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Social Work Research Studies

Dennis Poole, PhD
University of South Carolina, College of Social Work

• Professor
• Former Dean of the College of Social Work

Dr. Poole’s publications include six books and some 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, books chapters, and essays, mostly on nonprofit management, community building, social innovations, and transnational civil society. His book, Community Building: Theory and Practice, has been published by NASW Press. His scholarship, teaching, and research focus chiefly on community building, social entrepreneurship, nonprofit management, and transnational civil society. In the middle of his academic career, Dr. Poole took what became a 7-year leave of absence from Virginia Commonwealth University to serve as Executive Director of the Community Development Support Association (CDSA) in Oklahoma. A community-based nonprofit organization, CDSA became a bell-tower of social innovation and social entrepreneurship during his leadership in such diverse fields as health care, early childhood development, school-based services, housing, employment, and microenterprise development. During his tenure as Professor of Social Work at The University of Texas, he contributed to the development of the interdisciplinary Portfolio Program in Nonprofit Studies based at the RGK Center. He also served as Principal Investigator of the U.S.-Mexico Bilateral Civil Society Educational Partnership through the Association Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development. His collaborative research continues with the RGK Center, chiefly in the assessment of nonprofit performance in community engagement and social entrepreneurship. He was co-founder and co-principal investigator of the SeniorSMART Center of Economic Excellence in South Carolina, an interdisciplinary, inter-institutional partnership with three endowed chairs, including the SmartHOME/Smart/Community Endowed Chair based in the College of Social Work.

http://cosw.sc.edu/poole-dennis-dean
http://cosw.sc.edu/research/awards/149

 

Joanne S. Caye, MSW
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Social Work

• Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Caye specializes in community practice, supervision, organization culture and change, child welfare, managing the effects of disasters, helper self-care, and communication within families and organizations. She is the co-author of When Their World Falls Apart: Helping Families and Children Manage the Effects of Disasters, published by NASW Press. She co-authored an electronic training program produced by the MCH Public Health Social Work Leadership Training Program and The Behavioral Healthcare Resource Program, Jordan Institute for Families, School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, titled Disaster Preparedness Planning for Public Health Social Workers Part I: Natural Disasters.

http://ssw.unc.edu/about/faculty/caye

 

Richard L. Edwards, MA, PhD
Rutgers University, School of Social Work

• Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs
• Professor II

Dr. Edwards has studied the management and organizational effectiveness of public-sector and nonprofit organizations. He has been a visiting professor at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada, and served as a consultant for the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute on the development of gerontology education for professionals in 18 central and eastern European countries. In 2008, Edwards spent several weeks at Ben Gurion University in Israel as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Edwards is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and served as editor-in-chief of the 19th edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work, published in 1996. He serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals and served for several years as associate editor for North America for Social Work Education: The International Journal.

http://socialwork.rutgers.edu/Faculty/RichardEdwards.aspx

 

John A. Yankey, MSW, PhD
Case Western Reserve University, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

• Leonard W. Mayo Professor Emeritus of Family and Child Welfare

Dr. Yankey has published a number of articles in public welfare, social work, and nonprofit management journals. In 1991, he co-edited Skills for Effective Human Services Management, which has proven to be a popular text in social work management education programs throughout the United States. In 1996, he co-authored Building a Strong Foundation: Fundraising for Nonprofits. In 1998, he co-edited a new nonprofit management text entitled Skills for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations. In 2001, he co-authored two publications on developing strategic alliances in the nonprofit sector. In 2003, he co-authored The Nonprofit Board’s Role in Planning and Evaluation as part of the new governance series published by BoardSource (previously the National Center for Nonprofit Boards). During 2004, he coauthored a comprehensive chapter on Strategic Alliances in the new edition of The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management.

Dr. Yankey serves as a trainer for the Leadership Education Program of the Mandel Center, for the Leadership Academy at Cleveland State University, and for the Ohio Certified Public Managers Program at the John Glenn Institute at Ohio State University. Additionally, he teaches in a national executive training program for Catholic Charities, USA, a week-long program for CCUSA leaders throughout the United States. His consulting engagements in strategic planning, organizational development, board development, fundraising, nonprofit mergers and consolidations, and management training have allowed him to work with hundreds of public and nonprofit organizations throughout the United States. During the last decade, he has been heavily involved in both studying strategic alliances—especially mergers, acquisitions, and  consolidations—and in facilitating organizations through feasibility studies to establish such alliances.