<title>Abstract</title> Governance issues facing local philanthropy are explored from the perspectives of grantmaking foundations, governance approaches sought locally and localized institutional vehicles, such as community foundations. Case examples of philanthropic action and governance issues are...

<title>Abstract</title> The varying relations between philanthropy and governments, sometimes marginal, sometimes central, provide the context for the papers in this special edition of PMR. From welfare states' assumptions about philanthropy's death, to its looked-for resurgence in post-welfare states, the...

The concept of ‘capacity building’ is explored, through illustration and critique of the concept's development in the international, national and local community literature. Theoretical strands where the concept belongs partially include community development theory, agency theory and...