Concern Universal's Executive Director, Ian Williams (pictured center) is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Charity Effectiveness (CCE), Cass Business School.

Ian was keynote speaker at the Annual Carmicheal Centre Conference for Community and Voluntary Organisations (CVO's) in Dublin, Ireland in 2007. Working with partner Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Community and Voluntary Organisations (CVOs) is a clear focus of Concern Universal's work. Ian made the link with CU's considerable international experience in this regard in the presentation in Dublin.

He spoke about the nature of high performing CVO's in the context of Concern Universal's experience and business sector learning on this.

Read the research paper 'Highly Effective CVO's' by Ian Williams, as presented at the Carmicheal Centre, Dublin, UK in 2007 (opens 240KB Word document in a new window)

During 2007 Ian also gave a presentation to voluntary sector Msc students at CASS business school. Read the resource paper 'Strategic Thinking and Improved Effectiveness' by Dr Ian Williams. (opens 272KB Word document in new window)

Select this link to read the Disaster Grant Making Paper (opens 133KB Word document in new window), written by Professor Jenny Harrow and Ian Williams. Ian is also on the CCE's 'Learning Network' steering group which has developed a prototype for a national learning network. The prototype was piloted in Hereford in April 2007 in partnership with Herefordshire Voluntary Action and Cass Business School. The learning from these papers draws on Concern Universal's experiences and insights in Disaster Risk Reduction in the international context.

Posted June 2007

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