TSRC - Third Sector Research Centre

Center for nonprofit sector research About Centre for Nonprofit Sector Research The Centre for Nonprofit Sector Research (in Czech: Centrum pro výzkum neziskového sektoru, or CVNS) is a research institute of Masaryk University, based in its Faculty of Economics and Administration. Its economists, historians, lawyers, sociologists and political scientists research the current state of the Czech nonprofit sector and civil society and study their development from the perspectives of their academic disciplines and in cross-disciplinary and cross-national contexts. The Centre conducts both basic and applied research, as well as offering an education programme to graduate and postgraduate students. Besides publishing the results of our research, we also offer analyses, discussion materials, public policy documents and strategic proposals to decision-makers and the general public with a view to stimulating public policy debate about the nonprofit sector and civil society. History The CVNS started work in October 2003.

Participatory rural appraisal PRA ranking exercise being carried out by members of a Farmer Field School in Bangladesh, 2004 Participatory rural appraisal (PRA) is an approach used by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other agencies involved in international development. The approach aims to incorporate the knowledge and opinions of rural people in the planning and management of development projects and programmes. Origins of participatory rural appraisal[edit] By the early 1980s, there was growing dissatisfaction among development experts with both the reductionism of formal surveys, and the biases of typical field visits. Chambers acknowledges that the significant breakthroughs and innovations that informed the methodology were not his, but that development practitioners in India, Africa and elsewhere were responsible for this. Overview of PRA techniques[edit] A 'new professionalism' for development[edit] "The central thrusts of the [new] paradigm … are decentralization and empowerment. See also[edit]

About BBC Learning - Research Euclid Innovation in Giving Fund Why are we doing this? Millions of people in the UK give significant amounts of time and resources to help others. Unfortunately, the number of these people is declining. Over the past 12 months, household giving has plummeted by 30 per cent. Charities and volunteer groups are working with scarce resources and are finding it increasingly hard to attract support and funding. Despite this, there is a huge amount of creativity and innovation being focused on how to increase giving, driven in part by the imaginative use of digital technologies and the reinvention of ideas of sharing and reciprocity. Giving helps to build communities and lessens the impact of some of society’s biggest problems. What are we doing? Through a £10m fund from the Cabinet Office, Nesta has been working on ways to increase the numbers of people who give. Here’s a look at what this means in practice:

CINEFOGO Asset-based community development Asset-based community development (ABCD) is a methodology that seeks to uncover and use the strengths within communities as a means for sustainable development. The first step in the process of community development is to assess the resources of a community through a capacity inventory [1] or through another process of talking to the residents to determine what types of skills and experience are available. The next step is to support communities, to discover what they care enough about to act. The final step is to determine how citizens can act together to achieve those goals.[1] Basis of the Idea[edit] The Asset-Based Community Development Institute[2] is located at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Applications to Health Systems[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] ^ Jump up to: a b McKnight, John; Kretzmann, John. Further reading[edit] External links[edit]

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