Call for papers: voluntary sector research

Howard Lake | 20 February 1999 | News

The 5th Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference will take place on 7-8 September 1999 at City University, London. The conference has become the annual platform and meeting place for researchers drawn from within the voluntary sector, academia, and the policy making field.

The 5th Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference will take place on 7-8 September 1999 at City University, London. The conference has become the annual platform and meeting place for researchers drawn from within the voluntary sector, academia, and the policy making field.

Organisers NCVO are particularly interested in receiving proposals for papers reporting on-going research from researchers, academics and practitioners that will relate to the themes outlined below:

• relationships between non-profit organisations and for-profit and statutory organisations.
  
  
• changing perceptions of charity and charities
  
  
• the voluntary sector’s role in building social capital
  
  
• resource utilisation and effectiveness of voluntary organisations
  
  
• changing role for voluntary action
  
  
• the sector in relation to wider concepts of civil society
  
  
• the challenges and opportunities of the new Labour agenda
  
  
• the sector and social exclusion
  
  

There is a £500 prize for best paper, but authors must submit their proposal before 15th March to qualify. Contact: ,a href=”mailto:an****************@**********rg.uk” title=”This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.” data-original-string=”UcdfaxUXRATNoXTdo/8AXw==468MjV7ZYDompqtmLGrymo6912obhsH+AaOosHHmym0tzQr7vMSwNpZA7esuI5/6A0U”>Angie Buhagiar, NCVO.

• ICFM Trusts Special Interest Group (3 March 1999)
  
• IT information for charities (3 March 1999)
  
• Helpful headline (3 March 1999)
  

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