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 Poverty: Macro Intervention
MP773 Human Services Management
Scholarly and Practice Interests
Social enterprise and hybrid organizations, commercialization in the nonprofit sector, workforce development for disadvantaged populations, structural barriers to moving out of poverty, survival strategies in the low wage labor market, and human service organizations
Selected Publications
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). Mothers first, not work first: Listening to welfare clients in job training. Qualitative Social Work, 2, 217-35.
Cooney, K. (2006). The institutional and technical structuring of nonprofit hybrids: Organizations caught between two fields? Voluntas, 17,143–161.
Cooney, K. (2005). Book Review: Walter S. DeKeseredy, Shahid Alvi, Martine D. Schwartz, and E. Andreas Tomaszewski, Under seige Poverty and Crime in a Public Housing Community. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003. In AFFILIA, 20, 382-383.
Cooney, K. (2003). Friends or foes? Nonprofits between and 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 review). Financial Management and Moving to Scale: The Challenges of Social Purpose Business in the United States. Nonprofit Management and Leadership.
Selected Presentations
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. 2007. [Invited] Social Purpose Business: Risk and Innovation at the Public Private Borderlines, Paper presentation at the UCLA Working Papers Colloquium, Los Angeles, April 30.
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.
Cooney, K. 2003. Friends or Foes? Nonprofits between Social Work and Business Orientation. The Case of Goodwill Industries. Paper presentation at the Moving from Income Support to Work: Local Welfare States and Non-Profits in Transition Conference, John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University Berlin, Germany, June 13-15.
Consulting and Professional Activities
Reviewer: Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice
Reviewer, Journal of Community, Work & Society
Reviewer, Theory and Society
Reviewer, Sage Publications
Reviewer, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Board of Overseers Member: Archventures, Inc.
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
