Jon Van Til

Executive Secretary, Civil Society Design Network, 2008-.

President, Fulbright Association Philadelphia/Delaware Valley Chapter, 2009-.

Member, Advisory Committee to the Resolution Fund's Liveable Places project. 

President, Swarthmore College Class of 1961.

Member, Selection committee for Fulbright Awards to the UK, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 2007.

International Society for Third Sector Research.  Founding Member since 1994.

Association of Voluntary Action Scholars (now ARNOVA).  Member, Program Committee, 1975-75; Board member, 1975-1993; Secretary, 1975-76; Executive Vice-chairperson, 1976; Vice-President, 1976-77; President, 1977-79.  Editor-in-chief, NONPROFIT AND VOLUNTARY SECTOR QUARTERLY, 1979-1991.

Society for the Study of Social Problems.  Elected Chairperson of section on Community Development and Research, 1975-1977.

Pennsylvania Law and Justice Institute, Executive Director, 1972-1974.

The Civil Society Design Network is a collective undertaking of a number of senior scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study and development of voluntary action, nonprofit organization, and the third sector.  This network is created to be  1) voluntary and facilitative of collegial and supportive reflection and analysis;  2) permissive of the exploration and development of continuing academic contributions; and 3) developmental of new initiatives to advance academic and organizational initiatives throughout the third sector.