LHAE :: Jack Quarter :: Leadership Higher and Adult Education at OISE

Jack Quarter

phone: (416) 978-0820
email: jquarter@oise.utoronto.ca
website: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/depts/aecdcp/faculty/quarter.html

Departments:
Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

Social Economy Centre

Research Overview

Dr. Quarter's research interests include non profits, volunteering, co-operatives, social economy, and community development.

Project web sites:
Social Economy Centre (http://www.socialeconomycentre.ca)

Teaching Overview

Dr. Quarter has taught the following courses at OISE:

AEC1102 Community Development: Innovative Models
AEC1182 Nonprofits, Co-operatives and the Social Economy

Representative Publications

Refereed Books:

(2010). Mook, L., Quarter, J., & Ryan, S. (Eds.) Researching the social economy. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press)
(2009). Quarter, Jack, Laurie Mook & Ann Armstrong. Understanding the Social Economy: A Canadian Perspective. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
(2008). With Isla Carmichael and Sherida Ryan (eds). Pensions at Work: Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
(2007). Mook, L., Quarter, J., and Richmond, BJ.. What counts: Social accounting for non-profits and co-operatives (2nd Edition). London: Sigel Press. (co-author)

Refereed Chapters:

(2010). Mook, L., Quarter, J., & Ryan, S. What’s in a name? In Mook, L., Quarter, J., & Ryan, S. (Eds.) Researching the social economy. (Toronto, University of Toronto Press)
(2010). Mook, L., Quarter, J., & Ryan, S. Conclusion. In Mook, L., Quarter, J., & Ryan, S. (Eds.) Researching the social economy. (Toronto, University of Toronto Press)
(2009). Mook, L., & Quarter, J., Social Accounting for Social Economy Organizations. In the International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Springer Publishing.

Refereed Articles:

(2010). With Laurie Mook. An interactive view of the social economy. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 1(1),8 - 23
(2008). Femida Handy Laurie Mook, & J. Quarter.. Interchangeability of paid staff and volunteers in nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 37 (1), 76-92.

Research Grants and Contracts

SSHRC CURA Grant (2010-2015) Social Business for Marginalized Social Groups
SSHRC Research Grant (2009-2012): The Potential Interchangeability of Volunteers and Paid Labour: A Critical Interdisciplinary Analysis
SSHRC (2005-2010): A Community-University Research Alliance for Southern Ontario’s Social Economy
SSHRC Public Outreach Grant (2009-2011): Building Capacity for Volunteers Count - An Innovative Approach to Account for Volunteer Contibutions
Canada Foundation for Innovation/Ontario Research Fund (2007-2010) Volunteers Count Infrastructure Grant
SSHRC (2003-2007): University-Union Research Alliance on Socially Responsible Investment of Pension Funds
SSHRC INE Research Grant (2003-2007): Creating a Framework for Valuing Volunteer Labour
SSHRC (2006-2007): Public Outreach Grant for Creating a Framework for Valuing Volunteer Labour
SSHRC Research Grant (2001-2004): Converting Government-Administered Public Housing to Tenant-Managed Non-Profit Co-operatives: A Stakeholder Framework