Registration is now open for “Terzo settore e affidamento dei servizi pubblici”, a training course on marketing in “non profit” organizations, business regulations and public services: closing date for applications is Thursday 16 March

Public services commissioning and the “third sector” concept has grown in prominence over the past ten years, with particular interest in discussions about the market pressures typical of for-profit organizations, like competition for funding, and the social value of non-profit organizations.

Sant’Anna School Dirpolis (Law, Politics, Development) Institute offers a new training course on “Terzo Settore e affidamento dei servizi”; closing date for applications is Thursday, 16 March 2017. The course starts on Friday 24 March: it consists of 16 hours consisting of 4 classes. The aim of the course is to introduce participants to topics including: management, governance, finance, fundraising, communications, facilitation, and conflict resolution. Nonprofit professionals will learn new skills to protect their front-line services as the ‘market-based solutions to social problems’ are putting high pressure on nonprofit professionals and practitioners becoming tools of the state and the market.

“This course is interested in investigating the challenges and opportunities arising from the current government's policy towards the third sector”, Paolo Carrozza, professor of constitutional law at Sant’Anna School, said. “The increasing focus on the marketization of public services and its consequences for third sector organizations require thorough exploration of the contemporary relations between the third sector, the state and markets. Collaboration with other sectors when it comes to recruitment, organizational values and employee retention is key to the voluntary sector's survival. As the course coordinator I would like to extend the way of assessing third sector impact: a focus on social innovations and the question as to how the third sector is likely to play an important role as complementary or substitutional element in the public service systems”.

Further information about the course and application form can be accessed by clicking here.