Questions about the Civil Society
December 1, 2008
nccjen
A few questions I have about the civil society is:
-What are the steps in creating a nonprofit? Funding it?
- How will I be able to apply what I read in this class to actual work in the nonprofit field? ie. the theories we read.
-How important is research? or does it depend on the organization?
-Grants? Grant-writing?
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1. sfmindtrap | December 9, 2008 at 11:19 am
Jen,
Interesting Questions!
I was just thinking about how the theories we learned are helpful and Im not sure I got the answer. I realized that most of the stuff we read about this semester was based on the political science perspective of civil society, and often seemed more to be about government than nonprofits. I feel if you are looking for a carreer in international development or in international NGO’s these theories would be really useful because they would give you a framework through which to look at some emerging democracies or totalitarian governments around the world and the civil societies that flourish under them. There is a balancing act always being played between nonprofits and the government and evey country is drastically different, these theories provide us with different ways of looking at different countries with different nonprofit sectors.
And about research, God I hope not, i hated writing that research paper…