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This book explores the vital role of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in compensating for the market’s and government’s inability to provide vital services. Its key theoretical contribution is the notion that poverty is the result of a triadic failure—when markets, government, and civil society become dysfunctional at the same time. Using data on Catholic missionaries’ development work, this study presents the various ways by which FBOs mitigate market and government failures in healthcare, education, and social services, and in the process build and strengthen civil society.This study has two main objectives. First, it aims to present an overview of missionaries’ development work, evaluating the socioeconomic significance of their faith-based development work. In addition, various comparative advantages and disadvantages have been imputed to FBOs in the religion-development literature, and we assess to what extent missionaries actually exhibit these posited qualities in practice. Second, the groundwork is laid for future religion-development scholars by presenting a theoretical framework and a method for evaluating the role and contributions of FBOs in the larger community.This is an important investigation of contemporary worldwide Christianity and its relationship with development. As such, it will interest scholars of religious studies and missiology, as well as development economics, public service and the political economy.

Church charities --- Church work with the poor --- Catholic Church --- Charities.

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Au début des années 2000, l'image de Bill Gates subit une métamorphose : cet emblème de l'accumulation de richesses devient, aux yeux des médias, le plus grand donateur planétaire, une icône de la générosité. Cette communication millimétrée cache une histoire effrayante et un mouvement qui se répand parmi les super-riches : le « philanthro-capitalisme ». Cette stratégie associe l'évitement fiscal et la fausse charité et transforme la fortune de quelques milliardaires en pouvoir. Ils empiètent sur le rôle des Etats et menacent la démocratie. La Fondation Gates incarne ce charity business. Elle est au centre d'un montage au service de multinationales nocives pour l'environnement, la santé et la justice sociale. Ce récit d'investigation en apporte la démonstration en suivant, depuis leur source, les flux financiers qui alimentent des actions dites « caritatives ». Le long de ce fleuve obscur, chacun des affluents apporte son lot de paradis fiscaux, de conflits d'intérêts, de pratiques illicites et finalement d'emprise sur des enjeux vitaux. Le trust de la Fondation Gates finance les OGM, l'armement, les énergies fossiles, la grande distribution et les laboratoires pharmaceutiques. L'ensemble sert la vision de Bill Gates. Il voue un culte à la technologie comme solution à la crise écologique, nourrit une obsession pour les vaccins et méprise l'agroécologie et les médecines naturelles. Sachons distinguer, derrière ce savant Mécano financier, sa simplicité : il nous dépossède de ressources et de pouvoirs qui nous appartiennent. Que l'État cesse de se plier aux pratiques d'une poignée de multimilliardaires et protège enfin les citoyens et la planète. [4e de couverture]

Oeuvres de bienfaisance --- Oeuvres de bienfaisance --- Morale des affaires --- Charity organization --- Charities --- Charities

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"A l'heure des coupes budgétaires dans la fonction publique, de nombreuses institutions culturelles françaises sont amenées à lever des fonds, en France mais également à l'étranger, en particulier aux États-Unis, grâce au réseau des American Friends. A cheval entre la France et les États-Unis, ces associations participent désormais à un véritable travail "d'intermédiation diplomatique" entre les deux pays. Quelles sont les structures qui permettent cette levée de fonds transnationale ? Comment cette philanthropie contribue-t-elle à transformer le monde culturel français, et, plus largement, l'État, à travers des reconfigurations public/privé ? En s'intéressant au point de vue des acteurs (leurs discours, leurs pratiques, leurs représentations), cette enquête offre une plongée dans le monde peu connu de la philanthropie d'élite transnationale et en dévoile les coulisses (négociations financières, rapports de pouvoir...), derrière le "glamour" affiché."--Page 4 of cover.

Charities --- Endowments --- Management. --- United States --- France --- Relations --- Relations

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Americans come together to fight diseases. For over 100 years, they have asked their neighbors to contribute to disease campaigns and supported health policies that target one disease at a time. 'Common Enemies' asks why disease campaigns are the battles Americans can agree to fight, why some diseases attract more attention than others, and how fighting one disease at a time changes how Americans distribute charitable dollars, prioritize policies, and promote health. Drawing on the first comprehensive data on thousands of organizations targeting hundreds of diseases over decades, the author shows that disease campaigns proliferate due to the perception of health as a universal goal, the appeal of narrowly targeted campaigns, and the strategic avoidance of controversy.

Medical policy --- Social medicine --- Health services accessibility --- Social movements --- Charities

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Thirteen formerly homeless New Yorkers tell their life stories, describing their joys as well as torments, their broken-heartedness and faith. At a time when national homelessness is on the rise, and when the discriminatory and punitive social conditions that create it are getting worse, Sacred Shelter celebrates the personal dignity of each and every individual and insists on our communal need to listen to each other.

Homelessness --- Shelters for the homeless --- Homeless persons --- Education Outreach Program. --- Life Skills Program. --- New York Catholic Charities. --- New York City. --- homeless people. --- homelessness. --- interfaith. --- personal stories. --- religious charities.