Nonprofit Management Education Down Under: Challenges and Opportunities

A Review of Third Sector Research in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: 1990–2016

“…It was subsequently downgraded and transferred to be a section of within the Department of Internal Affairs. Its website now provides 'live' statistics on the 27,800 charities by region and by sub-sector, over time (since 2012 This history has recently been documented in detail (Malcolm, Onyx, Dalton, & Penetito, 2015) Of particular significance was the establishment by the ANZTSR of the peer reviewed Journal Third Sector Review which was launched in 1995, with Jenny Onyx as founding editor. An overview of the contents of that journal provides a glimpse of the research issues of concern to the third sector in the region, both for researchers and for practitioners.…”

A Review of Third Sector Research in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: 1990–2016

“…The main NZ program arose from a social practice/community development school within an institute of technology, with a postgraduate program developed soon after in a university business school. The main post graduate courses in non-profit management as listed in Malcolm et al (2015) include: This history has recently been documented in detail (Malcolm, Onyx, Dalton, & Penetito, 2015) Of particular significance was the establishment by the ANZTSR of the peer reviewed Journal Third Sector Review which was launched in 1995, with Jenny Onyx as founding editor. An overview of the contents of that journal provides a glimpse of the research issues of concern to the third sector in the region, both for researchers and for practitioners.…”

Civil Society: Overlapping Frames

“…Note there has also been significant growth in the number of academic programs with a strong focus on civil society in particularly in the US programs with a focus on the nonprofit sector. In Australia, the nonprofit sector is now a significant area of academic research and learning, with nonprofit management education programs being offered in seven major Australian universities and two New Zealand tertiary education institutions (Malcolm, Onyx, Dalton & Penetito 2014 The definition of civil society posted on the websites of the Centres for Civil Society in UCLA and LSE (Numbers 3 and 4 above) were both at some point headed by Helmut Anheier and while in these positions used the same definition and also stressed flexibility in the definition: '[we] adopted an initial working definition that is meant to guide research activities and teaching, but is by no means to be interpreted as a rigid statement' (Center for Civil society UCLA, accessed November 2007).…”