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ARNOVA Receives New Grant from the Gates Foundation

ARNOVA received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation early this summer for an new initiative designed to encourage new research focused on how public policy affects the work of nonprofit organizations in the U.S. The heart of this work will be a “Symposium on Public Policy and Nonprofits,” to be held this fall. This will be a working meeting with leading experts in the field from nonprofits, government, think-tanks and universities. The Symposium will be followed by other activities designed to engage key players in the nonprofit community in a collaborative effort to improve knowledge about, and the formation of, public policy relating to nonprofits in the U.S. An immediate goal for this work to support development of the research needed to understand, identify and advocate for better policies.

Those key players include policymakers and practice leaders as well as academic researchers whose work or service centers on nonprofit organizations and their work. The ultimate goal here is to support nonprofit charitable organizations and associations in becoming more effective in serving their communities and the public good.

The findings, insights and recommendations of the Symposium will be published in a Working Paper and Report on “Critical Public Policy Issues for the Nonprofit Sector” next winter.

The project is being supported and advised by a Steering Committee that includes Dr. Leslie Lenkowsky of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University; Dr. Elizabeth Boris, Director of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute; and Tim Delaney, President of the National Council of Nonprofits.


Volunteer Participation Survey for ARNOVA – Please Help

Dear ARNOVA Colleagues,

We invite and request your participation in our annual survey of volunteer labor for ARNOVA. You will soon get a notice that we have posted a survey instrument on Survey Monkey that asks you to tell us about any work you have done this year (2009/10) – e.g., service on a committee, reviewing materials for us, judging for awards – on behalf of our Association.

The annual "audit" of volunteer participation is something the membership asked us to do at the Annual Membership meeting several years ago. We value this exercise because it helps us know how we are doing in our efforts to be a truly voluntary organization. It also demonstrates the value of work you give to our efforts to build a more vibrant research community, one that makes a more significant contribution to our field, the academy and the nonprofit sector. Among other things it helps funders see how we leverage their grants with our labor to extend their reach and impact.

Your assistance with this is something we both need and appreciate. If you have volunteered in any way for ARNOVA between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010, we would be very grateful if you could give a few more minutes to complete this simple instrument so we can include that gift of time in our calculations. So, look for the notice – it might get diverted to junk mail or spam in your system.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Sincerely,

Thom Jeavons

Executive Director
ARNOVA


Emerging Scholars Awards and the Travel Grants

Emerging Scholar Awards

Regular Scholarships & Travel Grants


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News about the BenchMark 3.5 Conference

The next Benchmark Conference is being planned now by the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council [NACC]. BenchMark 3.5, a fourth conference on the development of nonprofit/nongovernmental management, voluntarism and philanthropy as a field of study in higher education, 3.5 will convene March 24-27, 2011 at the Hilton San Diego Resort and Spa in San Diego, California.

For more information you can visit NACC’s website at http://www.naccouncil.org/benchmark There you will find a call for papers and other helpful information. BenchMark 3.5 is presented by the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council and will be hosted by the University of San Diego School of Leadership and Education Services. The Arizona State University Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation is the lead sponsor for BenchMark 3.5.


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New ARNOVA Press

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We are delighted today to announce that ARNOVA is launching a new service for our members. And we are looking for your immediate guidance to help us shape this so that it can be of maximum value to you, as well as to our wider field.

What ARNOVA Press Is

This “Press” is a new initiative by ARNOVA to make it easier for scholars, teachers and students in our field(s) of nonprofit, philanthropic and voluntary action studies to find and access useful, sometimes difficult to locate intellectual resources for research and teaching. We are beginning with the abstracts of papers presented at our own Conferences, and adding to that working papers, essays, and reports of earlier studies from a wide variety of sources that have gone out of print. We eventually hope to include out-of-print volumes important to our field. We hope soon to add a library of syllabi and links to collections of teaching cases to support our members who are teaching in these fields.

Our intent is to create a central nexus and repository to provide easy connections to resources you want and or may need for your work. All in one place you will find either these documents themselves, or links to take you right to them. At the ARNOVA Press site there is a searchable index listing all these resources by title and author.

Presently you will find copies of the first ARNOVA Catalogue of Current Research, the searchable database of abstracts of all the papers presented at the 2009 Conference. (There will be a second “Catalogue” following the 2010 Conference.) Also there are the three Occasional Papers on Emerging Areas of Volunteering, Philanthropy in Communities of Color; Traditions and Challenges, Research on Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding and Contributing to an Emerging Field that ARNOVA published.

In addition, ARNOVA Press now offers immediate links to an exceptional collection of documents including: The Filer Commission Papers, Independent Sector’s early studies on Giving and Volunteering, the full collection of Indiana University’s Essays on Philanthropy, and all the issues of the Journal of Voluntary Action Research (1972-1988), the predecessor of our current Journal, NVSQ. In addition to creating search capacity and access to this literature in a single place, ARNOVA Press offers the capacities to get copies of these pieces as downloads or in a print-on-demand format.

Your Suggestions Sought

Finally, we are hoping to rapidly expand this collection. This is where we solicit your input! Many pieces of literature that we might like for research or teaching purposes are often out-of-print. One potential role for ARNOVA Press is to bring those pieces back into circulation in an electronic or print-on-demand mode. We believe this would be a service to the field. And we welcome your ideas about what pieces of literature in our field(s) of nonprofit, philanthropic and voluntary action studies we might want to focus on. Are there particular books, papers or articles you would like us to make available? If so, please send us your suggestions by email to: arnovapress@arnova.org


Catalogue of Abstracts from Conference

ARNOVA’s new Catalogue of Current Research on Nonprofits, Philanthropy & Volunteering is now posted and available by "Members Only." Access to this document is a benefit of membership, and requires your password. The Catalogue is a searchable document that will allow you to find what was presented at the Conference by author, title or subject (key words).

Click here to access the Catalogue of Current Research on Nonprofits, Philanthropy & Volunteering




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