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Nonprofit
Studies Program Events
Check the AYSPS Calendar for details on these events.
Brown Bag Seminar Series (all are welcome)
All seminars will take place from 12:30pm-2pm in Room 749
2007
- Derek Shendell presented "The California Community Action to Fight Asthma Initiative (CAFA-I): Examples of Science-Based Policy Advocacy, Interventions, and Community-Based Participatory Research Planning," November 19, 2007
- John Bare of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation presented “Risk Management and Social Change in the Nonprofit Sector” Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Click here to see lecture slides - Paul Ferraro presented “Empirical Program Evaluation: Are We Having An Impact?”
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Click here to see lecture slides. - Michael Owen, Emory University, presented "Ghettos, Government, and God: The Politics of Faith-Based Initiatives in Cities”
Monday, April 9, 2007
Click here to see lecture slides. - Jamil Zainaldin and Martin Lehfeldt presented “The History Of U.S. Southern Philanthropy”
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - Sal Alaimo presented “Capacity For Program Evaluation In Human Service Nonprofit Organizations”
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - Andreas Ortmann, Charles University Economics Institute, Czech Republic, presented “Certification As Viable Quality Assurance Mechanism for Nonprofits”
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Click here to see lecture slides.
- Jeff Brudney, Young-Joo Lee and Michael Wald presented "All in a Day's Work?
Testing a Benefits-Costs Approach to Volunteering"
December 15, 12:30-2pm, Room 749 - Bruce Seaman presented “The Relationship Among Regional Economic Impact Models: The Case of Cultural Assets”
November 28, 12:30-2pm, Room 749 - Dennis R. Young presented "How Nonprofit Organizations Manage Risk"
October 3, 12:30-2pm, Room 749 - Gary Henry, Dana Rickman, and Kevin Fortner presented "The impacts of foundations on higher education policy"
April 18, 12:30-2pm, Room 749 - Susan Laury presented "Applications of experimental economics to nonprofit fund development"
March 21, 12:30-2pm, Room 749
- Harvey Newman presented "Faith and philanthropy in Atlanta"
February 21, 12:30-2pm, Room 749
- Eric Twombly presented "Privatization and devolution"
January 17, 12:30-2pm, Room 749
2005
- Dennis Young presented "Understanding the Revenue Mix of Nonprofit Organizations"
December 6, 12:30-2pm, Room 749 - Michael Rushton presented “Is there an economic rationale for UBIT?”
November 29, 12:30-2pm, Room 749
Previous Events
UPS Lecture on Nonprofit Leadership, Governance and Economic Stewardship
The Nonprofit Studies Program hosted the Second Annual UPS Lecture on Nonprofit Leadership, Governance and Economic Stewardship on Oct. 25 with speaker Francie Ostrower, Senior Research Associate with the Urban Institute. The lecture addressed "How Nonprofit Boards Really Work: Findings from the First National Representative Study."
The Nonprofit Studies Program hosted the UPS Lecture on Nonprofit Leadership, Governance and Economic Stewardship on Oct. 27 with speaker Herrington Bryce, Life of Virginia Professor of Business Administration at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va. The lecture was on "Challenges of Nonprofit Leaders in a Time of Scarcity and Scrutiny."
Nonprofit Roundtable
The 7th Annual Nonprofit Roundtable took place on Friday, April 27, 2007. Community nonprofit leaders and scholars met over breakfast for a morning of presentations and discussion regarding resource shift and income inequality. Dr. Paul Light discussed "Searching for Social Entrepreneurs in the New Nonprofit Sector." Read more about the event.
The 6th Annual Nonprofit Roundtable took place on April 12, 2006. Community nonprofit leaders and scholars met over breakfast for a morning of presentations and discussion regarding resource shift and income inequality. Dr. Virginia Hodgkinson presented “Amid Retreating Resources and Growing Income Inequality: Whither Nonprofits?” Read more about the event, see photos, and download the presentation slides.
Symposium on Homelessness
The Symposium on Homelessness, sponsored by the Nonprofit Studies Program, Pathways Community Network, Inc., Research Atlanta, and the Regional Leadership Forum, was held November 2, 2005, in the Speakers Auditorium at the Georgia State University Student Center. The focus was on solving the problem of homelessness, but also discovering the underlying causes of it.
Researchers Janet Johnson, Senior Research Associate, Nonprofit Studies Program, and Shena Ashley, Doctoral Student in the Joint Ph.D. Program in Public Policy, presented "The 2005 Metro Atlanta Tri-Jurisdictional Collaborative Homeless Survey," a joint project of Pathways Community Network and the Nonprofit Studies Program at the Andrew Young School. Read the results of the 2005 Metro Atlanta Homeless Survey. (pdf, 582 kb)
The presentation was followed by a discussion panel, moderated by David Sjoquist, Professor of Economics and Dan Sweat Chair in Educational and Community Policy at the Andrew Young School. Panelists were Bill Bolling, Executive Director of the Atlanta Community Food Bank, Craig Burnette, National Coordinator of Project CHALENG for Veterans, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Beth Vann, Executive Director of the Decatur Cooperative Ministry, and Keith Wood, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory School of Medicine, and Director of the Central Fulton Community Mental Health Center in Grady Health Systems.
