths(956baace-2d08-43ef-8ccb-eebe6cdbae2b).html.
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The commercial manned guarding sector of private security continues to grow, outnumbering public policing. Underlying drivers include government austerity measures leading to more reliance on the private sector, outsourcing, crime and the fear of crime. Unfortunately, the sector is often unable to attract the best candidates since it is rarely viewed as a viable career option. Internationally, private security has been subject to increasing regulation for the purpose of raising standards and, in turn, public confidence. However, the sector lacks the key elements of a structured career path, and there have been few endeavors to establish the foundations of one to support the professionalism of private security. This study assesses the current picture within the sector and seeks to identify the elements required to develop the foundations of a structured career path. The research involved a qualitative method, adopting a grounded theory approach. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with private security sector representatives internationally. The study established that structured career paths do not currently exist, with a number of barriers inhibiting progression. The research identified the need both for progression based on training and education, and the sector to strive to be a profession of its own representing the key element required as the foundation to devising career pathways.
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Kuhnert, Kira-Leigh. "The impact of private international donor foundations on sexual and reproductive health organisations in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6813.
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Foundations can subtly redefine or steer organisations in a desired direction, through either bureaucratic 'cherry-picking' the organisations that they want to work with - which could be solicited to submit funding proposals;; or over-time professionalising the organisation and providing capacity-building and skills development, placing the organisation in a new context (Bartley;; 2007: 229). Recent actions by bilateral and independent donors to downsize or withdraw funding from South African civil society, has resulted in the closure of some non-governmental organisations, and placed financial pressure on whole sectors in civil society. These developments have created a renewed interest into the funding relationships and impact of donors on non-governmental organisations, and the issues that they represent. This thesis focuses on philanthropic foundations and how, through their operating procedures, they impact grantee organisations and more broadly non-governmental organisations within a specific sector. By understanding the way independent donors, through their foundations, operate and disburse funding, one can gain insight into how relationships with grantees develop and donors are able to influence the agenda-setting. This thesis provides an overview of philanthropy and the impact it has had on the sexual and reproductive health sector in South Africa, in particular. In so doing, a brief background on the funding history by independent and bilateral donors to South Africa is given. This highlights a close relationship between civil society and foreign based funders. The historical reliance by civil society on independent donors, and the small pool of donors active in funding to sexual and reproductive health rights creates an environment in which organisations that are operating in the sector are influenced by the direction and mission of the donor foundations.
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Marks, Lori J. "There is No “Y” in Ecuador: Challenges in Private and Public Schools." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3681.
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Prentice, Tina Forward. "Case study research : public health grants : exploring grant criteria within public and private foundations in Austin, Texas /." View online, 2006. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/184/.
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Hunter, Dwight. "Re-Thinking Privacy for the Physical and Digital World : Reformulating Our Theoretical Foundations." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-242824.
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When scholars address privacy as a condition in contemporary society it can become a very difficult subject to approach on a general level. With public concerns rising surrounding matters of digital tracking and surveillance, discussions of privacy have found a new dimension in digital information. Yet defining how digital privacy should be approached, in particular regard to a general conception of privacy, remains unclear. Research spanning across the social sciences, law, economics and technical fields have all taken their own perspectives towards studying various forms of privacy. This study seeks to unify privacy- related discourses by evaluating the conceptualization of privacy throughout existing literature in order to determine what fundamentally distinguishes digital privacy from general privacy while remaining intrinsically related. To do this, I employ Michael E. Brown's 'sub- theoretical notion' (2014) to turn privacy discourses inwards, seeking the underlying logic contained within its seemingly disparate dimensions. Using a sample of 28 purposively selected texts analyzed through a structural content analysis, resulting in a refined sample of n=4,486 structural elements contained within the texts, the various relational dynamics of privacy discussions are evaluated, noting their interrelations. I arrive at information tangibility and loci of control as the two most intrinsic elements of privacy, dramatized by developments in technological mediation, which can thus both unify and distinguish the various forms of privacy research. In a discussion of implications of this exploratory study, I conclude with how the integration of privacy's sub-theoretical notion (information tangibility and loci of control) allows for current privacy-related discourses to acknowledge not only their own limitations to social life, but to move beyond the singular notion of a correct conception of privacy to see instead how each conception is interrelated via the unifying logic of the sub- theoretical.
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Hagerty, Ronnie. "Role of Foundations in the Changing World of Philanthropy: A Houston Perspective." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1330712094.
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Whittier, Carolyn Elizabeth. "Career Path Influences and Identification of College and University Presidents: A Study of the Presidents of the Member Institutions of the Virginia Foundations for Independent Colleges." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/882.
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The purpose of this study was to learn how men and women who do not have an initial career goal of becoming a college or university president end up in such a position.The study was to gather information on the internal and external influences on that career path, and how each participant fits within presidential career patterns presented by Wessel (1991).A qualitative case study method was used for this study. The participants were chosen based on their institutions' membership in the Virginia Foundation forIndependent Colleges (VFIC), thus all participants were from private institutions in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Twelve of the 15 VFIC presidents were interviewed; two declined participation; and one institution had an interim president at the time of the study.Each president submitted a copy of his/her curriculum vitae for review and analysis, and each president was then placed into one of the variations of the Academic or the Administrative Career Patterns presented by Wessel (1991). Additional data was collected through personal in-depth interviews with each participant, and an interview guide approach was used in each of the interviews.The results indicate that there is no single career path that leads to a presidency.Presidents experienced both external and internal influences on their career paths and these varied in strength of influence based on the individual. Several other factors were also explored including: role of the family, preparations for a presidency and institutional search process.There are several implications for future research based on the findings of this study. The first of these is continued research into the debate of preparation either through the academic model or the administrative model. The second need for expanded research is the role of the family in the career path of college and university presidents. Finally the issue of the need for a Ph.D. is a point for further investigation.
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Motto, Justin Stewart. "Leaving a Lasting Impression: The Role of Foundational Family, Privacy, and Gender Messages on Coming Out Disclosures." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28546.
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This dissertation investigates the influence of family messages about gender, free expression, conformity, and privacy on coming out disclosures, a difficult experience in today?s society. Using communication privacy management theory, this study explored how heteronormative beliefs, family privacy boundaries, and family communication patterns relate to disclosure concerns. A total of 218 self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) participants were recruited using convenience and snowball sampling techniques. Participants completed an online survey to measure family privacy orientations, family communication patterns, heteronormative attitudes and beliefs, and disclosure concerns. Six linear regression analyses were performed. The findings suggest that both family privacy orientations and family communication patterns contribute to concerns about disclosing one?s sexual orientation. The study did not find heteronormative beliefs and attitudes to play a significant role in disclosure concerns. Additional findings indicate that family communication patterns inform family privacy orientations, which suggest a more complicated chain of influence. The findings of the study highlight the influence of early communication on LGBT individuals? long-term ability to communicate about their sexual orientation.
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Palmiero, James M. "A study of school board members' views on affiliations with private charitable foundations supporting public education: A regional study situated in Pennsylvania's Allegheny County." UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 2012. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3485867.
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Pereira, Carolina Miranda da Cruz. "Fundações privadas e precarização do trabalho docente na UNESP : 1995-2008 /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/90259.
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Orientador: Roseana Costa Leite<br>Banca: César Augusto Minto<br>Banca: José Marcelino de Rezende Pinto<br>Resumo: A presente dissertação tem como objetivo a análise da relação entre as fundações privadas e a precarização do trabalho docente na Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho". Essa relação se estabelece a partir do momento em que as políticas públicas para o ensino superior do país e do estado de São Paulo, em conformidade com os ditames de organismos internacionais, apresentam-se como parte fundamental da reestruturação do Estado nacional, cujo resultado é a minimização de sua atuação na economia e a redução drástica de gastos nas áreas sociais. Em face desse pressuposto, mostra-se que a crise do capitalismo a partir da década de 1970 acarretou em mudanças estruturais dos Estados nacionais em âmbito mundial e, de forma preponderante nos países do capitalismo periférico, caso brasileiro. Nesse processo, o projeto de autonomia das universidades brasileiras e, em específico, das estaduais paulistas, aliado à crescente redução no financiamento culmina, entre outros resultados, na precarização do trabalho docente e na proliferação das fundações privadas ditas "de apoio" às universidades públicas. Mostra-se, a partir de dados empíricos, que o impacto de tais políticas aprofundou a desvalorização do trabalho dos professores universitários e que fundações privadas "de apoio" à UNESP são dependentes da estrutura pública, não atingem os objetivos proclamados de apoio à pesquisa, ao ensino e à extensão e intensificam o processo de privatização do ensino superior público.<br>Abstract: This work aims to analyze the relation between private foundations and the deterioration of the university teaching at Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho". This relationship is established from the time that public policies for higher education in the country and the state of São Paulo, in accordance with the dictates of international organizations, showed as part of the restructuration of the national state, whose result is to minimize its role in the economy and drastically cut spending in social areas. Given this assumption, we demonstrate that the crisis of capitalism from the 1970s resulted in national and worldwide structural changes, prevalently in countries of peripheral capitalism, the Brazilian case. In this process, the autonomy of Brazilian universities and, in particular, public universities in the state of São Paulo, together with the increasing reduction in funding culminates, among other things, in the increasing corrosion of teachers' work and the proliferation of private foundations so-called "supportive" for public universities . It is shown, from empirical data, that the impact of such policies deepened the depreciation of the university professors' work and that the private foundations which "support" UNESP are dependent on public infrastructure. They also do not reach the proclaimed goals of supporting the research, teaching and extension and intensify the process of privatization of the public higher education.<br>Mestre
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Maillard, Nathalie de Amorim Perret Gentil Dit. "Investimento social privado: discussão sobre o papel das fundações na gestão das políticas sociais." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2010. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1396.
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Previous issue date: 2010-05-24<br>This paper aims to study the corporate foundations and the objective is to discuss their role in
social policies management. The study is motivated because foundations have been assuming
a prominent role as social policies agents, not just for the resources available, but also for its
inclusion in the policies management by their projects. Firstly, foundations were designated
just to execute social actions, today they are seen as strategic organizations, able to effect a
more sustainable management and increase the dialogue between business and
community. Therefore, foundations implement and generate social projects in order to enable
better living conditions for poor people and ensure their social rights - right to health,
education, housing and other essential terms. It should be emphasized there isn´t a withdrawal
of state policymaker and funder role in social policies, on the contrary, the state expanded its
functions of planning, assessment and control, ensuring citizens' right to access quality life.
To achieve our objective, we provide a literature review on the transformation of state,
enterprises and Third Sector roles. The research methodology is qualitative and quantitative
interviews were conducted in 6 large and active corporate foundations in education area. The
study showed there is a conscious concern from foundations to social problems and several
projects are carried out to combat these. There is also an attempt to contribute to state, even if
not fully aligned with government programs. The foundations contribute to state but there is
no way yet to assess the real impact because the absence of similar indicators, also the
dialogue between the sectors is fragile, so the exchange and sharing of skills and knowledge is
still small<br>O presente trabalho se propõe a estudar as fundações corporativas com o objetivo de discutir o
seu papel na gestão das políticas sociais. O estudo é motivado pois as fundações vêm
assumindo papel de destaque como agentes de políticas sociais, não apenas pelo enorme
volume de recursos disponíveis, mas também por sua inserção na gestão de tais políticas
através de projetos. A princípio, as fundações foram designadas executoras de ações sociais,
hoje são vistas por suas mantenedoras como organismos estratégicos, capazes de efetivar uma
gestão mais sustentável e de ampliar o diálogo entre empresas e a comunidade. As fundações,
assim, implementam e geram projetos sociais com o objetivo de possibilitar à população
melhores condições de vida e garantir seus direitos sociais - direito ao acesso à saúde, à
educação, à habitação e a outras condições essenciais. É necessário ressaltar que não há a
retirada do papel do Estado de formulador e financiador das políticas sociais, pelo contrário, o
Estado amplia suas funções de planejamento, avaliação e controle, garantindo aos cidadãos o
direito ao acesso a uma vida com qualidade.
Para alcançar o objetivo proposto, promove-se uma revisão bibliográfica referente as
transformações do papel do Estado, empresas e do Terceiro Setor. A metodologia utilizada na
pesquisa foi qualitativa-quantitativa, foram realizadas entrevistas em 6 grandes e atuantes
fundações corporativas na área da educação. O estudo mostrou que há uma preocupação
consciente das fundações com os problemas sociais e que diversos projetos são realizados
para o combate destes. Há também uma tentativa de contribuição com o Estado, mesmo que
ainda não totalmente alinhadas com os programas governamentais. Mas ainda falta uma
aproximação entre as organizações com ações planejadas e avaliadas. As fundações
contribuem com o Estado mas ainda não há como avaliar o real impacto pela ausência de
indicadores similares, além disso ainda é falha o diálogo entre os setores, assim a troca e o
compartilhamento de capacidades e conhecimentos ainda é pequena
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Ramos, Giovane Saionara. "Universidade pública e fundações privadas: a hegemonia privatista na produção de discurso e na apropriação dos recursos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-08062015-143951/.
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Esta tese tem por finalidade analisar a atuação das fundações privadas ditas de apoio no interior da universidade pública ao intermediarem financiamentos para a execução de parte dos projetos e programas da instituição universitária e a forma como essa parceria se materializa sob a perspectiva de uma economia capitalista dependente e heterônoma. A regulamentação das fundações privadas e a sua relação com as universidades tem sido objeto de questionamento por parte dos movimentos docente e estudantil e, também pelos órgãos de controle, particularmente, o Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU) e a Controladoria Geral da União (CGU). Desde então, publicações e estratégias de enfrentamento à privatização da universidade vêm sendo articuladas às lutas mais gerais das IFES, IEES e dos movimentos sociais, embora a presença desses entes privados tenha encontrado respaldo numa parcela expressiva da comunidade universidade para prosseguir nos seus objetivos. A questão crucial e que muitos dos defensores desses entes privados não reconhecem publicamente é que determinados contratos e convênios realizados por meio dessas fundações afrontam os princípios do direito público previstos na Constituição Federal e, principalmente, afrontam a função pública da universidade, convertendo-a no limite em mera prestadora de serviços. Ao mesmo tempo, a tese questiona as implicações da relação entre a universidade pública e um ente privado para a autonomia universitária em todas as esferas (didática, científica, administrativa e de gestão financeira e patrimonial). O estudo prioriza as legislações governamentais referentes às fundações de apoio desde a Reforma do Estado até a última disponível com foco no desenvolvimento das políticas de Ciência e Tecnologia para a educação superior e particularmente, para universidade, como a Lei de Inovação Tecnológica, a Lei das Parcerias Público-Privadas, a criação dos Fundos Setoriais com vistas ao desenvolvimento da pesquisa. A tese tenta mostrar se, diante da mundialização do capital, ocorre a adequação dos espaços da universidade para a produção de inovação, o que pouparia as corporações dos investimentos necessários em laboratórios de pesquisa e desenvolvimento (P&D) e em pessoal qualificado, convertendo a universidade numa mera prestadora de serviços e desvirtuando o ethos acadêmico. Para essa investigação, o estudo utiliza os conceitos florestanianos de Capitalismo Dependente e Heteronomia, com vistas a identificar o aprofundamento da condição de subordinação do país à economia-mundo e aos interesses particularistas das corporações ao mesmo tempo que afasta a pesquisa aplicada das proposições de soluções para os problemas nacionais. A pesquisa mostrou que a política de educação, particularmente para a educação superior, tem subsumido à política de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação configurando um processo de refuncionalização da universidade.<br>This thesis aims to analyze the role of support private foundations within public university, their ability to mediate financing for the execution of some part of the university\'s projects and programs and the way how this partnership materialize itself underneath the dependent capitalism and the heteronomy. Regulations for private foundations and their relationship with universities have been subject to inquiry by faculty and students movements, and also by control agencies, particularly, the Court of Audit (TCU) and the Comptroller General (CGU). Since them, publications and strategies of tackling against the university privatization have been done and articulated to the IFES, IEE and social movements, although the presence of these entities have found a support on an expressive part of the university community to continue their purposes. Many campaigner of these entities do not recognize that several contracts and accords made by the private foundations confront the principles of the public law present in the Constitution and confront the university social function. Simultaneously, this study questions the implications of the relation between public university and a private entity in consideration of university autonomy in all spheres (didactics, scientific, administrative, and financial/assets management). The study prioritizes governmental acts pertaining to the support foundations ranging from State Reform to the last available, bringing into focus the development of science and technology policies for higher education and particularly the university, as the Lei de Inovação Tecnológica (Technological Innovation Act), Lei das Parcerias Público-Privadas (Public-Private Partnerships Act) and subsequent acts. The thesis attempts to show whether an adequacy of university spaces for the production of innovation occurs as a result of capital globalization. This movement would exempt large corporations from necessary investments in terms of research and development laboratories (R&D) and of qualified personnel, converting the university into a mere service provider, besides undermining the academic ethos. For that investigation, the study uses Florestan Fernandes concepts of Dependent Capitalist and Heteronomy, with the purpose of identifying the submersion of the countrys condition of subordination to monopoly capitalism. Research showed that the education policy, particularly for higher education, has been subsumed to the Science, Technology and Innovation policy, configuring some processes of university refunctionalization.
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Jones, Clifford A. "The foundations of Community antitrust litigation : a comparative study of private enforcement of US antitrust law in the United States and EC competition law in the United Kingdom." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242547.
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Jackey, Lisa. "Understanding the Perceptions and Indications of the Goals and Unique Aspects of the Foundations for Success (FFS) Curriculum Model: A Case Study in a North Texas Private Preschool." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062817/.
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This quantitative and qualitative case study examined the educators' perceptions of both the goals and unique aspects of the foundations for success (FFS) curriculum model. Specifically, this study was designed to explain the experiences of 55 early childhood educators and administrators who all had similar exposure to the FFS curriculum model. This study sought to understand the educators' perceptions of the specific goals of using pertinent curriculum and instruction terminology and the parallel process of content language, connecting the importance of developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) and learning standards and readiness for kindergarten. In the same way, the perceptions of the unique aspects of the value based curriculum, the use of reflective supervision and the use of design thinking were gathered and interpreted. This study looked closely into program successes, challenges and future implications of the FFS curriculum model. This study also considered the extent to which future implementations of the model could change the current interdependent relationship between early childhood education and the primary grades. The researcher analyzed the perceptions, utilizing the Likert-value survey instrument responses, the open-ended survey responses, along with the focus group responses to triangulate the findings. Common themes shared across all data collection were evaluated and described. The most apparent themes derived from the findings included the following: the importance of relationships; the importance of accountability and the role language plays; the necessity of the consideration of children's interest for optimal development; and the recognition of intentional planning, revisiting and reflection to the process of the FFS curriculum model. Overall, the FFS curriculum model was determined to be a curriculum model that takes educators on a continuous journey of thinking and learning. Evidence was gathered for the FFS curriculum model that implicated the possibility for replication of the model in other schools, as well as further research using the model to measure student success.
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Grazzioli, Airton. "Fundações privadas: do poder à responsabilidade dos dirigentes." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2011. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/5545.
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Previous issue date: 2011-05-23<br>Analytical approach about the experience resulted from the performance of duties of the Guardians of Foundations in the capital São Paulo, in charge of approximately 3 hundred private foundations, most of them with expressive social activity and significant assets, which provide automatically an opportunity of dealing with relevant daily matters. It was performed systematic development about concepts and specificity of private foundations, as invidious who are part of the Tertiary Sector. It was made registration information surveys with Attorney General‟s office of São Paulo, where it has shown how significant the social work developed by these entities is, for the society‟s benefit, as well as the billionaire capital they amass, which works as a sign for the importance of studies of the leaders‟ responsibilities. Thesis on its managing performance, power engagement of the duties and responsibilities of the administrators of the foundations. Critical analysis of lack of specific legal standards for the civil responsibilities and Criminal responsibilities of the private foundations leader, who manage the civil society‟s interests<br>Abordagem analítica sobre a experiência fruto da rotina do exercício das funções de Curador de Fundações na Capital do Estado de São Paulo, com o velamento de aproximadamente 3 centenas de fundações privadas, a maioria delas com expressiva atividade social e significativo patrimônio, que ensejam o enfrentamento diário de questões de relevância. Realiza-se desenvolvimento sistemático sobre conceitos e especificidades das fundações privadas, enquanto entes que integram o denominado Terceiro Setor. É efetuado levantamento dos dados cadastrais junto ao Ministério Público do Estado de São Paulo, onde se mostrou o quão expressivo é o trabalho social desenvolvido por essas entidades, em benefício da sociedade, assim como o capital bilionário que elas amealham, que servem de sinal para a importância do estudo da responsabilidade dos dirigentes. Dissertação sobre a forma de administração, do exercício do poder, dos deveres a da responsabilidade dos administradores das fundações. Análise crítica da ausência de normas legais específicas para a responsabilidade civil e responsabilidade penal dos dirigentes de fundações privadas, que administram interesses da sociedade civil
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Pereira, Carolina Miranda da Cruz [UNESP]. "Fundações privadas e precarização do trabalho docente na UNESP: 1995-2008." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/90259.
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pereira_cmc_me_arafcl.pdf: 896089 bytes, checksum: cf674d18376bae83f7735be1aed625e3 (MD5)<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>A presente dissertação tem como objetivo a análise da relação entre as fundações privadas e a precarização do trabalho docente na Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”. Essa relação se estabelece a partir do momento em que as políticas públicas para o ensino superior do país e do estado de São Paulo, em conformidade com os ditames de organismos internacionais, apresentam-se como parte fundamental da reestruturação do Estado nacional, cujo resultado é a minimização de sua atuação na economia e a redução drástica de gastos nas áreas sociais. Em face desse pressuposto, mostra-se que a crise do capitalismo a partir da década de 1970 acarretou em mudanças estruturais dos Estados nacionais em âmbito mundial e, de forma preponderante nos países do capitalismo periférico, caso brasileiro. Nesse processo, o projeto de autonomia das universidades brasileiras e, em específico, das estaduais paulistas, aliado à crescente redução no financiamento culmina, entre outros resultados, na precarização do trabalho docente e na proliferação das fundações privadas ditas “de apoio” às universidades públicas. Mostra-se, a partir de dados empíricos, que o impacto de tais políticas aprofundou a desvalorização do trabalho dos professores universitários e que fundações privadas “de apoio” à UNESP são dependentes da estrutura pública, não atingem os objetivos proclamados de apoio à pesquisa, ao ensino e à extensão e intensificam o processo de privatização do ensino superior público.<br>This work aims to analyze the relation between private foundations and the deterioration of the university teaching at Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”. This relationship is established from the time that public policies for higher education in the country and the state of São Paulo, in accordance with the dictates of international organizations, showed as part of the restructuration of the national state, whose result is to minimize its role in the economy and drastically cut spending in social areas. Given this assumption, we demonstrate that the crisis of capitalism from the 1970s resulted in national and worldwide structural changes, prevalently in countries of peripheral capitalism, the Brazilian case. In this process, the autonomy of Brazilian universities and, in particular, public universities in the state of São Paulo, together with the increasing reduction in funding culminates, among other things, in the increasing corrosion of teachers' work and the proliferation of private foundations so-called “supportive” for public universities . It is shown, from empirical data, that the impact of such policies deepened the depreciation of the university professors’ work and that the private foundations which support UNESP are dependent on public infrastructure. They also do not reach the proclaimed goals of supporting the research, teaching and extension and intensify the process of privatization of the public higher education.
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Bargue, Elisabeth Evangélie. "Passion(s) dans l'espace public : histoire des collectionneurs et des collections privées d'art contemporain en Grèce au XXe siècle." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010571.
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Cette étude se propose de présenter l'évolution des collections privées d'art contemporain en Grèce au cours du siècle dernier. Malgré la forte présence du phénomène, les études à ce sujet sont rares, surtout concernant la période contemporaine qui est souvent délaissée au profit de l'archéologie et de la période byzantine. Pourtant, le phénomène du collectionnisme est très présent en Grèce et il est étroitement lié à I'histoire politique et sociale du pays, à des phénomènes tels que l'évergétisme, la diaspora et l'essor économique du pays à partir des années quatre-vingts lors de son entrée dans la Communauté Économique Européenne. Ainsi, l'aspect du phénomène se trouve-t-il en constante mutation. L'objectif de cette étude est donc une première approche des divers aspects du collectionnisme, étudié en relation avec l'histoire culturelle du pays, à travers les portraits de nombreux collectionneurs grecs qui ont vécu au XXe siècle. Ces passionnés d'art ont fortement marqué le paysage artistique et culturel de leur pays d'origine - mais aussi parfois de leur pays d'accueil - notamment grâce à la mise en valeur d'artistes et à l'influence du goût, mais surtout parce que leur activité est liée à la constitution de collection de musées de beaux-arts et de fondations privées<br>This study aims to describe the history and situation of the private contemporary art collections in Greece du ring the last century. Despite the strong presence of the phenomenon, studies on this subject are scarce, especially in regard to the contemporary period, which is often neglected in favor of the Archeological and Byzantine period. However, the phenomenon of collecting contemporary art is very present in Greece and it is closely linked to the political and social history, to phenomenas such as benefaction, diaspora and the economic growth of the country, from the eighties upon entry into the European Economic Community. Thus, the appearance of the phenomenon is constantly changing. What is studied here is a first approach to the various aspects of collecting contemporary art in relation to the cultural history of the country, through the portraits of many iconic Greek collectors who lived in the twentieth century. These art lovers have strongly influenced the artistic and cultural landscape of their country of origin - but also sometimes to their home countries - through the discovery of artists and the influence of taste. The latter was achieved especially because their activity was related to the establishment of the permanent collections of fine art museums and private foundations
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Silva, Valter Jovenil Avila da. "Fraudes nas fundações privadas : o papel do Ministério Público." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/149325.
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Atualmente, são constantes as notícias de fraudes e corrupção, tais como ―Mensalão‖, ―Operação Lava Jato‖, ―Operação Zelotes‖, ―Leite Compen$ado‖ (MPRS), dentre outras, envolvendo políticos de todos os escalões, empresários, gerentes, administradores, empregados e funcionários públicos. Como se não bastasse esse quadro no setor público (primeiro setor) e nas empresas privadas (segundo setor), passamos ainda a conviver com nova onda de desvios em outro setor. Agora o alvo são as entidades que prestam serviços de interesse público sem a finalidade de lucro, o terceiro setor, como se viu na ―CPI das ONGs‖ (2010). Aqui, no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, o cenário de golpes praticados contra o erário, contra consumidores, e ainda contra o patrimônio das entidades de interesse social, não é diferente da realidade nacional. Basta ver os noticiários sobre ações do Ministério Público Estadual no combate às sonegações de impostos, fraudes e irregularidades cometidas contra entidades do terceiro setor, especialmente contra fundações privadas. Nesse caso específico, com o intuito de identificar quais são os principais tipos de fraudes cometidas contra essas instituições e o que fazer para evitá-las, foram analisadas algumas notícias no período de 2005 a 2013. A pesquisa visa, ainda, identificar o papel do Ministério Público perante essas instituições e às fraudes.<br>Nowadays, newscasts about frauds and corruption are continuously taking place, as ―Mensalão‖, ―Operação Lava Jato‖, ―Operação Zelotes‖, ―Leite Compen$ado‖ (MPRS – Public Ministry of Rio Grande do Sul), among others, involving politicians from all echelons, businessmen, managers, administrators and public servants. As if not enough this picture in the public sector (first sector) and in the private companies (second sector), we also have to deal with a new wave of embezzlement in another sector. Now, the target is the companies which provide public interest service without the purpose of making profit, the third sector, as it have been seen in the ―CPI das ONGs‖ – 2010 (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry against Non Governmental Organizations).Here, in the Rio Grande do Sul State, the scenery of coups against the Exchequer, against consumers, and also against the patrimony of public interest, is not different from the national reality. Just watch the newscasts about the Public Ministry (MP) combating tax evasion, frauds, and irregularities committed against entities from the third sector, specially, against private foundations. In this specific case, in order to identify what are the main types of fraud committed against these institutions and what to do to avoid them were analyzed some news from 2005 to 2013. The research also aims to identify the role of prosecutors before those institutions and fraud.
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Jesus, Elias Silva de. "Financiamento de ações no campo da saúde pública por meio de instrumentos de cooperação." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/20512.
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Previous issue date: 2017-12-11<br>Purpose- The purpose of this study was to comprehend the challenges to be overcome by Fiocruz’ budgetary and financial management, due to the cooperation terms signed with the National Health Fund (NHF) being the main financing source of the institution’s final activities. It was found that the cooperation terms are signed between Fiocruz and the FNS because of the alignment of Fiocruz’strategic objectives, the demands from the National Health Service (NHS) and the public health policies proposed by the Ministry of Health. Design/Methodology- Adopting case study methodology, after documentation analysis, interviews and data analysis of the Strategic Management Supporting System (SMSS/Fiocruz), regarding the cooperation terms signed with the NHF from 2011 to 2015, from the evidences found, it was possible to stablish connections among them and to understand how these cooperation instruments execution process occurs in the institutional scope. Findings- It was found that the cooperation terms are signed between Fiocruz and the FNS because of the alignment of Fiocruz’strategic objectives, the demands from the National Health Service (NHS) and the public health policies proposed by the Ministry of Health. The importance of Fiotec, Fiocruz’ supporting foudation, was also highlighted on operating the cooperation terms signed with the NHF, showing the need for harmonization and interaction between Fiocruz and Fiotec, for a better process management as a whole. Research limitations- The main limitation of the research was the impossibility of analyzing in a deeper way, as it would be desirable, the operationalization of the terms of cooperation originating from the FNS within Fiotec. However, in the propositions suggested based on the inferences made from the evidence, it is proposed the adjustment of the Fiocruz / Fiotec relationship as well as the harmonization of the processes between the foundations. Practical implications- After comprehending the challenges of Fiocruz’ budgetary and financial management in operating these cooperation terms and understanding the behavior of these cooperation instruments in the execution process, the study proposed actions that may contribute with this initiative in many aspects. Social implications- By understanding the phenomenon elucidated on this study, it has become clear the institutional need of advancing on management improvement of the cooperation terms signed with the NHF, so that Fiocruz can be more efficient and effective in implementing its strategic objectives financed through these cooperation instruments. Originality- To our knowledge, this is the first study related to the behavior of cooperation instruments with source of funding for public institutions to take action in the field of public health<br>Objetivo- Esse estudo teve como propósito, compreender os desafios a serem superados pela gestão orçamentária e financeira da Fiocruz em função dos termos de cooperação firmados com o Fundo Nacional de saúde (TEDs/FNS) serem a principal fonte de financiamento das atividades finalistas da instituição. Metodologia- Adotando-se a metodologia de estudo de caso, após a análise documental, entrevistas e análise dos dados existentes Sistema de apoio a Gestão Estratégica (SAGE/ Fiocruz) relativos aos termos de cooperação firmados com FNS no período de 2011 a 2015, a partir das evidências encontradas foi possível estabelecer conexões entre elas e entender como ocorre o processo de execução destes instrumentos de cooperação no âmbito institucional. Resultados- Constatou-se que os termos de cooperação são firmados entre Fiocruz e o Fundo Nacional de Saúde (FNS) devido ao alinhamento dos objetivos estratégicos da Fiocruz com as demandas do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) e as políticas públicas de saúde propostas pelo Ministério da saúde. Destacou-se também a importância da FIOTEC, fundação de apoio, na operacionalização dos termos de cooperação firmados com o FNS, demonstrando a necessidade de harmonização e interação entre a Fiocruz e a FIOTEC para a melhoria na gestão do processo como um todo. Limitações- A principal limitação da pesquisa foi a impossibilidade de analisar de forma mais profunda, como seria desejável, a operacionalização dos termos de cooperação oriundos do FNS no âmbito da Fiotec. No entanto, nas proposições sugeridas com base nas inferências realizadas a partir das evidências, é proposto o ajuste da relação Fiocruz/Fiotec como também a harmonização dos processos entre as fundações. Aplicabilidade- Após a compreensão dos desafios para gestão orçamentária e financeira da Fiocruz operacionalizar esses termos de cooperação e o entendimento do comportamento desses instrumentos de cooperação no processo de execução, com o propósito de envidar a Fiocruz a propor uma reanálise na gestão desses instrumentos de cooperação, apresentou-se proposições que podem contribuir com essa inciativa em diversos aspectos. Contribuições para a sociedade- Entender o fenômeno elucidado por esse estudo, permitiu enxergar a necessidade institucional de avançar na melhoria da gestão dos termos de cooperação firmados com FNS para que a Fiocruz possa ser mais eficiente e eficaz na implementação dos objetivos estratégicos financiados através desses instrumentos de cooperação. Originalidade- Pelo nosso conhecimento, este é o primeiro estudo relacionado ao comportamento dos instrumentos de cooperação com fonte de financiamento para que instituições públicas desenvolvam ações no campo da saúde pública.
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Mortimer, Anthony D. "Priorities for School Safety: The Alignment between Federal and State School Safety Legislation and Safety Needs as Perceived by Education Stakeholders in Florida Private Schools for Exceptional Students." UNF Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/807.
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This study investigates the apparent threat assessment priorities of potential risks to safety in the school environment in the United States and whether stakeholders in Florida private schools that serve exceptional students agree with the priority given to specific identified potential threats. Faculty and staff, high school students, and the students’ parents and guardians at four Florida private schools for exceptional students rated their perceptions of the severity and likelihood of occurrence of nine potential threats identified in a review of federal and Florida state school safety laws and national and state government surveys of incident occurrences. Results showed that although violent potential threats such as an armed intruder, students bringing weapons to school, and physical assaults received priority attention in federal and state school safety laws, stakeholders in Florida private schools for exceptional students indicated that threats of a more personal nature—such as bullying, sexual harassment, and cyberbullying—were the most significant risks to the safety of their school environment. All three respondent subgroups, however, reported high ratings of their overall feelings of safety at their schools.
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Šámalová, Daniela. "Dům krátké cesty." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-354940.
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The assigned territory is situated in the City of Brno, in the city district of Židenice. From the west it is limited by the railway track Brno-Židenice, from the east by Koperníkova Street, from the north by Lazaretní Street and finally from the south by Bubeníčkova Street. Its area is approximately 45, 480 m2 which is 4,55 ha. From the urban perspective it is an intensive development in a separated block of the city with a protection zone. Total area is permeated by a few lines for pedestrians. The pedestrian zone provides better permeability of the area and better accessibility of the trade parterre. The buildings connect to surrounding development and respect the density of the integrity of the area. Intensive housing structure is regarded as "the city of short distance". The achievement of high density of housing development combines lots of various functions and relatively small built-up surface. While high-quality environment is preserved, people can find job oportunities in the intensive housing development without the need for transport. For achievement conception of compact city applies space urban planning. The shape of the estate directly impacted the principle of the proposal together with the city planning context of the current buildings. In the protective zone there is established a huge park with water reservoirs. The walk-through trade parterre is filled with many various functions, on its walkable roof is created a semi-public zone with skylights and freely introduced verdure. On the walkable roof there are independent blocks of apartments and public facilities. In the northern and southern corner are located public-service utilities and in the middle of this area there is a nursery and a kindergarden. In structural terms the building it is about cast-in-place concrete reinforced frame based on a white concrete foundation which has one underground level and five above-ground levels.
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Isserman, Noah Jacobsen. "Venturing into public good : from venture capital to the creation of state-supported venture philanthropy and its implications for third sector financing." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/286340.
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Over the last three decades, scholars in management, policy, and geography have examined the growing economic, social, and spatial impact of the financial sector. Venture capital firms have been a focus, generating a contested but deep literature around the roles of such "value-adding" capital providers in supporting the growth of firms, industries, and various territorial innovation models. In parallel, there has been substantial government support-financial, regulatory, and otherwise-of these private sector financial intermediaries, despite scepticism. The past twenty years have seen the emergence and rapid growth of analogous funders in the third sector, itself the realm of substantial experimentation and growth. These new intermediaries, "venture philanthropists", have become important players in shaping, structuring, and channelling funding to the third sector. The activities and effects of venture philanthropists are underexplored, as are their growing interactions with governments-despite intentional and striking similarities between the evolution of venture capital and that of venture philanthropy. This dissertation addresses these gaps by systematically examining the emergence, evolution, and operational practices of two influential British venture philanthropy funds: the first such fund in Europe (Impetus Trust) and the first fund in the world co-created with the state (Inspiring Scotland). The two venture philanthropy organisations (VPOs)-one with roots in venture capital, the other with roots in the voluntary and government sectors-both conducted the venture capital-inspired operational model of venture philanthropy in similar ways. That said, the VPOs reflected the logics and practices of their founders and funders. Impetus Trust more closely resembled early-stage venture capital, with a reliance on London-based networks, funders, and service providers-and a heavily London-focused portfolio. Inspiring Scotland evidenced the logics of government rather than charity in several instances, with substantial original research into social issues, heavily structured portfolios on set timelines, and regionally-distributed staff. This approach broadened access, allowing support of SPOs and their clients across various (and underserved) geographies, but limited options for opportunity-driven or expressive functions of philanthropy. I surveyed the CEOs of most organisations supported by the two venture philanthropy funds (82 of 98 charities and social businesses), supplemented by interviews of selected CEOs and the founders and staff of the two funds. I find that, overall, the two VPOs each engaged in seven core activities of venture capital, intentionally adapting them to the third sector: sourcing and selection, due diligence, an engaged relationship, provision of funding, provision of non-financial support, creation of network linkages, and intentional exiting of relationships. As in venture capital, this process had broader effects: providing signals of investee quality, preparing investees for subsequent funding, and expanding networks. The combination of long-term relationships and high formal reporting requirements imposed significant costs for SPOs-and also created a virtuous cycle of trust and collaboration between VPOs and SPOs. The venture philanthropy model also had broader societal effects, creating data regarding individual organisations and the efficacy of responses to social issues, which in both cases informed policy. As intermediaries, venture philanthropists decreased power differentials and improved the flow of (oft-anonymized) information amongst funders, statutory bodies, and funded organisations, facilitating several types of collaboration. SPO managers indicated that they received, on average, approximately ten different types of non-financial support-like strategy consulting, human resources support, or legal counsel. These managers reported in interviews and surveys that the non-financial services provided by venture philanthropists were highly valued, on average. Further, managers believed these services provided more value than it cost the VPOs to provide them. Likewise, managers highly valued most forms of new networking connections (though not all services or linkages were found to be valuable). Smaller SPOs valued services and network links more highly than larger SPOs, although all sizes of SPOs indicated both were valuable, on average. Importantly, this data was provided by SPO managers and focused on the SPO-VPO dyad-rather than provided by VPOs and focused at the portfolio or trust level. This filled an important gap in the literature: academics and practitioners often lament that the voices of charities supported by foundations are not often enough heard, which limits our understanding of many aspects of organizational philanthropy and its effects-in particular the burdens and benefits for recipient organisations. I documented the co-creation of the first government-supported venture philanthropy fund through eleven interviews with founding managers and government officials. This model, in which state, private, and civil society actors collectively founded and funded a value-adding capital provider, militates against neoliberal assumptions of an ever-diminishing state, as does the leveraging of private resources in alignment with state aims-though it raises concerns around democratic processes, accountability, and local control. This work helps inform the changing nature of the voluntary sector and its relationship with the state. I focus on the increasing interaction of actors between and across systems-sometimes in new roles and coordinated by new intermediaries-in the allocation of resources and delivery of services in the public interest. These new interactions inform broad bodies of work that seek to understand changing sectoral roles, most notably discourses surrounding neoliberalism(s), financialisation, and public management. Overall, I find privately- and publicly-funded venture philanthropy playing a role in the third sector analogous to the role of venture capital in the private sector, with similar practices and concomitant effects in data generation, network formation and strengthening, facilitating partnerships, and signalling the quality of supported organisations. By examining two such emerging models of capital provision, I contribute grounded understanding of the way such systems are created and function across the private, public, and third sectors.
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Joyeux, Hélène. "Un certain "esprit de collection" : les collectionneurs d'art français du monde de la mode (XXe-XXIe siècles)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA01H040.
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Depuis l’invention de la haute couture à la fin du XIXème siècle, jusqu’à aujourd’hui, le milieu de la mode est l’un des secteurs professionnels qui concentre le plus de collectionneurs. Dès lors, on peut se demander s’il existe un collectionnisme propre aux collectionneurs du milieu de la mode, et si tel est le cas, comment il s’est structuré et de quelle façon il a évolué. Si celui-ci est le premier axe choisi pour rendre compte de ces relations, il n’est pas le seul car il ne peut se comprendre sans aborder, plus largement, d’autres formes de collaborations entre les acteurs de ces milieux. Le collectionnisme s’inscrit en effet dans un ensemble de relations entre grands couturiers, ou dirigeants de groupes de luxe, artistes, marchands, galeristes, journalistes, critiques, photographes, clients d’un secteur comme de l’autre.… etc. Pour ce faire, nous avons choisi trois exemples de collectionnisme, qui ont en commun d’avoir marqué leur époque, le champ de la mode et celui de la collection : ceux de Jacques Doucet, du couple Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent et de Bernard Arnault à travers la marque et la fondation Louis Vuitton. Cette thèse se propose donc d’analyser le collectionnisme du point de vue du collectionneur mais aussi, à inscrire ces collections à la fois dans leurs époques respectives, dans leur filiation, dans l’histoire de l’art et l’histoire de la mode<br>Since the invention of haute couture at the end of the XIXth century until today, the fashion world has been one of the professional sectors where the collectors are the most numerous. This raises the question of whether there is a specific type of collectionnism among the fashion collectors, and if so, how is it structured and how has it evolved. If this is the first line of research chosen to analyze these relationships, it is certainly not the only one but it cannot be understood without addressing, more widely other forms of collaboration between all the peripheral creative actors in this field. Indeed, collectionism is part of the network of relationships between leading fashion designers, or leaders of luxury goods companies, artists, art dealers, gallery owners, journalists, critics, photographers and clients of both sectors, etc. To do so, we have chosen three examples of collectionism that have in common the fact that they have marked their era, contemporary fashion and the ‘spirit’ of collection: those of Jacques Doucet, the couple Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent and Bernard Arnault through the brand Louis Vuitton and the Louis Vuitton Foundation. This thesis proposes to analyze and explore collectionism from the point of view of the collector but also, to place these collections at the same time in their respective era, in their filiations, in the history of art and fashion history
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Sanchez, de Lozada Louis. "Trusts exprès privés anglo-américains, fidéicommis latino-américains et la fiducie française." Thesis, Paris 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA020043/document.
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Les trusts anglo-américains (anglais, américain et des Iles Cook) coexistent avec les trusts de droit civil (les fidéicommis argentin, bolivien, panaméen et la fiducie française). Ils appartiennent aux deux familles de droit de Common Law et romano-germanique et ont des structures différentes. Les trusts exprès anglo-américains sont créés par acte unilatéral du constituant et mettent en place une relation trustee-bénéficiaire. Les trusts de droit civil sont créés par contrat (ou testament) entre le constituant et le fiduciaire et ne donnent pas des droits réels aux bénéficiaires. Malgré leur différence de structure, les deux trusts fonctionnent de manière équivalente, grâce au transfert de propriété au fiduciaire et à l’étanchéité du patrimoine fiduciaire. Les réserves héréditaires sont un élément extérieur à la structure des trusts testamentaires ; ceux-ci fonctionnent de manière analogue. Les techniques d’investissement et de gestion fiduciaire sont aussi similaires : des clauses conditionnelles d’accès ou fin de la propriété fiduciaire et des pouvoirs discrétionnaires donnés au trustee sont communs aux deux modèles de trust. La séparation du patrimoine sert à mettre en place des trusts de gestion, de protection ou de garantie de financement de projet, de défaisance ou de titrisation. Le fonctionnement du FCP, similaire à celui des Unit Trusts, devrait donner la propriété fiduciaire des actifs au dépositaire. Des éléments de la loi, extérieurs à la structure de la fiducie, qui n’existent pas chez ses homologues latino et anglo-américains, empêchent son fonctionnement normal. Nous proposons de modifier la loi sur la fiducie, sur les FCP et les fonds de titrisation<br>Anglo-American express private trusts, Latin-American fideicomiso and French fiducia”. Common Law trusts (English, American and Cook Islands) co-exist with civil law domestic trusts (Argentinean, Bolivian and Panamanian fideicomiso and French fiducia). They belong to the Common Law and continental law families respectively and have different structures. Anglo-American express trusts are settled by a settlor (declaration, gift) or by a will that creates an equitable relationship between the trustee and the cestui, whereby both share legal and equitable interests on the trust property. Civil law trusts are settled by a contract between the settlor and the trustee and by a will. Thus, a civil law trust beneficiary has only personal remedies against a trustee in respect of breach of trust. Despite the structural differences, both types of trusts operate in similar ways, due to the transfer of property to the trustee and the separation of the trust property. Testamentary trusts also work in a similar way; forced heirship is an external element of both. Trust managing and investment techniques and practices are also similar: condition precedent and condition subsequent clauses and discretionary trusts and powers are common to both trust models. Separation of the trust property allows for the settlement of protective trusts, trusts for project financing, defeasance and securitization. French Mutual Funds are comparable to Unit Trusts. Both should give legal title to the trustee (custodian). External elements of French law, which do not exist in Anglo or Latin American trusts, restrain the normal operation and use of French fiducia. We propose to modify the fiducia, mutual and securitization funds law
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Kienker, James Robert. "Rational Generosity: The Indianapolis Foundation and the Community Foundation Response to the Great Depression." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2190.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>A historical analysis of the philanthropic response to the Great Depression by community foundations; the thesis uses the individual story of the Indianapolis Foundation as a case study to provide detailed examples of how community foundations modified their grant-making behavior in response to the Great Depression’s economic effects.
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Tedman, Frank. "Comparative Analysis between the Canadian Trust and the Panamanian Foundation of Private Interest." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/25820.
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Canadian Trusts and Panamanian Foundations of Private Interest are generally utilized as juridical vehicles through which a creator can designate a person to hold and administer property for the benefit and enjoyment of a beneficiary. Given the similarity of application of both vehicles, and taking into consideration that they emanate from separate juridical and judicial systems, it is pertinent to analytically compare them.
As can be expected, there is a significant number of aspects through which Foundations of Private Interest and a Trusts can be compared. The following comparative analysis will be centered around three aspects: Asset ownership, creation mechanisms and the requirement of properly identifying beneficiaries. Preceding the aforementioned comparative analysis, a presentation and description of both legal vehicles will be provided in order to make the comparative analysis comprehensible and hopefully useful.
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DING, ZHENG, and 丁錚. "Research on the International Activities of American Modern Private Foundation: Illustrated by Rockefeller Foundation and the Establishment of Peking Union Medical College." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8mc8qb.
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碩士<br>輔仁大學<br>歷史學系碩士班<br>106<br>This research focuses on the experience of the international activities by American modern private foundations, exampled by the establishment of the Peking Union Medical College(PUMC) by the Rockefeller Foundation. Firstly, it analyzes the background and history of American philanthropy that gave birth to the private foundations in late 19th century, particularly the Rockefeller Foundation. Secondly, this paper describes the appearance of Western medicine and education in China. Thirdly, the paper defines how the Rockefeller Foundation built PUMC in China, and the development of PUMC from 1920s to the present. Moreover, it shows the significance of PUMC in early 20th century China. Finally, this paper discusses the lessons got from the establishment of PUMC for Chinese foundations.
The main theme of this paper shows that to realize an international philanthropic activity, it is significant that the project should be adapted to local conditions. In addition, it is necessary to set up a new type of philanthropy with modern concept. Lastly, effective management and sufficient funds are also important.
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Kern, Anwynne. "Foundation phase educators' perceptions of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) at private and public schools." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/8220.
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This study investigated foundation phase educators’ perceptions of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The educators’ views on the causes, appropriate interventions and incidence rates of ADHD were examined. A sample of 140 foundation phase educators from mainstream private and public schools participated in the study. The educators completed a self-developed questionnaire that had been piloted by the researcher. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the quantitative data, in conjunction with t-tests to ascertain the differences in responses between public and private school educators. Thematic content analysis was used to identify the main categories and themes that emerged form the open-ended questions. The results revealed that the educators had a limited understanding of ADHD, in terms of what it is as well as its causes. In addition, it emerged that the educators preferred medication as the intervention method despite being aware of additional intervention methods. A comparison of the private and public school educators’ results indicated no significant difference in the educators’ perceptions regarding the cause, interventions or incidence rate of ADHD. These findings are discussed in relation to empirical studies and suggestions for future research are presented.
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Chen, Chia Hui, and 陳嘉輝. "A Study on the Appropriateness of Private Established Foundation As the Board of Director of Listed Companies." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/t5hhvw.
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碩士<br>逢甲大學<br>財經法律研究所<br>102<br>This article conducted empirical research on the involvementof Taiwan private establishedFoundation (hereinafter the Foundation) inthe listed companies, finding that many companies’controlling shareholder or major shareholder substantially use Section 27 of Taiwan Companies Act to make the Foundation be elected as legal per-son director or supervisor, or to interfere with the director’s election of companies by their high shareholding .It was also foundin the statistical analysis that the board of directors of such Foundations wascomposed of a particular group, and such Foundationshave a tendency of privatization or family.
The article also conducted a comparative study in the legislation of Japan, Ger-many, Austria and the UnitedStateson Foundation, and exploredthe appropriateness of Foundation’s operation from the perspective ofcorporate governance and social welfaredevelopment. This article argued that the operation mode of Foundation in Taiwan, wouldresult in increasing agency cost and violating shareholders’ right, andaffecting thecorporate governance of Taiwan’s affiliatedcompanies; while as for the perspective ofsocial welfare, this operation would also make the Foundation bear the responsibility of directors and supervisors or the liability as shadow directors, and thus underminingthe Foundation’spurpose ofsustainable promotion ofcharity, making the resources unabletobe really implementedon welfare promotion, and causingthe draft lawof Foundationto be shelved.
Finally, with reference totheamendment of Part 3 of Section 146 of Taiwan’s newly-amended insurance law, this article recommendedthatthe authorities shouldlimit Foundation’s intervention with corporate governance of listed company. It was alsosuggestedthat the applicable subjects of Section27 of Taiwan Companies Actshould be reduced and the independence of the Foundation directorsshould be in-creased, hoping to strengthen Taiwan’s corporate governance and to efficiently allo-cate resources of the Foundation on the purpose to promote social welfare.
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Stevenson, Michael. "Agency Through Adaptation: Explaining The Rockefeller and Gates Foundation???s Influence in the Governance of Global Health and Agricultural Development." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/8233.
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The central argument that I advance in this dissertation is that the influence of the
Rockefeller Foundation (RF) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) in the
governance of global health and agricultural development has been derived from their ability to advance knowledge structures crafted to accommodate the preferences of the dominant states operating within the contexts where they have sought to catalyze change.
Consequently, this dissertation provides a new way of conceptualizing knowledge power
broadly conceived as well as private governance as it relates to the provision of public goods.
In the first half of the twentieth-century, RF funds drove scientific research that produced
tangible solutions, such as vaccines and high-yielding seed varieties, to longstanding
problems undermining the health and wealth of developing countries emerging from the
clutches of colonialism. At the country-level, the Foundation provided advanced training to a generation of agricultural scientists and health practitioners, and RF expertise was also pivotal to the creation of specialized International Organizations (IOs) for health (e.g. the League of Nations Health Organization) and agriculture (e.g. the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) as well as many informal international networks of
experts working to solve common problems. Finally in the neo-liberal era, RF effectively
demonstrated how the public-private partnership paradigm could provide public goods in
the face of externally imposed austerity constraining public sector capacity and the failure of the free-market to meet the needs of populations with limited purchasing power.
Since its inception, the BMGF has demonstrated a similar commitment to underwriting
innovation through science oriented towards reducing global health disparities and
increasing agricultural productivity in poor countries, and has greatly expanded the
application of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) approach in both health and agriculture. Unlike its intellectual forebear, BMGF has been far more focused on end-points and silver bullets than investing directly in the training of human resources. Moreover whereas RF has for most of its history decentralized its staff, those of BMGF have been concentrated mainly at its headquarters in Seattle. With no operational programs of its own, BMGF has instead relied heavily on external consultants to inform its programs and remains dependent on intermediary organizations to implement its grants.
Despite these and other differences, both RF and BMGF have exhibited a common capacity to catalyse institutional innovation that has benefited historically marginalized populations in the absence of structural changes to the dominant global power structure. A preference for compromise over contestation, coupled with a capacity for enabling innovation in science and governance, has resulted in broad acceptance for RF and BMGF knowledge structures within both state and international policy arenas. This acceptance has translated into both Foundations having direct influence over (i) how major challenges related to disease and agriculture facing the global south are understood (i.e. the determinants and viable solutions); (ii) what types of knowledge matters for solving said problems (i.e. who leads); and (iii) how collective action focused on addressing these problems is structured (i.e. the institutional frameworks).
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Van, de Vijver Françoise. "The contribution of extra mural activities in the holistic development of foundation phase children at a private school." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/2102.
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M.Ed.<br>Play is a concept that has been widely researched and discussed by psychologists, historians, educationalists and anthropologists throughout history. These scholars have been intrigued by its significance and meaning. Their findings have lead them to agree that play is an essential component in healthy human development. The value of play in the lives of children cannot be underestimated. It is the natural mode of learning for children and it is the carrier through which they acquire vital skills, which are essential for effective functioning in society. Play activities are generally enjoyable and are marked by elements of competition, participation, humour, creativity, problem solving and discipline. In the context of the school environment, these skills can be developed and enhanced through participation in extra mural activities. As a learner support specialist, I am particularly interested in the role of extra mural activities in the development of Grade Three children in a specific private school where there is an apparent lack of involvement in these activities. Child development specialists have confirmed that participation in after school activities cultivates creativity and imagination and expands intellectual, social and emotional skills. The qualitative case study described in this research essay aims to provide colleagues, parents and other interested parties with a rich description of the important holistic contributions made to the development of Foundation Phase children and more specifically, Grade Three learners. In this type of research, there are three main categories for data collection. These are observation, interviewing and artifact and document studies. I used these methods extensively through my investigation. The participants in this study were my present group of Grade Three children at the co-educational private school where I currently teach. The 21 children in the class come from as diverse multicultural and multilingual backgrounds as we have in our young democracy. Informal interviews and conversations were held with the children to gain an understanding of their perspectives on participation in extra mural activities. They were also involved in the compilation of a scrapbook, which formed the bulk of the data collection process. By observing the children during the compilation of the scrapbook, I was able to record their behavior, their attitude towards the activity and how they relate to each other. Through this observation, I was able to gain a fresh perspective of the phenomenon under study. Content analysis was the strategy I selected for the analysis of my data. This is a useful research tool that involves the scrutiny of the contents of a communication. Through this analysis, I explored ideas, beliefs and attitudes pertaining to the subject matter. The findings are discussed using the identified themes. These themes fall into two distinct categories, each with their own sub-categories. The first category involves what emerged through the children’s experience of the scrapbook and interview, while the second category is characterized and influenced by my perceptions and experiences as a teacher. The special nature of children has been referred to throughout this study and thus, I would like to present their perceptions and experiences before I discuss my own. After all, they were the main participants in this study and their input deserves acknowledgement. The findings have been presented mainly in terms of Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. This theory honours and promotes the development of all eight avenues of intelligence in Grade three children. The results of my research indicate that extra mural activities offer children a variety of stimulating environments and opportunities, which expose them to many learning opportunities to better, individualize their needs and interests and assist in developing their unique potentials, thus contributing to their holistic development.
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Hwang, Jin Feng, and 黃金鳳. "The Participation Of Social Education Policy Implementation In Private Group --The Case Study On National Culture And Education Foundation." Thesis, 1993. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69476156089075678506.
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