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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, June 4, 2024
SPPA Associate Professor Nathan Grasse has co-authored a new study focusing on the gender pay gap affecting two types of female executives in US charities: executive directors and chief financial officers. It uses a novel identification strategy focused on executive hires to measure the ipay differences created by effects that are... More
Monday, April 8, 2024
“Whistleblowing is a mechanism for accountability. It tells you who is responsible for issues, and who should fix them" - Paloma Raggo, Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration and Director of the Charity Insights Canada Project By Ty Burke Whistleblowers shed light on problems that would otherwise remain in the shadows, alerting... More
Monday, July 17, 2023
The first book on philanthropy in disaster contexts, "Philanthropic Response to Disasters: Gifts, Givers and Consequences" is co-edited by SPPA Professor Susan Phillips, Alexandra Williamson (Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies) and Diana Leat (Centre for Philanthropy and Public Good, University of St Andrews). Published by... More
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
SPPA Post Doctoral Fellow Laurenne Schiller and Professor Graeme Auld along with co-authors Megan Bailey, Hekia Bodwitch and Hussain Sinan published "Evaluating the roles and reach of philanthropic foundations in sustainability efforts for tuna" in Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 5, Issue 5, May 2023. DOI 10.1111/csp2.12751 Abstract... 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
Monday, December 19, 2022
Dec 18, 2022 Authors: Kylie Adair & Vinod Rajasekaran So much happened in 2022. New leaders have emerged, first-of-their-kind organizations have launched, and much more. It can be hard to keep up and understand what it all means — but that’s what Future of Good is here for. 2022 was a big year for... More
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