Business of Hope

Mary-Beth Raddon is Associate Professor at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. She is the current chair of the Department of Sociology and a former graduate program director of the MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies. She is a qualitative researcher in the field of economic sociology.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Business of Hope.- Chapter 2. The “Do or Die” Project of Creating a Culture of Philanthropy.- Chapter 3. “In the Business to Change Lives”: Fundraising as a Neoliberal Vocation.- Chapter 4. The Generosity Gap: Canadian Fundraisers’ Cross-National Comparisons.- Chapter 5. “We Have to Fit the Men in Somewhere”: Explaining Gender Inequality in Fundraising.- Chapter 6. “I Have to Be Optimistic; I’m a Fundraiser”: Professional Fundraising and the Politics of Hope.- Appendix: Research Methods.