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Essential
Web sites
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Centre for Civil Society Studies
The Centre for Civil Society of the Johns Hopkins Institute
for Policy Studies seeks to encourage the development and
effective operation of nonprofit, philanthropic, or "civil
society" organizations. The Center carries out its work
through a combination of research, training, and information-sharing
both in the United States and throughout the world.
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Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) was established
to promote democratic debate on the most important economic
and social issues that affect people's lives.
• Centre
for Nonprofit Management
The Centre for Nonprofit Management is based within the School
of Business Studies, Trinity College, Dublin. The Centre
supports and develops research, education and dialogue about
the Third Sector and nonprofit organisations by creating and
facilitating relationships across disciplines and across sectors.
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Centre for the Study of Global Governance
The Centre is located at the London School of Economics. The
aim of the Centre was both to increase understanding and knowledge
of global problems and to encourage interaction between academics
and policy makers. This website includes the Global
Civil Society Survey, edited by the London School of Economics
and published by Oxford University Press.
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Social Watch
Social Watch is an international network informed by national
citizens' groups aiming at following up the fulfillment of
the internationally agreed commitments on poverty eradication
and equality. These national groups report, through the national
Social
Watch report, on the progress - or regression - towards
these commitments and goals.
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The Saguaro Seminars, developing strategies to increase community
engagement
The Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement
in America is an ongoing initiative of Professor Robert D.
Putnam at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University. The project focuses on expanding what we know
about our levels of trust and community engagement and on
developing strategies and efforts to increase this engagement.
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Other Research
Centers and International Networks
• ATTAC (Association
for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of
Citizens)
International movement for democratic control of financial
markets and their institutions. It promotes practical economic
reforms meant to tame the devastating power of the financial
markets, and to favour democratic, transparent economic structures
that serve the needs of ordinary people. It looks for alternatives
to the dogmatic ideology of neoliberalism.
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Center on Nonprofit and Philantropy
The Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy (CNP) conducts and
disseminates research on the role and impact of nonprofit
organizations and philanthropy.
• Centre for
Civil Society, (CCS) at the London School of Economics
Formerly known as Centre for Voluntary Organisation (CVO),
the Centre for Civil Society (CCS) is a leading, international
organisation for research, analysis, debate and learning about
civil society.
CCS research projects are often devoted to topics related
to social capital
• Centre for
Civil Society at UCLA
The Center for Civil Society is the focal point for the School
of Public Policy and Social Research’s programs and
activities in nonprofit leadership and management, grassroots
advocacy, nongovernmental organizations, and philanthropy.
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Civil Society and Governance Programme
The Civil Society and Governance Programme is a research project
funded by the Ford Foundation and based at the Institute of
Development Studies (UK).
• Civil Society
Organisations and Participation Programme (CSOPP), UNDP
Programme aiming to strengthen UNDP's policy and operational
methods to collaborate effectively with civil society organizations,
and act as a resource centre for participatory development
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Development Trusts Associations (DTA)
DTA promotes the work of community enterprises in the United
Kingdom. Its aims are to strenghten civil society and improve
social welfare. It conducts research, publish a quarterly
information bulletin, and a range of other publications
• Institute on Governance
(IOG)
NGO research organisation focusing on the promotion of effective
governance, defined as the institutions, processes and traditions
which determine how power is exercised, how decisions are
taken and how citizens have their say
• International
Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR)
ISTR is a major international association promoting research
and education in the fields of philanthropy, civil society
and the nonprofit sector
• Mandel
Center for Nonprofit Organizations
The Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations is located at
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded
in 1984, the Mandel Center offers the nation’s most
fully developed program in nonprofit management
• Transparency
International
Transparency International (TI) is a non governmental organization
that builds national, regional and global coalitions, embracing
the state, civil society and the private sector, in order
to fight domestic and international corruption. TI elaborates
the Corruption Index, sometimes used as a proxy for social
capital at a macro level
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