John Roswell Whitman- PhD
- Principal at Creative Prisons Project
John Roswell Whitman
- PhD
- Principal at Creative Prisons Project
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Introduction
John Roswell Whitman currently teaches at Harvard Extension School and leads efforts to build policy and capacity in the nonprofit sector. John does research in Intellectual Property, Social Economy, Business Administration, and creativity in prisons. He is also interested in studying the careers of Third Culture Kids.
Current institution
Creative Prisons Project
Current position
- Principal
Education
September 2004 - May 2006
September 1977 - May 1979
September 1967 - May 1972
Publications
Publications (41)
A graduate level course to teach how to build nonprofit resilience.
What is the nonprofit sector and why does it exist? Collecting the writing of some of the most creative minds in the field of nonprofit studies, this book challenges our traditional understanding of the role and purpose of the nonprofit sector. It reflects on the ways in which new cultural and economic shifts bring existing assumptions into questio...
Protection for intellectual property has never been absolute; it has always been limited in the public interest. The benefits of intellectual property protection are meant to flow to everyone, not just a limited population of creators and the corporations that represent them. Given this social-utility function, intellectual property regimes must ad...
This paper describes a graduate-level course offered in the spring of 2022 that engaged students in developing prototype models of nonprofit preparedness to build organizational resilience in the event of future threats like COVID-19. The aim of the course was to provide students the opportunity to learn about nonprofit preparedness by co-creating...
COVID-19 caught many nonprofit leaders by surprise. The impact of the pandemic was unprecedented in recent history. Has this shock provided a wake-up call for nonprofits to better prepare for possible future shocks, notably those related to climate change? This article presents a number of questions that have emerged from the COVID-19 experience, p...
As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted business as usual, small business owners and
entrepreneurs were faced with the challenge of pivoting their business models to meet
the needs of the pandemic-challenged environment and health and safety guidelines.
Amidst the challenges, opportunities arose for pivoting existing businesses as well
as creating start...
In Alabama, four food banks serve a population with the third highest rate of food insecurity in the U.S. All four food banks underperform according to a standard food distribution metric. Despite underperformance, three of the four have launched innovative social programs including an advocacy organization, revolving loan fund, local food hub, mot...
Understanding the Social Economy of the United States is a comprehensive introduction to the operation and study of organizations with social goals – public sector nonprofits, civil society organizations, social enterprises, cooperatives and other organizations with a social mission – under the rubric of the social economy. This text is rich in exa...
Case study on local economic development.
Philanthropic foundations are seen as organizations that allocate resources to achieve their visions of a better world. Drawing on a sample of foundations in Canada, the United States, and Europe, this research undertakes to reveal the social values that constitute such visions and to measure the consistency between espoused social values and those...
Philanthropy in Europe: A Rich Past, A Promising Future. Norine MacDonald and Luc Tayart de Borms, eds. London: Alliance Publishing Trust, 2008. 304 pp., free of charge from the European Foundation Centre, efc@efc.be.
Philanthropic foundations are seen as enterprises committed to building what they view as a better world. Their visions of a better world are described in terms of social values that represent preferred end states for society or means of achieving such states. This article describes a procedure in which a foundation's espoused social values, made e...
From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change, by Carol Chetkovich and Frances Kunreuther. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. 216 pp., $49.95 cloth.
Case study description of an international environmental education program begun in 1976. The use of the name "Internet," derived from the International Environmental Resources Network, was prior to what became universally known as the internet.
Seminar on Environmental Management Techniques, Held in Mexico City, During 9–13 March 1981 - Volume 8 Issue 4 - John Whitman
Short Courses in Environmental Management, 1981 - Volume 8 Issue 2 - John Whitman
Environmental Management Seminar Offered - Volume 5 Issue 4 - John Whitman
The Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Event Alert Network (SEAN) - Volume 3 Issue 2 - John Whitman
The directory describes state and local environmental quality monitoring programs of the United States. It also includes the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) national programs and systems which collect, analyze and evaluate these data. It will be useful as a reference and a guide to more detailed information. (GRA)
