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Nonprofit Georgia at a Glance available to download
Nonprofit Georgia summarizes some of the research on the nonprofit sector conducted by the Nonprofit Studies Program at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. This analysis reports on Georgia charitable organizations, including both:
- Public Charities: 501c(3) organizations serving the public benefit in areas such as the arts, education, health care, human services, the environment and other causes; and
- Private and Public Foundations: 501c(3) organizations that are primarily engaged in grant making to other nonprofit organizations or individuals.
Download the report as a PDF file (5.5MB)
Hands On Georgia hosts volunteerism summit
Hands On Georgia and the Georgia Commission for Service and Volunteerism presents the Georgia Summit on Volunteerism, Thursday, November 1 at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park. The theme for this year's daylong summit is Stories of Service: From Inspiration to Action. Attendees will collect essential information that can be used to imagine, create and execute their own stories of service. Volunteer leaders from community agencies, faith-based organizations and other nonprofit groups are encouraged to attend. Summit registration is $75.
NSP hosts successful course for nonprofit executives
The Nonprofit Studies Program, in collaboration with the Georgia Center for Nonprofits and the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University, offered a new Executive Program in Nonprofit Organizations for 37 current and aspiring nonprofit CEOs, June 24-29, 2007. Nonprofit executives participated from Georgia, Florida, India and Africa.
The faculty included national scholars such as Dr. Virginia Hodgkinson from Georgetown University, Prof. John Bryson from the University of Minnesota and Prof. Janet Greenlee from the University of Dayton, as well as Prof. Peter Topping and Edward Queen from Emory University, and Profs. Harvey Newman, Michael Mescon and Dennis Young from the Andrew Young School. Luncheon and dinner speakers included Dr. John Seffrin of the American Cancer Society, Mr. Sam Pettway of Boardwalk Consulting and Ms. Trinita Logue of the Illinois Facilities Fund. Local expert instructors included John Bare of the Blank Foundation, Karen Beavor of the Georgia Center, Sid Kirschner of the Davis Academy, Bill Bolling of the Atlanta Foodbank, Donna Buchanan of Junior Achievement, Neil Sklarew of the Georgia Center, Laura Lee Clinton of CARE, John O'Kane of Coxe Curry and Janet Rechtman of Rechtman Consulting. The focus of the program was strategic thinking, finance and leadership. The UPS Foundation and several law and consulting firms provided scholarships. Participants’ evaluations of the program were excellent and plans are in motion for next year’s program.
Nonprofit Studies Program to co-sponsor conference
The Nonprofit Studies Program is co-sponsoring the forthcoming conference of the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise. NCNE's next National Conference will be held in the Washington, D.C., area, Wednesday to Saturday, September 26-29, 2007. Come and be challenged by the latest thinking on how nonprofits achieve sustainability.
How a nonprofit sustains its impact is a constant challenge to nonprofit board members, presidents and CEOs, chief financial, operating and development officers, and other senior managers. Sustainability is often described as if its achievement will compromise a nonprofit’s mission. In this, its next national conference, NCNE will focus on the three principal dimensions of sustainability: how a nonprofit secures the resources it needs, how it puts them to best use and how it deals with uncertainty in its environment, in order to enable participants to explore how they can resolve this tension.
The UPS Foundation makes grant to support Nonprofit Studies Program
The UPS Foundation recently made a grant of $100,000 to support scholarship in the Andrew Young School’s growing Nonprofit Studies Program. This support provides a tremendous boost to the program’s ability to recruit strong students and to expand its knowledge development and service work on behalf of the nonprofit sector.
The UPS Foundation, under the direction of long-time AYSPS board member Evern Cooper Epps, has been a steadfast supporter of the mission of the Andrew Young School and the Nonprofit Studies Program. The UPS Foundation pursues its initiatives by identifying specific projects where its support can help produce a measurable social impact.
“We are naturally thrilled to be the recipients of this support,” said Dennis Young, director of the Nonprofit Studies Program and the Ramsey Professor of Private Enterprise, “and we treasure our long standing relationship with The UPS Foundation.”
NSP and partners to offer executive training program
The Executive Leadership Program for Nonprofit Organizations (ELPNO) is a new executive development program for senior and emerging leaders in the nonprofit sector – the premier program of its kind in the Southeast.
This exclusive, weeklong program is made possible by the unique collaboration of three leading institutions. Each brings to the program critically important experience and knowledge about nonprofits and leadership development, and a genuine concern for the growth and stability of the entire nonprofit sector. The three partners are:
• Georgia State University’s Nonprofit Studies Program
• Emory University’s Goizueta Business School
• Georgia Center for Nonprofits
The UPS Foundation also provides support for the program.
Participants get the opportunity to interact for a full week with a dynamic group of professional colleagues and executive educators who will invigorate, inspire, challenge your thinking and, most likely, become part of your long-term network. Learn more about this exciting new program, to be held at Emory University from June 25-29, 2007, at the Georgia Center for Nonprofits.
Georgia Nonprofit Summit offers two-for-one price for students
The 16th Annual Georgia Nonprofit Summit was held this year at the Georgia International Convention Center on May 16-17, 2007. The theme this year was "Revolutions: The changes and transformations that are affecting our work, communities and world in which we live." It is these transformations, specifically as they relate to nonprofit work and the impact on that work, that the summit examined and discussed throughout the two-day event.
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits offered Georgia State University students the opportunity to attend 'two for the price of one,' half the member price. Please see the flyer for more information.
NSP professor, grad student earn Torch of Peace award
Harvey K. Newman and Lewis H. Faulk, graduate research assistant for Dennis Young, were chosen to receive the 2007 Torch of Peace Award in the Faculty and Graduate Student categories. The honorees were awarded at the university’s 24th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation, on January 18, 2007, in the Student Center Speaker’s Auditorium. The Office of Student Life and Leadership/Intercultural Relations honors individuals within Georgia State University for their outstanding leadership and contributions to Georgia State and the Atlanta community, and their work to promote positive race relations. Dean Roy Bahl congratulates the Torch of Peace winners, and adds, “Harvey Newman has spent a professional lifetime studying, writing about and practicing the kinds of fairness and encouragement of diversity that the Torch of Peace award stands for. His colleagues in the Andrew Young School are all so very proud of him.”
“The Torch of Peace award is a noteworthy award that reflects the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and pays homage to a diverse range of awardees that every day make a difference at Georgia State University and the community at large,” writes Tonya Cook, chairperson of the annual convocation. “A diverse committee of five students, staff, faculty and community diligently selects the winner from a pool of nominees. The Torch of Peace Awards is the only kind of its nature. It is definitely the highlight of the Annual MLK Convocation and a source of pride for the nominators, peers, families and the university at large.”
