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System Change Agents: A profile of elite grant-making foundation engagement in public policy

Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research

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Title System Change Agents: A profile of elite grant-making foundation engagement in public policy
 
Creator Elson, Peter R.
Hall, Sara
 
Subject Grant-making Foundations, public policy, Canada
 
Description This study profiles the engagement of elite Canadian grant-making foundations in public policy.  There is a growing realization by public and private foundations alike that downstream community issues are not isolated from upstream policy and regulatory practices. Engagement in this context has been measured across five policy streams: policy research and issue identification; policy entrepreneurship and convening; policy advocacy; policy implementation; and policy evaluation and impact. Themes emerging from this research include: 1) a migration from program into policy engagement; 2) the utilization of multiple soft and hard policy tools; 3) simultaneous engagement across multiple policy streams; 4) engagement with both systems and agents; 5) engagement in policy implementation; and 6) a long-term commitment to a focused policy issue.
 
Publisher CCSP Press, Simon Fraser University
 
Contributor Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
 
Date 2017-02-08
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
research-article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.anserj.ca/anser/index.php/cjnser/article/view/222
http://hdl.handle.net/10515/sy5mk65s0
10.22230/cjnser.2016v7n2a222
 
Source Canadian journal of nonprofit and social economy research; Vol 7, No 2 (2016)
1920-9355
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.anserj.ca/anser/index.php/cjnser/article/view/222/146