Embassy Information
Embassy Event
U.S. EMBASSY HOSTED A PROGRAM ON PHILANTROPHY AND NONPROFITS WITH U.S. SPEAKER JANET JOHNSON
September 22-27, 2006
The U.S. Embassy hosted the visit of Ms. Janet Johnson, specialist on philanthropy and nonprofit organizations. Ms. Johnson visited Argentina from September 22-27 to give lectures in Buenos Aires and Rosario. She is Adjunct Professor of Economics and Senior Research Fellow, Nonprofit Studies Program, at Georgia State University. Ms. Johnson talked about “Philanthropy and Donations: the Role of Government and Civil Society.”
Topics:
• Ways the U.S. government supports and encourages nonprofits
• Why the nonprofit sector is important to society.
• Philanthropy: individual donations and volunteers.
• What is unique about the “Third sector?”
• Successful nonprofits: best practices.
For further information on this topic, please see our webliography (in Spanish, with links to resources in English and Spanish)
Janet Johnson Biography
Janet Johnson is Adjunct Professor of Economics, and Senior Research Fellow in the Nonprofit Studies Program, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University. Johnson's interests and expertise are in two areas: labor economics and nonprofit studies. In both cases she brings to the table highly honed statistical skills.
Johnson's work in labor economics and human resource management has included employee compensation and benefits (including organizational design, base pay plans, performance appraisal, and incentive programs), as well as statistical analyses of pay equity, equal employment opportunity, and wrongful discharge. Her interests in nonprofit studies include the determinants of philanthropy, homelessness and poverty, human capital utilization in nonprofits (including pay determination and volunteer management) and faith-based nonprofit organizations.
Johnson has published articles in such journals as Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Personnel Journal, and Journal of Political Economy. Her research has been sponsored by such organizations as The Metro Atlanta Tri-Jurisdictional Collaborative on Homelessness, The Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She has been a consultant to many human resource departments, many of these public or nonprofit agencies. (more)