Sociology homework help

PAP 3345 Governance and the Non-profit Sector

Take-home exam

Due: Midnight, 22 December 2020

Please answer one of the following questions:

1. In this course, we learned that the social sector faces a number of key challenges, risks, and opportunities. Recent initiatives, such as experiments in social innovation, social finance, and efforts to strengthen legitimacy and representation, are meant to help improve the role of the social sector for policy and service delivery. Will these new initiatives help provide much-needed solutions? If so, why and how? If not, why not?

1.              References: Use at least 3 readings from the course

2.              Length of the answer: 2,500 words of text minimum

Readings:

WEEK 10              Blurring the boundaries: Social innovation

12 November

 Jenson, J. (2015) ‘’Social Innovation: Redesigning the Welfare Diamond” in A. Nicholls, J. Simon, M. Gabriel (eds.) New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research Palgrave MacMillan chapter 4

 Joy, M., J. Shields and S. Cheng (2019) “Social Innovation Labs: A Neoliberal Austerity-driven or Democratic Intervention’’ Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research 30:2

 Brock K. (2020) “Government and Non-profit Collaboration in Times of Deliverology, Policy Innovation Laboratories and Hubs, and New Public Governance” International Society for Third-Sector Research vol. 31, pp. 257-270

WEEK 11              Blurring the boundaries: Social finance

19 November

 Chiapello, E. and L. Knoll (2020) “Social Finance and Impact Investing. Governing Welfare in the Era of Financialization” Historical Social Research 45:3 7-30

 Carè, R. and De Lisa, R. (2019) ‘’Social Impact Bonds for a Sustainable Welfare State: The Role of Enabling Factors” Sustainability 11, 2884

 Hodzic, S. (2018) “Government under pressure: investing in better outcomes through social impact bonds” Journal of Community Safety & Well-being

 Nadine Pequeneza (2018) The Invisible Heart documentary https://www.theinvisibleheart.ca

WEEK 12              Nonprofits in an age of crisis

26 November

 Christensen, T. and P. Laegreid (2016) “Organizing for Crisis Management: Building Governance Capacity and Legitimacy” Public Administration Review 76:6 887-897

 Phillips, S. (2019) “Putting Humpty Together Again: How Reputation Regulation Fails the Charitable Sector” Nonprofit Policy Forum 10:4

 Imagine Canada (2020) “Statement from Imagine Canada on the Canada Student Service Grant/WE Charity Controversy” July 21

 Globe and Mail (2020) “Prime Minister Trudeau and WE Charity: The controversy explained” July 14

 Waldie, Paul (2020) “WE Charity’s Fall from Grace: The Kielburger brothers’ philanthropic empire is struggling to survive” Globe and Mail August 1