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in the high-tech and non-profit worlds. Table 1 indicates the medium of contact and the number of respondents contacted through that medium. Table 1: Medium of Contact of Respondents Medium of Contact N Association of Fundraising Professionals 4 Coincidental Contact of Researchers by someone who fit sample criteria Media articles and public lists 9 Special efforts through women's networks 6 Contact with nonprofits and foundations 3 Special contact of those involved in venture philanthropy Branching, (asking participants for further contacts) 8 Total 33 Source: Social Welfare Research Institute, 2001 Details of Sample Development The Association of Fundraising Professionals initially assembled five names of potential participants at the start of the study. All five were men, resident on the West Coast, and had expressed an interest in being interviewed. Of those contacts, four turned 1 2 27
into participants, and one of these in turn suggested to his spouse that she speak to us and since she was fully engaged with her husband in their philanthropy, we interviewed her as co-participating spouse. By coincidence, a high ranking executive in a high-tech business had read Schervish and Havens' work and contacted Schervish to talk about his retirement from business to make a future career in the nonprofit world. We interviewed him, and when we asked, he gave us two more contacts, both high-tech executives and former colleagues--one woman whom we interviewed, and one man, whom we have contacted, but have not yet interviewed. Through our review of newspapers and magazines articles on high-tech philanthropy we learned of approximately forty potential respondents who fitted our sampling criteria and had gone on the record previously about their business and philanthropy. We obtained seven interviews with these publicly known high-tech philanthropists. We obtained two additional interviews from the list of the highest contributing donors to charity in the year 2000, which had just been published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy. As the study progressed we noted that the participants were men predominantly from the West Coast. To diversity our sample by gender we enlisted the aid of the Forum 28
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Page 3 and 4: Acknowledgements As with all resear
Page 5 and 6: Introduction The 2001 High-Tech Don
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Page 9 and 10: I. The Research Landscape We begin
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The distinctive class trait of the
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decisions, thinking about problems
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venture philanthropy is more accura
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The Emerging Vocation of Philanthro
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expectation, confidence, and capaci
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A third special expression of care
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Note that the issue of care and dom
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social change than has heretofore o
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Thus, for most of them, their socia
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and overwhelmingly concerned to edu
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dynamics of liberty and inspiration
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Per Email: January 25, 2001 Social
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3. Or mail it to: Mary O'Herlihy So
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B. RECIPIENT: AMOUNT: PURPOSE OF GI
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17. Where did you grow up? City: St
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Bibliography Aquinas, St. Thomas. T
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Fortune.com. 2001. America’s 50 M
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Schervish, Paul G., Platon E. Couts
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Paul G. Schervish Profiles of Autho
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Mary A. O'Herlihy, Project Director
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From September 1992 to the present,
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