Women and Philanthropy in Education

This book illuminates the philanthropic impulse that has influencedwomen's education and its place in the broader history of philanthropy in America.Contributing to the history of women, education, and philanthropy, the book showshow voluntary activity and home-grown educational enterprise were as important asbig donors in the development of philanthropy. The essays in Women and Philanthropyin Education are generally concerned with local rather than national effects ofphilanthropy, and the giving of time rather than monetary support. Many of theessays focus on the individual lives of female philanthropists (Olivia Sage, MarthaBerry) and teachers (Tsuda Umeko, Catharine Beecher), offering personal portraits ofphilanthropy in the 19th and 20th centuries. These stories provide evidence of thekey role played by women in the development of philanthropy and its importance tothe education of women.Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies --Dwight F. Burlingame and David C. Hammack, editors