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June 2008

 

Benjamin Gidron

Director, The Israeli Center for Third sector Research (ICTR)

Ben Gurion University of the Negev

 

 

 

1. Personal Details

Work Address

P. O. Box 653 , Beer-Sheva 84105 , Israel

Telephone: 972-7-647-2323;   Fax: 972-7-647-7607

E-mail: gidron@bgu.ac.il

 

 

2. Major Academic Positions

 

            Ben Gurion University of the Negev

* 2003 - Professor, Guilford Glazer School of Business & Management

* 2008 – Director, Nonprofit Organizations Management Program

* 1997 - Director, The Israeli Center for Third sector Research (ICTR)

* 1984 – Professor, Charlotte B. and Jack J. Spitzer Department of Social Work

 

            UCLA

* 1990-91; 2000-01 Visiting Professor, School of Public Policy and Social Research, Department of Social Welfare

 

 

3. Awards, Honors

* 1995 - Ben Gurion University - The David & Dorothy Schwartzman Chair in Community Development

* 2000 - American-Israeli Educational Foundation - Fulbright - Itzhak Rabin Award

 

           

4. Selected Professional Activity

* 1992-96 Founding President, ISTR - International Society of Third sector Research

 

5. Recent Publications

 

I.       Books

* B. Gidron, R. Kramer & L. Salamon (editors) (1992) Government and the Third Sector: Emerging Relationships in Welfare States San Francisco , Jossey-Bass.

·         Also in Georgian, 1999 (ISBN 99928-802-1-x)

 

* F. Lavoie, T. Borkman & B. Gidron (editors) (1995) Self-Help and Mutual Aid Groups: International and Multicultural Perspectives Haworth Press

 

* B. Gidron, S. Katz & Y. Hasenfeld (eds.) (2002) Mobilizing for Peace: Peace/Conflict Resolution Organizations in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine New York, Oxford University Press
*** Recipient of the Virginia A Hodgkinson first Prize for the Best Research Publication in Nonprofit Organizations and Philanthropy, 2003 ***

 

* B. Gidron, M. Bar & H. Katz (2003, forthcoming) The Third Sector in Israel : Between Welfare State and Civil Society.New York , Plenum Press

·         Also in Hebrew (2003)

 

            B. Selected Articles, Book Chapters

* B. Gidron & M. A. Chesler (1994) "Universal and Particular Attributes of Self Help: A Framework for International & Intranational Analysis” Prevention in Human Services, 11(1), 1-44

 

* B. Gidron (1997) "The Evolution of Israel 's Third Sector - The Role of Predominant Ideology" Voluntas, 8(1), 11-38

 

* B. Gidron, H. Katz, L. Salamon & H. Anheier (1999) “Israel : An Overview of Major Economic Parameters” in L. Salamon, H. K. Anheier et. al. (editors) Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, 219-241

 

* B. Gidron, S. Katz, M. Meyer, Y. Hasenfeld, R. Schwartz, J. Crane (1999) “Peace/Conflict Resolution Organizations in Three Protracted Conflicts: Structures, Resources and Ideology” Voluntas 10(4), 275-298

 

* B. Gidron & H. Katz   (2001) “Israel: Structuur, Beleid en Sociale Oorsprongen van de Derde Sector” (Israel’s Third Sector: Structure, Policy and Social Origins). In A. Burger & P. Dekker (Eds.), Noch Markt, Noch Staat. Den Haag: Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau, 2001: pp. 225-247 (In Dutch).

 

* B. Gidron & H. Katz (2001) “Patterns of Government Funding to Third Sector Organizations as Reflecting a De Facto Policy and their Implications on the Structure of the Sector in Israel” International Journal of Public Administration 24 (11), 1133-1159

* B. Gidron & H. Katz (2002) “Unintentional yet Unmistakable: The de facto Public Policy towards the Third Sector in Israel.” In D. Korn (ed.) Public Policy in Israel , Lanham, Lexington Books, 135-152

* B. Gidron & H. Katz (2002), “Patterns of Government Funding to Third Sector Organizations in Israel as Reflecting a de facto Policy”, Medina Ve’Chevra (State and Society), 2(1), 43-66. (Hebrew).

* B. Gidron, M. Bar & H. Katz (2002),"Characteristics of Israeli Organized Civil Society", Israeli Sociology, 4(2), 369-400. (Hebrew).

*  B. Gidron, H. Katz, H. Bar-Mor, Y. Katan, I. Silber & M. Talias (2003), "Through a New Lens: The Third Sector and Israeli Society” Israel Studies, Vol. 8 number 1, 20-59

*  Y. Hasenfeld & B. Gidron (2005) "Understanding Multi-purpose Hybrid Voluntary Organizations: The Contributions of Teories on Civil Society, Social Movements and Nonprofit Organizations" Journal of Civil Society, Vol. 1, No.2, 97-112

 

* B. Gidron, D. Babis & Y. Elon (2007) "Jewish Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) NPOs in Israel: Protecting and Crossing Community Borders" in G. Gemelli (ed.)  Religions and Philanthropy, Bakersville, Bologna, 297-321

* B. Gidron (2007) "Researching the Third Sector and Civil Society in Israel: Its History and Current Status" Civil Society and Third Sector in Israel, 1(1) 7-18 (Hebrew)

* H. Katz, Y. Elon, B. Gidron, H. Yogev, M. Ya'akobi, E. Levinson, E. Raviv (2007) "The Third Sector during the Second Lebanon War: Its Advantages, Limitations and Relatios with Government"  Civil Society and Third Sector in Israel, 1(1) 39-64 (Hebrew)

* B. Gidron, A. Shlanger & Y. Elon (2008) "The Contribution of Foreign Philanthropic Foundations to the Israeli Society" Civil Society and Third Sector in Israel (forthcoming) (Hebrew)

 

C. Research Reports

* B. Gidron, H. Katz, H. Anheier & L. Salamon (1999) The Third Sector in Israel – Economic Data Beer-Sheva, Israeli Center for Third sector Research, Ben Gurion University and Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project, Johns Hopkins University (Hebrew and English)

 

* S. Shye, A. Lazar, R. Duchin & B. Gidron (1999) Philanthropy in Israel – Patterns of Giving and Volunteering in the Israeli Public Beer-Sheva, Israeli Center for Third sector Research, Ben Gurion University (Hebrew and English)

 

* M. Telias, Y. Katan & B. Gidron (2000) National and Local Government Policies towards the Third Sector in Israel Beer-Sheva, Israeli Center for Third sector Research, Ben Gurion University (Hebrew)

 

* B. Gidron, H. Katz & M. Bar (2000) The Third Sector in Israel: Functions Beer-Sheva, Israeli Center for Third sector Research, Ben Gurion University (Hebrew and English)

 

* A. Reichel & B. Gidron (2000) Patterns of Social Responsibility of the Israeli Business Sector Beer-Sheva, Israeli Center for Third sector Research, Ben Gurion University (Hebrew)

 

* E. Iecovitz, M. Naftali, B. Gideon & H. Bar-Mor (2002) Boards of Directors of  Third Sector Organizations in Israel : Structure, Functional and Organizational Characteristics Beer-Sheva, Israeli Center for Third sector Research, Ben Gurion University (Hebrew)

 

* B. Gidron, P. Q. Ufford  & A. B. Kello (2002) NIRP Research for Policy Series 12: NGOs dealing with refugee resettlement in Ethiopia Amsterdam, Royal Tropical Institute

 

* B. Gidron, Y. Elon, A. Schlanger & R. Schwartz (2006) Roles and Visions of Foundations in Israel Beer-Sheva, Israeli Center for Third sector Research, Ben Gurion University

* H. Katz, E. Raviv, H. Yogev, M. Ya'acobi, E. Levinson, Y. Elon & B. Gidron (2007) Civil Society during the Second Lebanon War, Beer-Sheva, Israeli Center for Third sector Research, Ben Gurion U.

 

 

6. Presentations in conferences, scientific meetings

 

* B. Gidron & S. Katz (1998) “The International Study of Peace/Conflict Resolution Organizations: Initial Findings and Implications for the Study of Social Movements” Keynote Lecture, International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), Geneva , July 8-11

 

* B. Gidron & M. Bar (2000) “The Israeli Third Sector: Between Welfare State, Civil Society and Religion” Arnova 29th Annual Conference, New Orleans , Nov. 16-18

 

* B. Gidron (2001) “The Nonprofit Sector and the Elderly in the ‘New Aging’ Era”, International Symposium on New Aging – Emerging Issues and Challenges for the Aging Societies in the 21st Century, Tokyo and Fukuoka, March 19, 21, 2001

 

* B. Gidron, H. Katz & M. Bar (2001) “Selected Characteristics of the Israeli Civil Society”, ICTR Annual Conference, Ben Gurion University , Beer-Sheva, March 15

 

* B. Gidron & Y. Hasenfeld (2001) “Toward a Common Conceptualization of Third Sector, Civil Society and Social Movements Organizations - Links between Theoretical Traditions” Conference of the European Sociological Association, Helsinki , Aug. 28-Sept. 2

 

* B. Gidron (2005) "Who’s Afraid of Outcome/Performance Measurement in Third Sector Organizations?" Annual Dr. Arnulf M. Pins Memorial Lecture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 8

 

* B. Gidron, Y. Elon, A. Shlanger & R. Schwartz (2006) "The Foundations Sector in Israel: Characteristics, Roles, Relations with the Government and Patterns of Management", ICTR Annual Conference, Ben Gurion University, The Dead Sea

* B. Gidron (2007) "The Globalization of Philanthropy: Some Old and New Challenges of Philanthropic Foundations", ICTR 10th Anniversary International Conference, Ben Gurion University, The Dead Sea