Working Paper (v1.0).This working paper introduces the Ecosystem for New Philanthropy (ENP) as a capability-anchored framework for designing and sustaining inclusive public support systems through cross-sector ecosystems. ENP conceptualizes philanthropy not only as project funding, but as a generative institutional designer that helps detect and fill “institutional gaps” where standard rules, administrative silos, or capacity constraints systematically fail specific people or communities. The paper offers (1) an institutional genealogy situating ENP as an integrative ethical design frame that builds on insights from New Public Management, New Public Governance, Public Service Logic, and Hybrid Governance; (2) an ethical foundation combining the capabilities approach, care ethics, and recognition theory; and (3) a set of boundary conditions, provisional indicators, and testable propositions for future empirical research. The analysis is based on documentary sources (public reports, webpages, and published materials), and is intended to support comparative and mixed-method inquiry across cases such as disaster response, care governance, and community-based resource mobilization.
Shinji Hosomi (2026) studied this question.