Urban Affairs Association Meetings – Panel of Interest

We are pleased to announce that several urbanorgs members will be featured on a panel at this year’s Urban Affairs Association meetings on Saturday, March 7, 2009 in Chicago. Organized and moderated by Heather MacIndoe, these talks represent exciting new directions in the study of nonprofit institutions in urban contexts.
Renaissance Chicago Hotel
1 West Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Panel 123 New Roles for Urban Nonprofits
Saturday, 10:35 AM–12:00 PM, Bucktown A and B (3rd Floor)
Moderator: Heather MacIndoe (University of Massachusetts Boston)

• Nonprofits and the City Bureaucracy: Opportunities for Immigrant Political Incorporation, Els de Graauw, Harvard University

• Civic Engagement by Local Community Nonprofits: Bringing New Voices into Urban Governance? Susan Ostrander, Tufts University

• Charter Schools, Urban Nonprofits and Neighborhood Revitalization: A Comparison of New York City and New Orleans, Charisse Gulosino, Brown University

• Sector Mobilization: Public Policy Initiatives of Nonprofit Membership Associations, Heather MacIndoe, University of Massachusetts – Boston & Sarah Hogue, University of Massachusetts – Boston

• Scenes, Nonprofits, and Urban Development, Terry Nichols Clark, University of Chicago & Eric Rogers, University of Chicago

For more on this conference, visit http://www.udel.edu/uaa/annual_meeting/index.html.