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The gender effect : capitalism, feminism, and the corporate politics of development
\"How and why are U.S. transnational corporations investing in the lives, educations, and futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate profit? Drawing on more than a decade of research in the United States and Brazil, this book focuses on how the philanthropic, social responsibility, and business practices of various corporations use a logic of development that positions girls and women as instruments of poverty alleviation and new frontiers for capitalist accumulation. Using the Girl Effect, the philanthropic brand of Nike, Inc., as a central case study, the book examines how these corporations seek to address the problems of gendered poverty and inequality, yet do so using an instrumental logic that shifts the burden of development onto girls and women without transforming the structural conditions that produce poverty. These practices, in turn, enable corporations to expand their legitimacy, authority, and reach while sidestepping contradictions in their business practices that often exacerbate conditions of vulnerability for girls and women. With a keen eye towards justice, author Kathryn Moeller concludes that these corporatized development practices de-politicize girls' and women's demands for fair labor practices and a just global economy.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Lee Schafer column
An Interlude facility is the work of three big health care providers in Minnesota coming together to provide care for people leaving the hospital but not quite well enough to go home. Care for people leaving the hospital who aren't ready to go home is one part of the health care system that is ripe for this kind of accountable care approach.
Newsletter
Viva M.A.C : AIDS, fashion, and the philanthropic practices of M.A.C Cosmetics
\"This is the first cultural history of the originally Canadian company M.A.C Cosmetics, charting the evolution of M.A.C's unusual corporate philanthropy around HIV/AIDS awareness. The book situates M.A.C's remarkable corporate philanthropy within three cultural and social phenomena of the 1980s and 1990s: the revitalization of the Toronto fashion industry, the evolution of the AIDS epidemic in North America, and the increasing commodification of social causes. Describing M.A.C's philanthropic work through its VIVA GLAM fundraising lipstick, this book delves into the history of its charity, the M.A.C AIDS Fund, which featured drag performer RuPaul and singer k.d. lang in its first advertising campaigns. M.A.C defied the stigma associated with AIDS that alarmed many other corporations, and instead engaged in AIDS advocacy while maintaining its creative and fashionable authority. Framed by Pierre Bourdieu's field theory and Judith Butler's gender theory, and engaging with archives, contemporaneous media communications, and interviews with key fashion figures, the book explains how M.A.C's activities around AIDS philanthropy were based in specific cultural practices, rather than being part of a strategic marketing plan. Ultimately, M.A.C's unusual style of corporate social responsibility originated and functioned within the same field of cultural production in which the AIDS crisis was directly experienced: fashion. As such, M.A.C's activities can be viewed as markedly different from other cases of corporate philanthropy or cause marketing.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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arts umbrella
Arts Umbrella delivers quality programs in the visual and performing arts for children and pre-college youth. It serves as a model for communities wishing to provide or augment an arts education for young people in the belief that studying the arts builds specific workforce skills valued by business. Maintaining the institute and its programs takes a large number of people. Arts Umbrella is the 2nd largest employer of artists in British Columbia as it takes 98 highly qualified instructors to teach the various art forms.
Journal Article
Give yourself a gift by giving away that white elephant
Individuals who want to dispose of white elephants, properties or practices that offer no benefits, can avail of tax breaks given by the government to charitable organization donors. However, tax deductions are governed by certain limitations. First, deductions should not exceed 30 percent of the adjusted gross income. Second, C corporations are not covered by tax breaks. Furthermore, there are some instances wherein the Internal Revenue Service may deny tax deductions.
Magazine Article