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Faculty Highlights
Rob Fischer, Research Associate Professor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, and David Beimers published in the fall of 2007 "Pathways to employment: The experiences of TANF recipients with employment services agencies in the journey from welfare to work" in the journal, Families in Society. Fischer has also become the co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty & Community Development at MSASS. Additionally, Fischer has been selected to write a commissioned paper for the White House Conference on Research Related to the Faith-Based and Community Initiative, which will be held this June. His paper will provide a systematic review of the existing research on the effectiveness of faith-based services. The working title of the paper is "He who casts the first stone: Assessing the state of research on faith-based services."
David C. Hammack, Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History at the College of Arts and Sciences, edited a reader, Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States, which continues to be a "best seller" for the series on "Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector" at Indiana University Press. In the past year, Dr. Hammack was invited to give seminars on the history of foundations and the nonprofit sector at Oberlin and at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, and at the Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Research. He also spent a week at the UCLA Center on Civil Society last summer working with Helmut Anheier on the Contributions of Foundations project. Dr. Hammack also participated in a "Grantmaker/Researcher Forum on Research on Diversity in Philanthropy" held at the El Pomar Foundation in Colorado Springs and organized by the Foundation Center, the Council on Foundations, and the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.
