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Thursday, June 6, 2024
SPPA's Susan Phillips and Christopher Dougherty newly published paper Nonprofit coalitions: recasting equity, engagement and effectiveness examines nonprofit advocacy coalitions. Abstract Nonprofit advocacy coalitions are a distinctive but poorly understood type of coalition. This study is the product of a rare opportunity to participate in... More
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
SPPA Professor Susan Phillips was awarded the 2024 FPA Community Engagement Excellence Award at a special awards luncheon on Monday, May 13th by the Faculty of Public Affairs. The FPA Community Engagement Excellence Award recognizes FPA faculty members who have made an exceptional contribution to building or strengthening institutional... More
Monday, July 17, 2023
From Wits Business School News Post July 5, 2023 News - Wits Business School (wbs.ac.za) Through an ongoing partnership with Wits Business School (WBS) and the Canadian based Carleton University, the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) has offered a joint elective on Philanthropy and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)... More
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
By Christopher Dougherty and Susan Phillips Celebrity is a form of policy influence that can occur under distinctive circumstances. This paper draws on the regulatory/policy capture literature to develop a model of celebrity capture that explains how interest groups can affect policy in the absence of economic clout or constituency mobilization.... More
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
‘Era of uncertainty’: How leaders in Canada’s non-profit sector are preparing for 2023 Polarization, giving trends, equity, HR issues, reconciliation, the data gap, the climate crisis: we asked leaders in Canada’s non-profit and charitable sector about the challenges and societal shifts they’ll be watching in 2023. Here’s what they had... More
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
PhD candidate Lisa Halpern, Professor Susan Phillips and Associate Professor Nathan Grasse published an article titled “Non-Profit Long-Term Care in Ontario: How Financially Robust is the System?” in a special issue of Canadian Public Policy on Pensions, Retirement, Longevity, and Long-Term Care. Guest Editors’ Introduction “Several... More
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
On November 24, Professor Susan Phillips was part of a panel for the Canada School of Public Service (CSPS) and the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration (CAPPA), Government of the Future Series: Working Collaboratively with Stakeholders. This third event in the series explores some of the ways that public servants can... More
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
The Advocacy Riddle How do we ensure the sector has a significant voice in affecting public policy? New research shines a light on the sector’s advocacy efforts, the related challenges, and the structures needed to make that advocacy both broad-based and nimble. A set of studies by the Max Bell and Muttart foundations, as... More
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Nine researchers in the Faculty of Public Affairs have been awarded SSHRC Insight Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Their projects cover issues of sustainability, health, gender, finance, politics, the military and the law. In addition, two researchers received Partnership Development Grants and four FPA faculty... More
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
From the Carleton Newsroom... *** La version française suit. Carleton University’s Master of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership (MPNL) faculty team is launching a major five-year research project that will change our knowledge about the charitable sector in Canada. Through weekly surveys, the Charity Insights Canada Project—Project Canada... More
Thursday, May 13, 2021
E-BOOK EXPLORES CANADA’S CHARITIES AND NONPROFITS The first comprehensive resource about Canada’s voluntary sector was published today by The Muttart Foundation. Intersections and Innovations: Change in Canada’s Voluntary and Nonprofit Sector is now freely available online here. Users are able to download the full 600-plus-page e-book or... More
Thursday, April 22, 2021
By Dan Rubinstein New research from Carleton University was one of the factors that moved the federal government to create a Black-led philanthropic fund and support Black community initiatives in Budget 2021 released April 19, 2021. That research — a report called “Unfunded: Black Communities are Overlooked by Canadian Philanthropy,”... More
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