Subject: [CivilSoc] International Fellowship: Study Community Foundations in New York
From: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 13:27:18 EDT
Dear Colleagues:
Greetings. Below please find information on The Center for the Study
of Philanthropy's International Fellows Program for 2001. The
program provides promising young scholars and practitioners from
around the world with the opportunity to study in New York for 3
months. The seminar topic in 2001 will focus on Community
Foundations.
The brochure for the Center's Spring 2001 International Fellows
Program has recently been posted to the Center's Web site at:
http://www.philanthropy.org/ifp2001.htm . In addition, you can find
information on the program pasted into this message (below).
Printed copies of the brochure are also available.
We encourage you to share this information about the Center for the
Study of Philanthropy's International Fellows Program with those of
your colleagues around the world who are interested in third sector
research and development.
Sincerely,
Barbara Luria Leopold
Faculty Coordinator
Center for the Study of Philanthropy
The Graduate School and University Center
365 Fifth Avenue, room 5116
New York, NY 10016-4309
telephone: 212/817-2013 or 817-2010
<bleopold@gc.cuny.edu> <csp@gc.cuny.edu>
http://www.philanthropy.org
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CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PHILANTHROPY
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWS PROGRAM 2001
THE PROGRAM
The Center for the Study of Philanthropy's International Fellows
Program is designed to bring young scholars to New York for three
months starting each March to study philanthropy and nonprofit
organizations.
The Fellows are based at The Graduate School and University Center of
The City University of New York, where they will have an opportunity
to design and pursue a research project. Specific topical areas are
chosen each year.
The topic for the year 2001 will be Community Foundations. Fellows
will participate in a seminar on U.S. and international voluntary
sector activities and are expected to produce a 30-50 page paper on
their research findings to be presented in the seminar. They will
learn about the work of key agencies and meet with foundation
representatives and American scholars researching similar topics.
They may also have the opportunity to attend selected conferences.
Each fellowship will include a stipend of $1,300 per month to cover
living expenses. The Center will also provide single-room dormitory
housing accommodations at International House at Columbia University,
as well as travel expenses to and from the United States.
A limited number of unsubsidized tuition-based appointments may also
be made, pending approval by the selection committee. Tuition is
$10,000, plus housing, travel, and personal expenses.
The program offers leadership training to scholar-practitioners
outside the United States as a means to help build Third-Sector
capacity in the Fellows home countries.
ELIGIBILITY AND SELECTION
The program is open to scholars and researchers under the age of 36.
However, this requirement may be waived in the case of tuition-based
appointments with the approval of the selection committee. Applicants
must have a high degree of fluency in English, and preference will be
given to candidates with demonstrated research skills.
Prospective candidates should submit a proposal of no more than five
pages, discussing: their past and present employment; educational
experience and publications; what they would hope to accomplish
during their stay in New York; the types of research questions they
would address during the program; and how the fellowship would
enhance their career plans. Any other overseas experience should also
be mentioned.
Information on the cover sheet should include: name, address,
telephone/fax number, Email address, marital status, age, educational
background, employment history, languages spoken and degree of
fluency in each, TOEFL scores (if English is not the first language),
and a list of publications (if applicable). Two letters of
recommendation from scholars and/or staff members of NGOs, nonprofits
or donor agencies should also be submitted.
All materials should be sent to the attention of Professor Kathleen
D. McCarthy at the Center for the Study of Philanthropy. Electronic
submissions may be sent to <csp@gc.cuny.edu>.
Proposals should be postmarked no later than October 2, 2000. The
final selection will be made by a committee of scholars and leading
representatives from the voluntary sector, and the awards will be
announced on or about December 1, 2000.
THE CENTER
The Center for the Study of Philanthropy was founded in September
1986. Located amid the nations largest concentration of foundations,
corporate donors, and local, national, and international nonprofit
organizations, the Center serves as a base for scholarly research and
ongoing interchange among scholars and practitioners in the field.
The Center's activities are interdisciplinary, with an emphasis on
the changing role of giving, voluntarism and social reform; giving
and voluntarism in New York; multicultural philanthropy; and the
international dimensions of these activities. Within this framework,
it offers a varied format of seminars, symposia, conferences,
research projects, fellowships, courses, working papers, and
publications.
THE CENTER'S DIRECTOR
Kathleen D. McCarthy, the Center's founding Director, received her
Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago, and joined the
history faculty of the Graduate School of the City University of New
York in 1986. She is the author of Women's Culture: American
Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930 (winner, ARNOVA Distinguished Book
Award) as well as many other books, edited volumes and articles on
local, national and international philanthropy, and has lectured on
these topics worldwide.
Professor McCarthy has also served as a Visiting Research Fellow with
the Rockefeller Foundation; a consultant to the Ford Foundation and
the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Assistant Secretary of
the Metropolitan Life Foundation; President of the Association for
Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action; a member of
the Editorial Board of VOLUNTAS; and a member of the informal
planning group of the White House Conference on Philanthropy, which
was held in October 1999.
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