The Death of a Community Action Organization: A Case from the Heartland

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Bonnekessen
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

The nonprofit service sector has become the fastest growing employment and activism sector in the past decade and has allowed many anthropologists to engage in social activism and action research. Many nonprofit success stories are published, but rarely do we share the failures. This article describes the collapse of a community-based nonprofit organization. The Lawrence Alliance is a community organization against racism and discrimination and may serve as an example of failure in sustaining community support for social activism once such an organization institutionalizes and is reasonably successful. The article first describes the history of the Lawrence Alliance, analyzes the impact of its various organizational parts, and finally discusses the lessons learned for anthropologists involved in the nonprofit sector.

Race in post-war science: The Swiss case in a global context

2021 ◽  
pp. 095269512110103
Author(s):  
Pascal Germann
Keyword(s):  
Human Genetics ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Research ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Racial Knowledge ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Impact

The historiography on the concept of race in the post-war sciences has focused predominantly on the UNESCO campaign against scientific racism and on the Anglo-American research community. By way of contrast, this article highlights the history of the concept of race from a thus far unexplored angle: from Swiss research centres and their global interconnections with racial researchers around the world. The article investigates how the acceptance, resonance, and prestige of racial research changed during the post-war years. It analyses what resources could be mobilised that enabled researchers to carry out and continue scientific studies in the field of racial research or even to expand them and link them to new contexts. From this perspective, the article looks at the dynamics, openness, and contingency of the European post-war period, which was less stable, anti-racist, and spiritually renewed than retrospective success stories often suggest. The pronounced internationality of Swiss racial science and its close entanglement with the booming field of human genetics in the early 1950s point to the ambiguities of the period’s political and scientific development. I argue that the impact of post-war anti-racism on science was more limited than is frequently assumed: it did not drain the market for racial knowledge on a continent that clung to imperialism and was still shaped by racist violence. Only from the mid 1950s onwards did a series of unforeseen events and contingent shifts curtail the importance of the race concept in various sectors of the human sciences.

The London Restaurant, 1840-1914

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Assael
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Hybrid Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Working Day ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First World

This book offers the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The quotidian nature of taking a meal in public during the working day or evening should not be allowed to obscure the significance of the restaurant (defined broadly, to encompass not merely the prestigious West End restaurant, but also the modest refreshment room, and even the street cart) as a critical component in the creation of modern metropolitan culture. The story of the London restaurant between the 1840s and the First World War serves as an exemplary site for mapping the expansion of commercial leisure, the increasing significance of the service sector, the introduction of technology, the democratization of the public sphere, changing gender roles, and the impact of immigration. The book incorporates what I term ‘gastro-cosmopolitanism’ to highlight the existence of an international, heterogeneous, and even hybrid, culture in London in this period that requires us to think, not merely beyond the nation, but beyond empire. The restaurant also had an important role in contemporary debates about public health and the (sometimes conflicting, but no less often complementary) prerogatives of commerce, moral improvement, and liberal governance. This book considers the restaurant as a business and a place of employment, as well as an important site for the emergence of new forms of metropolitan experience and identity. While focused on London, it illustrates the complex ways in which cultural and commercial forces were intertwined in modern Britain, and demonstrates the rewards of writing histories which recognize the interplay between broad, global forces and highly localized spaces.

scholarly journals The impact of volunteer community service programs on students in Toronto's secondary schools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary K. Meinhard Agnes G. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
The Impact

[First paragraph of introduction]: One of the many challenges facing the nonprofit sector in Canada today is developing public awareness of the important role voluntary organizations play in the everyday lives of Canadians. Ranging from food banks, children’s aid societies, and immigrant service organizations, to opera companies and sporting societies, nonprofit and voluntary organizations offer a startlingly wide array of services which cannot be adequately provided directly through the open marketplace or the state. There are approximately 200,000 nonprofit organizations, 75,000 of which are registered charities. They account for 12% of the country’s GDP employing 5% of the national labour force and comprising nearly 10% of service sector employment (Stewart, 1996). In the past five years this sector accounted for 13% of job growth in Canada (Hall, 1996). The value of donated labour output was 13 billion dollars (Day and Devlin, 1996), representing an estimated half a million full time, full year jobs (Duchesne, 1989). Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation:

scholarly journals Disinhibition of the public through-performance (III)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (62) (SI) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Laurentiu BELDEAN ◽  
Ciprian ȚUȚU
Keyword(s):  
Social Activism ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theatre Architecture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Stage Performance ◽  
The Impact

The paper tackles the impact of the stage performance upon the public, the algorithm through which the theatrical event entered in the captivity of mass manipulation and the development of the dramatic concepts, aiming to decode the implied power relationship between scene and audience, thanks to the evolution of philosophical thinking from genuine scepticism to modern rationalism, from judgment of taste to critical judgment and social activism. Further, in the psychological key, the consequences of the dual division of the show space, the sociological markers in theatre architecture and the pattern of the Wagnerian scenic space were studied, allowing insights into the history of mentalities and into the pattern of art reception.

scholarly journals The impact of volunteer community service programs on students in Toronto's secondary schools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary K. Meinhard Agnes G. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
The Impact

[First paragraph of introduction]: One of the many challenges facing the nonprofit sector in Canada today is developing public awareness of the important role voluntary organizations play in the everyday lives of Canadians. Ranging from food banks, children’s aid societies, and immigrant service organizations, to opera companies and sporting societies, nonprofit and voluntary organizations offer a startlingly wide array of services which cannot be adequately provided directly through the open marketplace or the state. There are approximately 200,000 nonprofit organizations, 75,000 of which are registered charities. They account for 12% of the country’s GDP employing 5% of the national labour force and comprising nearly 10% of service sector employment (Stewart, 1996). In the past five years this sector accounted for 13% of job growth in Canada (Hall, 1996). The value of donated labour output was 13 billion dollars (Day and Devlin, 1996), representing an estimated half a million full time, full year jobs (Duchesne, 1989). Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation:

Reflections on 25 years of building social enterprise education

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Austin ◽  
V. Kasturi Rangan
Keyword(s):  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Enterprise Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to reflect on 25 years of the social enterprise initiative at the Harvard Business School, examining the processes and thinking involved at key stages of this pioneering Initiative’s implementation and institutionalization. Design/methodology/approach The authors adopt an auto-ethnographical approach, reflexively considering the impact of our actions at key stages. Findings Reflecting on the experiences, the authors offer their thoughts on the challenges involved in establishing an educational program. They consider that there were give stages in the development of the program, which ensured its longevity, institutionalization and success: giving birth; starting an experiment; gaining acceptability; being embraced and achieving irreversibility. Practical implications The multiple challenges faced, as well as the successes that the authors had over the years, are set out. Awareness of the challenges that the authors faced will support educators to be prepared to overcome the same or similar challenges to implementing and embedding a social enterprise program. Originality/value This is the first time that the authors’ reflections on the history of the Social Enterprise Initiative have been brought together. As well as distinctive in their own right, the authors consider that the lessons learned from the work over such a long period could provide valuable insights to those who wish to integrate social enterprise teaching into their settings.

scholarly journals PAN AM FLIGHT 103 INVESTIGATION AND LESSONS LEARNED

Aviation ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
Sergey Ushynskyi
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

On 21 December 1988, one of the most tragic incidents in the history of civil aviation took place. But the lessons of that tragic day and the impact of “Pan Am 103” or “Lockerbie” remain valuable and deserve attention. Santrauka 1988 m. gruodžio 21 d. ivyko vienas tragiškiausiu incidentu civilines aviacijos istorijoje. Tačiau šios tragiškos dienos pamokos ir Pan Am 103 arba kitaip Lockerbie katastrofa turi išliekamaja verte.

scholarly journals Moving Mountains: Lessons Learned from a Campus-wide Free Textbook Initiative in Response to a Global Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Werth ◽  
Katherine Williams ◽  
Tyler Kroon
Keyword(s):  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Central Appalachia ◽  
The Face ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Free Material

Students are experiencing enormous economic precarity as a result of COVID-19. Reports indicate that those hardest hit by job loss due to the coronavirus are of lower income (Beer, 2020). While economic recovery is underway for more affluent workers, the same cannot be said for those toward the bottom of the wage scale, particularly underserved populations (Long, 2020). The University of Pikeville (UPIKE) in Central Appalachia recognizes the impact that emerging and existing financial inequities have on our institution’s most vulnerable populations. Even pre-pandemic, students had indicated the costs of purchasing textbooks was stressful and discouraging. As a result, the institution decided in April 2020 to convert all classes to free materials by the start of the Fall 2020 semester. Written by those who supported faculty in this transition, the goal of this article is threefold: To describe our research methods in seeking out appropriate free material for instructors and how we guided faculty in developing their own knowledge in search strategies, To detail the process we established for faculty to apply for funding when appropriate materials could not be found, and To share the lessons we learned along with emerging success stories. We hope that this guidance will encourage other institutions to implement similar initiatives. Based on anecdotal experiences as well as our own ongoing research, we believe similar efforts are essential in addressing systemic inequities and creating cross-campus collaboration, particularly in the face of unprecedented challenges that were not created by, but have been exacerbated because of the global pandemic.

The response to hurricane Wilma. Lessons learned by the water and sanitation services in Cancun.

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Aguilera Soriano ◽  
H. Contreras Zepeda ◽  
R. Robles ◽  
J. M. Audic
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Hurricane Wilma ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Disaster Area ◽  
History Of ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The city of Cancun in Mexico is frequently subjected to the impact of hurricanes. Hurricane Wilma which passed through the city in 2005 has been the most devastating in the history of the Yucatan peninsula. The water and sanitation services operator of Cancun, Aguakan, has developed a manual of crisis procedures through which a risk management and crisis strategy is established. Through its experience in dealing with hurricane events, Aguakan has derived a series of lessons that have contributed to the rapid response and recovery of the water services. Among the lessons learned, the support to the staff and their families, the provision of a specific crisis fund and the signature of cooperation agreements with institutions and companies outside the disaster area have been key to the reestablishment of the water and sanitation services. The objective of this work is to present the lessons learned by Aguakan through the preparation, response and recovery from hurricane events and in particular to hurricane Wilma. The lessons learned constitute a contribution towards the development of a preparedness, response and recovery framework for hurricane-disaster scenarios.

scholarly journals The Financial Crises of 1929 and 2008: What Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Health Crisis?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatien Avelé ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crises ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Macroeconomic Instability ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

Reading the history of economic and financial crises bears witness to the unprecedented and unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic. To complete our reflection, we are discussing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in connection with macroeconomic instability. This short reflection answers the question of whether the lessons learned from the crises of the past can serve the major international financial players in the future

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