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Community foundations bring together the resources of individuals, families, and businesses to support effective nonprofits in their communities. Over the years, foundations have come to engage community problem-solving through more than just grant-making. They have added a rich array of other activities, including programs of community capacity building, active modes of advocacy, and centres for meeting. In 2011, the 700+ institutions in the United States gave an estimated 4.2 billion to a variety of nonprofit activities in fields that included the arts and education, health and human service

With the help of with expert authors representing the best and the brightest in the field, this book confronts the challenges that community foundations must overcome in order to make significant contributions to their communities, and fills the need for knowledge and best practices that has kept pace with the growth of these foundations in the last century.

The university, the city, and land : context and introduction / David C. Perry and Wim Wiewel -- The university of Helsinki as a developer / Anne Haila -- From conversion to cash cow? The University of Lüneburg, Germany / Katrin B. Anacker and Uwe Altrock -- Varsity real estate in Scotland : new visions for town and gown? / Deborah Peel -- Toward downtown : spatial growth and university location in the Tokyo metropolitan area / Yuichi Takeuchi -- Mexico City and university city : a story of struggle for autonomy through land / Carlos Morales Schechinger and Sara García Jiménez -- Partnering with private corporations to build on campus : Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea / GwangYa Han and Wann Yu -- Urban and real estate development of the Central University of Venezuela's rental zone / Abner J. Colmenares -- Development of the Jatinangor University area, Indonesia : growth problems and local responses / Wilmar Salim -- The University of Oporto and the process of urban change : an ambiguous relationship / Isabel Breda-Vázquez, Paulo Conceição, and Sónia Alves -- Academic fortress : the case of Hebrew University on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem / Haim Yacobi -- Interface between academy and community in contested space : the difficult dialogue / Frank Gaffikin -- The university, the city, and the state : institutional entrepreneurship or instrumentality of the state? / Wim Wiewel and David C. Perry

Covers universities and communities around the world, including Germany, Korea, Scotland, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, and Finland. Features contributions from noted urban scholars, campus planners and architects, and university administrators from all the countries represented.

In attempting to expand the vocabulary of urban description and understanding, and to offer a new composite conceptual framework for a more integrated urban planning and policy, this essay addresses the informal, contested, and anchored dimensions of the urban in turn; second, it seeks to increasingly link the three within the new global context; and finally, it attempts to draw these strands together in a proposed reconceptualization of the contemporary city within a world where the global is urbanizing and the urban is globalizing.