My dissertation asks: "What does an Angel Investor learn about the venture capital investment process and how do they learn it?" This is important, because Angels finance the earlier stages of venture investing (referred to as Seed or Series A) and play an instrumental role in the formation, financing, and success of today's leading…

This study examines charter school funding equity in 18 cities using 2019-20 data, the most recent available. The study uses official school district and state budget documents to capture every dollar flowing to schools, including in-kind services. The study answers the following questions: (1) What is the difference in per-pupil revenue between…

In this paper, we engage with the Research Excellence Framework (REF) -- the UK government's national policy tool for competitive allocation of scarce research funding. Success on the terms of the REF provides guaranteed income for UK Universities for a 6- or 7-year period -- and as a result, we suggest that the REF operates as an asset-like…

Background/purpose: Entrepreneurial universities are vital for economic development and innovation, yet securing sustainable funding beyond traditional sources is a critical challenge. This study addresses the need to identify and understand diverse financing mechanisms employed by these universities to foster their entrepreneurial activities. The…

"CASE Insights on Advancement at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Leveraging Data and Promoting Engagement" explores the current state of advancement at HBCUs and highlights the innovative strategies these institutions use to strengthen alumni engagement and philanthropic support. Developed by the Council for Advancement and…

A formal donor pipeline with defined giving levels is a strategic framework for thinking about fundraising and engagement activities that help advancement programs tailor outreach and communication, thoughtfully deploy human and other resources, and build long-lasting donor relationships that grow and deepen over time. How do advancement teams…

While prior research has indicated increased funding to higher education has resulted in positive outcomes related to enrollment, retention and graduation rates, and degree and certificate completions (Cummings et al., 2021), there is more to learn about disparities in funding to institutions and target student populations. With this aim, the…

This paper draws on survey and interview data with public school principals, in order to examine the impact of philanthropy in public schools in Australia. As a result of systemic government funding deficits, school principals are applying for competitive grants from a diverse range of sources. This includes non-government organisations such as…

Spending per pupil by Wisconsin public schools has lagged inflation in recent years and fallen further behind the U.S. average. This is due to a series of policy choices, including a recent two-year freeze on state-imposed caps on school district revenues, that have also helped to hold down state and local taxes. In a related trend, the share of…

Diversity of cultural expressions is part of the foundation of humanity and bears crucial implications for international stability and development. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines cultural diversity both as the collective ways that cultural heritage is expressed and as the creative productions…

Teach for Australia was announced by the Australian Government in 2008, at a corporate dinner sponsored by Swiss multinational investment bank UBS, hosting New York Schools Chancellor Joel Klein. Conceptualising Teach for Australia as a polycentric policy network anchored in venture philanthropy, this paper examines how networks mobilise major…

This article combines theories of racialized organizations with insights on institutionalization to empirically analyze the role of grantmakers in unsettling postsecondary racial inequity. Using longitudinal data on federal grantmaking to institutions of higher education, we examine whether and how grantmaking policies (re)produce or diminish…

The "Excellence Initiative" was the largest competitive funding procedure to create German world-class universities and overcome the traditional Humboldtian homogenization of German higher education. This paper examines whether the Excellence Initiative has spurred financial inequality in the national higher education sector. For a…

In the last decade, there has been increased recognition of the importance of disclosing and managing non-financial conflicts of interests to safeguard the objectivity, integrity, and trustworthiness of scientific research. While funding agencies and academic institutions have had policies for addressing non-financial interests in grant peer…

Financial sustainability had become a primary concern among public universities worldwide due to the declining trend of government's funding and the unceasing growth in higher education cost. Hence, public universities are forced to generate alternative income sources. Resource dependency theory asserts that revenue diversification is a prudent…