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Job Opportunity!
University of Southern California School of Policy,
Planning and Development Research Associate,
The Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy
Position Description and Qualifications:
The Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy has an opening for a Research Associate. The candidate will contribute to the Center’s ongoing research on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. The Center’s research focuses on three important areas: the changing landscape of philanthropy, philanthropic strategies for public problem solving, and philanthropic leadership and stewardship. Current projects include emerging models of foundation-government relationships, philanthropic strategies to impact public policy and social change, social entrepreneurship, and nonprofit capacity building.
The research associate is expected to contribute to these projects as well as develop new ones on his/her own, in collaboration with faculty fellows at the Center. Responsibilities will include developing appropriate research designs for project, data analysis, and writing reports. The candidate should have a master degree with relevant research and analysis experience on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, at a minimum. A Ph.D. is a plus.
This is a one year appointment, renewable contingent on funding availability and performance. Depending on qualifications, the appointment may be as a post-doctoral research associate or research faculty.
For more information, click here.
3rd International Research Conference on Social Economy of CIRIEC
April 6-8, 2010 in Valladolid, Spain
Theme: The Social Economy, prop of a new model of sustainable economic development
The object of this conference is to examine the role that social economy can play in a new model of economic development which is sustainable for both the North and the South. For further information, click here.
Program of the Third International Workshop on Global Internet Goveranance:
An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction
Organized by The Global Internet Goveranance Academic Network (GigaNet)
in cooperation with The Canadian Communication Association and Media McGill
Montreal, Canada
May 30-31, 2010
JOB OPENING!
Executive Director: Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (WINGS)
In January 2011, WINGS will move from Manila, Philippines, to a new location. To learn more about this opportunity, click here.
Call for Nominees for ISTR Board of Directors
The 2010 Nominating Committee invites the ISTR membership to submit nominees for Officers and Board of Directors of the International Society for Third-Sector Research. The positions for which elections will be held are:
President Elect
2 year term
(January 1, 2011-December 31, 2013)(Secretary and Treasurer will be elected from among the Board members)
Board Members (7)
4 year term
(January 1, 2011-December 31, 2014)One additional board member will be appointed as per the By-Laws.
All members of ISTR are invited to submit to the Chair of the Nominating Committee recommendations for nominees on or before JUNE 16, 2010. Self-nomination is encouraged. Biographical information for each nominee, as well as currently held board positions, and a statement of interest and motivation from the nominee must be submitted. If the nominee’s country of residence differs from his/her nationality, please indicate how long the nominee has lived in the country of residence.
Prospective candidates must be paid members of ISTR for 2010-2011 prior to the elections. In addition, board members responsibilities include both financial and time commitments:
- Membership development – recruiting both individual and institutional members
- Attending board meetings annually (3 to 4 days)
- Paying full conference fees
- Participating actively in at least one board committee
- Help with seeking funding for the Society
- Scholarly participation in international conference and regional conferences.
The current board members whose terms are ending December 31, 2010 are:
Paul Dekker* (The Netherlands)
Wendy Earles* (Australia)
V. Adefemi Isumonah* (Nigeria)
Krishna Kothai* (India)
Jean-Louis Laville (France)
Kathleen McCarthy (USA)
Felipe Portocarrero* (Peru)
*These current board members are eligible to run for a second term.
The current board members whose terms continue through December 31, 2012 are:
Brenda Gainer (Canada) President
Beatriz Balian (Argentina)
Giuliana Gemelli (Italy)
Per Selle (Norway)
Naoto Yamauchi (Japan)
Annette Zimmer (Germany)
The Nominating Committee will present the slate of candidates to the membership in September 2010. This slate will include two nominees for every position. Voting will be conducted on-line and ballots must be returned by November 28, 2010. Candidates will be notified on their election to the board by December 5, 2010 and will take office January 1, 2011.
The Nominating Committee is comprised of Alan Fowler, Chairperson (University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa), Khaled Al-Serihi (International Center for Researches & Studies, Medad Center, Saudi Arabia), Jacqueline Butcher* (Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía, Mexico), Ferenc Farkas (University of Pécs, Hungary), Jacob Mati (CIVICUS, South Africa), Felipe Portocarrero* (Universidad del Pacífico, Peru), Per Selle* (University of Bergen, Norway), Takafumi Tanaka (Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan), Lili Wang (Arizona State University, United States), Annette Zimmer* (Universität Münster, Germany). (*current board members)
Please submit nominees to:
Alan Fowler, ISTR Nominating Committee, c/o ISTR, 559 Wyman Park Building, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-2688, USA, e-mail: istr@jhu.edu
Call for Proposals to Host Future International Conferences of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR)
The International Society for Third Sector Research seeks proposals from institutions and colleagues around the world to organize and host future ISTR International Conferences, beginning in 2012 and every two years thereafter.
ISTR International Conferences are held every two years and have recently been held in Bangkok (2006) and Barcelona (2008).
The 2010 International Conference will be held in Istanbul. Hosting an ISTR International Conference provides an opportunity for strategic engagement of academic institutions, civil society organizations, funders, government agencies and others in the host city, country and beyond.
Hosting an ISTR International Conference requires the identification of a committed host institution and/or individuals that can mobilize widespread support from academic, civil society and other institutions, access financial support from local private and public funders to generate funds needed to host the conference, and be able to provide logistical support for the conference and related activities.
We seek proposals that provide information on potential conference sites; hosts and supporting organizations; financial resources already available or that can be raised; logistical arrangements; visa restrictions (if any); and any other information relevant to hosting a major international scholarly conference.
Please contact ISTR Executive Director Margery Daniels at istr@jhu.edu with proposals, expressions of interest, and with any questions about this process.
Expressions of Interest to Host 2011 ISTR Asia-Pacific Regional Conference
The ISTR Asia-Pacific Regional Network seeks preliminary expressions of interest from colleagues and institutions throughout the Asia-Pacific region to organize and host the 7th ISTR Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, to be held in 2011. The ISTR Asia-Pacific Regional Network will decide on the host institution and location for the 2011 Asia Pacific Regional Conference during its meeting at the ISTR Conference in Istanbul in July 2010.
ISTR Asia-Pacific Conferences have been held in Thailand 1999, Japan 2001, China 2003, India 2005, Philippines 2007 and, most recently, in Taiwan 2009. It is desirable that the opportunity to host the conference be shared across this diverse region from north to south and east to west. Hosting a conference provides an opportunity for strategic engagement of stakeholders and promotion of the third sector within the host nation and with its neighbours.
Hosting the conference requires in the first instance the identification of an eager and committed host institution that can access support from potential members of a local site committee. Members of the Asia-Pacific Regional Network volunteer as the regional academic committee. The host institution will need to have capacity for local and regional fund-raising to generate the funds needed to host the conference and be able to provide administrative support for the abstract review and programming process and for conference planning and implementation. Past Asia-Pacific Regional Conferences have not necessarily required a registration fee and if one was applied it would need to be linked to the country development index (used for ISTR membership rates). There is limited capacity therefore to generate conference funds from registrations.
ISTR Board member Wendy Earles is the ISTR Board contact person for expressions of interest on the ISTR 2011 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference. Those interested should send their expression of interest in the form of a letter to Wendy at wendy.earles@jcu.edu.au, copying Margery Daniels at istr@jhu.edu.
We look forward to receiving detailed expressions of interest from any interested colleagues and institutions in the Asia-Pacific region by February 1, 2010. The ISTR executive committee will have a preliminary discussion of the expressions of interest in February and ISTR Board members located in the region will support Asia-Pacific Regional Network members in their consideration of expressions of interest leading up to the Regional Network meeting in July 2010.
Silvia Ferreira Appointed Voluntas Book Review Editor
Dr. Bernard Enjolras, the editor of Voluntas, has appointed a new book review editor, Silvia Ferreira.
Silvia Ferreira is sociologist, lecturer in Sociology at the Faculty of Economics of Coimbra University and researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) and at the Centre for Cooperative and Social Economy Studies (CECES), in Portugal. She has been researching and publishing on third sector themes such as welfare pluralism, gender equality in third sector organisations, social entrepreneurship, and third sector in new local governance.
Silvia has been involved in coordination teams of international projects and events such as the project "Reinventing Social Emancipation" and the "Luso-Afro-Brasilian Congress of Social Sciences," organised at CES, a large interdisciplinary research centre on social sciences and humanities of Coimbra University. The Centre has been awarded the status of Associate Laboratory by the Ministry for Science. Through CECES, an interdisciplinary research centre of the Faculty of Economics, she has participated in the research project "European Cooperative University." At the Faculty of Economics, Silvia is involved in post-graduate education programmes on social entrepreneurship, third sector and social economy.
Tenure Track Position – Assistant Professor in Public
Management and Policy
The Department of Public Management and Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, seeks a tenure track faculty member at the Assistant Professor level, with expertise and teaching and research interests in nonprofit management and public affairs, beginning fall 2010.
The Department of Public Management and Policy offers a NASPAA-accredited MPA degree, a new MPP degree, an undergraduate degree in public policy and, in partnership with Georgia Tech, a doctorate in public policy. The department focuses on four areas of excellence: management and finance of public and nonprofit organizations; nonprofit management and policy; economic development and urban policy; and program evaluation and policy analysis.
The successful applicant will be expected to bring and maintain an active scholarly
research agenda, and should also have the ability to teach courses in some combination of
nonprofit management and one of the other areas of excellence, as well as to advise
students in these areas. Priority will be given to candidates who can bridge the nonprofit
management area and one of these areas of excellence in the department. The position
requires a doctorate in an appropriate field of study from an accredited university by
August 2010. Candidate must be eligible to work in the USA. The department is one of two academic departments in the Andrew Young School of
Policy Studies, which U.S. News & World Report ranks 27th nationally among schools
of public affairs and public policy. The school also houses the department of
Economics and several outstanding research centers in fiscal policy, nonprofit studies,
health policy, experimental economics, and public performance and management. The
school is located in new offices in downtown Atlanta at the heart of a vibrant public
and nonprofit sector. That location in combination with the school's research centers
generates excellent opportunities for faculty involvement in scholarly research that
also contributes to policy-making and management at all levels of government and the
nonprofit sector.
Candidates should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, three letters of
recommendation, and representative teaching evaluations to: Dr. Dennis Young, Chair,
Faculty Search Committee, Department of Public Management and Policy, P.O. Box
3992, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-3992. Review of applications will
begin December 1, 2009, and will continue until the position is filled. Information about
the Andrew Young School is available at www.aysps.gsu.edu. Georgia State University,
a unit of the University System of Georgia, is an equal opportunity educational institution
and an equal opportunity affirmative action employer. The position is subject to
budgetary approval.
For earlier annoucements, please read here.