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PubHub: Sharing Knowledge to Build a Better World

Welcome to PubHub, your source for foundation-sponsored reports. Search our online catalog of annotated links to 4,341 research reports, case studies, issue briefs, literature reviews, and annual reports published or funded by U.S. foundations. Learn more about PubHub»

Featured Topic: Philanthropy and Voluntarism

Passion & Purpose: Restructuring, Repositioning and Reinventing: Crisis in the Massachusetts Nonprofit Sector
Boston Foundation
May 2009
Foundations Address the Impact of the Economic Crisis
Foundation Center
April 2009
New Financial Realities: The Response of Private Foundations
Commonwealth Fund
March 2009
The Quiet Crisis: The Impact of the Economic Downturn on the Nonprofit Sector
Civic Enterprises; Democratic Leadership Council
March 2009

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Will Parent Training Reduce Abuse, Enhance Development, and Save Money? Let's Find Out
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; Brookings Institution

Barth, Richard P.; Ron Haskins
Published: September 2009

Outlines a strategy for testing the feasibility of community-developed parent training initiatives to prevent child abuse and neglect. Calls for a federal grant program to test community-wide implementation of parent training programs in stages.


Funder(s): Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Related Organization(s): Brookings Institution
Subject(s): Children and Youth; Human Services; Human Services, Family Services
Publication Type: Issue Brief


PubHub Link (8 pages; 213KB; PDF)

Consumer Financial Protection: Advantages, Dangers and Should It Be a New Agency?
Pew Economic Policy Group

Baily, Martin Neil
Published: September 2009

Outlines key structural provisions of the proposed consumer financial protection agency and ways to minimize concerns about the dangers of over-regulation and higher cost of credit. Suggests that the agency be part of the Securities Exchange Commission.


Funder(s): Pew Charitable Trusts
Subject(s): Public Affairs
Publication Type: Issue Brief


PubHub Link (10 pages; 446KB; PDF)

Aiming Higher for Health System Performance: A Profile of Seven States That Perform Well on the Commonwealth Fund's 2009 State Scorecard
Commonwealth Fund

Moody, Greg; Sharon Silow-Carroll
Published: October 2009

Identifies policies and practices linked to high performance in six top-ranked states and the most-improved state in 2007-09. Offers insights into improving coverage, prevention and treatment, avoidable hospital use and costs, equity, and healthy lives.


Funder(s): Commonwealth Fund
Subject(s): Health; Health, Healthcare Access/Reform; Health, Health Insurance/Coverage
Publication Type: Research Report


PubHub Link (58 pages; 1.11MB; PDF)

What Does International Experience Tell Us About Regulatory Consolidation?
Pew Economic Policy Group

Fresh, Adriane; Martin Neil Baily
Published: September 2009

Describes the integrated, twin peaks, functional, and institutional approaches to financial regulation and draws lessons from how Canada's, the United Kingdom's, Australia's, and other countries' regulatory structures have fared in the financial crisis.


Funder(s): Pew Charitable Trusts
Subject(s): Public Affairs
Publication Type: Issue Brief


PubHub Link (28 pages; 523KB; PDF)

Aiming Higher: Results From a State Scorecard on Health System Performance, 2009
Commonwealth Fund

McCarthy, Douglas; Dina Belloff; Joel Cantor; Sabrina How; Cathy Schoen
Published: October 2009

Ranks states on thirty-eight indicators of healthcare access, prevention and treatment, avoidable hospital use and costs, equity, and healthy lives. Examines trends, including eroding adult insurance coverage, poor care coordination, and rising costs.


Funder(s): Commonwealth Fund
Subject(s): Health; Health, Health Insurance/Coverage; Health, Healthcare Access/Reform
Publication Type: Research Report


PubHub Link (110 pages; 3.67MB; PDF)

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare
Center for Social Media

Published: October 2009

Provides a code of best practices to help those preparing OpenCourseWare — course materials in digital form available for free online — to interpret and apply fair use under U.S. copyright law. Outlines situations, principles, and limitations.


Funder(s): Ford Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Subject(s): Science/Technology; Science/Technology, Intellectual Property; Education
Publication Type: Best Practice


PubHub Link (22 pages; 1.13MB; PDF)

Comparing the Paulson Blueprint With the Geithner White Paper
Pew Economic Policy Group

McDonald, Gordon
Published: September 2009

Compares the financial reform recommendations and discussions of structural financial models from Treasury Department officials of the Bush and Obama administrations. Examines issues including consumer protection and the role of the Federal Reserve.


Funder(s): Pew Charitable Trusts
Subject(s): Public Affairs
Publication Type: Issue Brief


PubHub Link (18 pages; 660KB; PDF)

China, the United States, and the Climate Change Challenge
World Resources Institute

Seligsohn, Deborah; Robert Heilmayr; Xiaomei Tan; Lutz Weischer
Published: October 2009

Outlines China's climate change policy, U.S. concerns about transfer of carbon-intensive jobs to China and ways to address them, ways for U.S. policy and legislation to spur China's adoption of clean technologies, and specific mechanisms for cooperation.


Funder(s): Center for Strategic and International Studies, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Energy Foundation
Subject(s): Environment; Environment, Energy/Energy Use; Environment, Global Climate Change
Publication Type: Issue Brief


PubHub Link (19 pages; 291KB; PDF)

Foundations' Year-end Outlook for Giving and the Sector
Foundation Center

Lawrence, Steven
Published: November 2009

Presents findings from a September 2009 survey of foundations on the outlook for 2009 and 2010 giving compared with January 2009 estimates, effects on foundation operations, and the economic crisis' expected long-term impact on foundations and nonprofits.


Funder(s): Wallace Foundation
Subject(s): Philanthropy and Voluntarism; Philanthropy and Voluntarism, Capacity Building; Philanthropy and Voluntarism, Governance
Publication Type: Survey


PubHub Link (5 pages; 282KB; PDF)

Does Evolution Explain Human Nature?
John Templeton Foundation

Published: April 2009

Compiles short essays by twelve scientists and scholars on how well the theory of evolution explains human nature. Separate link includes video of a panel discussion with three scientists.


Funder(s): John Templeton Foundation
Subject(s): Science/Technology; Religion
Publication Type: Issue Brief


PubHub Link (24 pages; 288KB; PDF)
Panel Discussion Video

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