ServCollab is pleased to announce that Irene Di Bernardo of the University of Naples Federico II has received the first ServCollab Research Grant. Following the evaluation of all eligible applications, the ServCollab Research Grants Review Committee selected Irene's application as the highest-ranked submission in the first grant competition. As a member of the ServCollab Wisdom Community, Irene submitted a proposal focused on healthcare service research that seeks to improve

Application Deadline: Friday, October 2, 2026 ServCollab is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the second quarterly ServCollab Research Grant of 2026. We encourage eligible scholars to submit their applications by Friday, October 2, 2026. Made possible through the generosity of ServCollab donors, these grants seek to support and amplify innovative research that serves humanity. ServCollab Research Grants support research that aligns with ServCollab's missi

Qusay Hamdan and Raymond P. Fisk (2026). Journal of Business Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2026.116365 ServCollab Perspective Article Abstract: This conceptual article upframes the strength-based approach to customer vulnerability to address state-imposed vulnerability. Statelessness occurs when nation-states impose stigmatizing identities, rendering people invisible within service systems, repressing their human strengths, and trapping them in long-lasting, st

Saturday, July 4, 2026 By Ray Fisk, Founder and President of ServCollab This 6th ServCollab Serving explores how interaction logics steer our verbal and physical behavior choices, which profoundly shape our human experiences. ServCollab categorizes human interactions into four categories: Conflict, Competition, Cooperation, and Collaboration. The logic driving each of these interaction categories emerged in ancient times and continues to evolve in modern times. We can compare

This 5th Serving describes systems and service systems because our lives are deeply embedded within Earth’s networks of living systems. In this Serving, I confess to a significant mistake in my categorization of systems.

This fourth serving connects the core concepts of serving, collaboration, and wisdom to ServCollab’s Theory of Change.

2026 — Issue 1

Saturday, May 23, 2026 By Ray Fisk, Founder and President of ServCollab In prior Servings, we explored the core concepts of serving and collaboration. This third Serving explores the core concept of wisdom and explains why ServCollab seeks to help humanity become wiser. The learning path every human takes toward achieving wisdom begins amid the ignorance of childhood. Each child begins life with no ability to feed or care for themselves. Such dependency at birth is common for

Friday, ,May 15, 2026 By Ray Fisk, Founder and President of ServCollab In ServCollab, we seek to discover and refine core concepts for serving humanity. The first core concept - serving - was introduced in the first Serving I shared. Our second core concept is collaboration. This serving explains why collaboration is the highest form of human interaction. Interactions Our social species depends on interactions with other humans for its survival. This begins at childbirth, whe

This post launches occasional food for thought from Ray Fisk - ServCollab’s founder. For more than 45 years, h has helped grow and shape the service research community as one of several founders of the service research field. ServCollab is the culmination of his life’s quest to discover how to prevent chronic unfairness in human systems, especially economic and political systems.

Featuring Rebekah Russell-Bennett Please register for the first ServCollab Wisdom Communities Webinar, featuring Rebekah Russell-Bennett. Topic: Improving Life on Planet Earth – A Call to Action for Service Research to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Date: May 18, 2026 Time: 7:00 AM (CDT, Texas) 2:00 PM (CEST, Central Europe) 9:00 PM (JST, Japan) 10:00 PM (AEST, Sydney) This webinar launches a series of eight quarterly webinars grounded in ServCollab’s Servi

ServCollab is pleased to announce the results of the 2026 ServCollab PhD Student Scholarship contest. In its second year, this scholarship continues to recognize and support doctoral students whose research aligns with Transformative Service Research (TSR) and contributes to serving humanity. This year, we received 25 applications from PhD students around the world. Following a rigorous review process, ServCollab awards one scholarship winner and recognizes two additional app

This webinar is the first of a series of ServCollab Community Webinars.

Application Due Date ServCollab announces that the application deadline for the first quarterly ServCollab Research Grant is Monday, June 29, 2026. These Research Grants are made possible through generous donations from ServCollab Donors. With these grants, ServCollab seeks to support and amplify innovative research that aligns with ServCollab's mission, one of the seven ServCollab Service Research Themes, and that is invited for revision by a peer-reviewed journal. ServColla

ServCollab is pleased to announce the launch of the PRME Working Group on Service Systems for Humanity, an initiative developed in collaboration with the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) that is now officially published on the PRME website. Humans live within interconnected service systems such as families, communities, organizations, nations, and the Earth itself. However, many of these systems fail to truly serve humanity. From structura

A Pre-Conference Workshop at the SERVSIG 2026 Conference June 10, 2026 | University of Minho, Braga, Portugal ServCollab will host a morning pre-conference workshop at the SERVSIG 2026 Conference titled “Launching the ServCollab Wisdom Quest: Seeking Collaborative Wisdom to Serve Humanity” Humanity is experiencing interconnected social, ecological, and institutional failures that call for deeper collaboration and wiser service systems. Transformative Service Research has long

ServCollab announces that the application deadline for the ServCollab PhD Student Scholarship has been extended to March 16, 2026. The ServCollab PhD Student Scholarship provides $1,000 (US dollars) to one selected PhD student to present their research at a 2026 service research conference. Eligible conferences include: SERVSIG Conference (June 2026, Braga, Portugal) Frontiers in Service Conference (June–July 2026, Helsinki, Finland) ServCollab is founded on Transformative Se

ServCollab is presenting a special session at the AMA Winter Academic Conference titled: Redesigning the Service System of ‘Spaceship Earth’ Humans live within service systems, from the micro level of everyday service experiences to the meso level of nation-states, and to the macro level of Planet Earth—the Spaceship that sustains all life. However, across these levels, service systems are failing to serve humanity and the other beings on our planet wisely, creating severe se

07:00 AM Central Time (North America) | 14:00 CET | 22:00 JST You are invited to a ServCollab Research Funding Opportunities Webinar. This webinar will explain the 2026 ServCollab Research Grants and the 2026 ServCollab PhD Student Scholarships, made possible through generous donations from ServCollab Donors. Webinar Highlights: Introduction to ServCollab's Purpose and Process An overview of the ServCollab Research Grants An overview of the ServCollab PhD Student Scholarship

ServCollab's Service Research Themes ServCollab is pleased to announce new Research Grants that will be made possible through generous donations from ServCollab Donors. With these Research Grants, ServCollab seeks to support and amplify innovative research that aligns with ServCollab’s mission, one of the seven ServCollab Service Research Themes, and that is invited for revision by a peer-reviewed journal. ServCollab was founded on Transformative Service Research (TSR). More