About the chair

A word about us ESSEC’s Philanthropy Chair is a research team whose members aim to strengthen the social impact of individual donors, corporate donors, foundations and impact investors. We do this by producing and sharing research about philanthropy, primarily in France and Europe.  What is our motivation ? We seek to: Contribute towards scholars and practitioners’ understanding of contemporary philanthropy Promote more clear-sighted, strategic and effective philanthropy Reinforce the philanthropy’s contribution to todays’ pressing social problems How do we go about this? By bringing together academic and applied research; through dissemination and by offering training courses Through the efforts of a cross-disciplinary and international team In conjunction with highly engaged partners, reunited regularly through our steering committee meetings. Since the Chair’s inception in 2011, we have proven our capacity to publish quality academic and applied research on philanthropy; played an active part in developing a European research network, established our role in transmitting knowledge to practitioners, ESSEC alumni and fundraising professionals. The Chair is a part of the Centre of Excellence for Management and Society (CEMAS).