SPES to promote TSI to global audiences
Introducing TSI at U.S. Peace Corps and United Nations Volunteers workshop in Washington, D.C, March 30th–April 1st, 2015
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/spes-promote-tsi-us-audiences/Introducing TSI at U.S. Peace Corps and United Nations Volunteers workshop in Washington, D.C, March 30th–April 1st, 2015
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/spes-promote-tsi-us-audiences/TSI will be involved in the development of a toolkit to measure the impact of volunteering in health and social care.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/tsi-volunteuropes-working-group-measuring-impact-volunteering/Workshop with DG Research, national statistical offices, EC officials and representatives of other FP7-financed projects about how to measure the European third sector in a meaningful way.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/events/1970/01/01/tsi-meeting-statistical-offices-1-june-brussels/Read the report on the TSI meeting with European stakeholders working in and on the third sector in Brussels on October 15th and find out about the very promising input researchers received from participants.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/report-tsi-meeting-european-stakeholders-brussels/Based on the 2011 Census of Nonprofit Institutions Istat Italy published information concerning the human resources employed (paid workers and volunteers), services offered, communication tools, and financial resources (revenues and expenditures, funding sources, fundraising techniques).
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/report-profiles-nonprofit-organisations-italy/As TSI researchers are working on gathering and selecting impact and measurement indicators they review relevant literature on these topics. Here is an important article by TSI consortium member Jeremy Kendall from the University of Kent on the issue of measuring nonprofit performance.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/measuring-performance-voluntary-organizations/In the current political and economic climate, there are rapidly escalating demands from public funders and other stakeholders for indicators which can capture the achievements and impacts of the voluntary sector. Having clarified the context of these demands , the primary aim of this article is to develop criteria for measuring the ‘performance’ of voluntary […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/publications/measuring-performance-voluntary-organizations/Istat, CSVnet – the Italian National Federation of Volunteer Support Centres and the foundation Fondazione Volontariato e Partecipazione published a new survey on the state of volunteering in Italy.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/first-italian-survey-voluntary-work/TSI consortium members met to deliberate on the various strands of inquiry that make the fabric of third sector impact, hosted by the wonderful TSI Croatia team.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/events/1970/01/01/tsi-mid-term-partnership-meeting/Eleven Norwegian umbrella organisations, large national associations and key informants participated in the first of national stakeholders’ meetings intended to bring valuable input and direction to the research on Third Sector Impact.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/constructive-dicussion-stakeholders-tsi-oslo-meeting/