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E-News
June 2003
E-Newsletter
OUR SEPTEMBER EDITION OF THE E-NEWS WILL FEATURE UPCOMING EVENTS IN THE FALL. PLEASE STAY TUNED!
THE
BUILDING MOVEMENT PROJECT
The
Building Movement project is designed to explore
and challenge the expectations and assumptions of how US-based
social change nonprofit organizations operate today.
As its name suggests, the project also aims to encourage and
support these organizations' efforts in building larger momentum for
change. One initiative of Building movement is assembling a series
of case studies that look at how organizations can integrate
critical thinking into their internal processes.
Another project initiative is creating space for a group of service providers in Detroit to meet to discuss the state of social change work among social service agencies and develop ways they can integrate aspects of movement building into their work. The project will share that information on these and other activities and findings though publications, workshops, presentations at conferences, and on the projects website www.buildingmovement.org.
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
is convening an Executive Session on Faith-Based and Community
Approaches to Urban Revitalization for a group of thirty innovative
mayors, faith-based and community practitioners, and academics.
The exploration of these partnerships has resulted in
policy-based and leadership-based discussions and the group is
currently engaged in a phase of interaction, data collection,
writing. Policy-based
discussions include a case study on affordable housing, with
particular interest in Nashville, Dallas and Minneapolis; and a case
study on mentoring, using Amachi, a faith-based youth mentoring
program, as the focal model. The leadership-based discussion is
focused on identifying exemplary models, typologies, intellectual
issues, and strategic dilemmas in developing and
sustaining cross-sector partnerships in
a number of US cities. Working with the US Conference of Mayors (USCM),
one stream of this discussion is developing a mayors perspective,
another the perspective of faith and civic leaders to understand the
relationship between faith-based organizing initiatives and
governmental agencies. Significant learning will emerge as these
written products are brought together to generate cross-sector
dialogue among public administrators and help equip them for
effective collaboration with local faith communities.
The third meeting (by invitation only) of this Executive
Session is scheduled for October 2003.
For more information, please contact Anne Mathew,
Assistant Director of JPRPL, at anne_mathew@harvard.edu.
ANNOUNCING
THE NEW 2003-2005 HAUSER CENTER
DOCTORAL FELLOWS
The Hauser Center Doctoral Fellowship program
was launched in 1999 to support full-time research and dissertation
writing on the nonprofit sector. Up to five doctoral/advanced
degree candidates enrolled in a program at Harvard are selected each
year for a two-year residential fellowship.
The Center is pleased to announce the new cohort of fellows for the
2003-2005 academic years:
Warigia
Bowman (03-05), Kennedy School of Government, Public
Policy
Governance, Institutions and Infrastructurea study focusing
on how nonprofits work in inter-organizational collaborations to
promote the use of the Internet as a development tool in poor areas
in both
the United States and Africa.
Prabha Kotiswaran (03-05), Law School, Law
Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs: The Emergence of the Sex Workers
Movement in Indiaa study of the politics of prostitution law
reform in India in light of the emergence of the national sex
workers movement and its demands that sex work be treated as a
form of labor.
Jonathan Laurence (03-05), Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, Government
Empty Seats and High Chairs at the Table of the Republic:
Religious Communities and the State in Western Europea study
combining theory-building of the liberal nation-state in an age of
global migration and how religious organizations and
state-church policies can facilitate political harmony.
Moria Paz (03-05), Law
School, Law
Jewish Transnationalism at the Fin de Sieclea project
addressing the relationship between transnational groups and state
power from an historical, cultural perspective by focusing on the
case study of several movements within the Jewish diaspora in Europe
between 1880 and 1930.
Maple Razsa (03-05), Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, Anthropology
There is no War Between Nations, There is no Peace Between
Classes: Transnational Activism in the Wake of Yugoslaviaa
study addressing the struggles of those participating in civil
initiatives in the former Yugoslavia, emphasizing the importance of
articulating anti-nationalist sentiment in contesting the dominate
vision of Serbia.
INTERNATIONAL
ADVOCACY NGOS WORKSHOP
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen
Participation, Transparency International (TI) and the Hauser Center
hosted a two-and-a-half day meeting of chief executives from
transnational advocacy organizations and networks to explore the
kinds of challenges such organizations face in the new century.
The meeting was held in Berlin, Germany from June 19th
through the 21st, 2003. Three
Hauser Center principalsDave
Brown, Sanjeev Khagram, and Srilatha Batliwalafacilitated
the workshop. Representatives
from twenty one INGOs attended including Oxfam International,
International Alliance of Indigenous Tribal Peoples of the Tropical
Forests, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN),
Survival International, Save the Children International, Association
of Womens Rights and Development, Plan International,
International Rivers Network, Global Witness, World Vision
International, Earthrights International, and Action Aid Alliance.
This workshop was supported by funding from the Bertelsmann
Foundation, Ashoka Innovators for the Public, the William &
Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Atlantic Philanthropies.
The workshop was proposed as the first in a series of forums with leaders of transnational civil society organizations to reflect on issues they define as critical in a complex and changing world. From a long list of issues, participants decided to explore in more depth the issues of legitimacy, transparency and accountability, and later in the workshop small groups discussed challenges posed by the WTO, relations with corporations, and relations with the UN as arenas for multilateral or unilateral decision-making. A brief report on the workshop will be made available this summer. For more information on the workshop series, please contact Erin Belitskus, Faculty Assistant to Dave Brown, at the Hauser Center, erin_belitskus@ksg.harvard.edu.
THE
HAUSER CENTER
GLOBALIZATION WORKSHOP
This multi-disciplinary group of faculty and
students from Harvard and nearby institutions completed its second
and final year of monthly meetings. During the meetings, members of
the group presented their work and explored the conceptual and
methodological problems encountered by researchers studying global
and transnational phenomena. Convened by Hauser principal Peter
Dobkin Hall and Hauser Center visiting scholar, Wellesley
sociologist Peggy Levitt, the workshop laid the groundwork
for a new project on the meanings of global identity. The workshop
was co-sponsored and supported by the Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs at Harvard.
THE PHILANTHROPY CLASSICS ACCESS PROJECT This project plans to produce on-line reissues of important books and articles that are no longer in print. Each republished work will include an introduction by a leading scholar reviewing its significance in the evolution of our understanding of philanthropy, nonprofits, and related issues. Organized by Peter Dobkin Hall and philanthropy scholar Richard Magat, the project has received initial funding from the Surdna Foundation.
THE
ART AND SCIENCE
OF COMMUNITY PROBLEM-SOLVING PROJECT LAUNCHES INNOVATIVE ONLINE
RESOURCE
Hauser Center principal Xavier de Souza
Briggs, Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, has
just launched www.community-problem-solving.net,
an on-line strategy resource for people
and institutions worldwide. With seed support from the Hauser Center
and additional investments by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and
Rockefeller Foundation, the Art
and Science of Community Problem-Solving
Project aims to help practitioners, trainers, investors, and other
supports of community change "make new mistakes." The site
provides easy access to a variety of original strategy tools for
problem-solving across the sectors--public, private, and
nonprofit/non-governmental. It also offers links to effective
practice in many program areas (housing, education, environment,
public safety, health, etc.), a Learning Community for peer
exchange, and a creator's log (weblog) to narrate the site and
communicate with users as the Project evolves. Harvard's Robert
Putnam, author of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of
Community in America and a Hauser Center Faculty Fellow, says,
"Communities worldwide are struggling to create the civic
capacity that's essential for tackling social problems and making
the future brighter. Xav Briggs is re-writing the rulebook on how to
think about and practice
community leadership in a changing world." And Chris Gates,
President of the National Civic League, adds, "As leaders in
government, business, and the nonprofit sector look to re-define
community building and democracy for a new age, there is a shortage
of roadmaps for getting the job done. These tools are must-have's
for the catalytic leadership we really need. Based on Xav Briggs'
well regarded classes and training programs at Harvard, the tools
offer straight talk on the power and
potential of problem-solving
at the local level."
WORKING
PAPERS
New Hauser Center working paper. (All
papers can be downloaded for free through the Center's
website.)
Working
Paper No. 19 " Democratic Accountability: The Third Sector and
All" by Robert E. Goodin
SRILATHA
BATLIWALA
In May, Civil Society Research
Fellow, Srilatha Batliwala, and her research assistant, Sarah
Titus, traveled to Serbia to meet with NGOs and activists
working on behalf of the rights of the Roma people. While there,
Batlwala and Titus interviewed NGO leaders and staff about the
current state of organizing, leadership development, and
programmatic activities (on topics ranging from education, to health
care, to women's issues and youth development). The Hauser Center
team was particularly interested in efforts to coordinate work on
behalf of the rights of Roma at the international level. The purpose
of the trip was to gather information about the Roma movement for
possible inclusion in a book that Batliwala is writing about
transnational grassroots movements that the Kumarian press plans to
publish in the spring of 2004. One of the highlights of the trip was
Batliwala and Titus' appearance on Serbian TV where they were
interviewed about their research and their impressions of the work
on Roma rights currently happening in the former Yugoslavia.
JULIA
BERGER
Julia Berger presented her latest
research on the evolving role of international religious NGOs (RNGOs)
at a meeting of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United
Nations. The consultation titled, "Enhancing the Partnership
Between Faith and Ethics-Based NGOs at the United Nations," was
organized in preparation for the Committee's submission of
recommendations for enhancing RNGO-UN partnerships to the Panel of
Eminent Persons on United Nations Relations with Civil Society,
recently appointed by the UN Secretary General.
DEREK
BOK
Derek Bok's latest book, "Universities in
the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education" was
recently published by Princeton University Press.
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."
MARTHA
CHEN
Martha Chen recently gave presentations at the
World Bank (Washington, DC), International Development Research
Centre (Ottawa, ON), the Canadian International Development Agency
(Ottawa, ON), the Ford Foundation (New
York, NY) and the Interamerican Development Bank (Washington DC).
Her presentations focused on the broadening of the definition of the
informal economy, as well as the policy initiatives and policy
framework of the global research-policy network, Women in Informal
Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO).
Chen has been asked to serve as a visiting professor at the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) Academy, in Ahmedabad, India. In celebration of SEWA's 30th anniversary, she is working on a project with SEWA's research staff to synthesize the numerous research studies conducted throughout the union's history. Themes of the project include history, membership, union structure, and impact.
MARION
FREMONT-SMITH
Marion Fremont-Smith's latest book Governing
Nonprofit Organizations: Federal and State Law and Regulation will
be published in the spring of 2004 by The Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press.
Fremont-Smith spoke on "The Challenge of For-Profit Health Care Conversions" on June 18th at the 2nd Annual Partnership Conference on Public Health Law: The Public's Health in the 21st Century, sponsored jointly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
PETER
FRUMKIN
Peter Frumkin delivered a new paper
entitled "American Philanthropic Foundations and Overseas
Funding: New Challenges in the Era of Globalization" at a
conference at the Rockefeller Archives Center on June 7.
Frumkin moderated a panel on foundation payout policy at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC on June 17. The panel featured Dorothy Ridings of the Council on Foundations, Rick Cohen of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, and Congressman Roy Blunt, who has proposed a reform to foundation payout regulations.
PETER
DOBKIN HALL
Peter
Dobkin Hall served as a participant-speaker at the Kennedy School of
Government Bridge-Builders Conference February 9, 2003. This was a
student organized conference intended to bring grassroots leaders
from around the world into dialogue with the Harvard community. As
part of the visiting leaders' orientation, Hall presented an
illustrated talk on Harvard's role in the transformation of the
United States from a developing to an advanced industrial
nation.
Hall served as a panelist at the Commonwealth Forum, "Innovation and Economy: The Role of the Nonprofit Sector in Tight Fiscal Times," in Boston on March 7. Moderated by Tufts government professor James Jennings, the panel included Paul Grogan (Boston Foundation), Joanne Jaxitmer (Corporate Affairs-Mellon New England), and Ronald Preston (Secretary Massachusetts Department of Health & Human Services). The panel reviewed the impact of devolution and privatization on the state's public and nonprofit social service agencies and gave particular attention to problems relating to tax policy and the resources available to provide essential services.
Hall recently presented his paper entitled "Learning to Be Civic: Higher Education and Student Life at Harvard and Yale, 1890-1940" at the Kennedy School of Government Faculty Research Seminar.
In the spring term, Hall introduced a new course on the governance of nonprofit organizations (NPS 203). The course surveyed the nature of nonprofit corporations, charitable trusts, and membership associations as self-governing bodies, internal and external mechanisms of accountability, and the behavior, social, and ethical dimensions of board governance. The course will be offered as a module in the fall 2003 term.
Over the past year, Hall has created a Documentary History of Philanthropy and Voluntarism in America website. The site features free downloadable edited primary documents with interpretive texts and bibliographies.
Hall's
recent publications include the following:
"Evaluation Research in Foundations," in Philanthropy and
Evaluation: Expanding Use, Marc Braverman & Edward Pauly (eds.)
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, forthcoming)
"A Historical Overview of Philanthropy, Voluntary Associations, and Nonprofit Organizations in the United States, 1600-2000," in Walter W. Powell & Richard Steinberg (eds.), The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook - Second Edition (New Haven: Yale University Press, in press).
"Historical Statistics of the United States Chapter on Voluntary, Nonprofit, and Religious Entities and Activities: Underlying Concepts, Concerns, and Opportunities" (with Colin B. Burke), Hauser Center Working Paper #14. Historical Statistics of the United States, for which this essay and statistical sets were prepared, is in press and is scheduled to appear in January 2004.
ELIZABETH
KEATING
Elizabeth Keating is the newly elected
Treasurer of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations
and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).
FRANCES
KUNREUTHER
On June 20, Frances Kunreuther was
joined by colleagues from Third Sector New England and HACBED (of
Hawaii) to present "Field Building for Social Justice," a
workshop at the Alliance for Nonprofit Management annual conference,
held this year in Houston. The presentation was greeted with much
enthusiasm as participants discussed traditional capacity building,
social movements, field building and the more broad and ambitious
goal of field building for social justice. Participants expressed
interest in exchanging notes and continuing the discussion over
email, with the possibility of convening again in the future.
CHRISTINE
LETTS/DAVE BROWN
This year's KSG student Spring Exercise
focused on the potential roles of NGOs in the reconstruction of
Afghanistan. Christine Letts was on the team that organized and
managed the event, and Dave Brown provided input to the student
teams on the potential development roles of NGOs.
ORLY
LOBEL
Orly Lobel participated in the Annual
Law and Society Association Meeting, June 4-7 in Pittsburgh, where
she gave two presentations, one entitled "The Paradox of
Extra-Legal Activism: Critical Legal Consciousness and
Trasnformative Politics", and the second, "Cross-Sector
Collaboration for Workforce Development in an Era of
Privatization."
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