Seminars

Individuals present their ongoing research at seminars held on a periodic basis. These seminars are targeted to the academic and research communities. This seminar series, in addition to being a vehicle to discuss research findings, is important to stimulate faculty research interest in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector at USC and other local research institutions.

Recent seminars include:

Elizabeth Graddy, Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Policy, Planning, and Development

 "Why do Nonprofits Merge?"
February 28, 2007

 

Joe Galaskiewicz, Professor of Sociology, The University of Arizona

 "Has a Network Theory of Organizational Behavior Lived Up to its Promises?"
February 7, 2007

 

Richard Sundeen, Professor and Director, Undergraduate Programs, School of Policy, Planning, and Development

 "Volunteering and Acculturation: Hispanics and Asian Americans"
January 24, 2007

 

Elwood M. Hopkins, Former Executive Director, Los Angeles Urban Funders

 "Collaborative Philanthropy: What Groups of Foundations Can Do That Individual Funders Cannot"
September 26, 2006

 

Peter Karoff, Founding President of the Philanthropic Initiative

 "Open Source Philanthropy"
February 28, 2006

 

Heather MacIndoe, Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

 "Philanthropic Funding to Nonprofit Organizations in Chicago: Who Gives, Who Gets and Where?"
February 22, 2006

 

Guilbert C. Hentschke, Professor, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California and Hilary Joy, The Greenlining Institute

 "Foundation Engagement in K-12 Education Policy"
November 30, 2005

 

Shui Yan Tang, Professor, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California

 "Elitism, Pluralism, or Resource Dependency:  Patterns of Environmental Philanthropy among Private Foundations in California"
October 26, 2005

Jim Ferris, Professor, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California

 "Foundations for LA?:  An Analysis of the Scale, Scope and Reach of Foundation Philanthropy in Los Angeles County,"
September 21, 2005

 

Michael Moody, Assistant Professor, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California
"Venture Philanthropy: An Exploratory Study of an Emergent Subculture and its Members,"
December 8, 2004

Elizabeth Graddy, Professor, and Donald Morgan, Ph.D. candidate, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California
"Community Foundations, Organizational Strategy and Public Policy,"
November 3, 2004

Shui Yan Tang, Professor, and Francisco Delfin, Jr., Ph.D. candidate, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California
"Strategic Philanthropy in Land Conservation: The Packard Foundation's Conserving California's Landscape Initiative,"
October 13, 2004

Peter Frumkin, Associate Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"The Logic of Philanthropy: Challenges of Change, Leverage and Scale,"
April 1, 2004