Training Students as Facilitators in the Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) Project

SUMMARY

This article describes the training of students as facilitators for the Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) project designed to promote problem-solving, social action and civic participation among underserved elementary school youth in West Contra Costa County, California. This project involved 160 fifth grade students in after-school activities which identified their capacities and strengths in ways which aimed to decrease rates of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use and other risky behaviors. The article describes the recruitment and training of high school students and their graduate student counterparts as facilitators in this university-community partnership, and discusses the implications for other youth-focused community-based projects.     

Doing Good,Public Good,and Public Value

In this article, using multiple illustrative case examples, we demonstrate that philanthropic institutions are in the business of creating public value. In framing the work of philanthropy more broadly to include the process of public value creation, philanthropic institutions and leaders are challenged to be more strategic not only in their mission‐fulfillment grant‐making with nonprofit organizations but also in the way they stimulate and encourage collaboration, create the “third space” necessary to incubate ideas to transform society, and leverage resources to increase the return on their investments toward system‐wide change. The implications for philanthropic actors and institutions suggest that the strategic contributions they make toward creation of public value are those that go beyond transactional performance measures, such as number of dollars spent or clients receiving services, to include ways that their investments are amplified by meaningful partnerships with nonprofit and other organizations, changed behaviors of institutions and individuals, and transformative public policies.     

伙伴关系--企业竞争优势的新来源

伙伴关系成立的原因在于以伙伴关系为纽带可以建立新的企业优势,它具有以产权关系为纽带形成的"紧密型"企业所不具备的优点.企业通过建立合作伙伴关系,以形成低成本和差异化竞争优势.     

建构我国私营企业劳资战略伙伴关系——“三个代表”重要思想指导下的劳资关系发展方向述论

"三个代表"重要思想的提出及贯彻实施,为建构私营企业劳资战略伙伴关系提供了科学的理论基础和良好的外部环境,扫除了人们思想认识上的种种障碍,由此也对党和政府相关组织制度与工作思路的改进与创新提出了更高的要求.我国私营经济将迎来更加光明的发展前途.     

论“职工中心主义”下的职工持股会制度

职工持股制度的萌芽始发于20世纪60年代的美国,后来其在西方国家进一步发展完善.人们普遍认为这种制度是一种企业内部对职工的激励机制,可以促进职工财产的形成,确保和发扬职工对公司的归属意识和忠诚心,从而提高企业的生产效率.20世纪90年代,为了适应国有企业改革的需要,中国的职工持股计划开始起步.随着实践的展开,职工持股会的设立与运行成为该制度中的核心问题.文章结合我国立法实践和学者的论著,从"职工中心主义"的视角,论述我国职工持股会制度的法律构造.     

反思与启示：对有限合伙私募基金的有限合伙人权利保护制度的检视

有限合伙私募基金作为一种新型的投资方式从一出现便受到了广大投资者的青睐和追捧。然而“高度自治”的立法理念极大地增加了投资者即有限合伙人的投资风险,有限合伙人的权利保护面临严重挑战。作者在比较美国有限合伙人权利保护的立法经验并借鉴我国《公司法》对于中小股东的权利保护措施的基础上,提出完善有限合伙人权利保障的构想。     

中外合作办学的现状及问题分析

文章就中外合作办学的质量、合作者的水平和资质、合作办学的监管等问题进行了分析,并提出了相应的几点对策建议。     

普通合伙企业内部盗窃罪问题初探

通过分析普通合伙企业(合伙人为自然人)财产的所有权归属以及盗窃罪的构成要件,得出结论:普通合伙企业财产非个别合伙人所有,而应该为合伙人所有成员共同共有,所以合伙人盗窃普通合伙企业内部财产的行为构成盗窃罪.最后,笔者陈述了处罚这种盗窃罪的个人意见.     

Challenging passive partnerships with parents and children in the core group forum: a framework for a proactive approach

This paper looks at two concepts central to effective child protection practice: partnerships and the core group system, which need to work together if we are to improve the worrying, ad hoc approaches to child protection work once a child's name has been added to the child protection register. These concepts emerged at around the same point in time, but little has been written about the core group, even though it has been given the key tasks of formulating, implementing and reviewing the child protection plan, and forging effective working partnerships with other professionals, parents/carers and their children ( Calder 1991, 1995 b; Calder & Horwath 1999 ). Whilst the concept of partnership has received considerable media and publishing attention, no previous paper has explored partnerships with families within the core group phase. This reflects the low priority currently afforded to activity following the initial child protection conference, and arguably sets the core group up to fail, even before it has started ( Calder 1996a, 1998 ). The authors draw on their national research into core group practice to explore the notion of partnerships between the core group and parents, carers and children, concluding with some recommendations on how Area Child Protection Committees can create the environment in which we can move from passive to proactive partnerships within a higher profile for this stage and focus of the work. The authors draw on some suggestions from Messages from Research ( Department of Health 1995a ) and from several small-scale research studies into core group practice.     

Partnership and Parenthood in Post‐transitional Societies: Will Specters Be Exorcised?

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to reconsider partnership and parenthood in post-transitional societies from the viewpoint of sociology. As is well known, after the end of the Baby Boom, albeit with variations in the tempo and the level, a considerable decline in fertility has occurred in industrialized countries. Furthermore, this decline has occurred in tandem with the transformation of partnership such as an increase in the number of cohabited couples. The causes and effects of this decline in fertility have hitherto been studied by social scientists such as economists and demographers. Although the family has been one of the main research interests for sociologists for a long while, the changes in partnership and fertility behavior in developed countries have not been sufficiently argued from the perspective of sociological theory on family. In this article, we will initially compare and contrast two changes in fertility patterns: the first of these is the fertility decline that occurred around the latter half of the nineteenth century; the second is the change that has been observed in industrialized countries since the second half of the 1960s. We will then discuss the difference between economic and ideational approaches in the explanation of partnership and fertility changes. Finally, we will examine the convergence and the divergence theories on family change. This article will conclude with an emphasis on the importance of the middle-range theories.