JON VAN TIL’S HOME PAGE

Jon Van Til is Professor of Urban Studies and Community Planning at Rutgers University’s Camden Campus. This website provides material for his students in several courses, and for colleagues in the field of urban policy, voluntary and nonprofit organization, and citizen participation.

To access pages in the website, please use the links below:

 

ESSAYS HERE PUBLISHED BY JON VAN TIL

These essays seem sufficiently mature to their writer to be presented to colleagues as “published” on this site—that is made available to the public.  Colleagues will be notified of their existence, and of new additions,  through the remarkable list-serv, ARNOVA-L.  The author is deeply appreciative for the support he has been provided by colleagues within ARNOVA, and for their kind interest in his writings over a period of 35 years.

These two essays were presented at the ARNOVA conference in Atlanta, November 2007:

“American Nonprofit Scholars Think About Social Justice,” a dialogue in the mythical “Explorers’ Club”.  http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/papers/ARNOVA 2007  SOCIAL JUSTICE.html

“A Review Essay: Searching for Critical Issues in Philanthropy,” a review of four recent books on philanthropy, including two relating to the secret giving of Charles Feeney.  http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/papers/ARNOVA 2007 PHILANTHROPY PAPER.html

 

Here are several other recent writings:

“Identity in a Millennial Age”, a lecture invited for presentation in Budapest during a time of right-wing street violence and resurgent anti-Semitism (February 2007).

http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/papers/IDENTITY IN A MILLENNIAL AGE.html

 

“Active Citizens Networking”, an article about the remarkable work of the Italian organization, Cittadinanzattiva.

http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/papers/ACTIVE CITIZENS.html

 

“Wonderland 2006”, based on earlier work by Lewis Carroll and William Van Til, and first presented as a lecture to the Summer School on Nonprofits at Trinity College, Dublin in June 2006.

http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/papers/WONDERLAND 2006.html

 

“The Fascinating Culture of the American Nonprofit Sector”, another humorous and ironic article adapting the work of William Van Til to the 21st Century nonprofit world.

http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/papers/J. ABNER PEDDIWELL.html

 

“Nonprofits and the Ends of the World”, a consideration of the frightening presence of religious fanaticism in the nonprofit world.

http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/papers/RAPTURE.html

 

 

 

 

 

COURSES JON VAN TIL TEACHES AT Rutgers University

 

SPRING TERM 2007

975: 204  POVERTY AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/courses/204-POVERTY.html

 

975:493  NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

 http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/courses/493-NONPROFIT.html

 

975: 490  COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES: DIALOGUE AND DELIBERATION

http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/courses/490-SD.html

 

FALL TERM  2007

975:451    COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/courses/451-COMMUNITY.html

 

975: 204  POVERTY AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/courses/204-POVERTY.html

 

975:493  NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

 http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/courses/493-NONPROFIT.html

 

OTHER COURSES TAUGHT BY JON VAN TIL

975:102  APPROACHES TO URBAN STUDIES

http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/courses/102-APPROACHES.html  

 

 

 

 

INFORMATION ON JON VAN TIL'S NEWEST BOOK, GROWING CIVIL SOCIETY

http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/GCS.html

 

 EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES OF REPORTS WRITTEN BY JON VAN TIL (For full electronic copies of these reports, send an email to vantil@crab.rutgers.edu)

A report on a focus group on Fragile Families policy, 2000: http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/reports/FRAGILE-FAMILIES.HTML

A report on the Mentoring in the City Program at Marian College, 1997: http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/reports/MARIAN.HTML

A stakeholder assessment of Youth as Resources of Central Indiana, 2000 (FULL REPORT): http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/reports/YAR.HTML

A qualitative research report on the AmeriCorps program conducted for the George H. Gallup International Institute, 1998: http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/reports/AMERICORPS.HTML

 

WORKING PAPERS BY JON VAN TIL

A draft paper on social capital and weak community infrastructure in Northern Ireland,  joint with Arthur P. Williamson and Ed Cairns, as presented in 2004 to ISTR, Toronto

http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/papers/ISTR04.html

A paper on theory of the third sector done for the Think Tank of Case Western Reserve University, 1997: http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/papers/CWRU-THEORY.HTML

A paper on issues beyond the "end of work", presented to the International Society for Third Sector Research in 1998: http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/papers/END-OF-WORK.HTML

A paper on education and training in nonprofit management, prepared with the support of the International Society for Third Sector Research jointly with Gabor Hegyesi: http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/papers/Istrmex2.html

A review essay entitled "Change Leadership or Change Management" , co-authored with David Swalve for the forthcoming Handbook of Nonprofit Management (Tracy Connors, ed.): http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/papers/LEAD-MANAGE.HTML

PAPER ON "CIVIL SOCIETY CENSUS" OF CAMDEN

This paper was presented at the ARNOVA conference in November, 2000 in New Orleans, and is titled "ASSOCIATIONS AS ASSETS IN THE URBAN COMMUNITY: A STUDY OF TWO INNER-CITY NEIGHBORHOODS IN CAMDEN." The paper is co-authored with five Rutgers undergraduates: LEROY GOULD, MEGHAN MURTHA, SUZANNE BRENNAN, TWANA CISSE, AND CLAUDE WALLACE: http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/papers/census.html

JON VAN TIL'S BRIEF RESUME (A full vita may be requested): http://crab.rutgers.edu/~vantil/vita.html