Mentor Areas
Volunteering: Who is a volunteer, costs and benefits of volunteering, sports volunteering, informal and formal volunteering, episodic volunteering. Volunteering as an intervention to enhance social functioning in young adults with autism spectrum disorder, health benefits of volunteering in older adults, retirement from volunteering in aging adults
Global philanthropy: Institutional structures enabling philanthropic giving in the global context development and validation of the Motives to Donate scale, professionalization of fundraising
Corporate social responsibility: Corporate Philanthropy, employee volunteering, public perception of CSR, attractiveness of CSR for job-seekers
Environmental habitus: Intergenerational transmission of environmental behaviors and attitudes
Employment in Nonprofit Organizations
Ethical decision making in nonprofits
Description:
If you are interested the practice of philanthropy in different countries then read on:
My colleague Pamala Wiepking and I are editors for a book on global philanthropy titled “Philanthropy: Key debates and contending perspectives”.commissioned by Edgar Elgar Press.
We are looking for a student assistant who is interested in the topic and willing to help us with coordinating submissions from across the globe authors, editing and other tasks involved in seeing the book in print.
The volume will include a comprehensive exploration of contemporary philanthropy with focus on the following broad topics:
- Global Philanthropy: Concept, Meaning, and Practice
- Public Policy: Shaping the Philanthropic Sector
- Adoption of Digital Technology: Opportunities and Risks (including AI)
- Legitimacy in Philanthropy: Philanthropy as a Negative Force in Society
- Philanthropic Foundations: Family, Corporate, and Community-Based
- Trust-Based Philanthropy: Unrestricted Giving and Participatory Grantmaking
- The Practice of Philanthropy: Fundraising and Grantmaking
- Laws and Regulation: Governance in Philanthropic Institutions
- Collaboration: Within, Between, and Among Stakeholders
- Ethical Leadership: Donors and Fundraisers
- Advances in Data and Methodology
Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent writing and organization skills
- Editing skills
- Willing to work independently
Project Website
Learn more about the researcher and/or the project here. see previous waward winning book https://media-ghi.ghi.aub.edu.lb/wp-content/up…
Details:
Preferred Student Year
Second-Year, Junior, Senior, First-year
Academic Term
Fall, Spring, Summer
I prefer to have students start during the above term(s).Volunteer
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to volunteers.Paid
No
Yes indicates that faculty are open to paying students they engage in their research, regardless of their work-study eligibility.Work Study
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to hiring work-study-eligible students.