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Children and families: early intervention in peoples’ life courses
No full textA core idea of the Social Investment perspective is that the future must be assured by investing in children in order to end the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage (Jenson 2009). Education has been called the vanguard of Social Investment (Deeming and Smyth 2015). Hemerijck (2002) proposes a ‘developmental’ welfare agenda for twenty-first century Europe. The concept of developmental welfare provides a common language for giving priority to guarantee high levels of employment for both men and women as a fundamental political objective, combining elements of flexibility and security, aimed at facilitating men and especially women in reconciling work and family life. The agenda implies early identification of problems through investment in services for young children, and family and child -centred interventions
Investing in the Future! Three case studies of social innovation in the Emilia-Romagna Early Childhood Education and Care services system
No full textThis chapter is about the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It considers the extent to which these integrated ECEC services are beneficial to children, families and society at large, and assesses them as possible best practice with regard to the partnership between public, private for profit and nonprofit actors. The rationale for the selection of these services (focusing specifically on children aged 0 to 3 and their families) is the relevance of the policy area for the theme of Social Investment. The chapter adopts the four dimensional scheme of social innovation (resources, authority flows, routines and beliefs) from Westley and Antadze (2010) elaborated by Bassi (2011).
Analysis of the data collected shows that no one model fits all. Rather, the key success factors for increasing the availability as well as the affordability of ECEC provision seems to reside in the flexible combination of different funding sources coming from the public sector as well as from the not-for-profit sector and private enterprises. This happens within a comprehensive framework of public policies that responsively addresses the needs identified within each community while striving for universalism. In this sense, the case studies provide exemplary instances of how diversified ECEC provision serving the varied needs of children and families within local communities could be realised, with a special focus on accessibility and economic sustainability. Besides addressing the issues of sustainability and accessibility, the case studies shed light on how the pedagogical quality of ECEC provision and its ongoing improvement could be nurtured through the co-creation and sharing of knowledge, expertise and experiences generated by innovative forms of public governance (local and regional networks, partnerships with parents, coalitions for policy advocacy, inter-agency collaboration)
Review of: David Billis (Editor), Hybrid Organizations and the Third Sector. Challenges for Practice, Theory and Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010.
No full textWhen this book was published in 2010, the terms hybrid and hybridization
did not have a common and widespread definition in the scientific community of the social sciences, although several were proposed (Powell 1987; Brandsen, van de Donk, and Putters 2005; Evers 2005; Brandsen, Karré, and Helderman 2009). The authors of Hybrid Organizations and the Third Sector recognize that there are many possible area of hybridization among organizations belonging to the three main sectors of society: public, private (for profit), and the third sector; editor and contributing author David Billis affirms that one of the goals of this book is to go beyond a vague description of the hybridization phenomena as
“the blurring of the boundaries of the three sectors” by offering the following definition: a hybrid organization is an organization that “possesses significant characteristics of more than one sector”. The main focus of the book, however, is the “role of hybrid organizations in the third sector”
Barinaga Ester, Social Entrepreneurship: Cases and Concepts
No full textThe book is organized in two autonomous but interrelated parts and contains sixteen
chapters (eight in each part that are mirroring each other).
The author choose eight topics (issues, aspects) of the management of a social
entrepreneurship: starting up, scaling up, building partnership, mission drift, conflict
resolution, rethinking scale, social value/social impact assessment, and application
for funds. Each of these issues is illustrated in the first part of the book (Cases in
Social Entrepreneurship) using the technique of the ‘‘case study’’ narrative, taking
as an example a ‘‘real’’ case of a ‘‘concrete’’ social enterprise in Stockholm.
However, in the second part of the book (Concepts in Social Entrepreneurship) the
same topics are analyzed from a more theoretical point of view implying some key
sociological concepts, such as actor-network theory and symbolic capital, framing
processes and social movements, embeddedness and economic quantification, logic of fields and conflicts, interest and rationality, networks and social capital, valuation
of performance, and theory of change
Emily Barman (2016), Caring Capitalism. The Meaning and Measure of Social Value
No full textThe purpose of the book is to analyse the effect of the embrace of market-based solutions to social problems on the meaning and measure of social value.
The book is organized in three parts. The first part focuses on the question of social value for social purpose organizations (nonprofit organizations and social enterprises) outside of the market. The second part deals with ‘‘market monitors’’, meaning civil society actors who aim to (privately) regulate corporations to hold them accountable for the (social) consequences of their production processes. In the third part, the author presents some case studies of ‘‘caring capitalism’’: the rationale of production of social and shareholder value by corporations is evaluated using market indicators
Social Investment in theory and praxis: a ‘quiet revolution’ in innovative local services?
No full textThis book has presented a set of empirical evidence from ten in-depth, evaluative case studies in ten European countries. In this concluding chapter, we highlight outstanding themes from the case studies and then go on to put forward a few implications of this research intended to inform experts, stakeholders and interested readers. Nearly two decades ago, Esping Anderson and colleagues (2002) made a case for a new welfare state that in the face of heightening uncertainties would adopt a generational life course logic. An emerging Social Investment paradigm became widely acknowledged, informed EU policy (European Commission, 2013), and has been influential worldwide (Deeming and Smyth, 2017). There is now shared understanding in scholarship and policy of a Social Investment paradigm, albeit sometimes more in the form of ‘engaged discord’ (Hemerijck, 2017: 5) than thoroughgoing consensus. We begin this chapter by reminding the reader (traveller) of the main stop-over that we took him/her to visit in this book. It has been a daring journey across ten European countries (from south to north and from west to east) in order to see social innovation initiatives in the Social Investment policy framework. Thematically we followed in turn the policy domains of early interventions in the life course, active labour markets, and social solidarity. Cases were selected because, based on initial understandings of the vision of the projects and programmes, they fit with the Social Investment paradigm and literature, and because there was some evidence of innovation. Most importantly, there was the opportunity for learning
L. Mook, J. R. Whitman, J. Quarter, and A. Armstrong (eds): Understanding the Social Economy of the United States
No full textThe book is organized in four main parts and contains eleven chapters. The main
purpose of the book is to present a framework for understanding the wide array of
organizations in the US that prioritize their social objectives over their economic
ones and that can be grouped under the label Social Economy.
There are several organizations with social goals, such as public sector
nonprofits, civil society organizations, social enterprises, cooperative, and other
organizations with a social mission, that usually are analyzed through a three sectors
approach: the public sector; private sector, and the third sector. The authors propose
a different point of view called the ‘‘social economy framework.
Terra Incognita
No full textUne "Terra Incognita" est un territoire dans les cartes géographiques anciennes pour indiquer des lieux encore inexplorés par l'homme. Notre terre inconnue est la Métropole lémanique. Le concept de Métropole lémanique a émergé il y aune vingtaine d’années au sein de l'Université de Genève et l'EPFL, il a poursuivi son chemin au début des années 2000 avec les travaux du Studio Basel de l'ETHZ et par les publication d'Avenir Suisse das les années suivantes. En 2011 les gouvernements genevois et vaudois ont signe un accord portant sur le développement et la promotion de la Métropole lémanique(....)Les explorations proposées sont celles produites par le projet d'architecture comme instrument de travail.LAUREensemble des projets développés par 8 équipes d'étudiants différents de l'Atelier Andréa Bassi 2007-2008-2009-2010
Giovanni Moro, Contro il Nonprofit, Editori Laterza, Bari
No full textIl volume costituisce una sorta di “testamento morale” dell’autore che come è noto è stato tra i fondatori e quindi Segretario Generale, nel periodo 1989 - 2002, del movi-mento “Cittadinanzattiva” e successivamente fondatore e presidente del think tank europeo “Fondaca”.
Esso presenta un carattere ibrido collocandosi a metà strada tra il saggio scientifico (di cui però rispetta i canoni redazionali presentando un ampio e puntuale apparato di riferimenti bibliografici) e il “pamphlet” polemico “di denuncia” e sensibilizzazione rivolto ad una platea più ampia di lettori, come riconosce lo stesso autore a conclusione del primo capitolo.
L’argomentazione di Moro si sviluppa in forma ellittica, attraverso nove tappe espositive che costituiscono altrettanti capitoli del volume, conducendo il lettore dopo un profondo lavoro di “destrutturazione” al punto di partenza ma arricchito di nuovi strumenti analitici di “distinzione”. Tale percorso teorico-epistemologico si evince anche dai titoli evocativi ed efficaci dei capitoli: 1. Una dichiarazione di intenti; 2. La invenzione del non profit; 3. Dove casca l’asino; 4. L’effetto alone; 5. Il caso Italiano: ovvero come farsi del male da soli; 6. Conseguenze non volute; 7. Un golem sfuggito al controllo; 8. Da capo; 9. Virtù civiche
Terzo Settore
No full textIl termine terzo settore ha visto una diffusione tardiva sia nel dibattito scientifico che nell’opinione pubblica nel nostro paese. È solo a partire dalla seconda metà degli anni ’90 del secolo scorso che a seguito di una serie di pubblicazioni (Colozzi, 1994; Colozzi e Bassi, 1995; Stanzani, 1998), che recepiscono il dibattito internazionale in atto, che esso inizia a circolare in ambito scientifico e accademico.
Per quanto riguarda l’utilizzo della terminologia nella discussione pubblica una spinta notevole viene fornita dalla nascita nel 1997 dell’organizzazione di rappresentanza a livello nazionale dei vari attori della società civile organizzata (associazionismo, volontariato, cooperazione di solidarietà sociale, fondazioni) che assume tale dicitura nella propria denominazione: Forum Nazionale del Terzo Settore (Bobba e Nanni, 1998; Iovene e Viezzoli, 1999).
Il termine subisce diversi avvicendamenti con un andamento altalenante che alterna momenti di ampia diffusione a periodi di oblio dal dibattito pubblico, fino a raggiungere il livello massimo di riconoscimento e di istituzionalizzazione negli anni 2016-2017 con l’approvazione della normativa specifica ad esso dedicata nota come “Riforma del Terzo Settore” (Legge delega 106 del 2016 e decreti attuativi)
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