Complex non-profit collaboration: A Case Study of The Advocacy Initiative

Project Management Research and Practice ◽

10.5130/pmrp.v3i0.5121 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 5121

Author(s):

Anna Visser

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Voluntary Sector ◽

The State ◽

Non Profit ◽

Social Justice Advocacy ◽

Low Levels ◽

To Come ◽

Dominant Narratives

In 2008 in Ireland there was a real sense that social justice advocacy, by non-profit organisations, was under threat from the state. The experience of many advocates and their organisations was that the state was actively working to silence advocacy. However there were no or few spaces where the non-profit sector (in Ireland often referred to as the community and voluntary sector) could reflect and dialogue about social justice advocacy: the threats it faced, its purpose, methodologies, effectiveness, assumptions, and legitimacy. Where spaces did exist there were low levels of trust and not always room for dissent from dominant narratives (Murphy 2014). The Advocacy Initiative was established to provide the opportunity for the sector to come to grips with these challenges and consider more deeply its advocacy function.

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‘You Can’t Win’: The Non-Profit Double-Bind and Experiences of Organisational Contradictions in the Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector

Work Employment and Society ◽

10.1177/0950017017713949 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 244-261 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Katharine Venter ◽

Denise Currie ◽

Martin McCracken

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Voluntary Sector ◽

Social Goals ◽

Double Bind ◽

Non Profit ◽

Employment Relationships ◽

The Uk ◽

Communicative Processes

There is growing evidence that in the UK demands for non-profit and voluntary sector organisations to comply with funders’ target driven priorities are often in tension with organisations’ social goals. The implications of this for employees are not yet sufficiently understood. The present article builds on Bateson et al.’s theory of double-bind to develop a socially contextualised model to understand employees’ experiences of workplace contradictions in the sector. Drawing from data provided by 49 individuals working in three case study organisations, our conceptualisation of a ‘non-profit double-bind’ provides a new and novel way of understanding how social meta-communicative processes serve to embed or reframe contradictions within intense employment relationships.

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Using the production of welfare framework to measure the success of a short-term marketing campaign: a case study

Voluntary Sector Review ◽

10.1332/204080518x15333005885434 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 331-340

Author(s):

Giuliana Caranante ◽

Sean D. Williams

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Voluntary Sector ◽

Short Term ◽

Non Profit ◽

Marketing Campaign

This paper presents a case study of a small non-profit organisation in the United States and how it employed the production of welfare (POW) framework to assess the success of a short-term marketing campaign. The paper offers a brief introduction to the challenges of measuring marketing in the voluntary sector and an introduction to the production of welfare concept, and then analyses the case according to the POW framework. Viewed from the POW perspective, the short-term marketing campaign was a success even though it raised less money for the organisation in 2016 than in 2015 because it was more efficient and more effective and it increased participation by the community. We conclude by arguing that other non-profit organisations should consider adopting the POW framework for their own assessment and reporting efforts.

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Applying the Social Justice Advocacy Competencies: A Case Study

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e537812007-001 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

Hugh C. Crethar

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Social Justice Advocacy ◽

The Social

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Intersectionality in the State Reporting Process

10.1093/oso/9780198868835.003.0007 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 167-188

Author(s):

Johanna Bond

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Analytical Framework ◽

The State ◽

Deep Dive ◽

Intersectional Analysis ◽

Willingness To Adopt ◽

Reporting Process ◽

Treaty Body ◽

To Come

The human rights treaty bodies have increasingly engaged in intersectional analysis in the context of the reporting process, through which states that have ratified the treaty must report to the treaty body on their efforts to fulfil the treaty’s obligations. This chapter takes a deep dive into the reporting process, using CEDAW as a case study, to explore the extent to which intersectionality has surfaced in the Committee’s responses to state reports. This offers a barometer for assessing the Committee’s acceptance of intersectionality as an analytical framework more generally. The first half of the chapter discusses trends in the state reporting process, looking specifically at the frequency with which the Committee considers intersectionality in its analysis. This analysis reveals that the Committee is trending toward using an intersectional lens more consistently. Although it is impossible to draw definitive causal links between the discursive framing of intersectionality by various actors and the committee’s willingness to adopt an intersectional framework in any particular case, it is useful to think about how NGOs, reporting governments, and the committee itself may push the UN’s dialogue toward a more fulsome embrace of intersectionality in the decades to come.

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Protest and intervention: A study of discourse, culture, and psychology in Oaxaca, Mexico

Culture & Psychology ◽

10.1177/1354067x19898674 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1354067X1989867

Author(s):

Austin M Johnson

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Case Studies ◽

Cultural Change ◽

The State ◽

University Student ◽

Street Art ◽

Ethnographic Research ◽

Local Resident ◽

Catholic Priest

This article presents three ethnographic case studies that demonstrate some of the ways that local participants in Oaxaca, Mexico put Marxist and other leftist discourses into practice as they seek to enact social and cultural change. Case study 1 presents a personal retrospective narrative of a local resident who as a university student became involved in battles against the state police following the 2006 teacher’s strike in Oaxaca. Case study 2 explores the presence of Marxist and other leftist references in Oaxacan street art. Case study 3 presents the experiences of a Catholic priest who puts Marxist thought into practice through his social justice work in rural pueblos. These case studies demonstrate how a discursive understanding of culture and psychology can help navigate the conceptual fields of culture and psychology. Each case study comes from ethnographic research conducted in Oaxaca, Mexico in July 2017.

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Three Issues, Three Approaches, Three Calls to Action: Multicultural Social Justice in the Schools

Journal for Social Action in Counseling & Psychology ◽

10.33043/jsacp.3.1.59-73 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 59-73

Author(s):

Aretha F. Marbley ◽

Krista M. Malott ◽

Ann Flaherty ◽

Helyne Frederick

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Case Studies ◽

School Setting ◽

Social Justice Advocacy ◽

School Settings ◽

Guidelines And Recommendations

This article provides case studies, statistics, and social justice advocacy as lenses to discuss three areas related to multicultural social justice in school settings. Each case study is followed by a reflection on the authors‟ experiences. The article culminates with suggestions, guidelines, and recommendations for applying social justice advocacy to a school setting.

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