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The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies

The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies seeks to improve understanding and the effective functioning of not-for-profit, philanthropic, or “civil society” organizations in the United States and throughout the world in order to enhance the contribution these organizations can make to democracy and the quality of human life. The Center is part of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies and carries out its work through a combination of research, training, and information-sharing both domestically and internationally.

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Recent Initiatives

The European Volunteer Measurement Project
European countries have a unique opportunity establish a truly concrete and lasting legacy for Europe’s 2011 Year of Volunteering by making adoption and implementation of the new ILO Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work one of the principal objectives for this important Year.