Dana Brakman Reiser Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser Recent documents in Dana Brakman Reiser en-us Sun, 31 May 2009 04:46:58 PDT 3600 For-Profit Philanthropy http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/14 http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/14 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:41:04 PDT This essay examines Google's adoption of the novel and unorthodox for-profit philanthropy model. Google created a division of its for-profit company that is tasked with pursuing philanthropic activities. Specifically, this division is responsible for addressing the global issues of climate change, poverty, and emerging diseases. Of course, companies have long blended philanthropic and business objectives. They make contributions, commit to corporate social responsibility, or even form as social enterprises. For-profit philanthropy, though, differs from these familiar techniques in both structure and scale. Likewise, for-profit philanthropy stands in stark contrast to the nonprofit, tax-exempt form of organization typically used by those pursuing exclusively philanthropic endeavors. This essay investigates the for-profit philanthropy model, drawing out these distinctions as well as the reasons why Google chose to adopt it. These reasons reveal a fascinating mismatch between Google's philanthropic vision and that of nonprofit law. Exploring this divergence exposes the fundamental policy choices underlying the law's structures for philanthropic activity, as well as the undertheorized boundary between nonprofits and for-profits. Dana Brakman Reiser Corporations Law and Society Granting Prescriptive Powers to Nurse Practitioners: Economic and Political Motivations http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/12 http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/12 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:13:11 PDT Dana Brakman Reiser Chronology Case Comment, "The Supreme Court, 1997 -- Leading Cases http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/11 http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/11 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:11:52 PDT Dana Brakman Reiser Chronology Book Note, "Public Choice Theory: A Unifying Framework for Judicial Activism," (reviewing Charles M. Haar, Suburbs Under Siege (1996)) http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/10 http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/10 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:50:42 PDT Dana Brakman Reiser Chronology Note, "Charting No Man's Land: Applying Jurisdictional and Choice of Law Doctrines to Interstate Compacts" http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/9 http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/9 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:44:28 PDT Dana Brakman Reiser Chronology Decision-Makers Without Duties: Defining the Duties of Parent Corporations Acting as Sole Corporate Members in Nonprofit Health Care Systems http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/8 http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/8 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:31:10 PDT Dana Brakman Reiser Chronology Dismembering Civil Society: The Social Cost of Internally Undemocratic Nonprofits http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/7 http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/7 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:24:13 PDT Dana Brakman Reiser Chronology Enron.org: Why Sarbanes-Oxley Will Not Ensure Comprehensive Nonprofit Accountability http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/6 http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/6 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:49:47 PDT Dana Brakman Reiser Chronology There Ought to Be a Law: The Disclosure Focus of Recent Legislative Proposals for Nonprofit Reform [Symposium: Who Guards the Guardians?: Monitoring and Enforcement of Charity Governance] http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/5 http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/5 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:48:36 PDT Dana Brakman Reiser Chronology Introduction [Symposium: Who Guards the Guardians?: Monitoring and Enforcement of Charity Governance] http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/4 http://works.bepress.com/dana_brakman_reiser/4 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:45:30 PDT Dana Brakman Reiser Chronology