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December 2007 David Altschuler participated on the panel, “Evaluating Youth Violence Prevention Programs,” at the National Technology Assessment Workshop on Animal Assisted Programs for Youth At Risk, co-sponsored by the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence (School of Public Health) and The Humane Society of the United States, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was also a panelist on, “Case Management in Juvenile Justice,” at the Operations Retreat for the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, in Baltimore, Maryland.
December 2007 Burt Barnow was appointed by the National Academies of Science to the Committee to Evaluate the United States Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Fellows Program.
December 2007 Catherine Embersin, International Urban Fellow, presented, “Autism in the United States: Early Detection and Epidemiological Surveillance,” to IPS faculty and staff. Catherine is the latest fellow in the long-running partnership between IPS and Institut d'Amenagement et d'Urbanisme de la Region d'Ile de France (IAURIF), the planning agency for the Paris region.
December 2007 The Sar Levitan Center reported that 77 of the 97 students in the Academy for College and Career Exploration’s (ACCE) first graduating class have received college acceptances. All students have applied to at least one college.
December 2007 Research conducted and presented by first year Master’s in Public Policy students enrolled in the course, Policy Analysis for the Real World, was the topic of “Does Mixed-Income Work?,” an article appearing in the December 17 issue of the JHU Gazette. The students shared their findings with an audience of 40 to 50 representatives of city government and neighborhood organizations. This annual event typically attracts several City Council members, as well as representatives from the city's Department of Housing and Community Development and other city planners, as well as community leaders.
November 2007 Several Master’s in Public Policy faculty presented papers, were discussants, or chaired sessions at the 29th Annual APPAM Research Conference, held in Washington, D.C. Sandee Newman presented two papers: "Putting Housing First, Making Housing Last: Housing Policy for Persons with Severe Mental Illness” (co-authored by H. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D.); and "Housing and Child Development" (co-authored and co-presented by Tama Leventhal). Burt Barnow presented, "How Much Training Do Training Programs Provide?" (co-presented by John Trutko, president, Capital Research Corporation), and chaired the panel, “Surviving and Thriving in Peer-Reviewed Journals.” Demetra Nightingale chaired the panel, “Determinants and Consequences of Policy Mechanisms for Making Work Play,” and chaired and was a discussant on the panel, “Managing Organizationa Change.” She was also a discussant on the panel, “Approaches to Promoting Employment,” and a participant on the panel, “Finding Balance: Work, Family, and Policy.”
October 2007 Master’s in Public Policy program welcomed its new Assistant Director, Dr. Carey Borkoski. Carey holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from UMBC, a Master's in Applied Economics from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and a BA from Wake Forest University. From 2004-2007, she was an Associate Professor of Economics at Anne Arundel Community College, where she received an award for teaching excellence presented by the student body.
October 2007 Burt Barnow, Associate Director of Research and Principal Research Scientist with the Institute for Policy Studies, was reappointed as chair of the National Association of Schools of Public Administration and Affairs (NASPAA) Research Committee for the third consecutive year. He was also appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, where he joins his colleague Sandee Newman.
October 2007 Demetra Nightingale and Douglas Besharov of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) and the University of Maryland co-hosted a luncheon forum on Welfare Reform at AEI in Washington, DC and gave a briefing of key findings from the recently completed Evaluation of Refugee Resettlement Programs to officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement.
October 2007 Marsha Schachtel led the session, "Universities as Regional Economic Drivers," at the 11th annual conference of the State Science and Technology Institute in Baltimore, Maryland and organized a day of briefings in Baltimore for a group of urban planning graduate students from the University of Delaware and led the sessions on redevelopment in East Baltimore and the history of Baltimore's downtown revitalization.
October 2007 IPS welcomed International Urban Fellow Antoaneta Yoveva from Sofia, Bulgaria. Antoaneta is Vice Mayor of one of Sofia's 24 municipalities (Oborishte, pop. 36,000), which is home to many higher education and cultural institutions, embassies, and government ministries. She studied public-private partnerships and spent most of her time at internships arranged at Baltimore Development Corp. and the Baltimore City Department of Planning.
October 2007 The October 27, 2007 issue of the Baltimore Sun published a Letter to the Editor written by Master's in Public Policy students and referencing their research on abandoned properties in Baltimore.
Read more about the research.
September 2007 IPS welcomed two new members to its National Advisory Board. Diana Taylor, Managing Director of Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, is former Superintendent of Banks for the State of New York, where she was the regulator for over 3,500 financial institutions with assets totaling over $1.5 trillion. Barclay Knapp is an accomplished entrepreneur, having co-founded several telecommunications companies over the past 25 years, including the first publicly traded cellular mobile telephone company in the country and the largest cable television, telephone, and broadband internet provider in the U.K. He is on the JHU Board of Trustees, was recognized as a JHU Distinguished Alumnus in 1999, is a Senior Fellow and Lecturer in the Krieger School’s Center for Financial Economics, and is a past national co-chair of the Knowledge for the World Campaign.
September 2007 IPS welcomed two new International Fellows in Urban Studies for fall 2007. Giulio Giovannoni, from Florence, Italy (fall 2007 and spring 2008) is studying the dynamics of residential real estate markets in the U.S. and public policies that achieve such goals as affordable housing. Catherine Embersin, from Paris, France (fall 2007) is from the regional planning agency for the Paris region. She is investigating U.S. approaches to the early detection of childhood disability, and the systems of information and care that have been developed here.
September 2007 The Center for Civil Society Studies welcomed two new International Fellows in Philanthropy: Stefanie Fischbach from Germany and Rasma Rosenberga from Latvia.
July/August 2007 David Altschuler led and facilitated a four-day meeting in Santa Fe, NM with leadership and staff from the New Mexico Children, Youth & Families Department on juvenile offender reentry. He also led a one-day training session in Cleveland, OH on juvenile offender reentry and aftercare with staff from New Directions, a nonprofit agency that operates programs for chemically dependent adolescents.
July/August 2007 The Center for Civil Society Studies hosted Professor Changhyun Kang, PhD from Seoul, South Korea, a visiting scholar from Dankook University researching the topic of governance in the United States and the relationship between governance, the nonprofit sector, and the for-profit sector.
July/August 2007 Lester Salamon , Helen Tice, Wojciech Sokolowski, and Megan Haddock traveled to Geneva, Switzerland to attend meetings co-hosted by the The Center for Civil Society Studies in cooperation with the UN Economic Commission for Europe and the International Labour Organization. The meetings brought together experts from around the world to explore ways to promote common approaches among statistical agencies to measure volunteering.
July/August 2007 The "Maryland's Birth Through Three Business Plan," prepared by Friends of the Family and over 70 participants with assistance from Marsha Schachtel was presented to the Maryland State Board of Education.
July/August 2007 The Master’s in Public Policy program welcomed 35 first year MPP students to campus with a series of orientation activities, including tours of Baltimore and meetings with various city officials. The members of the MPP Class of 2009 hail from universities across the US, including Carnegie Mellon, Wesleyan, Pepperdine, George Washington, and Boston College, as well as institutions in India, China, Argentina, and Canada.
July 2007 Martha Holleman, MPP'96 published her article, "Tackle Crime Problem at Its Source" in the July 26th edition of the Baltimore Sun. Holleman is a W. T. Grant Foundation distinguished fellow at New York University's Robert W. Wagner School for Public Service
June 2007 Burt Barnow was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Approaches for the Evaluation of the NIST/NRC Postdoctoral Research Associateship Program.
May 2007 The International Fellows in Urban Policy program was featured on the home page of Johns Hopkins’ international website, “Johns Hopkins Around the World” for the month of May.
May 2007 Sandee Newman was appointed to the Research Advisory Panel of Arizona State University's study of affordable, workforce, and mixed income housing.
May 2007 Lester Salamon attended the meeting of the Center for Civil Society’s UN Handbook Project Advisory Committee in Madrid, Spain, held in conjunction with the European Foundation Center Conference.
May 2007 Sandee Newman was part of a panel of local experts who discussed the shortage of affordable housing in both Baltimore and Maryland on the May 1st edition of the Marc Steiner Show on WYPR. Listen to the broadcast. http://www.wypr.org/M_Steiner.html
April 2007 Burt Barnow contributed to the National Academies of Science report, "Building a Better NASA Workforce: Meeting the Workforce Needs of the National Vision for Space Exploration." This report responds to NASA's request for an assessment of the current and future supply of a qualified U.S. aerospace workforce, and identification of realistic and actionable solutions.
April 2007 The Center for Civil Society Studies announced an agreement with the International Labour Organization to develop a recommended procedure for measuring volunteer work through official labor force surveys in countries throughout the world. This procedure will be presented to the International Conference of Labour Statisticians in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 2008. Also announced on behalf of the Center for Civil Society Studies was a start-up grant from the United Nations Volunteers to help underwrite this effort.
April 2007 Kat Hyland, MPP'07, was recognized in the National Academies of Science report, "Building a Better NASA Workforce: Meeting the Workforce Needs of the National Vision for Space Exploration," for her help in assessing Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projections discussed in the report.
March 2007 David Altschuler, at the invitation of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, participated in a White House Compassion in Action Roundtable, "Improving Prisoner Re-Entry Services through Faith and Community-Based Partnerships," at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C.
March 2007 Burt Barnow was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee that recently reported on the progress and resource constraints of 14 U.S. Department of Education programs designed to strengthen education in foreign languages and in international and area studies -- known collectively as Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs. The programs studied provide foreign language and area studies courses at U.S. universities, primarily at the graduate level.
March 2007 Burt Barnow, Sandee Newman and Demetra Nightingale participated in the spring meeting of the Association for Public Policy Administration and Management (APPAM) Policy Council. Burt also participated in the Institutional Representatives meeting of APPAM, and Demetra participated in the Fall Research Conference meeting of topic chairs.
March 2007 IPS welcomed Julien Cammas, the most recent Urban Fellow from the Institut d’Aménagement et d’Urbanisme de la Région d’Ile-de-France (IAURIF). Julien is the librarian at IAURIF and will examine the use of technology in library services for researchers and planners, starting with Johns Hopkins' libraries.
March 2007 Sandee Newman was appointed to the German Marshall Fund's Comparative Domestic Policy Project Transatlantic Advisory Board.
March 2007 Marsha Schachtel testified before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee onCommerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies on issues related to the budget of the Department of Commerce.
February 2007 Sandee Newman was one of threediscussants on "Housing and America's Future,a speech by J. Fanton, President of the MacArthur Foundation, at New York University Law School. The event attracted an audience of more than 600 and at the event, President Fanton announced a $25 million commitment to housing policy research.
January/February 2007 CDMAG, a magazine founded and edited by Iryna Vidanava (MPP’06), received the 2007 Gerd Bucerius Prize for “Free Press of Eastern Europe.” This prize is awarded annually by the ZEIT Foundation (Germany) and the Freedom of Expression Foundation (Norway) for newspapers and journalists in Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, and the South Caucasus region who strive to promote press freedom and freedom of expression in the face of threats and censorship (http://www.fritt-ord.no/egendefinert.asp?MId1=26&EDef=3).
January/February 2007 The Listening Post Project held a Roundtable Session on, “Nonprofit Investment Capital Needs,” at the Case Foundation in Washington, DC for representatives of nonprofit organizations and capital provider foundations from across the U.S.
January/February 2007 The Nonprofit Employment Data Project Report, “Employment in America’s Charities: A Profile,” was mentioned in The Examiner article, “Report: Nonprofit employment growth outpaces for profit sector,” which appeared in the January 3rd issue and in the February 8th article, “So you want to work for a nonprofit?” published on CNNMoney.com. (The report also received coverage in the December 25th issue of Barron’s, “The Ascent of Charitable Jobs,” and in the December 25th edition of The Washington Post, “Area Nonprofits Are Hiring.”)
January/February 2007 Lester Salamon was interviewed in, “The Chronicle Interview: Putting the non-profit sector and volunteering on the economic map,” appearing in the Winter 2007 issue of the UN Chronicle.
January/February 2007 Fauzia Salman MPP’08 published, “Seed of Peace on Cricket Field,” in the February 20th issue of the Baltimore Sun.
January/February 2007 Joe Sterne published, “Mr. Schaefer’s First Hurrah,” in the January 21st issue of the Baltimore Sun.
December 2006 David Altschuler was selected to serve as a “teaching witness” in a death penalty case that is scheduled for trial in the U.S. Court in Alexandria, Virginia.
First year Master’s in Public Policy students presented the analysis and findings from their study, "Abandoned Properties in Baltimore: Considerations for Public Investment Priorities," to a standing-room only audience that included members of the Baltimore City Council, chief neighborhood planners from the neighborhoods that were the focus of the study, heads of community development corporations, foundation representatives, and the Assistant Commissioner for Land Resources and director of Project 5000 – the client for the students' work. This term-long project was conducted as part of Sandee Newman's course, "Policy Analysis for the Real World." Read the JHU Gazette coverage of the presentation.
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December 2006 Sandee Newman was appointed to a National Academy of Sciences Committee to evaluate the research function and agenda of HUD.
November 2006 Jennifer Arndt participated on the panel, “A Look into MPA and MPP Programs,” which was part of the Federal Career Week activities developed by the Peace Corps for returning volunteers.
November 2006 Burt Barnow was appointed to the Data Quality Task Force of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), which is charged with considering the data NASPAA would like to gather to help inform member schools and the public. He was also appointed to the American Jewish Committee's Task Force on National Service.
November 2006 Megan Haddock conducted a two-day training meeting in Rabat, Morocco for three countries (Cameroon, Mali, and Morocco) implementing the UN NPI Handbook.
November 2006 Demetra Nightingale served as the Chair of the Social Policy Topic Area Subcommittee for the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference Program Committee. She also chaired two research panel sessions: "Testing New Strategies for the Hard-to-Employ" and "Is the Social Safety Net Unraveling or Just Transforming?"
October 2006 Burt Barnow and Jennifer Arndt attended the 2006 NASPAA Annual Conference, "The Future of the Public Sector," held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Approximately 350 representatives from the 250 member institutions attended the conference. Burt was reappointed Chair of the NASPAA Research Committee.
October 2006 Sandee Newman attended a dinner at the residence of the ambassador of Australia, Mr. Dennis Richardson, in honor and celebration U.S. participation in the Fulbright Program in Australia. Among those at the dinner were Mrs. Harriet Fulbright and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pickering. (Sandee was a Fulbright Scholar in Australia in 1983.)
October 2006 Marsha Schachtel co-taught the "Introduction to Technology-Based Economic Development" course and appeared as a panelist at the 10th Annual State Science and Technology Institute conference in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
September 2006 IPS welcomed 35 new students to the Class of 2008. In August, the students participated in two weeks of workshops on such topics as math fundamentals, effective writing, public speaking, and Baltimore history. The class includes students from across the U.S. and from China and India, a Fulbright scholar, and students who have served in AmeriCorps and in the Peace Corps. Their undergraduate degrees were obtained from such schools as Princeton, Stanford, Wesleyan, Georgetown, and Arizona State.
September 2006 Class of 2007 Masters in Public Policy students in the fall 2005 course, "Policy Analysis for the World," had their Op Ed on their term-long project, "Neighborhoods Left Behind in Baltimore's Housing Boom" (IPS Occasional Paper #30) published in the September 19th issue of The Examiner. This continues the tradition of students in this class working to get their work into the public domain in an effort to increase knowledge about the City's policy challenges.
September 2006 IPS welcomes this year's International Fellows in Urban Policy. Federico Bonicelli (Bologna, Italy) is arriving in October for both the fall and spring semesters. He is comparing the strategies for management and maintenance of public real estate in Baltimore and the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. Mattias Leger (Linkoping, Sweden) is arriving in October and will be here for both the fall and spring semesters. He is looking at university-generated economic development as a response to deindustrialization in Swedish and American cities. Davide Ponzini (Milan, Italy) has returned for his second semester. He is examining the role of culture in regenerating cities, with a particular focus on public-private partnerships. Ugo Rossi (Naples, Italy) is here for the fall semester. He is exploring the viability of entrepreneurial approaches to urban governance, such as fostering a "creative class."
September 2006 Curt Ventriss, Professor of Public Policy at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, is spending his sabbatical year with IPS as a visiting professor. His areas of expertise are environmental policy, economic development, citizen involvement in the policy process, policy implementation, and policy ethics.
September 2006 Tama Leventhal attended a steering committee meeting of the NICHD Child of Early Child Care and Youth Development at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland and attended a meeting of SEED (Science and Ecology of Early Development) grantees at NIH later in the month.
September 2006 An op-ed written by Amanda Beacom MPP ’07 was published in September 19th edition of The Examiner and featured research and analysis conducted by the MPP Class of 2007 in their fall 2005 Baltimore Policy Project, "Neighborhoods Left Behind in Baltimore's Housing Boom." Click here to read the article.
July/August 2006 David Altschuler participated on the panel, "Reintegration of Ex-Offenders: New Paths to Achievement," at "Workforce Innovations 2006," sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor in Anaheim, California. He developed and led a 1½ day training program, "Reentry and Aftercare: Concept and Application," for the West Virginia Division of Juvenile Services in Bridgeport, West Virginia and developed and led a technical assistance session, "Reentry in Concept and Application," for the Santa Cruz County Probation Department in Santa Cruz, California.
July/August 2006 The International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) held its Seventh International Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference, entitled "Civil Society and Human Security: Raum Jai," featured 3 plenary sessions and 66 breakout sessions and drew approximately 250 participants from 46 countries.
July/August 2006 Demetra Nightingale attended the Advisory Board meeting of the Hope Project at the Bloomberg School's Center for Adolescent Health, and attended a Capitol Hill Briefing on Employment Trends in the Communications and Media Industry, sponsored by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education, and the Communication Workers of America. She participated on the panel, "Race in the Workplace," at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland, sponsored by the foundation and the Job Opportunities Task Force.
May/June 2006 Demetra Nightingale attended Board of Director meetings for Milwaukee New Hope and for Seedco; the Advisory Board Meeting for the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Research on Poverty; and the Urban Institute Press Editorial Board Meeting.
May 2006 The National Association of Workforce Development Professionals has bestowed its Sar Levitan Research Award on Marion Pines, stating that “for more than three decades, and perhaps more than anyone else, Marion Pines has driven the research agenda for workforce development.” NAWDP presents its Awards for the Advancement of the Profession annually to individual workforce development practioners who have made exemplary contributions to the profession.
April 2006 Eileen Hairel spoke with IPS students, faculty, and staff about her recent trip to Rwanda, describing her personal experiences visiting the schools, hospitals, and genocide memorials, and discussing the history, politics, and people of Rwanda on the 12th anniversary of the genocide and the lessons it holds for today's conflicts.
April 2006 The IPS Student Association (IPSSA) held its last service event of the school year, helping to plant trees in Patterson Park in East Baltimore. Seven IPSSA members participated, and were joined by JHU statistics professor Keenan Dworak-Fisher and his wife Sally. With this event, IPSSA met its goal of providing 100 person-hours of service this semester, putting in 109 hours across three projects.
April 2006 More than 30 prospective students attended the MPP Open House which consisted of a full day of events, including the opportunity for prospective students to visit the Policy Implementation class, have lunch with current students, and go on a campus tour before the traditional evening reception.
April 2006 IPS welcomed Milajete Mehmeti, a Professor at the University of Prishtina, Kosovo, a senior Fulbright fellow, to the International Urban Fellows program. She will be in Baltimore through June examining ways that universities can be involved in economic revival.
April 2006 Sandee Newman was the organizer and moderator of the panel, "Urban Renewal for Cynics," at the Johns Hopkins Chicago meeting of the Knowledge for the World Campaign. Panelists included Aaron Miripol (MPP 94) who shared his expertise on housing and community development.
April 2006 Lester Salamon was interviewed on the April 24th edition of NPR's "Marketplace" to discuss the challenges nonprofits face in raising capital.
April 2006 Marsha Schachtel was honored at the 20th Anniversary Symposium of the University of Maryland Institute for Systems Research.
March 2006 David Altschuler, who has worked in Singapore, attended a dinner hosted by JHU President and Mrs. William Brody in honor of Her Excellency Chan Heng Chee, the Singapore Ambassador to the U.S. He has joined the Academic Advisory Board of the recently formed Association of Community Justice Professions and is serving on the Juvenile Justice Standards Advisory Panel to the Council on Accreditation, a group founded in 1977 that accredits over 1,600 public agencies and private organizations serving more than 7 million children and youth.
March 2006 MPP student Teague Lyons’s editorial, “Despite the Criticism, Wikipedia Worthwhile,” appeared in the March 19th edition of the Baltimore Sun.
March 2006 MPP students Sarah Brown, April Hendrickson, Andrea Payne, Anthony Quinn, Jason Rano, Louise Rothschild, and Femi Vance traveled to St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, over spring break to help with the post-hurricane Katrina clean-up and rebuilding effort.
March 2006 Sandee Newman was quoted in, “End of Their Scope,” an article by Edward Ericson, Jr. on urban pioneers in Baltimore that appeared in the March 15th edition of the Baltimore City Paper. Her monograph, “Low-End Rental Housing: The Forgotten Story in Baltimore’s Housing Boom,” was referenced in, “Need for Affordable Rentals Grows Critical Nationwide,” an article by Eric Siegel that appeared in the March 9th edition of the Baltimore Sun. She also participated in the mock interviews for Johns Hopkins undergraduate nominees for the Truman Scholars Program.
March 2006 Lester Salamon, Wojciech Sokolowski, and Megan Clymer conducted a two-day technical guidance workshop in Maputo, Mozambique for representatives from six African countries (Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zimbabwe) implementing the UN Nonprofit Handbook project.
March 2006 Iryna Vidanava (MPP’06) took part in a discussion led by Neal Conan on the March 23rd edition of NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” on “The Political Future of Belarus.” She testified before the Helsinki Commission on March 9th as part of the hearing, “Freedom Denied: Belarus on the Eve of the Elections,” to discuss the complete absence of political freedom in Belarus and the implications this has on its upcoming elections. She was also a guest on the March 8th edition of “The Kojo Nnamdi Show” on WAMU, Washington, DC’s NPR station.
February 2006 David Altschuler’s letter to the editor, “Restore voting rights of ex-felons,” appeared in the February 25th edition of the Baltimore Sun.
February 2006 Joe Harkness and Sandee Newman participated in an advisory group meeting on Abt Associates' methodological study of measuring the costs of homelessness.
February 2006 Sandee Newman was interviewed and quoted extensively in, “Building a crystal ball,” an article appearing in the February 19th edition of the Baltimore Sun which discussed the development of Baltimore City’s new master plan. She participated in a thinker's session on mid-sized rental property owners and developers hosted by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and held at NeighborWorks in Washington, D.C. and participated in a thinker's session on "Housing and Labor Markets" sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation and held at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
February 2006 MPP student Iryna Vidanava was interviewed by Michele Kelemen on the February 24 edition of NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday." In the segment, "Democracy Advocates See Chance in Belarus," Vidanava spoke with Kelemen about "Student Thought," the Belarusian youth magazine she edits and her hopes for a unified opposition effort to oust current Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko, viewed by many as the last European dictator in power. Hear more of the story
January 2006 Demetra Nightingale was a member of a World Bank Mission on Poverty Reduction in the Tomsk Region in the Russian Federation, where she met with Tomsk administrative and regional officials, reviewed their social assistance and employment policies and programs, and made a presentation on Options for Monitoring Tomsk's Poverty Reduction Strategy. Along with Martha Burt (Urban Institute), she also gave a seminar as part of the World Bank Institute's course on Safety Net Policies in the US and OECD Countries. The course was delivered through distance learning originating from Tomsk and included over 100 administrators and staff in three sites in Siberia. Nightingale also participated in a distance learning offering of this course delivered from Washington, DC with over 100 participants enrolled from Moldova and Ukraine.
January 2006 David Altschuler participated in the Delinquency, Disability and Juvenile Justice Conference, sponsored by The National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice in cooperation with The Johnson Foundation at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin.
January 2006 Burt Barnow was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Committee to evaluate the Fulbright Program.
January 2006 The Listening Post Project convened a project Strategy Session in Washington, D.C for project funders, potential funders, project partners, and experts in the nonprofit field.
January 2006 IPS welcomed Davide Ponzini, an International Urban Fellow from Milan, Italy who is a Ph.D. candidate in Urban Planning at the Politecnico of Milan. Davide will be examining the urban effects of public/private roles in cultural heritage and production.
January 2006 Lester Salamon, Mimi Bilzor and Sandee Newman met with a group of high level administrators from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia, who are on a study tour to learn how U.S. universities and think tanks disseminate policy research to Congress, federal policymakers and managers, and the popular media.
December 2005 Marie Bailey-Kloch and fellow researchers at the Bloomberg School of Public Health were featured in the December 12, 2005 edition of The JHU Gazette for their work on JEWEL, a study that introduced 55 drug-using women to HIV risk prevention and to making, marketing and selling beaded jewelry. The study is published in the January issue of AIDS Care. Visit http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2005/12dec05/12jewel.html to read more.
December 2005 Burt Barnow was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences’ NASA Workforce committee, which will examine demographic information relevant to the workforce needed to implement the Vision for Space Exploration and identify workforce skills needed in industry, government, and academia to implement the Vision.
December 2005 International Philanthropy Fellow Rutagwelera Mutakyahwa (Tanzania) presented, “Nurturing Corporate-Nonprofit Relations: A Strategy for Increased Corporate Giving,” at an IPS Brown Bag seminar.
December 2005 Sandee Newman was elected to the Policy Council of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). This is the governing body of APPAM, which is the lead professional organization for public policy analysts and practitioners. With IPS faculty Burt Barnow and Demetra Nightingale now serving their terms on the Council, IPS/MPP is the most well-represented public policy organization on the APPAM Council.
December 2005 The Sar Levitan team participated in the National Conference for the Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative Grant in Crystal City, Virginia. Michael Ford and Irene Hechler are program coaches and technical assistance experts and Marion Pines is a senior advisor for this project.
December 2005 Iryna Vidanava (MPP ’06) was featured in a major column in the December 27th edition of the Washington Post. The article focused on the struggles Vidanava, editor of the provocative, youth-oriented magazine Student Thought, and her family face in Belarus as elections draw near. Visit http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/27/AR2005122701325.html?sub=AR to read more.
November 2005 Sandee Newman was a discussant at the symposium on, "Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities," at the annual research conference of the Gerontological Society of America, Orlando, Florida.
November 2005 Demetra Nightingale was invited to become a member of the Board of Directors of Seedco (Structured Employment Economic Development Corporation), a national community development operating intermediary in New York City.
November 2005 Lester Salamon participated in, “Multi-sector Workforce Management,” a Public Service Panel, at the National Academy of Public Administration Fellows Forum, Crystal City, Virginia.
November 2005 Marsha Schachtel served as a panelist at the US-EU Trend Chart workshop on innovation in Brussels, Belgium.
November 2005 Wojciech Sokolowski and Megan Clymer participated in, "Seminar on 1993 System of National Accounts Compilation and Revision in Africa," hosted by the United Nations Statistics Division and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
October 2005 David Altschuler participated in the “White House Conference on Helping America's Youth” held at Howard University. Session topics included Challenges Facing America's Youth, Principles of Successful Programs, and Making Connections with Schools, Family and Community. First Lady Laura Bush was in attendance and spoke briefly after an introduction by President Bush. A dinner reception at the White House hosted by the First Lady capped off the day.
October 2005 The Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project co-hosted an event to release data on the Portuguese nonprofit sector at the Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon, Portugal. Lester Salamon, Eileen Hairel and Wojciech Sokolowski attended. The work in Portugal was funded by the Luso-American Foundation, the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Aga Khan Foundation, and the Ilidio Pinho Foundation. A Global Local Associates Meeting was hosted by the Luso-American Foundation and participants from 12 countries attended.
September 2005 Sandee Newman held a press briefing on her new monograph, Low-End Rental Housing: The Forgotten story in Baltimore's Housing Boom, just published by the Urban Institute. The briefing was attended by reporters from WYPR ( Baltimore's National Public Radio affiliate), WJZ-TV, and WBFF-TV. Segments of the briefing aired on WYPR and several local television stations, and she subsequently conducted a 10 minute on-air interview with the NPR affiliate at Morgan State University. The Baltimore Sun ran a column devoted to the report and city officials' reaction to it, and, a few weeks later, ran an editorial endorsing the report's policy recommendations.
September 2005 Marion Pines participated in, “The Fate of the American Dream: Strengthening our Education and Skills Pipeline,” a national forum sponsored by Jobs for the Future, in Washington, DC.
September 2005 Lester Salamon, Megan Clymer, and Eileen Hairel co-hosted a “Workshop to Implement the United Nations Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions in the System of National Accounts in Asia,” in Bangkok, Thailand, with The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) with generous support from the Sasakawa Peace Foundation at the United Nations Conference Center. Participants included 36 delegates from 15 Asia-Pacific countries. An Asia Regional Local Associates Meeting was held in conjunction with the workshop. Workshop report, agenda, and participants list can be found at www.jhu.edu/ccss/unhandbook.
July/August 2005 David Altschuler's career and work were profiled in a feature article, "Altschuler's Alternatives," in the August 12 The Daily Record.
July/August 2005 The 17th Annual International Philanthropy Fellows Conference took place in Beijing, China and focused on the role of nonprofit organizations in promoting social justice. Over 200 participants attended the conference, including 30 Philanthropy Fellows representing 19 different countries; guests from Germany, Canada, Britain, and the U.S.; and representatives from academia, government, and the nonprofit sector in China. Center for Civil Society Studies staff included Lester Salamon, Joyce Moody, and Carol Wessner.
July/August 2005 Lester Salamon was listed in the NonProfit Times “Power and Influence Top 50.”
July/August 2005 At the National Governors Association annual meeting, the governors adopted revisions to their policy position on "national research, development, and technology policy" that included several of the recommendations included in the white paper “State-Federal Partnerships for an Innovative Economy," written by Marsha Schachtel.
