| The Social Enterprise Zoo |
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Dennis R. Young, Ph.D. – Visiting Professor, Mandel School Of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University and Professor Emeritus, Georgia State University |
Friday September 21, 2018
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Dampeer Room
Kelvin Smith Library
Case Western Reserve University
Cosponsored by the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Dear Colleagues:
It’s common to divide organizations into “for-profit,” “government,” and “non-profit,” but standard typologies of organizations are becoming ever-less useful.
For example, giant academic medical centers act a lot like for-profit enterprises, while some for-profit firms also claim to have social missions. As a result, scholars of business and of the “nonprofit sector” have begun to use another term: “social enterprises.”
But what is a social enterprise? One definition says they “strive to do good and make money at the same time.” Another refers to, “a revenue-generating business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to deliver profit to shareholders and owners.” Why would such things exist, and what kind of ecology would support them?
To address such questions, Dennis Young, a leading scholar of the “nonprofit sector,” gathered colleagues and edited a volume that uses the metaphor of a zoo to provide “A Guide for Perplexed Scholars, Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists, Leaders, Investors, and Policymakers.” What are the species of this newly-defined family; how do they behave and interact; how should the zookeepers, such as governments, deal with them? And what is the future for organizations that seek to balance social and economic success?
All best regards,
Joe White
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies
About Our Guest
Dennis R. Young is Professor Emeritus at Georgia State University and Visiting Professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. In 2016-2017, he was Executive in Residence in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. Previously he was Professor of Public Management and Policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies where he directed GSU’s Nonprofit Studies Program and held the Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Chair in Private Enterprise. From 1988 to 1996 he was Director of the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Mandel Professor of Nonprofit Management at Case Western Reserve University. He was the founding editor of the journal Nonprofit Management and Leadership and is founding and current editor of Nonprofit Policy Forum, and past president of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). His books include A Casebook of Management for Nonprofit Organizations, Economics for Nonprofit Managers (with Richard Steinberg), Corporate Philanthropy at the Crossroads (with Dwight Burlingame), Effective Economic Decision Making for Nonprofit Organizations, Wise Decision-Making in Uncertain Times, Financing Nonprofits: Putting Theory Into Practice, Handbook of Research on Nonprofit Economics and Management (with Bruce A. Seaman), Civil Society, the Third Sector and Social Enterprise: Governance and Democracy (with Philippe Eynaud and Jean-Louis Laville), The Social Enterprise Zoo (with Elizabeth A. M. Searing and Cassady V. Brewer) and Financing Nonprofits and Other Social Enterprises. In 2013, his 1983 book If Not for Profit for What? A Behavioral Theory of the Nonprofit Sector based on Entrepreneurship was digitally reissued with new commentaries from contemporary scholars by the Georgia State University Library (http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/facbooks2013/1/). Prof. Young received ARNOVA’s 2004 Award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research, and the Award for Innovation in Nonprofit Research from the Israeli Center for Third Sector Research at Ben Gurion University in 2005. In 2010, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Liege in Belgium for his work on social enterprise and entrepreneurship. He served on the governing board of the National Council of Nonprofits from 2008 to2014 and the Advisory Board of the Foundation Center/Atlanta from 2005 to 2015. He currently serves on the board of the National Center for Nonprofit Enterprise (NCNE) where he chairs its Research Advisory Network.
Where We Meet
The Friday Public Affairs Lunch convenes each Friday when classes are in session, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Our programs are open to all and no registration is required. We usually meet in the Dampeer Room of Kelvin Smith Library.
* Kelvin Smith Library requires all entrants to show identification when entering the building, unless they have a university i.d. that they can magnetically scan. We are sorry if that seems like a hassle, but it has been Library policy for a while in response to security concerns. Please do not complain to the library staff at the entrance, who are just doing their jobs.
Parking Possibilities
The most convenient parking is the lot underneath Severance Hall. We regret that it is not free. From that lot there is an elevator up to street level (labeled as for the Thwing Center); it is less than 50 yards from that exit to the library entrance. You can get from the Severance garage to the library without going outside. Near the entry gates – just to the right if you were driving out – there is a door into a corridor. Walk down the corridor and there will be another door. Beyond that door you’ll find the entrance to an elevator which goes up to an entrance right inside the doors to Kelvin Smith Library.
Schedule of Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:
September 28: Panama and Paradise: What Have We Learned From the “Papers,” and Will It Make Any Difference? With Richard Gordon, Professor of Law and Director, Financial Integrity Institute.
October 5: The Power to Pardon. With Michael Benza, Senior Instructor of Law, and moderated by Jonathan L. Entin, David L. Brennan Professor of Law Emeritus. ***Alternate Location: Mather House 100, 11201 Euclid Ave.***
October 12: Caesarism: Populism and Leadership in Ancient Rome and Greece. With Timothy Wutrich, Senior Instructor in Classics, and Rachel Sternberg, Associate Professor of Classics. ***Alternate Location: Mather House Room 100, 11201 Euclid Ave.***
October 19: The Context of Coverage: Ohio’s Medicaid Expansion. With Loren C. Anthes, Public Policy Fellow and Director, Medicaid Policy Center, Center for Community Solutions.
October 26: The Impact of Conflict on Health: A Family Physician’s Report from Bosnia and Afghanistan. With Geoff Hodgetts MD, Professor, Queens University School of Medicine.
November 2: Biennial Pre-Election Forecast Discussion. With Joseph White, Luxenberg Professor of Public Policy, and Andrew M. Lucker, Adjunct Professor of Political Science Alternate Location: Mather House Room 100, 11201 Euclid Ave.
November 9: TBA
November 16: Questions and Answers About Recycling Plastics. With John Blackwell, Leonard Case Jr. Professor Emeritus, Macromolecular Science and Engineering.
November 23: Thanksgiving break.
November 30: Just How Powerful is Putin? With Stephen Crowley, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Oberlin College.
December 7: Union Decline in a Populist Era: The Experience of Western Democracies. With Chris Howell, James Monroe Professor of Politics, Oberlin College. |
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September 17, 2018
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Upcoming Events
STATE COURTS IN A FEDERAL SYSTEM
A discussion with The Honorable Joan L. Larsen, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Tuesday September 25, 2018, 4:30 p.m., CWRU School of Law, Moot Courtroom (A59), 11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio 44106. Free and open to the public.
State courts are the courts most likely to affect an ordinary person’s life. Development of the common law of property, tort and contract, as well as the law governing our most personal relationships, family law, are the province of state courts. Most criminal law is state law; and most criminal prosecutions happen in state court. In these, and in other areas, state courts have been innovators. For example, state courts have taken the lead in developing new ways to work with non-violent criminal offenders, through the creation of problem-solving courts such as veterans’ treatment courts, drug courts, and mental health courts. And while most people think only of the U.S. Constitution when they think of their rights, each of our fifty states has its own constitution too, whose interpretation, by state judges, is not formally constrained by the parallel work of the federal courts. In other words, state courts matter. In fact, there was no guarantee that federal courts, besides the Supreme Court, would even exist. Our Constitution did not require it—Congress had the discretion, but not duty, to create lower federal courts. But as the federal court system has grown, it has developed an ever-evolving, complicated relationship with the state courts. There are many doctrines, such as abstention and procedural requirements in habeas corpus that are designed to respect the work of the state courts and recognize the states’ primacy. But how robustly should federal courts apply these doctrines? And how much deference should state courts give to federal court resolution of the parallel problems that confront them? These, and many other questions, are inherent in our federal system.
The Honorable Joan L. Larsen was nominated by the President on May 8, 2017 and confirmed by the Senate on November 1, 2017. Before her appointment to the federal bench, Judge Larsen served two terms as a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, where she was the court’s liaison to Michigan’s drug, sobriety, mental health and veteran’s courts.
E-Cigarettes and the Precautionary Principle: the limits of trying to “first, do no harm” in a dangerous world
A Miles and Elena Zaremski Law-Medicine Forum, a lecture and discussion with Lynn Kozlowski Ph.D., Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior, State University of New York at Buffalo, Monday October 8, 2018, Noon – 1:00 p.m., CWRU School of Law, Moot Courtroom (A59), 11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio 44106. Free and open to the public.
The invention and further development of e-cigarettes has divided the tobacco control movement. Most U.S. authorities worry that e-cigarettes will re-normalize tobacco use, provide a gateway to regular cigarettes through trapping young people in nicotine addiction, help cigarette users limit the effects of public smoking laws, and otherwise halt progress towards eliminating tobacco use. Following this logic, CWRU banned e-cigarettes as part of its tobacco-free campus policy. Other experts emphasize that the evidence so far strongly suggests that e-cigarettes are dramatically safer than combustible tobacco products, so if e-cigarettes replaced those products the public health benefits would be huge. British public health specialists have been much closer to this “harm reduction” position.
Lynn Kozlowski has long been one of the leading tobacco policy researchers in North America, with a record too extensive to describe (but see https://sphhp.buffalo.edu/community-health-and-health-behavior/faculty-and-staff/faculty-directory/lk22.html) In recent years he also has become one of the most prominent American advocates of the harm-reduction approach to e-cigarette issues. Join us as he explains some of the reasons why the dominant position within the U.S. tobacco control community should be questioned.
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