Thesis ideas

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Thesis ideas

• Lucas Meijs
• October 2006

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The tracks

• Business community involvement
• Nonprofit / volunteer management
• Sports

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Business community involvement

• Business perspective
• Nonprofit perspective
• Partnership perspective

• Effect?
• Design?
• Selection?
• Home country effects?

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Opportunities..

• Framing of arguments in companies to get involved
• Using and developing the MBO-monitor of Fortis
• Partnerships for international developmental aid
  organizations
• CSR for nonprofit organizations

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Nonprofit / volunteer management

• All kind of topics.
• Financial mix of nonprofit organizations
• Accountability and transparency
• Volunteer tourism
• Intercultural
• Learning from / developing by volunteering
• Future of organization X

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Opportunities (immediate)

• The importance of forced / coerced volunteering
  in 2015
• The importance of corporate volunteering in 2015

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Sports

• Special program together with Desiree and Esther
• Linked to OJA program
• Highly structured
• Start tomorrow
• Finished april 2007

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Two topics

• The relation between businesses and local sport
  associations
• Balancing service delivery and mutual support

• City versus small towns
• Teams versus individual
• Top sport versus recreational sport
• Inside versus outside

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Something related

• Write project proposal for a research on
  establishing an Achmea health centre at Erasmus
• Will combining commercial / CSR / nonprofit
• 10 days, student assistant pay, needs to be
  finished november 15th
• Starting, ASAP !