Nonprofit Studies Program Seminars
Coordinator: Dennis Young
2009
- January 27, Noon-1:30pm, Seminar Room
Calvin Edwards will present on "Orientations to due diligence and evaluation" - February 4, Noon-1:30pm, Room 749 AYS
Douglas Norton (Florida State University) will present "Endogenous Production Technology in a Public Goods Enterprise" - February 24, Noon-1:30pm Seminar Room
Dennis Young and Amanda Wilsker will present on Financing Nonprofits - March 24, Noon-1:30pm, Seminar Room
John Boli (Emory) will present on "Religious INGOs and World Culture"
2008
- January 17, 8:30 am-5:30 pm, Hurt Building, 50 Hurt Plaza, 10th floor conference room
Discussion: Research on Nonprofit Management and Economics An open conversation with internationally recognized scholars on a working publication edited by Profs. Bruce Seaman and Dennis Young. More info - February 12, 12:30-2:00pm, 749 AYSPS
Janelle Kerlin (AYSPS) and Doug Ammar (Georgia Justice Project) presented on "Social Enterprise in Research and Practice" - March 11, 12:30-2:00pm, 749 AYSPS
John Knapp (The Southern Institute for Business and Professional Ethics and J. Mack Robinson College of Business) will present on "Ethics and Governance in Nonprofit Organizations" - April 15, 12:30-2pm, Room 749
Prof. Russell James (Dept. of Housing & Consumer Economics, UGA) will present "Health, wealth, and charitable estate planning: A longitudinal examination of testamentary charitable giving plans" - September 16, 11:30-1pm, Seminar Room
Nicholas Harvey and Lewis Faulk will present on “The Boundaries of Social Enterprise: When can a failing business succeed in nonprofit form?” - October 21, 11:30-1pm, Seminar Room
Janet Johnson, Shena Ashley, and Grace Chikoto will present on "Nonprofit Georgia" - November 5, 11:30-1pm, Seminar Room
Kristina Jaskyte (UGA) will present on “Creativity and Innovation in Nonprofit Organizations”
2007
- January 17, 12:30pm, 749 AYSPS
Andreas Ortmann (Charles University, Czech Republic) presented "Certification As Viable Quality Assurance Mechanism for Nonprofits" - February 20, 12:30-2:00pm, 749 AYSPS
Sal Alaimo presented “Capacity for Program Evaluation in Human Service Nonprofit Organizations” - March 27, 12:30-2:00pm, 749 AYSPS
Jamil Zainaldin (Georgia Humanities Council) and Martin Lehfeldt (Southeastern Council of Foundations) presented “The History of U.S. Southern Philanthropy” - April 9, 12:30-2:00pm, 749 AYSPS
Michael Owen (Emory University) presented "Ghettos, Government, and God: The Politics of Faith-Based Initiatives in Cities” - April 17, 12:30-2:00PM, 749 AYSPS
Paul Ferarro presented "Empirical Program Evaluation: Are We Having an Impact?” - April 26, 4:00pm, 750 AYSPS
Paul Light (Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service) presented "Searching for Social Entrepreneurs in the New Nonprofit Sector." - September 11, 12:30-2:00pm, 749 AYSPS
John Bare (Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation) presented “Risk Management and Social Change in the Nonprofit Sector” - October 25, 3-4:30PM, 749 AYSPS
Francine Ostrower (Urban Institute) presented "How Nonprofit Boards Really Work: Findings from the First National Representative Study." UPS Lecture on Nonprofit Leadership, Governance and Economic Stewardship. - November 6, 12:30-2pm, Room 749
Del Martin (Giving USA) presented. - November 19, 12:30-2:00pm, 749 AYSPS
Derek Shendell (Institute of Public Health, College of Health and Human Sciences) presented on "The California Community Action to Fight Asthma Initiative (CAFA-I): Examples of Science-Based Policy Advocacy, Interventions, and Community-Based Participatory Research Planning"
2006
- January 17, 12:30-2:00pm, 749 AYSPS
Eric Twombly presented "Privatization and devolution" - February 21, 12:30-2pm, 749 AYSPS
Harvey Newman presented "Faith and philanthropy in Atlanta" - March 21, 12:30-2pm, 749 AYSPS
Susan Laury presented "Applications of experimental economics to nonprofit fund development" - April 12, 6th Annual *Nonprofit Executive Roundtable* with Dr. Virginia Hodgkinson on “Amid Retreating Resources and Growing Income Inequality: Whither Nonprofits?”
- April 13, 10-11:30am, 749 AYSPS
Virginia Hodgkinson (Georgetown University) presented "The Nonprofit Sector and Public Policy" - April 18, 12:30-2:00pm, 749 AYSPS
Gary Henry, Dana Rickman, and Kevin Fortner presented "The impacts of foundations on higher education policy"
2005
- April 28, 5th Annual *Nonprofit Executive Roundtable* with Dr. Dennis Young on "Forget Panaceas: Finding the Right Mix of Financing for Your Organization."
- November 29, 12:30-2:00pm, 749 AYSPS
Michael Rushton presented “Is there an economic rationale for UBIT?” - December 6, 12:30-2:00pm, 749 AYSPS
Dennis Young presented "Understanding the Revenue Mix of Nonprofit Organizations"
2004
- May 5, 4th Annual *Nonprofit Executive Roundtable* with Professor Evelyn Brody on “Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations."
Visit the Master Calendar to see upcoming seminars.