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• Spain's "la Caixa" Banking Foundation: A Global PtP Model (2020)
  Lester M. Salamon and Juan-Cruz Alli Turrias. This in-depth case study focuses on one of the newest and largest foundations to emerge from the implementation of the PtP Concept—a recently discovered, but powerful, “third route” to the creation of significant, charitable endowments around the world through the capture of all or a portion of the proceeds of transactions involving the privatization of government-owned or -controlled assets. Spain's "la Caixa" Banking Foundation emerged from the transformation of the largest and most successful of Spain’s network of trustee savings banks into for-profit banks. The result is one of the largest charitable foundations in the world, with an estimated Gross Asset Value of €25.8 billion (roughly US$29 billion) at its founding, and annual philanthropic expenditures approaching €500 million. The case study explains how and why this transformation occurred, how the “PtP route” involving the creation of a free-standing charitable endowment came to be adopted, what governance structures and transparency provisions were put in place to ensure the independence and accountability of the resulting institution, and what programmatic achievements this PtP institution has produced.

• Where Should All the Stolen Money Go? (TWFR, March/April 2020)
  The World Financial Review, March/April 2020 | Lester M. Salamon. Published in the March/April issue of The World Financial Review, this article by Center Director Dr. Lester Salamon notes that past experience with the return of stolen assets to governments has too often led to disappointing results and urges consideration instead of applying the PtP concept, which calls for the placement of such assets into carefully structured, private charitable foundations as exemplified in the BOTA Foundation in Kazakhstan and many other foundations around the world.

• The Scope and Scale of Rotary Volunteering (12.2019)
  This ground-breaking new report, undertaken by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies with support from Rotary International is the first systematic, empirical analysis of the extent of volunteer activity generated by a major global service organization using the definition of volunteer work and survey methodology outlined in the International Labour Organization’s Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work.

• [News Release] The Impact of Rotary Volunteering—47 Million Hours a Year and Counting
  This ground-breaking new report, undertaken by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies with support from Rotary International is the first systematic, empirical analysis of the extent of volunteer activity generated by a major global service organization using the definition of volunteer work and survey methodology outlined in the International Labour Organization’s Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work.

• Philanthropication thru Privatization Concept note
  This Concept note describes the Philanthropication thru Privatizations Initiative (PtP), a joint effort between Center Director Lester Salamon, the East-West Management Institute (EWMI), and an international team of associates to identify and highlight the numerous past examples of the ongoing "Philathropication thru Privatization" phenomenon and to use the resulting evidence to promote a strategy for convincing parties to privatization sales to devote at least a portion of the proceeds to the creation of charitable foundations.

• Brazil: Nonprofit Institutions Satellite Account, 2010 (Portuguese, 2012)
  Produced by Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) and the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), in partnership with the Brazilian Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (ABONG) and the Group of Institutes, Foundations and Enterprises (GIFE), this publication provides an overall view of nonprofit organizations in 2010, including statistics about their number, location, time of existence, size, activities developed, number of workers and compensation. In addition, issues related to gender and to level of schooling of salaried persons have been included for the first time. The report also highlights the main changes observed in this segment between 2006 and 2010. This report is in Portuguese. Full data tables are available here.

• Norway: Nonprofit Institutions Satellite Account, 2018 (2014-2016)
  Produced by Statistics Norway this nonprofit institutions satellite account examines data from 2014-2016. Nonprofit institutions are estimated to have contributed NOK 57.1 million to the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2016—an increase of NOK 3.4 million from 2014. There were just over 95,200 paid FTEs in the sector as a whole, constituting around 3.9% of FTEs in Norway overall. Approximately 43.4% of the organizations’ operating income came from the government sector. This download contains a comparative table going back to 2014; the full data tables are available at Statistics Norway.

• Belgium: Nonprofit Institutions Satellite Account, 2009-2014 (French, 2014)
  In this publication, the National Accounts Institute (NAI) provides data on the Satellite Account of Nonprofit Institutions (NPIs) from Belgium for the years 2009 to 2014. In 2014, Belgian NPIs generated a gross value added of 21.8 billion euros, contributed 5.4% of the gross domestic product (GDP), and employed 12.3% of salaried workers. This report is available in French.

• Israel: Nonprofit Institutions Satellite Account, 2015-2017 (2018)
  Prepared by the Central Bureau of Statistics this nonprofit institutions satellite account finds that nonprofit institutions comprised 5.8% of Israel's gross domestic product, employed 459 thousand persons, and engaged nearly half a million volunteers in 2017.

• United Nations Satellite Account on Nonprofit and Related Institutions and Volunteer Work (English, 2018)
  The full text of the UN Satellite Account on Nonprofit and Related Institutions and Volunteer Work, developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies in cooperation with the United Nations Statistical Division and an international team of statistical experts. This handbook updates and expands the 2002 UN Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions in the System of National Accounts to embrace the larger "Third Sector," including nonprofit, social economy, and civil society institutions, as well as volunteer work. It calls on national statistical offices to prepare regular “satellite accounts” on this set of institutions and activities and provides a standard set of guidelines for doing so as part of existing official economic data-gathering and reporting. Published in August 2018 by the United Nations Statistics Division.

• How to Apply PtP to State-Owned Enterprises (PtP How-To Booklet no. 2, 2.2018)
  PtP How-To Booklet No. 2 | William L. Megginson and Lester M. Salamon. This booklet, like the others in the series of such documents produced by the PtP Project, is designed to acquaint citizens with how the PtP approach to foundation development can be applied to one particular asset class—in this case the privatization of state-owned enterprises. To do so, the booklet first explains what privatization of state-owned assets is, why it has been pursued by governments, what the scale of such transactions has been and will likely be in the future, and what downsides accompany privatizations. It then looks at how PtP can overcome these issues and yield win-win outcomes for governments, investors, affected communities, and citizens more generally.

• How to Apply PtP to Stolen or Stranded Assets (PtP How-To Booklet no. 1, 12.2017)
  PtP How-To Booklet no. 1 | Aaron Bornstein and Lester M. Salamon. This booklet, like the others in this series, is designed to acquaint citizens with how the PtP concept can be effectively and usefully applied to one particularly huge asset class—stolen or stranded assets or assets resulting from cases of corporate negligence or misdeeds. To do so, the booklet first explains how such assets come into existence, what their known scale is at present and what it is likely to be in the foreseeable future, why their restitution becomes a matter for government decision, and what difficulties have arisen in the restitution process. It then looks at how PtP can overcome the obstacles and dilemmas that restitution of such assets often encounters and the win-win outcomes that can result for governments, businesses, and the citizens from whom such assets are often taken or who are often the victims of the crimes for which the penalties are imposed.

• Explaining Civil Society Development: A Social Origins Approach flyer (2017)
  Flyer and table of contents for Explaining Civil Society Development: A Social Origins Approach from Johns Hopkins University Press by Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, Megan A. Haddock, and Associates (published August 22, 2017). The book is available for purchase from Amazon or Johns Hopkins University Press.

• [Presentation] Foundation Realities and Possibilities: An Overview (Beijing, 1.2017)
  Lester M. Salamon. Presented at the China Donor Roundtable Annual Meeting on January 12, 2017 in Beijing, China, this presentation focuses on how foundations in China can think beyond grants to leverage their resources more effectively; the importance of seeing nonprofit organizations as crucial partners in carrying out key philanthropic and social objectives; and the resulting stake these philanthropic organizations have in strengthening and supporting such nonprofit organizations.

• [Presentation] Philanthropication thru Privatization: Building Permanent Assets for Social Progress (Beijing, 1.2017)
  Lester M. Salamon. Presented on January 12, 2017 at the China Global Philanthropy Institute this presentation provides an overview of the Philanthropication thru Privatization (PtP) Project, including definitions, basic report findings, prospects, and next steps to bring this phenomenon to China—the world's leading privatizer. Video of the full presentation can be viewed here: Part 1 | Part 2.

• Conference Report: The 2016 Hannover PtP Conference (4.2017)
  Lester M. Salamon. This report by PtP Project Director Lester Salamon highlights new insights unveiled at a recent PtP Conference into how the PtP concept can be applied to a wide assortment of assets, including state-owned enterprises or facilities, debt swaps, proceeds from state-controlled gambling or mineral extraction enterprises, bribes, and the transformation of nonprofits or mutual societies into for-profit businesses.

• The Size and Scope of the European Third Sector (2016)
  TSI Working Paper no. 12 | Lester M. Salamon and S. Wojciech Sokolowski. Produced as part of the Third Sector Impact Project (TSI), this working paper presents provide an estimate of the size of the Third Sector in European Union member countries and Norway following the conceptual framework for defining the Third Sector developed under the auspices of the Third Sector Impact project, and outlined in "The Third Sector in Europe: Towards a Consensus Conceptualization" (TSI Working Paper no. 2, 2014). This is the twelfth paper in the TSI Working Papers series, all of which can be found here.

• The BOTA Foundation: A Model for the Safe Return of Stolen Assets? (2016)
  Aaron Bornstein. This report represents the first in a series of case studies undertaken by the Philanthropication thru Privatization (PtP) Project and reports on perhaps the major example to date of the application of the PtP concept to stolen or stranded assets: the case of the BOTA Foundation in Kazakhstan, which arose from the seizure of the assets that an American citizen secured from a number of U.S. oil companies in the 1990’s and delivered to officials in the Government of Kazakhstan in order to secure prospecting and oil drilling rights for the companies in the Caspian Sea. To prepare this case study, the PtP Project enlisted Mr. Aaron Bornstein, who served as a program director, and later as the executive director, of the BOTA Foundation on behalf of IREX, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization selected by the World Bank in response to a competitive tender to operate this foundation. To ensure the objectivity of this account, the draft was been submitted for review by personnel from the World Bank and IREX that were involved in the BOTA case. Edited and with a foreword by PtP Project Director Lester M. Salamon.

• Portugal: Social Economy Satellite Account, 2013 (2016)
  Produced by Portugal’s Instituto Nacional de Estatistica - INE (National Institute for Statistics), this publication presents the results of the implementation of the the United Nations Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions in the System of National AccountsHandbook. This download includes INE's infogrpahic on these data. The press release, infographic, and full Portuguese satellite account tables can be downloaded from INE's website here.

• [Presentation] TSE Satellite Account: Using Output and Outcome Measures to Assess TSE Impact (Warsaw, 10.2016)
  S. Wojciech Sokolowski. Presented on 28 October 2016 at the Central Statistical Office of Poland during the "Seminar on the Development of Third/Social Economy Statistics," this presentation addresses the use of output and outcome measures to assess the impact of the Third/Social Economy (TSE) Sector.

• [Presentation] TSE Satellite Account: Measuring Volunteer Work (Warsaw, 10.2016)
  S. Wojciech Sokolowski. Presented on 28 October 2016 at the Central Statistical Office of Poland during the "Seminar on the Development of Third/Social Economy Statistics," this presentation addresses the data elements available on volunteers in the Third/Social Economy (TSE) Sector. The underlying work grew out of the Third Sector Impact (TSI) Project.

• [Presentation] TSE Satellite Account: Key Data Elements (Warsaw, 10.2016)
  S. Wojciech Sokolowski. Presented on 28 October 2016 at the Central Statistical Office of Poland during the "Seminar on the Development of Third/Social Economy Statistics," this presentation addresses the data elements available on the Third/Social Economy (TSE) Sector. The underlying work grew out of the Third Sector Impact (TSI) Project.

• [Presentation] TSE Satellite Account: Identifying In-scope Units (Warsaw, 10.2016)
  S. Wojciech Sokolowski. Presented on 27 October 2016 at the Central Statistical Office of Poland during the "Seminar on the Development of Third/Social Economy Statistics," this presentation addresses the identification of institutional units of the Third/Social Economy (TSE) Sector. The underlying work grew out of the Third Sector Impact (TSI) Project.

• [Presentation] The Third/Social Economy (TSE) Sector: Conceptualization and Operationalization (Warsaw, 10.2016)
  Lester M. Salamon. Presented on 27 October 2016 at the Central Statistical Office of Poland during the seminar "Seminar on the Development of Third/Social Economy Statistics," this presentation provides an overview of the conceptualization and operationalization of the Third Sector/Social Economy arising from the Third Sector Impact (TSI) Project.

• [Presentation] Putting the Third Sector/Social Economy on the Economic Map of Europe: The Statistical Revolution (Warsaw, 10.2016)
  Lester M. Salamon. Presented on 27 October 2016 at the Central Statistical Office of Poland during the "Seminar on the Development of Third/Social Economy Statistics," this presentation provides an overview of the on-going revolution in Third Sector statistics growing out of the Third Sector Impact (TSI) Project.

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