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Philanthropy, Social Investment and Social Impact

The Eldon and Anne Foote Philanthropy Collection at Swinburne Library

Through a generous donation from the Eldon and Anne Foote Trust and the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation, this vital and unique collection has been set up to meet and exceed the needs of coursework and research students and the staff of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Philanthropy and Social Investment at Swinburne. It also remains accessible and discoverable through inter-library and reciprocal borrowing arrangements to students, researchers and other interested individuals and organisations outside of Swinburne, including to those in The Centre for Social Impact.

Reference and Directories

The Directory of Asia-Pacific foundations 2011 Sydney : Asia Pacific InfoServ. Hawthorn - 361.7632 DIR

The Australian directory of philanthropy Incorporating The Australian directory of corporate community investment Melbourne : Philanthropy Australia.
Printed every 2 years, it lists more than 420 trusts, foundations and corporate giving programs. 361.76320994 AUS-P held in most libraries

Dictionary of nonprofit terms and concepts Smith, David H.: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2007. Hawthorn - 361.003 SMI-D

A Dictionary of civil society, philanthropy and the non-profit sector Helmut K. Anheier: London : Europa Publications: 2004 ebook (login required), print copy also available

Philanthropy Australia's Philanthropedia

IBISWorld report X0021 - Charities & Not-for-Profit Organisations

News and media

Factiva 1000s of Australian and overseas full text newspapers, including the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. The Australian Financial Review and Business Review Weekly are in summary format only, the print sources for these 2 publications are held in the Library. See also our Newspapers subject guide

TVNews (Informit)
Indexes Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content in a compressed format. Updated daily

Statistics

see our subject guide on Statistics

Australian Social Trends from the ABS

Finding Journal Articles

Business Source Complete on EBSCOhost business database with over 1300 titles in full text
Emerald provides full text for approx. 150 journals from MCB Press. These are all scholarly, peer reviewed journals
Informit business databases collection of Australian databases
EconLIT on EBSCOhost Indexes and abstracts 450 international economics journals
Scopus is a large multidisciplinary index to scholarly literature
Web of Knowledge to search ISI highly ranked journals
Google Scholar
see also Subjects guides in the Social Sciences
Philanthropic Studies Index (PSI) Philanthropic Studies Index (PSI) is a tool to locate information on voluntarism, nonprofit organizations, fundraising, and charitable giving. The bulk of citations currently indexed are from academic journals, dated 1940 to the present. Published by the Joseph & Matthew Payton Philanthropic Studies Library, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis