Yesterday, the Social Innovation Fund announced their inaugural grantees–eleven in total–that received grants between two and ten million dollars to be distributed over the next one to two years. While the Social Innovation Fund has received mixed reviews in terms of it’s scope and veritable innovativeness, this collaborative among the federal government, private funders, the… [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…]
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…]
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…]
December 1, 2009
Why hello there… and welcome to the Third Sector Network! My name is Lindsey McDougle and I very excited about this innovative new blogging collaborative. I hope that the information provided here proves to be useful to those who are interested in issues of strategic importance to the nonprofit/philanthropic sector. I am currently in the… [Read more…]
November 16, 2009
This week is going to be action-filled in the best possible way…another academic conference! From November 18 to 21 several of the Third Sector Network’s contributors will be in Cleveland for the 39th Annual Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Conference. I am very much looking forward to the conference because… [Read more…]
November 16, 2009
Hello everyone, thanks for joining us. I’m Erica Coslor and I’m currently finishing up my doctoral dissertation in Sociology at the University of Chicago. I had the pleasure of meeting my co-bloggers back in June when we took part in a paper writing workshop at UTexas, Austin. In the company of these fine nonprofit researchers,… [Read more…]
November 9, 2009
The month we spent in residence as summer fellows at the RGK Center at the University of Texas at Austin was enlightening and transformational, but we’re all in agreement that we have much unfinished business to address. This blog, we hope, will allow us to continue the discussion. We are all in agreement that the… [Read more…]
John C. Ronquillo
Sondra Barringer
Jasmine McGinnis
Lindsey McDougle
Erica Coslor
July 23, 2010
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