ERNOP

 

7.      Associate Professor and Professor Position in Australia

 

ERNOP welcomes several new members:

Gojko Bezovan Croatia

We are also talking to the researchers at the very interesting new Center for Philanthropic Studies at the University of Basel (CEPS: http://ceps.unibas.ch/) and the Erasmus Centre for Strategic Philanthropy in Rotterdam (ECSP: http://www.erim.eur.nl/ERIM/Research/Centres/Erasmus_Centre_for_Strategic_Philanthropy) and we hope they will join ERNOP soon.

 

Our ERNOP colloquium “The State of Giving Research in Europe” is accepted at the ARNOVA conference in Cleveland, Ohio this November. Professor Theo Schuyt will lead the colloquium, the description for the colloquium is attached and during the colloquium we will among others discuss the results reported in the ERNOP publication. The colloquium is scheduled for Thursday November 19 between 1.30 pm and 3pm. ERNOP members involved in this colloquium are (as indicated in the short survey conducted following the second ERNOP meeting in Leuven): Cathy Pharoah, Giuliana Gemelli, Deborah Bolognesi, Michaela Neumayr, Lesley Hustinx, Edith Bruder, Sarah Borgloh, Hagai Katz, Lars-Eric Olsson.

If you are planning to attend ARNOVA, and like to participate in this colloquium, please contact Pamala. The people participating in the colloquium will be contacted by Theo Schuyt to discuss the colloquium in more detail.

 

This summer, ERNOP joined ISTR as institutional member. We were featured in this summer’s ISTR newsletter (p.10), the text of which is attached.  

It would be nice to meet informally with all ERNOP members present at the ARNOVA conference at the ISTR reception, which will be held at Friday November 20, 6.30 pm at the Lobby Court Bar in the conference Hotel (Cleveland Renaissance Hotel). If people are interested we could also go for dinner afterwards. Contact Pamala if you like to join for the ISTR reception and/or diner.

 

Next summer (July 7-10, 2010), the ISTR conference will be held at the Kadir Has University in Istanbul. As institutional member, we are specially invited by ISTR to propose a colloquium. The deadline for proposing this colloquium is October 19. If you would like to participate in this colloquium and have ideas/suggestions for the contents, contact Pamala. More information can be found at www.istr.org.

Marta Rey Garcia (Spain) published an article based on the ERNOP publication “The State of Giving Research in Europe”, which is published in number 12 of RETS, and can be accessed at http://www.fundacionluisvives.org/rets/12/index.html.

Beth Breeze (UK) wrote a reference to our publication in Philanthropy UK (http://www.philanthropyuk.org/Home):

The State of Giving Research is an output of a meeting held in January 2008 at VU University in Amsterdam, attended by many of the leading European academics who focus on charitable giving and philanthropy. This meeting was convened to establish a new European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP), which seeks to increase the visibility and quality of philanthropic studies in Europe. Whilst every EU country has a philanthropic sector, and there is general agreement regarding the importance of understanding this area of activity, different definitions of philanthropy and different methodologies for collecting data have stymied attempts to generate pan-European findings. This publication is a first step in rationalizing knowledge about philanthropy across the continent. It contains information on household giving in 12 EU countries, written by a respected scholar working in each country. Each of the 12 chapters explains what datasources are available, what kind of information they provide, the positive and negative aspects of each datasource and a summary of available knowledge about household giving in that country. The editor, Pamala Wiepking, concludes that all 12 countries are undertaking serious studies of philanthropy but their ad hoc manner and lack of consistency makes it difficult to draw useful comparisons. However, it is hoped that ERNOP will facilitate more collaborative working and enable researchers to tackle difficult but important questions about the role of philanthropy within modern EU states to ensure, “there is a bright future for the study of philanthropy in Europe”.

 

We would very much like to organize the third ERNOP meeting in January or February 2010. We are looking for hosts for this meeting, preferably in South or Eastern Europe, as the first two meetings have been held in North-West Europe. Contrary to the first two meetings we would like the third meeting to focus more on research and less on organizational matters. If you have ideas and/or would like to help organize this meeting, please contact Pamala.

 

The European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) is a fast growing membership association supporting and promoting venture philanthropy (VP) across Europe. From a standing start in 2004 it has grown to 120 members in more than 20 countries, giving EVPA unique access to the development of venture philanthropy practice in Europe. EVPA supports its members by providing a forum for mutual learning, data and research on venture philanthropy, and training programmes on topics relevant to all stages and activities of a venture fund.

Now in its fifth year EVPA is making an enhanced commitment to nurture, process and disseminate knowledge about venture philanthropy in order to better serve its members and promote the movement across Europe. Based on the foundation of its own learning, training and research processes, EVPA is launching its Knowledge Centre, to be the hub for European knowledge on venture philanthropy.

The Knowledge Centre’s mission is:

 

During 2010 EVPA will launch the Knowledge Centre’s micro-site on the organisation’s main website. EVPA publishes an annual directory of members, and has published a number of practitioner papers. All are available on EVPA’s website.

 

For further information contact:

Beate Trueck

Managing Director

EVPA

btrueck@evpa.eu.com

www.evpa.eu.com

The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia is looking for an Associate Professor and a full Professor in Philanthropy and Fundraising. More information: http://www.hrd.qut.edu.au/jobs/pds/29281.jsp

 

The next ERNOP newsletter will focus on all the wonderful collaborative proposals for research that are currently going on or have been submitted recently: the ESF Research Networking Program, Science of Generosity round II and the COST Action.

 

If you have interesting news or results from a research project you like to share with other ERNOP members in the newsletter or on the website, please let Pamala know. The deadline for the November newsletter is November 1, 2009.

 

Kind regards,