Why only the best teachers?
Because Third Sector Management is responsible for training the non-profit executives of the future. Being a Third Sector Management teacher means to share its mission and take part to important training moments on a national and international level. Our teachers are the best non-profit professional in Italy and Europe, coming from such organizations as Amnesty International, Save the Children, UNICEF and many others.
The teaching staff is part of Third Sector Management’s governance and chooses his own representative in the Steering Committee (Luigi Zampi in 2008).
A lot of practice, tools of the trade and case studies
Third Sector Management asks the teachers to see their relation with students as an exchange of skills and experiences, the complete opposite of the old unidirectional model, typical of Italian academic tradition.
Instead of just “giving lessons”, Third Sector Management teachers aim to reach some specific goals regarding skills development and practical knowledge. That’s why over the years Third Sector Management has shared with teachers some advanced education models, searching and selecting a staff of human and professional insight, capable not just to manage knowledge transmission, but also to supervise and support the entire learning process.
Here are the distinguishing points of Third Sector Management’s approach, guaranteed by teachers:
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Third Sector Management adheres to the AIF (Italian Trainers Association) ethical code;
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Teachers relate to students in an interactive way, flexibly using both deductive (from general principles) and inductive (from specific instances) reasoning, favoring the latter.
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Every training action favors the know-how exchange and the construction of shared knowledge, starting from specific problems and individual cases if possible, as part of a process that will lead to the community of practice. Teachers listen to questions and return them to students, spot and develop the group expertise and favor the problem solving process.
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Recreational, emotional and dynamic aspects have the same importance of verbal-rational ones during the learning process.
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Use of Action Learning: simulation tests, case studies, practical experiences and exchange of ideas.
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All the teaching staff works to set off a positive attitude change (both in the technical and relational sphere) supporting students at a cultural-cognitive level.
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Students’ development of self-awareness and evaluation skills is a fundamental goal.
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Encouraging students to put into practice what they have learned during lessons: it is extremely important to practice after the training, in order to fully understand and apply the new information.
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Teachers declare their theoretical (or institutional) references/models on which they base their training activity.
Teachers adopt an informal and familiar (not too much) style with their students.
Lecturers
Campaigning and lobbying
Farida Chapman – Oxfam
Natalia Lupi - Aidos Italy
Communication
Arianne Arpa – Intermoon Oxfam ES
Marco Piazza –Telethon Foundation
Bernard Ross – Management Centre London
Tenika Ah-Wan - Deputy Director Fundraising and Management
Fundraising
Tenika Ah-Wan - Deputy Director Fundraising and Management
Carla Cardelli – Libera
Valeria Combattente - Save the Children
Siân Mexsom – Freelance Fundraising Consultant- Marine Society
Giancarla Pancione – Save the Children
Kathy Roddy - Kathy Research and Consultancy
Bernard Ross – Management Centre London
Isabel White - Advice2go, The Influencial List
Richard Valls – Associaciòn de profesionales del fundraising España
Francesca Zagni – ASSIF-Associazione Italiana Fund Raisers
Management
Marco Crescenzi – Third Sector Management
Luigi Zampi – Infinity Italy
Chrisitan Dama - ASVI
Strategic Planning, Result Based Management, Marketing, Project Financing
Marco Crescenzi – Third Sector Management
Kathy Roddy - Kathy research and Consultancy
Federico Marcon - Don Gnocchi Foundation-NGO Activities’ Director
Web-marketing & Activism
Raffaele Coruzzi – Unicef Italy
Partnerships and Management
Elisabetta Briguglio – Partnership Manager ASVI
Samr Al Aflak – Third Sector Management-
EU Funds, Policy, Programmes and Projects
Filippo Addarii – Euclid Network
Marco Traversi – Project Ahead
Federica Arcieri – EU Consultant
Docenti IUEE- Institute Universitari D’Estudios Europeos- Barcelona University
Plus… ‘Special Guests’ : meeting with some of the best of the European Third Sector’s
Managers and Professional. ‘Case studies’ visits to successfully NGOs in Italy, Spain, UK.
Frame Directors : Isabel White, Marco Crescenzi
About Isabel (UK)
An NCVO Approved Consultant, Isabel founded advice2Go in 1996, after 26 years in the private and voluntary sectors. She manages a large network of associate fundraisers and social entrepreneurs, with a huge breadth of collective experience, working in the public, private and voluntary sectors. She has worked with over 130 clients, on over 150 assignments and in that time has helped them to raise over £20m. Her previous clients include 18 arts organisations, major disability charities (Muscular Dystrophy Campaign), government departments (Health & Safety Executive, Forestry Commission, Natural England), environmental and campaigning organisations (Forum for the Future, Sustrans), health charities (Diabetes UK, The Kings Fund, Sane), international projects, 14 housing organisations including the National Housing Federation, organisations working in crime, justice and community safety, education, politics, regeneration, social welfare and transport, throughout the UK and into Europe. She has also been a trustee/director of a number of not-for-profit organisations, school governor and chair of a grant making charitable trust.
Isabel has worked with young and old people, gay and lesbian people, people with disabilities and special needs, from minority communities, women’s groups and marginalized communities. She is a regular speaker at voluntary sector conferences and workshops, runs training programmes in the voluntary, community and public sectors (ACEVO, Institute of Fundraising, LASA, Funding Digest) and has written features and articles for a variety of third and public sector publications (Inside Housing, Policy Review Magazine). Grants she has secured or directed include Arts Council England, Landscape Partnership bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund, £180,000 corporate sponsorship, three successful bids including one for £250,000 from the Department of Health Section 64 grants programme, and several million pounds in grants from the Big Lottery Fund for a variety of health, heritage and community projects.
About Marco (see www.thirdsectormanagement.eu/staff-president) (UK-IT-ES)
Frame Coordinator
Maria Giovanna Lai (ES)
