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January 2003

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Upcoming Events/Speakers

Activities

People

Please Note:

DOCTORAL FELLOW APPLICATIONS DUE FRIDAY, JANUARY 31ST! See below

SPRING NONPROFIT COURSES! 

More info and downloadable course guide below

IN THE NEWS --Check out the NEW Hauser Center Multimedia video (RealPlayer needed)   http://ksgfiona.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/hauser.rm

Upcoming Events

CAREER NIGHTS  "NONPROFIT LEADERS AND MANAGERS"  

January 28th  4-6pm Bell
Hall, Kennedy School of Government ,   (Event is now full)

CAREERS IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

February 4th 4-6pm Bell Hall For
more information, and to RSVP, please contact::
jennifer_johnson@harvard.edu     (FYI-Seating is limited)

MIDCAREER REFLECTIVE PRACTICE AND LEARNING SESSIONS Several Kennedy School
Midcareer students are working along with  key Hauser faculty on ways to improve learning through reflective  practice. There are three sessions as described below.   Each session will be led by midcareer students and Hauser faculty teams. All interested midcareer students are invited.
Series starts on Friday Feb. 14th

1. Individual and Organizational Reflection: Susana Vasquez, Marshall Ganz &   Dave Brown
2. Movements and Organizations: Mustafa Kudrati & Frances Kunreuther
3. Alternative Paradigm: Tina Liamzon & Sanjeev Khagram

The reflection sessions will be from 12:00 to 1:30 and include lunch.
(There is no cost for the lunch or the session) The sessions will take place  in the Hauser Center Conference Room. The center is located in the Charles Hotel complex on the raised courtyard level opposite  Henrietta's Table.
Please RSVP to: Erin_belitskus@ksg.harvard.edu

BRIDGE-BUILDERS CONFERENCE: 21ST-CENTURY LEADERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 

February 9-14 hosted at Harvard University

Join us as we welcome grassroots leaders from around the world to share their skills, successes, and struggles in international development and community organizing.  The conference serves to "build bridges" between participants and students, faculty members, development  organizations, and the general public. This is a student led conference. Mark Moore, David Brown, Peter Dobkin Hall, Marty Chen and Bill Ryan from the Hauser Center
are key  faculty participants.   

For  more information: http://www.bridgebuilding.org

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
Saturday, February 22 

Society's greatest challenges demand innovative solutions that draw upon the resources from all  organizational sectors: business,  nonprofit and government. This is the underlying premise of The
Exchange: the fourth annual conference presented by Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Club and the Kennedy School of Government's Nonprofit PIC. This year's conference seeks to  promote the perspective that business success and concern for broader social issues are not inconsistent  and  indeed  are highly  compatible. Come and see how today's leaders from across the public-private spectrum are meeting global challenges in areas from  education to economic development. Listen to them debate solutions to these issues from diverse perspectives. Engage in dialogue with influential social enterprise leaders during panel sessions and small group lunches. 

To learn more, link up to http://sa.hbs.edu/social/exchange

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
May 28-31 at the Kennedy School of Government

A 4-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 valuable insight into its
critical  aspects.  The course, which 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 Kennedy School's Executive Programs, Phone: 617-496-0484, Fax: 617-495-3090, Email: KSG_ExecEd@harvard.edu 

KSG NONPROFIT PIC WILL BE HOSTING A "NONPROFIT BOARD SERVICE" discussion. Date forthcoming.

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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

SPRING NONPROFIT COURSES-The fifth edition of the Center's Guide to Nonprofit Courses at Harvard University and Beyond offers notification and descriptions of  numerous courses on topics critical to the sector.  A link to the guide is available through the Hauser Center website, CLICK HERE

Hauser Center principals are teaching the following  courses: Dave Brown (MPAID Second Year Policy Analysis  and Case Workshop/Policy Practicum in International Development);  Chris Letts (Strategy and Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations-Note this class will be taught for the first time as MPP core course; Peter Frumkin (Strategy and Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations) Marshall Ganz (Political Action Skills);  Peter Dobkin Hall  (Nonprofit
Organizations and American Democracy: Dilemmas of Equality, Representation and Justice and Nonprofit Governance: Accountability, Authority and Decision-Making); Elizabeth Keating (Financial Management in Public and Nonprofit Organizations);  Sanjeev Khagram (Transforming Globalization: Towards Comprehensive Security, Sustainable Development and Good Governance); and Chris Letts (Philanthropy: Policy and Practices [co-taught with Peter Frumkin).  KSG shopping days are Monday, January 27 and  Tuesday, January 28.  Stop by and meet the professors!  Room, day and time information is available through
the KSG web-site.

IF IV RETREAT-December 2002 Among the participants were leading scholars on various forms of transnationalism (business and corporations, migration and diasporas, terrorism and crime, religions, NGOs and social movements, knowledge and science) including, from the Kennedy School,  Joseph Nye, Saskia Sassen, Sheila Jasanoff, John Ruggie, Nina-Glick Schiller, Charles Sabel, Nikos Passas, John Meyer, William Clark and Alison Brysk . From the
Hauser Center participants included Derek Bok, Mark Moore , Peggy Levitt, Peter Dobkin Hall,  David Brown, Srilatha Batliwala and Sanjeev Khagram.

US/JAPAN WORKSHOP ON ACCOUNTABILITY AND INTERNATIONAL NGOs The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, a Japan based foundation, has generously supported the Hauser Center exchange with US and  Japanese academics and NGO practitioners. The goals of this two-year initiative are to develop the basis for a theory of accountability that can stimulate improved assessment of civil society performance, to encourage applications of the theory in Japanese and US international development NGOs, and to increase
the capacity to foster the development of accountability systems in both countries.  Mark Moore, Dave Brown and Jim Honan organized this project for the Hauser Center. The project started in 2000 and closed  with a three and one-half day conference here in Cambridge this past  week. Participating INGOs from the US include Oxfam American, World Education, PACT, and Childreach/PLAN and from Japan, INGOs include Mekong Watch, Campaign for Children of Palestine, Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement (OISCA), and Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOICFP).  Papers from the conference will be available through the Hauser Center later this spring.

For further information, contact Sarah Alvord, Senior Program Officer at sarah_alvord@harvard.edu.

DOCTORAL FELLOW APPLICATIONS DUE FRIDAY, JANUARY 31ST!!
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations invites applications from graduate students at Harvard University for the 2002 - 2003  Doctoral Fellowships in Nonprofit Sector Studies.  The Center will award up to five 2-year residential fellowships to doctoral/advanced degree candidates who are enrolled in any program at Harvard University and are engaged in major research or writing a dissertation on a nonprofit sector topic.
Applications and all supporting documents are due by Friday, January 31, 2003.  The names of the recipients of Fellowships will be announced in early April.

Brochure and application materials may be downloaded at:
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hauser/education/docfellows.htm  

For more information, please contact Sarah  Alvord, Program Manager, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138; Tel: 617-495-7576;  Fax: 617-495-0996; Email: sarah_alvord@harvard.edu.

EXECUTIVE SESSION ON FAITH-BASED AND COMMUNITY APPROACHES TO URBAN REVITALIZATION, will hold it's second meeting at the  Kennedy School of Government from February 6 ? 8, 2003. Sponsored by Hauser Center's Joint Program on Religion and Public Life  (JPRPL), this executive session is built around a group of 20-25 outstanding mayors, civic and religious leaders from across the  country, plus academic specialists in several fields and will bring together individuals with experience in the wide range of fields that can play an important role in devising and implementing effective strategies.   Faculty co-conveners are Stephen Goldsmith and Mary  Jo Bane working closely with Mark Moore.  For information contact Anne Mathew, Assistant Director, JPRPL  (ph: 617-495-7553);  anne_mathew@harvard.edu (By invitation only) 

CENTER FOR PUBLIC LEADERSHIP-DEVELOPING PUBLIC LEADERS SERIES On 06 and 07 March 2003, the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations will co-sponsor with the Center for Public Leadership a  conference entitled, "Leadership 2003: Developing Public Leaders."   The event will address such issues as: (1) how KSG is currently  developing public leaders; (2)what other institutions/programs are doing along similar lines; (3) how KSG can
evaluate the impacts and  outcomes of its various leadership development efforts; and (4) what KSG might do to help it better to realize its mission. (By  invitation only)

SPRING 2003 NONPROFIT SCHOLARS CONFERENCE Crisis of Governance: Implications for the Nonprofit/ Nongovernmental Sector will be held in Cambridge MA Thursday evening April 3rd through Friday, April 4th, 2003.

The conference will bring together a small group of leading critical
scholars 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 will have 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 us to re-examine the issue of governance and accountability of leadership in all three sectors: for-profit (Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, etc.), nonprofit (American Red Cross, Catholic Church), and government (departures of Pitt and Webster,  general state of campaign finance).  When elections and markets are not able to ensure credibility, can nonprofit and nongovernmental activities offer alternative methods for promoting accountability and trust in domestic and international settings or does the  nonprofit/nongovernmental sector simply present another instance of failing governance? What does and what should accountability mean for nonprofit organizations? How does this mirror and how depart from accountability for for-profit companies (publicly traded and not) and government (elected branches or not).

Speakers include: Derek Bok, The 300th Anniversary University Professor,  Harvard University President Emeritus, Faculty Chair, The Hauser Center; Nell Minow, Founder, The Corporate Library LLC; Evelyn Brody, Kent Law School; Sanjeev  Khagram, Kennedy School of Government; Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University; Reinier Kraakman, Harvard Law School; Carol Heimer, Northwestern University; Martha Minow, Harvard Law School; Robert Goodin, Australian National University; Peter Dobkin Hall, Kennedy School of Government; Archon Fung, Kennedy School of Government; and, Jane Mansbridge, Kennedy  School of Government.  

For further information, contact Sarah Alvord, Senior Program Officer at sarah_alvord@harvard.edu.

(By invitation only)

WORKING PAPERSThere are 6 new working papers for your perusal.

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People

Peter Dobkin Hall

In November, Peter Dobkin Hall and visiting scholar, Wellesley sociologist Peggy Levitt, presented papers to the panel "Discerning Globalization: Language, Identity, and Emergent Transnational Coalitions" to the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association in St. Louis.

In November, Hall presented two papers to panels at the annual research meeting of ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action) in Montreal. "Divergent and Conflicting Meanings of Congregational Development:  A Case Study of an Urban Parish in Transition," was presented to the Panel on the Practices of Congregational Development.  "Accountability in Faith-Based Organizations and the Future of Charitable Choice" was presented to the Panel on Understanding Accountability in Faith-Based Organizations."

Hall's book, The Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900: Institutions, Elites, and the Origins of American  Nationality, originally published in 1982, has been reissued by New York University Press.

Hall's essay, "The Welfare State and the Careers of Public and Private Institutions since 1945." has appeared in Lawrence J. Friedman & Mark D. McGarvie (eds.), Charity Philanthropy, and Civility in American History (Cambridge University Press, 2002). The essay originally appeared as a Hauser Center Working Paper.

Aykan Erdemir
In November, Aykan Erdemir presented two papers: "A Critical Reassessment of Anthropological Approaches to the Study of
Alevis" was presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the  Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) in Washington, D.C.

"Alternative Apocalyptic Narratives of the Alevi Religious Community in Turkey" was presented at the Seventh Annual Conference of  the Center for Millennial Studies, at Boston University.

Peter Frumkin/Elizabeth Keating
Peter Frumkin and Elizabeth Keating have written a paper published in the January/February edition of the Public Administration Review entitled: "Reengineering Nonprofit Financial Accountability: Toward a More Reliable Foundation for Regulation."

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