Susan Phillips

Intersections and Innovations: Changes for Canada’s Voluntary and Nonprofit Sector.

For far too long, Canada has lacked a comprehensive resource examining Canada’s charitable sector. That has now ended.

The Muttart Foundation has spent many years focusing on building the capacity of charities in this country. The publication of this collection is another contribution to that effort. By understanding more about itself, the sector can continue to develop and find new ways to serve Canadians and those in need outside our nation.

The authors of these essays bring different perspectives on the role and inner workings of Canada’s charities. Collectively, they bring an unprecedented insight into the work of organizations whose diversity is exceeded only by their desire to serve.

It is difficult to express adequate appreciation to Dr. Susan Phillips of Carleton University for her leadership of this project. She has been a source of encouragement, persuasion, cajoling and improving authors from across the country. Her efforts now bear fruit as we make this material available to students, academics, practitioners and others interested in the history and future of Canada’s charities.

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The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy.

Philanthropy – the use of private resources for public purposes – is undergoing a transformation, both in practice and as an emerging field of study.

Expectations of what philanthropy can achieve have risen significantly in recent years, reflecting a substantial, but uneven, increase in global wealth and the rolling back of state services in anticipation that philanthropy will fill the void. In addition to this, experiments with entrepreneurial and venture philanthropy are producing novel intersections of the public, non-profit and private spheres, accompanied by new kinds of partnerships and hybrid organisational forms. The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy examines these changes and other challenges that philanthropists and philanthropic organisations face.

With contributions from an international team of leading contemporary thinkers on philanthropy, this Companion provides an introduction to, and critical exploration of, philanthropy; discussing current theories, research and the diverse professional practices within the field from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy is a rich and valuable resource for students, researchers, practitioners and policymakers working in or interested in philanthropy.

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Governance and Regulation in the Third Sector: International Perspectives.

Governance and Regulation in the Third Sector brings together scholars and experienced practitioners from different countries to investigate the relationship between regulation and relational governance for the third sector in a comparative context. Each chapter reviews recent regulatory changes in the country in question. To what extent are there significant convergences in these reforms and what are the implications for the third sector? Is there any evidence that the foundational architecture for a more collaborative relationship between the state and the third sector has been laid?

Overall, the book reveals that the reality of the supposedly new collaborative relationships and the impacts of regulatory reform are quite different from what contemporary theories of public management would have us believe. Recognizing the gap between theory and reality, the chapters explore some of the outstanding challenges for regulatory reform for the third sector.

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Personal Project Pursuit: Goals, Action and Human Flourishing.

Personal Project Pursuit is the first book to feature Brian Little’s highly respected personal projects analysis (PPA), one of the pioneering theories in contemporary personality and motivational psychology. The book examines both the internal and external dynamics of personal goals and projects and clearly demonstrates that human flourishing is enhanced when individuals are engaged in the pursuit of personal projects.

The book opens with the theory and methodologies of personal projects research. The historical perspective on the development of the two dominant research perspectives from personality and developmental psychology is explored. Section II examines the internal dynamics and competing demands of goal formulation and project inception. The third part accentuates the role that social ecologies play in shaping the nature and outcomes of personal projects. These chapters highlight the importance of interpersonal relationships, organizational contexts, and the societal and cultural expectations in affecting the pursuit of personal projects. Ideas for orchestrating the environment to enhance human flourishing are explored. Section IV demonstrates how personal projects can illuminate and enhance human flourishing, from psychological well being to physical health. The book concludes with applications for enhancing human flourishing from individual counseling to public policy.

Personal Project Pursuit is intended for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in personality, social, developmental, industrial/organizational, health, environmental, clinical and counseling psychology interested in motivation and well being. An excellent supplemental text for courses on personality, motivation, positive psychology, well being, personal and life span development, the book’s applied focus will appeal to counselors and rehabilitation/occupational therapists.

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Urban Affairs: Back on the Policy Agenda.

A reflection on contemporary urban policy issues and the federal government’s role in dealing with them.

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Issues of urban policy are increasingly complex and important. Whether considered from a social, demographic, or economic perspective, Canada is overwhelmingly an urban nation and healthy, prosperous cities are the key to its well-being. What then, is our national policy toward urban affairs? In Urban Affairs leading experts in a variety of disciplines explore this question.

Canada’s last experience with national urban policy-making was in the 1970s. The authors focus on what has happened since, exploring how both our city-regions and our ideas about the urban policy-making process have changed. The authors also examine both the past and present roles of the federal government, and what it can and should do in the future. Contributors include Caroline Andrew, Paul Born (Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement, Cambridge), Kenneth Cameron (FCIP, Policy and Planning, Greater Vancouver Regional District), W. Michael Fenn, (Ontario Deputy Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing), Pierre Filion (University of Waterloo), Katherine Graham, Pierre Hamel (Université de Montréal), Christopher Leo (University of Winnipeg), Barbara Levine (World University Service of Canada), Sherilyn MacGregor (PhD, Environmental Studies, York University), Warren Magnusson (University of Victoria), Beth Moore Milroy (Ryerson University), Merle Nicholds (former Mayor of Kanata), Evelyn Peters (University of Saskatchewan), Susan Phillips, Valerie Preston (York University), Andrew Sancton (University of Western Ontario), Lisa Shaw (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives), Enid Slack (Enid Slack Consulting Inc.), Sherri Torjman (Caledon Institute of Social Policy), Carolyn Whitzman (doctoral candidate, School of Geography and Geology, McMaster University), David Wolfe (University of Toronto), and Madeleine Wong (University of Wisconsin).

ISBN 9780773523531

Citizen engagement: Lessons in Participation from Local Government

“One of the core functions of the Intergovernmental Committee on Urban and Regional Research (ICURR) is to provide Canadian local govern­ments with the latest information on the how-to of problem-solving and on the trends and developments that arise in the planning and manage­ment of communities.
In keeping with this valued function, we are pleased to be associated with this new study on how to make public participation in local govern­ment more effective. Not only are the nine case studies Canadian in con­text, they also represent four areas of key interest to ICURR’s funders and clients: economic development; land-use planning; municipal finance; and local government restructuring.

We are pleased to endorse a work that is not only practical in approach (each chapter can easily stand on its own, as can each subject area) but that also investigates public participation in local government in its many incarnations. The authors document both unqualified suc­cesses in public participation (as in the case of Winnipeg’s economic ­development strategy) and those initiatives that could benefit from improvements (as set out in the discussion of public involvement in Edmonton’s budget preparation). Nor is the future neglected. “Elec­tronic democracy,” as applied in Ottawa and Ottawa-Carleton, is accorded its due place among the changing ways in which local govern­ments seek to involve their citizens. This fine and new contribution to the literature on public involvement in municipal decision-making is particularly welcome, as much of the country reconsiders the structure and powers of local governments.”

ISBN 0920715788

Urban Governance in Canada: Representation, Resources, and Restructuring.

Contemporary challenges to urban governance —
Approaches to the study of urban governance —
Legacies of historical development —
The challenge of governance : structuring the metropolis —
Politics, elections, and representation —
Interest groups and public participation —
The organization and operation of Canadian urban governments —
Intergovernmental relations —
Financing Canadian urban government —
Economic development —
Creating sustainable and livable cities.

ISBN : 0774733926

How Ottawa Spends 1995-1996: Mid-Life Crises

This is the sixteenth edition of How Ottawa Spends. Our objective in producing this annual series is to provide timely and constructive analysis offederal government spending and public policy, and to stimulate debate about policy options. This year’s edition assesses how the Liberals are doing at mid-life. To what extent have they been able to live up to their election promises made in the Red Book? What are the possibilities that they will be able to meet these commitments, given the serious economic and political constraints on governing?

ISBN 9780886292638

How Ottawa Spends 1994-1995: Making Changes

What are the possibilities for real innovation under the new Liberal regime? Where do ideas for new policy come from? How will the government find the money to implement new policy in an era of strict fiscal limits? Making Change addresses these questions in this, the fifteenth annual review of government spending and public policy from the Carleton University School of Public Administration. It explores the source of ideas and considers the factors which help or hinder innovation in policy and the process of governing.

ISBN 9780886292294

How Ottawa Spends 1993-1994: A More Democratic Canada…?

This year’s volume of How Ottawa Spends addresses the question: How can we enhance the practices of democratic governance in Canada? The contributors to this volume are Ken Battle on child benefits, Paul Chartrand on Aboriginal self-government, Alexandra Dobrowolsky and Jane Jenson on electoral and party reform, Bruce Doern on restructuring government organization and service, Harvey Lithwick and Rebecca Coulthard on federal-urban relationships, Leslie Pal and Leslie Seidle on lessons learned from constitutional politics, Paul Pross and lain Stewart on fairness in lobbying, James Rice and Michael Prince on the Tories’ record on social policy, Ian Robinson on NAFTA, Saul Schwartz on reforming our school systems, Miriam Smith on economic and social rights and Bruce Wilkinson on Canada’s international indebtedness

ISBN 0886292018