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April 2003

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Upcoming Events/Speakers

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People

Please Note:

NEW Hauser Center website! Please visit http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hauser/ to view our new website.

Upcoming Events

PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS FOR ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT IN ANGOLA 

April 22 at 6:00pm, Kennedy School, Starr Auditorium. Sponsored by the Center for Business and Government. This event is open to the public.

Sanjeev Khagram (moderator)

Panel discussion with representatives from USAID and ChevronTexaco.

Please contact Kate Dodson at kate_dodson@harvard.edu to RSVP.

DIASPORA PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP

May 7 and 8 in Cambridge, MA. Sponsored by the Global Equity Initiative. This event is by invitation only.
This workshop will focus on the philanthropic activities of the Chinese and Indian diasporas in the US and their contributioni to the development of their countries of origin. The meeting will bring together approximately thirty-five researchers, foundation leaders, individual philanthropists, and representatives of major diaspora organizations engaged in philanthropic activities. Five background papers on Indian and Chinese diaspora philanthropy will inform the proceedings. The two-day workshoop will help build knowledge regarding the current and potential ability of diaspora philanthropy to address equity and development goals, and will help define further research priorities in this area. For further information, please contact Chris Linnane at chris_linnane@harvard.edu

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM
May 28 through 31 at the Kennedy School of GovernmenT
A four day executive program for nonprofit leaders who want to improve the performance of their organizations. Through a powerful combination of faculty presentations, case studies, and group discussions, participants will examine the rationale behind performance management and gain valuableinsight into its critical aspects. The course has been developed jointly by the Hauser Center and the Harvard Business School's Initiative on Social Enterprise.

  For further information, please contact Enrollment Services at the
  KennedySchool's Executive Programs, Phone: 617-496-0484, Fax:
  617-495-3090,

  Email: KSG_ExecEd@harvard.edu.

Activities

THE HAUSER CENTER became the first academic research center at Harvard to produce a multimedia video describing it's activities and actions, and post it to the web. To view:
http://ksgfiona.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/hauser.rm

NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION: EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM

  The second module of this program, completed in February, focused
  on collaborative strategy and community engagement. Hauser
  Center principals Frances Kunreuther, Xavier de Souza Briggs,
  Marshall Ganz, Marty Linsky, and Dave Brown participated as faculty.
  Chris Letts is the Program Chair. Srilatha Batliwala also worked on
  developing international case material for the course. This program is
  a work in progress creating an opportunity to engage Center
  principals with different expertise in a shared program. The resulting
  mix of perspectives has been lauded by both participants and faculty
  alike.

  EXECUTIVE SESSION ON FAITH-BASED AND COMMUNITY
  APPROACHES TO URBAN REVITALIZATION

  Sponsored by the Joint Program on Religion and Public Life (JPRPL),
  the Hauser Center convened the 2nd meeting of the Executive
  Session on Faith-Based and Community Approaches to Urban
  Revitalization from February 6 to 8. The task at this Executive
  Session is to look at the important question of how multiple sectors
  working together can provide goods of public value and to frame the
  area for further investigation. At the February meeting, substantive
  discussions focused on: partnerships to reduce youth violence;
  processes by which value creating partnerships and networks of
  organizations (including public, private, faith-based, and secular) are
  created and sustained with particular attention to the role of
  faith-based organizations in the affordable housing arena; followed by
  a discussion on what these cross-sector partnerships actually
  achieve and how to manage conflict and collaboration. Keynote
  speaker was Mr. Jim Towey, Director, The White House Office of
  Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, and his presentation was
  entitled "A View from the White House: Local, Federal and Faith
  Relations." Kennedy School faculty Stephen Goldsmith and Mary Jo
  Bane are principal collaborators on the session working together with
  a group of faculty and staff including Mark Moore, Brent Coffin,
  Xavier de Souza Briggs, Anne Mathew, Margot Murphy and Julia
  Berger. For information, please contact Anne Mathew, Assistant
  Director, JPRPL, at anne_mathew@harvard.edu.

LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE 2003: DEVELOPING PUBLIC LEADERS 

Sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership and the Hauser Center, Leadership Conference 2003, the second annual leadership conference at the Kennedy School (KSG), convened 120 KSG faculty, staff, students, and alumni on March 6 and 7 in Cambridge to discuss the leadership curriculum offered at KSG. Discussions were rooted in the following questions: Is what we are currently doing working? What is being done outside of KSG and how is it evaluated? Looking ahead to 2010, what will we need to get to be where we want to go? Bruce Avolio from the University of Nebraska, Joe LeBoeuf and Lissa Young from the United States Military Academy, Marian Krauskopf of the Ford Foundation, Paul Getsos from Community Voices Heard, and Susan Schurman and Bill Bergfeld from the National Labor College joined the group and presented information that detailed their respective ideas on leadership and leadership models. Hauser Center faculty members, Xavier de Souza Briggs, Marshall Ganz, Sanjeev Khagram, and Christine Letts, along with other Harvard faculty, participated on panels and engaged in discussions with the group about their experiences with leadership at KSG. For more information about this conference and our effort to create an ongoing initiative on leadership at KSG, please contact Jennifer Johnson at jennifer_johnson@harvard.edu.

SPRING 2003 NONPROFIT SCHOLARS CONFERENCE: CRISIS OF GOVERNANCE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE NONPROFIT/NONGOVERNMENTAL SECTOR
Held in Cambridge, the conference brought together sixty-five leading critical scholars on April 3 and 4 whose research illuminates the fundamental institutional changes that are transforming both the nature of nonprofit organizations and the ways in which we understand them. Scholars from a variety of disciplines had the opportunity to discuss the role of the nonprofit sector, both domestically and internationally, in the current governance crisis. Recent events in the US have led many people to re-examine the issue of governance and accountability of leadership in all three sectors: for-profit (Enron, Tyco, Worldcom) nonprofit (American Red Cross, Catholic Church), and government (departures of Pitt and Webster, general state of campaign finance). Speakers included Hauser Center principals Derek Bok, Sanjeev Khagram and Peter Dobkin Hall as well as Evelyn Brody, John Coates, Paul DiMaggio, Archon Fung, Robert Goodin, Carol Heimer, Martha Minow, Nell Minow, and John Simon. For further information, please contact Sarah Alvord, Senior Program Officer, at sarah_alvord@harvard.edu.

WORKS IN PROGRESS WORKSHOP (WIP)
This semester's Hauser Center Works In Progress workshop will conclude on May 5. The following people have presented this semester: Sarah Alvord, Gabrielle Bammer, Julia Berger, Dave Brown, Brent Coffin, Aykan Erdemir, Elizabeth Keating, Chris Letts, Dongxiao Liu, Orly Lobel, Sarah Robinson, Cynthia Sanborn, Saubhagya Shah, and Lily Tsai. For the past two semesters, Hauser principals, staff, and doctoral fellows have gathered to learn about and discuss works in progress by Hauser faculty researchers and doctoral fellows. Through weekly meetings, this workshop has helped create a consistent and engaging learning community within the Hauser Center. A small number of spots are available each week to other Harvard faculty, students and local practitioners. For more information, please contact Jennifer Johnson at jennifer_johnson@harvard.edu.

WORKING PAPERS
 
There are three new working papers in the Center's working paper series. All papers can be downloaded for free through the Center's website at http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hauser/

Working Paper No. 16 "The Single Audit Act: How Compliant Are Nonprofit Organizations?" by Elizabeth K. Keating, Teresa P. Gordon, Mary Fischer, and Janet Greenlee.

Working Paper No. 17 "Measuring Operations: An Analysis of Financial Statements of U.S. Private Colleges and Universities," by Mary Fischer, Teresa P. Gordon, Janet Greenlee, and Elizabeth K. Keating. 

Working Paper No. 18 "The Public Value Scorecard: A Rejoinder and an Alternative to 'Strategic Performance Measurement and Management in Non-Profit Organizations by Robert Kaplan' " by Mark H. Moore.

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People

GABRIELE BAMMER/SRILATHA BATLIWALA/DAVE BROWN/FRANCES KUNREUTHER

Gabriele Bammer (former Fulbright New Century Scholar and Research Fellow at the Center), Frances Kunreuther, Srilatha Batliwala, and Dave Brown have just finished a paper titled "Framing Practice-Research Engagement for Democratizing Knowledge" that draws on their diverse experiences as practitioners and researches. The paper will be published in the first issue of a new journal called Action Research.

SRILATHA BATLIWALA
During her stint in India from January to March, Hauser Center Research Fellow Srilatha Batliwala, facilitated the South Asian office of HIVOS, a major Dutch funding agency, re-examination of its effort to promote gender equality within some of its NGO partners in the region. Through two special workshops, Srilatha developed a framework for HIVOS staff to link gender and organizational development with greater conceptual and strategic clarity

JULIA BERGER
Hauser Center staff member Julia Berger recently wrote an article titled, "Religious NGOs: An Exploratory Analysis". It will be included in the March 2003 issue of Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.

DAVE BROWN
Dave Brown gave two presentations at the Santiago Conference organized by the Hauser Center/Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in Santiago, Chile. He spoke on March 12 about "Legitimacy, Accountability and Learning for Civil Society: Social Ideals, Strategic Choices, and Domain Negotiations," and on March 14 about "NGO Legitimacy and Accountability: Strategies and Systems."

PETER FRUMKIN
Peter Frumkin spoke to two groups in Milwaukee recently at the invitation of the Donors Forum of Wisconsin. He presented on recent management practices in nonprofits to a group of local nonprofit leaders and gave a talk on payout strategy to grantmakers. Frumkin also guest lectured at the University of Arizona in a course on nonprofits using his new book On Being Nonprofit. And, Frumkin's article (with Elizabeth Keating) "Reengineering Nonprofit Financial Accountability" appears in the current issue of Public Administration Review and his chapter "Service Contracting with Nonprofit and For-Profit Providers: On Preserving a Mixed Organizational Ecology" was published recently in Market-Based Governance (Brookings) ed. by John D. Donahue and Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

ELIZABETH KEATING
Hauser Center principals Elizabeth Keating and Peter Frumkin are the special editors for a forthcoming issue of Nonprofit Quarterly. The topic is Financial Management in the Nonprofit Sector.

SANJEEV KHAGRAM
Hauser Center principal Sanjeev Khagram, recently wrote two new articles. "Neither Temples Nor Tombs: Global Analysis of Large Dams," will be included in the May 2003 edition of Environment. Along with Dana Raad and William Clark, Sanjeev also helped write "From Human Security and the Environment to Sustainable Security and Development," which will appear in the Summer 2003 edition of Journal of Human Development.

CHRISTINE LETTS/BILL RYAN
"Filling the Performance Gap: High Engagement Philanthropy", an article written by Christine Letts and Bill Ryan, will appear in the first edition (Spring 2003) of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. The article is based on research of six high engagement funding models.

ORLY LOBEL
Hauser Center Doctoral Fellow Orly Lobel taught a seven week workshop from February 13th to April 10th at Harvard Law School entitled, "New Approaches to Law and Governance in a Flex-Regulatory Era". Lobel also recently gave a presentation at a conference in Texas on March 6 and 7 funded by the Texas Bar Association on the "Role of Contract in the Modern Employment Relation". The paper she delivered will appear in a special symposium issue of Texas Wesleyan Law Review.

CHRIS WINSHIP
Chris Winship, Hauser Faculty Fellow, presented research based on his chapter entitled "Faith, Practice and Transformation: A Theory-Based Evaluation of Faith-Based Teen Programs" at the 2003 Spring Research Forum, The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in the Social Welfare System, March 6 and 7, in Washington DC

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