Announcements
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.
Fall 2009 International Fellows Program Offered
The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at City University of New York is pleased to announce a unique fellowship opportunity— the fall 2009 Senior International Fellows Program. The program provides an opportunity for the professional development of Third-Sector practitioners from outside the United States who are decision-makers in their professions. The 2009 program will focus on the topic of community foundations. Proposals for position papers on diaspora philanthropy will also be considered.
The program consists of weekly seminars, exploration of key agencies and foundations, meetings with nonprofit representatives and investigation of both U.S. and international foundation models. The program will run from Monday October 19, 2009 through Friday November 13, 2009. Each fellow will produce a position paper with recommendations for the development, adaptation or expansion of community foundations or diaspora philanthropy in his/her country or region.
Each fellowship covers the cost of tuition. The Center will also provide furnished accommodations proximate to The Graduate Center, round-trip air tickets for travel to and from New York City and a generous stipend (taxable) to cover research-related and living expenses.
The program is open to senior-level practitioners over the age of 35 who are citizens of countries other than the United States. Applicants must speak and write English fluently. Candidates must have a strong institutional base and a clear interest in furthering the work of community foundations or diaspora philanthropy.
For further information and to apply please visit: http://CPCS.sifp09.sgizmo.com.
The deadline for application is June 30, 2009.
CIRIEC 2nd International Conference on the Social Economy
1-2 October 2009
Östersund, Sweden
The Swedish Institute for Social Economy (CIRIEC Scandinavia), Mid Sweden University , CIRIEC International and the Platform for Social Economy in the Mid-Swedenn, together with CIRIEC, are collaborating to present this conference. The event will take place on 1-2 October 2009 in Östersund, Sweden, at the campus of the Mid Sweden University, only five minutes walking distance from the city centre.
The main theme of the conference is “The Social Economy in a World Facing a Global Crisis.”
The conference will enable fruitful discussions between researchers and practitioners from different parts of the world and between policy makers and academics. It will create an exceptional forum for knowledge exchange and contribute to the development of international networks and partnerships. Therefore, we are inviting researchers and practitioners from different parts in the world, within the sector of Social Economy, to submit abstract papers that will be evaluated by a Scientific Committee of the conference. Authors whose abstract has been accepted are expected to present a full paper or study to the research audience in one of the workshops at the conference.
The conference website provides the latest information at www.socek.se/ciriec_research_2009. Online-registration will be available as from 1st of March.
ISTR President Visits Israel and Vietnam
ISTR President Mark Sidel visited Israel and Vietnam from March 11-20 as part of an effort to expand ISTR's work with national third sector studies associations and to strengthen ISTR's international and regional programs.
In Israel, Sidel represented ISTR at the Israeli Center for Third Sector Research (ICTR) 12th Annual Conference and 2nd International Conference, where he joined 150 participants in two days of active discussion, gave a panel presentation on the impact of the current economic crisis on international philanthropy from the United States, and presented greetings from ISTR at the conference dinner. He also discussed possibilities for expanding ISTR's international and regional programs with ICTR and international colleagues at the conference.
Sidel is also scheduled to visit the West Bank for program discussions with Palestinian civil society research colleagues on behalf of ISTR over the next several months.
In Vietnam, Sidel explored options for ISTR programs with Vietnamese and international colleagues in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, meeting with colleagues working in Vietnamese research organizations, NGO umbrella groups, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and other institutions, and consulting with the United Nations on expansion of its programs to strengthen civil society development in Vietnam.
During 2009, in addition to the planned program discussions with civil society research colleagues on the West Bank, Sidel will represent ISTR in discussions on programs with Chinese civil society research colleagues in Beijing, at the ISTR Latin America and Caribbean Regional Conference in Mexico City, at a planning meeting on research on the impact of the economic crisis on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector in Asia and the United States funded by the Japan Foundation/Center for Global Partnership, at the American national meetings on nonprofit studies convened by ARNOVA, and at the ISTR Asia Pacific Regional Conference in Taipei.
Other ISTR colleagues have recently represented the organization at the annual meeting of the Australia and New Zealand Third Sector Research conference in Auckland, at the European Forum on Philanthropy and Research Funding convened by the European Foundation Center in Brussels, and at other events.
Japan Research Colloquium
Jacqueline Butcher, ISTR President, and Margery Daniels, Executive Director, traveled to Japan in December 2008 as guests of the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI). They were graciously hosted by the University and took part in a Colloquium on Linguapolitics, and met with ISTR members, research centers, NGOs, and grant making foundations throughout Japan.
The two day Research Colloquium on Linguapolitics was held on December 13 & 14, 2008. The first day was held in Tokyo and began with Prof. Masayuki Deguchis presentation, introducing the concept of linguapolitics. This was followed by a presentation on language issues in ISTR by Margery Daniels and the linguapolitical situation in Mexico by Dr. Jacqueline Butcher. The afternoon session had presentations by Dr. Yuko Nishimura, Tetsuji Tanaka, and Kazuo Inaba and discussions in Japanese.The second day of the colloquium was held at National Museum of Ethnology (MINPAKU) in Osaka. In the morning session, Prof. Yashavantha Dongre made a presentation on linguapolitics in India, which was followed by presentations on CT and linguapolitics by Prof. Toshio Kobayashi, music and language issues by Prof. Atsushi Ogatha, and language issues in science by Prof. Kiyotaka Tanigawa. This colloquium was part of the ongoing research project on linguapolitics headed by Prof. Masauyuki Deguchi.
Prof. Yashavantha Dongre, University of Mysore, India, and a former board member of ISTR, has joined MINPAKU as a Visiting Overseas Professor for one year beginning in December 2008. He and Prof. Deguchi met through ISTR and found common research grounds. They will be pursuing a joint research project on Internal Governance Practices of Japanese NPOs.
The team also visited Ritsumeikan University, a private university in Kyoto, and met with its President and Chancellor Prof. Kiyofumi Kawaguchi. Prof. Kawaguchi is one of the long standing members of ISTR who attended the first ISTR international conference in Hungary in 1994. He his and his students continue to pursue research interests in third sector related areas.
ISTR Announces New Board
The newly elected board of the International Society for Third-Sector Research took office effective January 1, 2009.
President Mark Sidel (USA)
President-Elect Brenda Gainer (Canada)
Secretary Paul Dekker (The Netherlands)
Treasurer Wendy Earles (Australia)
Board Members
Beatriz Balian de Tagtachian (Argentina)
Ledivina Cariño (Philippines)
Giuliana Gemelli (Italy)
Victor Adefemi Isumonah (Nigeria)
Krishna Kothai (India)
Jean-Louis Laville (France)
Kathleen McCarthy (USA)
Felipe Portocarrero (Peru)
Per Selle (Norway)
Annette Zimmer (Germany)
Naoto Yamauchi (Japan)
Past President Jacqueline Butcher (Mexico)
Doctoral Students
Dissertation Workshop on Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Asia
May 3-6, 2009
Asian Institute, Munk Centre for International Studies,1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3K7 Canada
Workshop Statement
This dissertation workshop seeks to engage scholars whose work explores the impacts of
collective action and social capital, and its various component parts (trust, norms, networks and
associations) in diverse parts of Asia, where the nature of state, civil society and alternate
civilities is changing rapidly. Our premise is that the “productivity” of civic engagement in terms
of enhancing the economic and political vitality of local communities depends, to a large extent,
on the responsiveness of the local government and the nature of civil society/alternate civilities in
the region under examination. As such, empirical research that seeks to discover and document
how social capital and civic engagement interact with other aspects of social and political life to
enhance, or perhaps diminish, well-being is important to both intellectual and policy debates
taking place across a variety of academic disciplines. Further, researchers who focus on Asia are
well positioned to contribute to theoretical debates about the relative usefulness of the concept of “social capital” and associated terms such as social cohesion, cooperation, public participation,
empowerment, and community as ways of apprehending the complex dynamics of Asian
settings. The workshop thus seeks to bring empirical research and re-theorizations from Asia into
a productive dialogue.
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Eligibility and Arrangements
The workshop is intended for doctoral students whose dissertation projects concern the role of
civic engagement and social capital, in its many variations, in fostering dynamic change in any
part of contemporary Asia. The purpose of the workshop is to encourage and assist doctoral
students who are just beginning work on these issues, as well as those who are farther along in
their projects. The workshop will involve intensive discussion of the individual projects and also
the larger theoretical and methodological issues that they raise. Possibilities for continuing
associations among interested students and faculty will be explored. Applicants must be enrolled
in a full-time doctoral program. They must have drafted a dissertation research proposal, even
though it may not yet be approved by their committees. They must be prepared to engage in some
work prior to the meeting, namely reading and commenting on the proposals of other participants
to establish a basis for productive exchange at the event.
The workshop will take place over three days on the campus of the University of Toronto. It will
include twelve students and four faculty members from a variety of disciplines and
interdisciplinary fields. The Asian Institute at the University of Toronto will cover the costs of
work, meals, and accommodation. Travel will be subsidized up to a maximum of CDN$600 per
participant.
Application Deadline is January 30, 2009
Applications consist of two items: 1) a current curriculum vitae and 2) an 8 to 10 page double
spaced dissertation proposal. Alternatively, if the work is well underway, an 8 to 10 page double
spaced description of the specific issues being addressed, the intellectual approach, and the
materials being studied. Workshop participants will be selected on the content of the submitted
projects, the potential for useful exchanges among them, and the benefits of including a wide
range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches and intellectual traditions. Applications
should be sent in an email attachment to ai.soc@utoronto.ca. Applicants will be informed about
whether or not they have been selected for the workshop by February 6th 2009. For further
information about the workshop or eligibility, please contact the workshop assistant at ai.soc@utoronto.ca.
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/ai/pdfdoc/Diss.Workshop.pdf
ESRC Research Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy
The UK’s first dedicated research Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy (CGAP), formally launched on October 1st 2008, represents the first significant UK investment in research on the major issues affecting charitable giving and philanthropy.
The Centre has been funded jointly by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Government’s Office of the Third Sector (OTS), Carnegie UK Trust and Scottish Government. Together they have provided a total investment of £2.2million over 5 years.
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EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL on SOCIAL ECONOMY
(ESSE)
The Future of Social Enterprise:
Models and Experiences
6-11 July 2009
The Faculty of Economics of the University of Bologna (Forlì Campus – offering an Undergraduate Degree in Social Economy and a “Laurea Magistrale” (post-Graduate Degree) in Economics and Management of cooperatives and non profit organizations) joint with AICCON, is pleased to announce the Summer School on Social Economy whose first edition will take place at the Bertinoro Campus of the University of Bologna in 2009.
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Joint Statement of ISTR, ARNOVA, CINEFOGO, and EMES
11 July 2008
Research associations, through their membership meetings, provide forums in which participants exercise their freedom of scholarly expression and debate. The International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), the CINEFOGO Network of Excellence, and the EMES European Research Network, are four research associations, made up of over 2000 members from over 80 countries around the world, that regularly convene to exchange knowledge and advance research on civil society, nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, and philanthropy. We have seen the benefits to our societies as well as our research associations of freedom of expression, association and travel. Our nations and communities are richer and stronger because individuals have had assured rights to travel, to meet, to speak and to publish, and to freely exchange knowledge and ideas. The protection and exercise of these rights have been essential building blocks of healthy and democratic civil societies.
As citizens as well as scholars of many countries, including the United States (US) and the countries of the European Union (EU), we are alarmed and deeply disturbed at recent events – specifically denials of visas and the creation of other obstacles to travel imposed upon scholars over the last year. A number of civil society scholars have been barred from the leading meetings in our field. Professor Adam Habib, Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, was unable to take part in ARNOVA’s annual meeting in November 2007 in Atlanta – at which he had been invited to give a plenary address – after his US visa was revoked by the State Department. Other scholars have been prevented from participating in ISTR’s membership meeting in July 2008 in Barcelona due to their inability to obtain a Schengen visa to enter Europe.
These travel restrictions on leading global scholars have violated their and our civil liberties. Their exclusion from the premiere academic forums in our field curtails our freedom of scholarly expression. In addition, the targeted exclusion from academic forums of scholars from particular regions will negatively impact and seriously hamper the advance of knowledge and the resulting policies and practices flowing from this knowledge in these areas of study.
As members of the board of directors of ISTR, ARNOVA, CINEFOGO and EMES, and as scholars of civil society, we issue this statement to express our alarm and deep concern, particularly at a time when global democratic exchange is of utmost importance. Our concern is not only for the scholar mentioned in this statement, but for all of our colleagues who are prevented from engaging in peaceful democratic discussion. We thus call upon our colleagues, institutions, and governments to support democratic freedoms and scholarly exchange.
ISTR Receives the Award for Creativity and Innovation in Third Sector Research
On March 12, 2008, the Israeli Center for Third-sector Research (ICTR) presented the “Award for Creativity and Innovation in Third Sector Research” to the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR). Since its foundation in 1997, the Israeli Center for Third-sector Research has aimed to conduct original research while also encouraging and recognizing the research of other individuals and organizations. The organization honored ISTR for its commitment to both research and the advancement of knowledge regarding the third sector. ICTR’s Chief Research Officer, Hagai Katz, claimed that although the decision to “grant the award to ISTR was an easy one,” his committee found it difficult to “put all the reasons” as to why ISTR deserved the award “on one plaque.” The plaque recognizes ISTR as a “major force” in “elevat[ing] Third Sector research internationally” through:
conducting bi-annual conferences in all parts of the world, each of which attracts hundreds of scholars, where pertinent issues are discussed and deliberated,…initiating and managing an academic journal (VOLUNTAS) devoted to international research on the third sector and civil society, which is considered one of the best in the field,…contributing in disseminating Third Sector research in all parts of the world through its regional networks, encouraging the participation of young scholars in conferences and building bridges between different research traditions…[and] encouraging the establishment of local associations of researchers in many countries, which promotes local and comparative research.
In past years, individual researchers, including notable third sector scholars and theorists such as Lester Salamon, Helmut Anheier, and Avner Ben-Ner, have received ICTR’s Award for Creativity and Innovation in Third Sector Research. This is the first time ICTR has granted the award to an organization and, according to Katz, “Giving the award to ISTR is giving an award to us and to all of our colleagues around the world.” Katz also emphasized that ISTR’s “contribution to [third sector research] is the direct result of its members’ contributions and engagement in ISTR’s publications, networks, and conferences.”
Message from the President of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), Jacqueline Butcher, on the conferral of the ICTR Award for Innovation in Third Sector Research to ISTR (March 12, 2008):
It is a great honor to accept the ICTR Award for Innovation in Third Sector Research for the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR). One of the purposes of our organization is to “build a global scholarly community with an international and comparative focus on civil society, the nonprofit sector and philanthropy.” ISTR’s relationship with the Israeli Center for Third Sector Research has long been a shining example of the development of collaborative programs and research initiatives around the world. The Center, in its more than ten years of existence, has achieved immense academic recognition in this field of study and has significantly increased the awareness of the need for information for policy and decision making on the third sector in Israel.
In addition, this award has a very special meaning for ISTR because ICTR’s Director, Dr. Benjamin Gidron, was one of the founding members of ISTR and served as our first President. He has been highly instrumental in the development of third sector research in Israel as well as a driving force in the creation of the Israeli Center. As an organization we value his special contributions as well as the long and close relationships between ICTR and ISTR, and we wish the Center the very best for all future endeavours and projects.
With best regard,
Jacqueline Butcher de Rivas
President of the Board of Directors ISTR
President of the Board of Directors CEMEFI
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Global Forum on NGO Governance
BoardSource announces the launch of the Global Forum on NGO Governance (www.NGOboards.org), an online gathering place for NGO leaders worldwide to exchange ideas and share resources about increasing the effectiveness of NGO boards. A peer-to-peer network that facilitates exchange among those who work with, or serve on, NGO boards, the Web site was developed by BoardSource through a grant from Alcoa Foundation.
The Global Forum was created in response to feedback from partner institutions in other countries that have participated in BoardSource’s capacity-building workshops and training programs. To accommodate the varied legal underpinnings, civil society structures, and economic environments in which NGOs operate, this new social networking platform provides opportunities for governance professionals to share their experiences from diverse local contexts, offer fresh perspectives, and collaborate with others to solve problems. Select members of the Global Forum online community will serve as guides and facilitators to the new site, but they will not edit or endorse content contributed by other community members.
The Global Forum Web-site is free to use and open to the public. Individuals can register as members, provide pro?le information for the member directory, share resources about good governance, post pro?les of NGO capacity-building organizations that provide governance-related services, and add governance-related events to the “events” calendar.
The Web-site supports online discussions, interactive work projects, member interviews, and a resource library which currently includes scores of global governance resources in more than 12 languages. Questions can be posted by board members and NGO professionals seeking advice, specific resources or input on governance-related issues. Current resources include governance documents from NGO technical assistance organizations, customized training materials for particular regions, articles, and more than 60 BoardSource booklets that have been translated and adapted for use outside of the U.S.
BoardSource, formerly the National Center for Non-profit Boards, is the premier resource for practical information, tools and best practices, training, and leadership de
velopment for board members of nonprofit organizations in
the United States. Through highly acclaimed programs and
services, BoardSource enables organizations to fulfill their
missions by helping build effective nonprofit boards, offer
ing credible support in solving tough problems.
For more information on the Global Forum on NGO Governance, e-mail: globalforum@boardsource.org, 1-800-883-6262, www.boardsouce.org.
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Information Watch on the Research in Social Economy
The Canada Research Chair on Social Economy broadcasts its information watch on the research in social economy. References of interest, in French, English or Spanish, are presented on our website via a periodic bulletin for an initial one year duration intended for researchers, students, research centers and other networks. Major themes of the watch are “governance and general interest,” “modes of development and financing,” “evaluation methods,” and “management” of social economy’s organizations. In addition to our main review, an outline of the current research’s related events (new research centres, new research plans, events and call for papers) is provided.
Conditions of use: If you want to broadcast the content of our bulletin, please make sure you clearly identify the Chair as the primary source of information and forward the address of our website: www.chaire.ecosoc.uqam.ca.
For question and/or suggestion, email: ecosoc-veille@uqam.ca
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New Benefit of ISTR Membership
Springer Publishers is now offering members of ISTR a 25% discount on all book titles in Springer’s vast publication list including such recent titles as:
- Democracy in the Age of Globalization
- New Perspectives in Political Ethnography
- Frontiers of Globalization Research
- New Forms of Governance in Research Organizations
- Innovations in Strategic Philanthropy – Local and Global Perspectives
This discount can be used online at www.springer.com by entering in the discount or promo code at checkout. All members receive the code.
Join the Society now for 2008 and 2009 and receive this added member benefit!
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CIRIEC-España Journal
The journal CIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y cooperativa, a scientific journal published by CIRIEC has recently published an issue on “Two Decades of Research on Social Economy” on its website http://www.ciriec-revistaeconomia.es. CIRIEC-España is a Spanish Latin-America review. Its research field ranges over enterprises and entities which aim to serve the general benefit and, in particular, social economy the last one mostly composed of co-operatives, labor-managed enterprises, mutuals, foundations and associations. Most works published are in Spanish, but some special issues and all of the abstracts are in English and French.
Past issues of the journal focused on Social Economy and Rural Development, Social Economy and Corporate Social Responsibility, and Social Economy and Women. Upcoming issues will examine Information and Transparency in Social Economy, and Public Policies and Social Economy.
The full text of articles are accessible free of charge on the website, as well as information on submitting and article.
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New Journal: GIVING. Thematic Issues in Philanthropy and Social Innovation
The project of creating a new academic journal, in Italian and English, which aspires to address a wide readership, is the result of several years of experience of the International Master Programme on Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship (MISP). The journal was created at the University of Bologna in collaboration with the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and other academic institutions in Africa and Europe.
Contributors to GIVING include a vast range of collaborators and advisors, including experts from the sector, journalists, commentators, non-profit organization managers, foundation officers and executives, as well as entrepreneurs and business leaders.
The project stems from the need to capitalize on the resources created by the scholars, experts and key figures of the philanthropic field. The goal of the journal is the coordination of community of inquiry, leading to the emergence of studies on philanthropy, bringing together both academics and practitioners, in the framework of a common work aiming at the production of thematic issues in relevant fields of analysis.
GIVING intends to produces studies, research and relevant reflections on philanthropy as social investment; to analyze the essential tools for critical and rational assessment of philanthropic issues and practices; and to align philanthropic practices with the themes of scientific reflection, by means of the analysis of case studies which have an emblematic and guiding value.
Thanks to collaboration between those who operate in the world of socially responsible entrepreneurship in different fields, GIVING aims to be an outlet for research and action, a permanent workshop for ideas and practical solutions aimed to boost communication and interaction between a network of extremely high level consultants who represent the intellectual capital of the journal.
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International Research Society for Public Management Launched
For the last decade, the International Research Symposium on Public Management has brought together an increasingly influential and international research community around the issues of public management and public policy implementation. At the tenth conference, held at Glasgow Caledonian University in April this year, this community took a new step forward by formalising its network as the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM). Founding President of the Society, Professor Stephen P. Osborne of Aston University, said, ‘This is an exciting step forward for our research community. IRSPM is the one truly international and inter-disciplinary society devoted to the study of public management. It is well positioned, and committed to fostering collaboration with other leading bodies in the field in order to drive forward ‘state of the art’ research and theory about public management.’
Professor Jean Hartley, of Warwick University, said she was ‘delighted to have witnessed the establishment of a Society devoted to high quality research and which presents a significant resource for both the academic and practitioner communities.’ Professor Larry Lynn of Texas A & M University also heralded the founding of IRSPM as ‘formalizing an important international community of scholars’ and Professor Owen Hughes of Monash University welcomed the founding of the Society as ‘the fruition of twelve years of successful conferences and collaborations.’
In addition to supporting and developing the conference itself, the new Society will promote collaborative research and dissemination initiatives with such bodies as the European Group on Public Administration and the American-based Public Management Research Association, Public and Nonprofit Division of the AOM and ARNOVA. It will support the further development of its adopted journal, Public Management Review. Professor Elio Borgonovi of Bocconi University has additionally emphasized that ‘the support and development of doctoral students is also a prominent aim of the Society.’
Queries about membership of IRSPM should be forwarded to the Membership Secretary Zoe Radnor (zoe.radnor@wbs.ac.uk ). Further information on the founding of IRSPM and its future plans can be received from its founding President, Stephen P Osborne, s.p.osborne@aston.ac.uk or http://psm.abs.aston.ac.uk
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University of Mysore Launches Master’s Program in Non Profit
Management
The University of Mysore in India has launched a Masters program in Non Profit Management. Titled as Master of Management of Non Profit Organisations (MMNPO), this course is envisaged as an input for professionally trained executive level entrants to NGOs and Cooperatives. The University of Mysore has entered into an MOU with Vivekananda Institute of Leadership Development (VILD) under which VILD will run this program.
This will be the first full length Masters program in any university in India. Faculty from both VILD and the University of Mysore will be involved in teaching for this new program. The first batch of this new program will begin on 2nd October (birthday of Mahathma Gandhi). For more details: www.vild.edu.in
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India Law Abstracts Journal
The Social Science Research Network is pleased to announce the creation of a new Legal Scholarship Network abstracting journal, India Law Abstracts. India Law Abstracts is edited by Professor Vikramaditya (Vic) S. Khanna, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School. India Law Abstracts will publish abstracts of working papers, forthcoming articles and recently published articles related to law in India or legal issues impacting India. The areas covered include corporate law, intellectual property, corporate law, human rights, tax, competition law, administrative law, criminal law, private law, public interest and constitutional law, environmental law, women and the law, property and inheritance, judicial system, law and development, legal procedure, religious laws, panchayats, and legal philosophy and legal theory as they apply to current developments and historical legal issues in India. India Law Abstracts complements our existing abstracting journal on Asian Law.
Subscriptions to this journal are available at no additional charge to anyone who is covered by a site license or has an individual subscription to the LSN journals, and are free to anyone during the initial period of publication. You can subscribe to the journal by visiting: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=india-law
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SANGONeT Launches South African NGO Portal
(www.sangonet.org.za)
The Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT) is pleased to announce the launch of a new Internet portal for and about the NGO sector in South Africa. This portal is primed to become the gateway to the South African NGO sector, boasting the most comprehensive, validated and easily searchable NGO directory in the country, containing information about more than 2,500 organisations. This directory is augmented by wide ranging and diverse information for and about the NGO sector, including general news, press releases, campaigns, vacancies, event calendars, case studies, toolkits and research reports.
This is further enhanced by the inclusion of a technology planning and procurement facility, NGO.ZA. Another bonus for the NGO sector is the inclusion of a donor database on the portal, the Thusanang Donor Database, which includes information about more than 100 donors, including the kinds of projects they fund, the size of their grants, their geographical focus and their contact details. The new portal will provide an important resource for the NGO sector, giving it access to information that will develop its institutional capacity, build cohesion and increase its impact. At the same time, it will map the work of the sector, providing donors and other stakeholders with valuable information about NGO activities on the ground, the challenges they face and their impact. The portal is also intended to inform strategic decision making for all development stakeholders engaging with the NGO sector.
According to SANGONeT’s Executive Director, David Barnard, the portal will become an important community space, providing NGOs with a strategic platform to communicate with each other and other stakeholders. It will be a mechanism for NGOs to air their views, while also creating the opportunity for other stakeholders to critique and evaluate the sector. Moreover, it is envisaged to become a market place where services can be procured and exchanged. The establishment of this new portal is the culmination of SANGONeT’s years of experience of working in the online environment, as well as an extensive consultation process conducted during the past year with NGOs, funders and other stakeholders throughout South Africa. The aim of this process was to assess the information needs of the NGO sector as, ultimately, the success of the new portal will be determined by the extent to which NGOs and other stakeholders use the information on the portal, as well as actively contribute information on their own activities and experiences.
The new portal has replaced the SANGONeT website at www.sangonet.org.za. For more information about the portal and how you could contribute information on your organisation’s activities, please contact: Fazila Farouk, Deputy Director, SANGONeT, Tel: (011) 403-4935 / E-mail: fazila@sangonet.org.za
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Georgetown University Offers a Master’s in Democracy Studies
Georgetown University’s Department of Government and the Center for Democracy and the Third Sector (CDATS) recently launched a new master’s degree program in democracy studies to begin the fall of 2006.
The goal of the Democracy Studies M.A. program is to provide graduate students with a systematic understanding of the history and theory of democracy, the forms and practices of democratic governance, the theory and practice of democratization, and the relationship between democracy and development. The course has been designed for both aspiring scholars and for present and future practitioners in government, business, and the non-profit sector.
The program will provide training organized around four central themes: 1) history and theories of democracy, 2) governance and representation, 3) democratization in theory and practice, and 4) democracy and development. In addition to these thematic foci, students will be required to take courses that provide exposure to experiences of democratization in particular world regions. Students will complete at least one course on experiences of democracy and democratization in a world region. Coursework will be supplemented by internship opportunities.
The Master’s in Democracy Studies will be directed by the Government Department through CDATS. Faculty from a variety of disciplines and fields will also contribute to the program. Additional information about the degree program can be obtained online at: http://www.georgetown.edu/centers/cdats/maprogramaims.htm. Go to http://grad.georgetown.edu/pages/prospective_student_form.cfm to download application forms or http://grad.georgetown.edu/pages/apply_online.cfm to apply online. CDATS can be contacted at CDATS@georgetown.edu or phone: 1-202-687-0593.
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Research on Foundations in Northeast Brazil
Latin America Orientagao em Responsabilidade Social (LARS), a Brazilian organisation that assists institutions in developing corporate social responsibility and good governance programmes, has recently produced a report on private and public foundations in the State of Ceara, Northeast Brazil. The report provides first-hand empirical evidence on how local foundations operate in Ceara and highlights the problems with which they are faced. The report serves to support the institutional agenda of a newly established indigenous association of 10 foundations (Associagco das Fundagues do Estado do Ceara (AFECE), set up with the assistance of LARS, in July 2005. The report is also a useful resource for foundations which are active in Northeast Brazil. Further information: LARS http://www.lars.com.br/
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Italian Fund Raising Website Launched
Philanthropy Centro Studi has launched the first Italian portal on fundraising: www.fundraising.it
In includes a useful guide “How To Do Fund Raising in Italy” and a free e-newsletter on fund raising.
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