The Center on Community Philanthropy
The Center on Community Philanthropy is a groundbreaking venture focusing its teaching, research and policy-making exclusively on the emerging field of sharing and giving in a community context. Although the Center joins a growing number of university-based programs focused on civic engagement and volunteerism, it is unique in its mission to studying philanthropic concepts and acts emerging from within communities.
Grounded in and committed to building on the strengths, gifts and talents of the American South, the Center is a place of learning about philanthropy in a way that will be understood and practiced by a new wave of donors, foundation board and staff members, community leaders and policy decision-makers.
The creation of the Clinton School, the nation’s seventh presidential school, provided the opportunity to establish the Center on Community Philanthropy because of the school’s mission to train leaders for public service, a unique vision apart from traditional schools of public policy and public affairs. The Clinton School, which opened in 2005, is the first program in the nation to offer a Master of Public Service degree.
Clinton School students are already modeling community philanthropy through group projects in low-income, Mississippi River Delta communities in Arkansas’s St. Francis and Phillips Counties. Students are working on economic development, education, environment and youth leadership initiatives.
For more information, contact the Center on Community Philanthropy offices at the Clinton School at 501-683-5203.
- Click here to view the Center’s brochure.
- Click here to view the Center’s Advisory board.
- Click here to view the Center’s recommended reading list.
The Center on Community Philanthropy proudly presents its “Scholars in Residence” program, a designation extended to researchers, practitioners and senior executives who have demonstrated exemplary contributions in the field of community philanthropy. Each Scholar will join the Center for one week at the Clinton School of Public Service. During that week they will write an essay on community philanthropy, interact with students and faculty and present their work at the end of their stay to a Clinton School audience.
- Click here to learn about our Fall 2009 scholars.
- Click here to read the scholars’ work in the in the Center’s 2009-10 compendium, “Community Philanthropy: Strategies for Impacting Vulnerable Populations.”
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