The Changing Face of Corporate Philanthropy

An interesting short interview in Crain’s Chicago Business with Melissa Brown, associate director of research at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, on the changing nature of corporate philanthropy. As Professor Brown notes, corporate philanthropy has gone from being legally prohibited to an integral part of the corporate business image. This legal trend, of course, mirrors interest in corporate social responsibility, a topic that my colleague at Illinois, Cynthia Williams, has written numerous articles about.

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