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E-News
December 2005
E-Newsletter
Featured Research
Activity Update
People in Action
Hauser People in the
News
New Hauser Working Papers
Elizabeth Keating, who heads the Financial Stewardship Initiative, is undertaking research to Advance the Overhead Debate. The overhead project aims to start a more informed, constructive debate among nonprofits and foundations about overhead. Based on fieldwork, focus groups and presentations, the project has identified key concerns regarding the management and funding of overhead. A software tool is now under development that would allow nonprofits to produce program and grant budgets and actual reports in both internally and externally designed formats. It would identify overhead costs and determine the cost recovery from particular grants. The project is also working to identify and promote methods to reduce the high transaction costs associated with restrictive grant funding. These approaches include common grant applications and reporting, new overhead-related financial disclosures, and techniques for computing overhead rates. The software and a report are expected to be available in the late spring or early summer.
Practicing
Democracy Project
Governance and
Accountability Faculty Seminar
The Nonprofit
Governance and Accountability Project, jointly sponsored by
Harvard Law School and the Hauser Center (shepherded by Bill Ryan), hosted a faculty seminar on October 17th, at
which David W. Kennedy, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and
Director of the European Law Center, presented his work on the role
of experts and expertise in global governance.
Participants discussed the merits and implications of
Kennedy's argument that some issues are inappropriately protected
from political deliberation because they are presented as
uncontestable matters of expertise, when in fact they may rest on
deep values-based assumptions that should be examined as part of
global governance. Kennedy
has received a grant from the Project's Research Fund to explore how
nongovernmental organizations may contribute to or help solve this
problem.
WIEGO
The WIEGO
(Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) Steering
Committee held a retreat in Accra, Ghana October 21st-23rd
to plan for WIEGO's upcoming General Assembly in April 2006 in
Durban, South Africa, as well as discuss WIEGOs research agenda
for the upcoming year. Marty
Chen, Mary Beth Graves,
Suzanne Van Hook and Marais
Canali participated in the event.
Following the retreat, on October 24th, WIEGO
co-convened a seminar in
Religion, Politics and Public
Life Faculty Seminar Series
The Program on Religion and
Public Life (PRPL) is continuing with a second round of its
Religion, Politics and Public Life Faculty Seminar Series in
2005-06. The program is
conducting another round of five seminars this academic year (2 in
the Fall and 3 in the Spring), bringing together scholars and
practitioners from throughout Harvard and the larger community for
conversations that enhance understanding of the changing role of
religion in politics and public life, both nationally and
internationally. This (by
invitation only) series
is co-convened by Profs. J. Bryan Hehir and Mary Jo Bane.
The first seminar
for this academic year was held on October 31st,
titled, Religion and International Politics: Changing Patterns
of Analysis, during which three scholars of international relations
discussed the traditional method of separating the role of religion
from the standard analysis of world politics and the recent
resurgence of interest in relating the two areas of study. The
distinguished panelists were Professors Stanley Hoffmann, Karl
Kaiser, and Daniel Philpott. To
view a transcript, please click
here.
Innovations
in Governance Program
From October 30th November 4th
Mark Moore and Dave Brown conducted workshops for the Innovations in Governance
Executive Education Program. This
program is part of an ongoing collaboration with the Ash Institute
for Democratic Governance and Innovation of the Kennedy School of
Government and the
In the interest of space, the E-News does not
include titles for Hauser faculty, researchers or staff.
For titles and bios, please click
here.
Mark
Moore was a plenary speaker at the CLAD
(Latin American Center of Administration for Development)
International Congress on State and Public Administration Reform,
held in
On October 28th, Elizabeth Keating hosted a roundtable with foundation executives to discuss with them their thinking in funding nonprofit overhead. The meeting provoked an exciting discussion about how nonprofits can provide more transparency about their overhead and ideas that help lower the transaction costs of applying for and reporting on restricted grants.
Several Hauser faculty and researchers
participated in the Independent
Sector Annual Conference Reshaping the Social Compact,
held October 23rd-25th in
Bill
Ryan delivered both
lecture-style presentations and one- and two-day workshops for
several groups of nonprofit executive directors and their boards on
the concepts and practices from his recent book Governance as
Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards.
The various venues included the Ohio Grantmakers Forum Annual
Conference (October 20th), the Institute for Nonprofits
at
On November 17th,
Marty Chen presented a
session on workforce development for the working poor at the annual
meeting of the Ford Foundation's Affinity Group on Development
Finance in
Several Hauser faculty and researchers
participated in the ARNOVA
(Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary
Action) Annual Conference in
On November 17th-18th,
in
From November 22nd-29th, Marshall Ganz was in Jerusalem, Israel to initiate the second session of an organizer training program with collaborators Shatil (seedling), the New Israel Funds training and advocacy center, as well as Tel Aviv College, and other supporters. The 18-month training program works with 24 participants who work as full time community advocates drawn from both Jewish and Palestinian communities. The purpose of Ganzs visit was to collaborate in developing more effective tools of organizing, advocacy, and civic engagement, which are of value both to academic institutions and community based organizations.
Marty
Chen was a panelist at the
Committee of Donor Agencies for Small Enterprise Development's
international conference, Reforming the Business Environment:
From Assessing Problems to Measure Results in Cairo,
Xavier
de Souza Briggs, Research
Fellow of the
On October 5th,
Tiziana Dearing, executive director of the
Peter Dobkin Hall
was quoted in the October 28th edition of The Washington Post in the article Red Cross Borrowing Funds for Storm Aid; Loan of $340 Million Comes as
Nonprofit Draws New Scrutiny.
In the article, Dobkin Hall commented on the need of the Red
Cross to open itself up to greater outside scrutiny and address its
shortcomings.
Paul
Hodge was quoted in the November 6th edition of the Ashville Citizens Times in the
opinion article Our
society owes women a right to age with dignity;
In the November 18th edition of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and reprinted in BusinessWeek Online, Paul Hodge was quoted in the article Nonprofit Groups Brainstorm Aging Issues; Delegates to the upcoming White House Conference on Aging are charged with guiding national policy on issues affecting older people. In the article, Hodge is recognized and quoted as an expert advisor to the conference. Link to the full text here.
In November, The Progress of the Worlds Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty, co-authored by Marty Chen, was featured on the Kennedy School of Governments Virtual Book Tour. The report is a flagship publication of the United Nations Development Fund for Women. The link to the virtual tour here.
The following Hauser Center Working Papers have recently been released:
Hauser Center
Working Paper No. 28
Civil Society
Actors as Catalysts for Transnational Social Learning
by L. David Brown and Vanessa Timmer (November 2005)
Abstract
Download
Paper No.28
Corruption and Inequality as Correlates of Social Trust:
Fairness Matters More Than Similarity
by Jong-Sung You (November 2005)
Abstract
Download
Paper No.29
A Question of Empowerment: Information Technology and
Civic Engagement in New Haven, Connecticut
by Peter Dobkin Hall (November 2005)
Abstract
Download
Paper No.30
The full list and copies of all Hauser Center
Working Papers can be found here.
This edition of the
Hauser
Center
E-News highlights activities and events from October-November 2005.
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