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.
Social science at the British Library The British Library is a hub for social science research, with vast and varied collections, expert staff and a wide range of events and activities across the social science community. Our department covers a number of different social science disciplines including sociology, social policy, anthropology, sports, human geography, politics, sociolinguistics and business and management studies. As well as collecting materials relevant to the research community, we are committed to supporting knowledge transfer through encouraging discussion, debate and exchange. collaborating with universities, associations and individuals to host a range of events creating topical bibliographies on subjects as diverse as gender, knife-crime, and electoral reform producing services and web resources such as the Sport and Society website .
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]
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:
Euclid CINEFOGO Forum for Debate | Speakers Corner Trust When the next typhoon batters the coastal region of a poorer nation, the number of families dislocated, the infrastructures damaged and the crops destroyed will all have been exacerbated by the 20cm rise in sea level that our emissions of carbon dioxide have already triggered. Climate change is the lived reality of many millions of people today, people with little responsibility for the increase in emissions but who nevertheless suffer the consequences. Fossil fuels, whether coal, oil or gas, emit large quantities of carbon dioxide when combusted. Shale gas is no different. In all practical terms it is simply natural gas comprising (by mass) 25% hydrogen and 75% carbon. Wrestling any hydrocarbon from the ground is an inevitably messy, noisy and periodically dangerous and environmentally destructive process. Science can only advise on the parameters of what’s dangerous; defining it is ultimately a political undertaking.
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]
Dataset #4: ICNPO Classification of charities | NCVO UK Civil Society Almanac NCVO has classified organisations into categories, based on the International Classification of Non-profit Organisations. All registered charities in England and Wales (based on the Charity Commission Register of Charities) are included. Data Creator: National Council for Voluntary Organisations Website: NCVO blog post Alternatives: Charity Commission classification systemOther ad-hoc classifications Description: NCVO has classified organisations into categories, based on the International Classification of Non-profit Organisations. NCVO undertook this piece of work about 2 years ago, in order to better understand the nature of the voluntary sector. Organisations were classified into the International Classification of Nonprofit Organisations [pdf] (ICNPO). The ICNPO is not a perfect fit for the UK VCS – a few categories for large groups of organisations (such as scout groups and nurseries) were added. Accessing the data: The data can be found on Google Fusion Tables. Useful links: