When Philanthropy Gets Personal: Achieving High‐Impact Philanthropy through Disciplined Approach

• Published date: 01 November 2012
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02651.x
• Date: 01 November 2012
• Author: Pavlina Majorosova

Book Reviews 937

 omas J. Tierney and Joel L. Fleishman, Give

Smart: Philanthropy  at Gets Results (New

York: PublicAf‌f airs, 2012). 272 pp. $23.99 (cloth),

ISBN: 9781586488956; $14.99 (paper), ISBN:

9781610391467.

The projected boom in giving on an unprec-

edented scale has been a source of rising

enthusiasm, expectations, as well as appre-

hensions, as no one can yet predict what ef‌f ects such

redistribution of resources will have on our society

When Philanthropy Gets Personal: Achieving High-Impact

Philanthropy through Disciplined Approach

Sonia M. Ospina and Rogan Kersh, Editors

Pavlina Majorosova

New School for Social Research

Pavlina Majorosova is a doctoral

student in the Department of Politics

at The New School for Social Research,

New York. Her research focuses on the

nonprof‌i t sector in the United States and

the intersection between nonprof‌i ts and

government. Specif‌i cally, she is interested in

the politics of social innovation in the area

of nonprof‌i t education and how it relates to

education reform.

E-mail: majop364@newschool.edu