Faculty Profiles
Kate Cooney
Assistant Professor
Macro Practice
Co-Director, Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium
Phone: 617-353-7721
kcooney@bu.edu
Education
B.A. (English), College of the Holy Cross
M.S.W. (social welfare), University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. (social welfare), University of California, Los Angeles
Courses Taught
MP759 Communities and Organizations: Analysis and Intervention
MP770 Urban Poverty and Economic Development
MP773 Human Services Management
Scholarly and Practice Interests
Workforce development for disadvantaged populations, social enterprise, commercialization in the nonprofit sector, poverty and economic development, and human service organizations
Selected Publications
Cooney, K. (Accepted for publication). Exploring the range of social purpose business models in the United States. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
Cooney, K. & Shanks, T. (Accepted for publication). New approaches to old problems: Market based strategies for poverty alleviation. Social Service Review.
Cooney, K. (Accepted for publication). The promise and pitfalls of employer-linked training for disadvantaged populations. Administration in Social Work.
Cooney, K. (2008). Book Review Essay: Roberta Rehner Iversen and Annie Laurie Armstrong, Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-income Families. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2006. In Qualitative Social Work, 7, 124-129.
Cooney, K. (2007). Fields, organizations, and agency: Towards a multi-level theory of institutionalization in action. Administration & Society,39, 687-718.
Cooney, K. (2006). The institutional and technical structuring of nonprofit hybrids: Organizations caught between two fields? Voluntas, 17,143–161.
Cooney, K. (2006). Mothers first, not work first: Listening to welfare clients in job training. Qualitative Social Work, 2, 217-35.
Cooney, K. (2003). Friends or foes? Nonprofits between a business and a social work orientation: The case of goodwill industries. In Volker Eick, Margit Mayer, and Jens Sambale (Eds.) From Welfare to Work: Nonprofits and the Workfare State in Berlin and Los Angeles (pp.66-80). John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University Berlin.
Cooney, K. & Weaver, D. (2001). Work matters: Combining work, business and services in a welfare-to-work program. Journal of Community Practice, 9, 33-54.
Cooney, K. (under revision). Financial Management and Moving to Scale: The Challenges of Social Purpose Business in the United States. Nonprofit Management and Leadership.
Selected Presentations
Cooney, K. 2009. Social Purpose Businesses: How Social Enterprises Struggle to Create Better Working Conditions for Low Skilled Workers. Paper presentation at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) annual meeting, Washington, D.C., November 5-7th.
Garrow, E. & Cooney, K. 2009. Managing Field Forces in Commercializing Nonprofits: A Case Comparison of Two Job Training Social Business Models. Paper presentation at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) annual meeting, Washington, D.C., November 5-7th.
Garrow, E. & Cooney, K. 2009. Parsing the Role of the Organizational Field: A Case Comparison of Nonprofit Venturing. Paper presentation at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations (ARNOVA) annual meeting, Ohio, November 19-22.
Cooney, K. 2009. Social Purpose Businesses in the United States: Organizations
in Flux. Paper presentation at the EMES International Conference on Social
Enterprise, Trento, Italy, July 1-4.
Cooney, K. 2009. Strategic Management of Social Purpose Businesses:
Navigating the Intersection of Mission and Market. Paper presentation at the
Society for Social Work Research (SSWR) annual meeting, New Orleans, January
15-18.
Cooney, K. 2007. A New Environment for Nonprofits and Government in Social Service Provision: A Colloquy on Key Issues and Trends, Panel presentation at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations (ARNOVA) annual meeting, Atlanta, November 15-17.
Cooney, K. 2007. [Invited] Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy, Panel presentation at the Academy of Management (AOM) annual meeting, Philadelphia, August 5.
Cooney, K. 2006. The Promise and Pitfalls of Employer-Linked Job Training, Paper presentation at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations (ARNOVA). Chicago, November 16-18.
Cooney, K. 2004. Organizational Fields as Key to Structure and Agency: Giddens, Sewell and the Neo-Institutionalists. Roundtable presentation at the American Sociological Association (ASA). San Francisco, August 13-16.
Consulting and Professional Activities
Peer Reviewer, Social Service Review, Nonprofit Voluntary Quarterly, Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice, Journal of Community, Work & Society, Theory and Society
Grant Reviewer, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Awards and Honors
University of California, Los Angeles Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2002-2003
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Policy and Social Research, Nonprofit Fellowships (3 separate), 2001-2002
