While entrepreneurial-minded concerns like the Adventure Project and ILF in many ways represent the future of social impact work, corporate, foundation and civic giving practices remain largely charitable in nature.

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If in the far future, the only documents from this era of American history that social historians have to work with are Tax Court decisions, I bet they could do a pretty fair job of reconstructing many of the changes in our culture.

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Head of Social Work John Alexander said the department might have to "do things differently" in future.

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Richard Barker, from the College of Social Work, said the failure to properly invest in care was storing up problems for the future.

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