Innovation is a buzzword. It has been for quite some time. Let’s face it, we all want to believe that our organizations, or we as individuals, have a high capacity to innovate (and for the sake of humanity, let’s hope we do,) but let me pose a rhetorical question here: is it safe to say… [Read more…]
June 23, 2010
When you think about nonprofit organizations what comes to mind? What do you believe is the purpose of the nonprofit sector? How effective do you believe nonprofits are? These are questions that would seem to be easily answered. However these are questions that have, to date, received little attention in the research literature on nonprofit organizations and… [Read more…]
June 21, 2010
I am very excited to announce that the official call for papers for Benchmark 3.5 has been released! Benchmark 3.5 is the fourth conference on nonprofit and philanthropic studies to be held March 24-27, 2011 in San Diego, California. The conference is being presented by the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council (NAAC) and it hosted by… [Read more…]
June 16, 2010
Perhaps it’s the curse of becoming an academic that I am constantly questioning both if things will work as they intended and/or how we actually measure that? I like many others have been closely following the unveiling of the Social Innovation Fund under Obama’s Administration, not only watching ‘who’ is advocating and supporting this Fund,… [Read more…]
June 8, 2010
I have been reading about organizational structure of higher education organizations as part of the background reading for a paper I am working on and it got me thinking about organizational boundaries and how it relates to the key players involved in organizations. When thinking about for-profit businesses there are three key constituencies which come… [Read more…]
March 10, 2010
When conducting my research on the use of artwork as a financial investment, I came across some interesting justifications for investing in art from some of the finance-side interviewees. In addition to the typical comments about portfolio diversification, some people, along with some of the background readings, suggested that we could envision art as a… [Read more…]
March 9, 2010
Over the past 30 years or so the argument that public higher education is becoming privatized has become an accepted fact. However, less attention has been focused on how, why and to what extent these colleges and universities are actually pursuing more “private” means of sustaining themselves as various types of government support has declined.… [Read more…]
January 21, 2010
A good deal of my dissertation interests and current research surrounds understanding the connection between foundation governance and grantmaking. Like Sondra, this has led me to a number of organizational or governance theories that would lead us to hypothesize about the connection between the board members of a foundation (or any funder) and their eventual… [Read more…]
John C. Ronquillo
Sondra Barringer
Jasmine McGinnis
Lindsey McDougle
Erica Coslor
July 6, 2010
0