AROUND THE CENTER
International Visitors Learn From the Mandel Center's Exemplary Programs
This past spring, the Mandel Center hosted several international visitors who wanted to learn more about the Center's graduate resources, professional education programs and its work with a variety of institutions.
Professor Ichiro Tskumoto and Professor Mariko Nishimura from Meiji Gajuin University in Tokyo, as well as graduate student Yuko Nishide from Osaka University, visited the Mandel Center to learn about institutions that support the work of the nonprofit sector. In particular, they were interested in learning how universities, intermediary organizations and community foundations are engaged in developing the nonprofit sector and how these institutions build the capacity of leaders and staff working in the community.
Additionally, Provost of the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jaime Kapitulnik spent some time visiting the Mandel Center, among other programs in nonprofit management, while he was in the United States.
Professor Benjamin Gidron, Director of the Israeli Center for Third sector Research (ICTR) and School of Management at the Ben Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev, also visited the Mandel Center. Professor Gidron met with members of the Mandel Center to discuss a possible cooperation and collaboration between the Center and the newly established specialization in Nonprofit Management in the School of Management at BGU.
During their visits, the Mandel Center's guests had the opportunity to talk with various staff and faculty members regarding the goals and structure of the Center's programs, experiential work conducted as a part of student education and community outreach activities, and the Center's curriculum for the Master in Nonprofit Management.
Because the Mandel Center has been rated so highly among programs of its type, the visitors were pleased with what they learned and look forward to taking the information back to their universities.
