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The International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) is an international and interdisciplinary scientific society. Your objective is to promote research and teaching related to the so-called third sector or nonprofit sector. It currently has around 700 members from 85 countries. The office of the Association is founded in 1992 at the Johns Hopkins University located in Baltimore (Maryland, USA).

ISTR organizes world congresses every two years, most recently in 2012 at Siena. Earlier conferences were organized in Pecs (1994), Mexico City (1996), Geneva (1998), Dublin (2000), Cape Town (2002), Toronto (2004), Bangkok (2006), Barcelona (2008) and Istanbul (2010). The next World Congress will be held in Münster in July 2014. It also organizes regional conferences ISTR, a doctoral network and continental regional networks in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

ISTR is the editor of the English-language quarterly journal Voluntas - International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations. The journal is devoted to questions of the third sector and civil society, research, philanthropy and adjacent research fields and in the double-blind reports produced process. ISTR also edits the book series "Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies."

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The International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) is an international and interdisciplinary scientific society. Your objective is to promote research and teaching related to the so-called third sector or nonprofit sector. It currently has around 700 members from 85 countries. The office of the Association is founded in 1992 at the Johns Hopkins University located in Baltimore (Maryland, USA).

ISTR organizes world congresses every two years, most recently in 2012 at Siena. Earlier conferences were organized in Pecs (1994), Mexico City (1996), Geneva (1998), Dublin (2000), Cape Town (2002), Toronto (2004), Bangkok (2006), Barcelona (2008) and Istanbul (2010). The next World Congress will be held in Münster in July 2014. It also organizes regional conferences ISTR, a doctoral network and continental regional networks in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

ISTR is the editor of the English-language quarterly journal Voluntas - International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations. The journal is devoted to questions of the third sector and civil society, research, philanthropy and adjacent research fields and in the double-blind reports produced process. ISTR also edits the book series "Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies."