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May 2002

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Upcoming Events

Hauser Center Conference Room

Sponsored by the Program on Philanthropy, Civil Society and Social Change in the Americas (PASCA)

Felipe Portocarrero Suarez, Director, Research Center of the Universidad del Pacifico (CIUP), Lima, Peru

To RSVP for this event, contact Avedis Koutoujian, 617-384-7700 or email: akoutou@ksg.harvard.edu

Development Aid: Building Just partnerships in Civil Society Hauser Center Conference Room

Shobha Raghuram, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos), Bangalore, India and Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

RSVP not required. For more information, please contact Sarah Titus at sarah_titus@harvard.edu

Performance Measurement is a new executive education program developed to enable leaders of nonprofit organizations to use performance measurement to help their organizations enhance their ability to achieve their mission. Specifically, the program is intended to help participants look at how the strategic use of performance measurement can improve key areas of management concern, such as resource allocation, learning, internal processes, and external accountability. Performance Measurement was developed by Harvard Business School's Initiative on Social Enterprise and the Hauser Center. 

Christine Letts, Rita E. Hauser Lecturer in the Practice of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, Kennedy School, and Associate Director, Hauser Center, is among the Harvard faculty teaching in this program. 

For more information, please CLICK HERE 

KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT (KSG) ALUMNI REFRESHER

The Hauser Center is one of three centers participating in the upcoming KSG Alumni Professional Refresher 2002 "Leading in a New Era: Keep Your Edge in a World Without Walls." The Refresher is being held in Cambridge and is anticipated to draw approximately 600 alumni. Hauser Center faculty and researchers conducting learning sessions at the event include: Xavier de Souza Briggs, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, David Brown, Lecturer in Public Policy, and Associate Director for International Programs, Lincoln Chen, Visiting Scholar, Global Equity Initiative, Marshall Ganz, Lecturer in Public Policy, Sanjeev Khagram, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Mark Moore, Director, William Ryan, Research Fellow. 

For more information, please CLICK HERE 

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Activities

GRAND OPENING OF THE HAUSER CENTER READING ROOM

On April 26th, the Hauser Center's advisory board, faculty and staff hosted a reception for members of the KSG community to celebrate the opening of the Center's new reading room. To make the core literature on nonprofits more conveniently accessible, the Center has created the non-circulating reference collection at its offices at 5 Bennett Street. This collection includes current journals and periodicals, classic and newly-published monographs and edited volumes, and working papersincluding the complete Yale/Program on Non-Profit Organizations working papers and Cases in Nonprofit Governance series. 

For more information, please CLICK HERE 

GREATER BOSTON PRACTITIONER ENGAGEMENT SEMINAR 

High Engagement Philanthropy: Filling the Performance Gap

On April 23rd, Christine W. Letts and William P. Ryan, Research Fellow, Hauser Center, presented their learnings so far from a three-year, nationwide study on high engagement philanthropy. Approximately forty-five practitioners, mostly from local foundations, attended the seminar. 

For more information, please CLICK HERE 

DIALOGUE ON SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

Alliances for Change: The Social Value of Collaboration

Supported in part by the Hauser Center and organized jointly by student groups at the Kennedy and Business Schools, the Dialogue on Social Enterprise was held on April 20th. The event drew approximately 250 participants, including students, social entrepreneurs, and others. 

For more information, please visit: sa.hbs.edu/social

8TH ANNUAL HARVARD INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE

The Hauser Center again co-sponsored the annual Harvard International Development Conference held April 12 to 13th at the KSG. The Conference was organized by students from the Kennedy and Business Schools, as well as the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and MIT. 

For more information, please CLICK HERE 

GLOBALIZING WHAT?

The Hauser Center's new Global Equity Initiative co-sponsored its first ARCO Forum event on April 4th. Entitled "Globalizing What?" the event featured Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economic Science, and Research Fellow at the Global Equity Initiative.

LEADERSHIP 2002

The Hauser Center, along with the Center for Public Leadership and the Center for Business and Government, held the Kennedy School's first research conference on leadership from March 14 to 15th. Dedicated to narrowing the gap between leadership scholarship on the one hand, and education and practice on the other, the conference featured eminent scholars, educators, and leaders. Click here for a copy of the agenda. The three centers have agreed to collaborate on a follow up research conference next year.

BUILDING MOVEMENT IN(to) THE NONPROFIT SECTOR

The Building Movement In(to) the Nonprofit Sector project at the Hauser Center is gathering information about the impact of 'homeland security' on social change groups and nonprofit organizations. A brief questionnaire was created both to find out how the post-911 climate is affecting groups and to educate nonprofit staff and volunteers about the USA PATRIOT Act. Building Movement has also come out with a Concept Paper outlining the project's progress to date. 

For more information, please CLICK HERE

SECOND HAUSER CENTER NONPROFIT SECTOR CAREER NIGHT

On March 5th, the Hauser Center hosted its second Nonprofit Sector Career Night for Harvard graduate students. The event focused on "Nonprofit Leaders and Managers" and attracted approximately 50 students from Harvard's Kennedy, Business, Education and Divinity Schools. The event was led by three KSG alumni who are now nonprofit leaders and managers: Rosemarie Boardman, MPA '99, Director of Finance and Operations, Health Care for All, Brett Peiser, MPP '96, Principal/Founder, South Boston Harbor Academy Charter School, Andrew H. McLeod, MPA2 '91, Director, National Conservation Finance, Trust for Public Land. Christine Letts facilitated the event. 

For more information, please CLICK HERE 

WALKING THE CIVIC TALK AFTER SEPTEMBER 11

Walking the Civic Talk after September 11, written by Thomas H. Sander and Robert D. Putnam, was featured in the February 19th issue of the Christian Science Monitor. The Op-Ed describes the result of Putnam's social capital study, funded in part by the Hauser Center, that attempts to gauge how much September 11th transformed our values and civic habits in October and November 2001. 

For the full text of the article, please CLICK HERE

TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY

Srilatha Batliwala and Dave Brown attended the International Society for Third Sector Research/Voluntas/University of Bergen Workshop and Symposium on "Transnational Third Sector Research: Reviewing the Past, Understanding the Present and Charting the Future," held in Bergen, Norway, May 2 to 4. This workshop is the third in a series of discussions of transnational civil society launched by the Hauser Center's Building a Civil Society Action Learning Network conference held in January 2001, and continued at the Centre for Civil Society Studies at the London School of Economics in June 2001. It is expected that these explorations will continue in several streams of Hauser Center work in the future.

HAUSER CENTER DOCTORAL FELLOWS

The Hauser Center is pleased to announce its new cohort of Doctoral Fellows. The two-year residential fellowships were awarded to the following doctoral/advanced degree candidates who are enrolled in a program at Harvard and are engaged in major research or are writing a dissertation on a nonprofit sector topic.

Aykan Erdemir, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology & Middle Eastern Studies, "Anthropological Study of Alevi Nonprofit Organization"

Orly Lobel, Law School, "Regulating Coexistence in the New Economy: Nonprofit Human Service Providers as Competitive Labor Market Intermediaries"

Sarah Robinson, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology, "Private and Public Forces in an Environmental Crisis: An Ethnography of Attempts to Regulate Fish and Fishman in Gloucester, MA"

Saubhagya Shah, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology, "Before Revolution, Beyond Resistance: Identity, Agency and Efficacy in Rural Women's Movement in Nepal"

Lily Tsai, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Government, "Cadres, Community Institutions and Governance in Rural China"

The Center also congratulates its outgoing cohort of Doctoral Fellows for their hard work and contribution of valuable new scholarship on the nonprofit sector. Four Fellows have already or will soon defend their dissertations and have accepted new positions, two others will continue to work on their dissertations and will defend within the coming year.

Irene Bloemraad, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Sociology, "An Institutional Approach to the Political Incorporation of Immigrants."

Martine Haas, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences/Business School, Organizational Behavior, "Knowledge at Work: A Study of Project Teams in an International Development Organization." Martine has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.

Jill Horwitz, Health Policy, "Not-for-profit Hospitals and Corporate Form." Jill has accepted a post-doctoral fellowship in health economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge.

Gabriel Kaplan, Kennedy School of Government, Public Policy, "Between Politics and Markets: The Institutional Allocation of Resources in Higher Education." Gabriel has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado at Denver.

Mark Kim, Kennedy School of Government, Public Policy, "A Theory of Nonprofit Signaling." Mark has accepted a position as Associate at the Municipal Securities Group, UBS PaineWebber

Kristin Goss, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Government, "Firing Blanks: Why Americans Want More Gun Control But Haven't Organized to Demand It."

Fellowship brochure and application materials may be downloaded from www.ksg.harvard.edu/hauser/education/docfellows.htm

For more information, please contact Sarah Alvord, Program Manager, at 617-495-7576 or email: sarah_alvord@harvard.edu

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People

GABRIELE BAMMER, Research Fellow

Gabriele, a visiting New Century Fulbright Fellow from Australia, worked with Srilatha Batliwala, Dave Brown, Sarah Alvord, and Jessica Prusakowski to organize an afternoon workshop May 6th on Engaging Practitioners: Exploring Effective Methods. Gabriele interviewed researchers from many research centers on their approaches to work with practitioners, and provided a comparative analysis to kick off intense discussions of the dynamics of constructive engagement. Participants agreed that further exploration of these issues is central to the Hauser Center's work at the intersection of research and practice.

SRILATHA BATLIWALA, Research Fellow

On April 19th, Srilatha delivered the David Kinsey Memorial Dialogue Lecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Nearly 100 students, faculty and residents attended her lecture on "Contesting for Global Space - Grassroots Movements." She also gave a seminar at the UMass Center for International Education on "For-Profit Nonprofit Partnerships: the case of the CITIBANK-SPARC experience in India." The seminar was attended by about 25 students and faculty of the Center for International Education.

DAVID BROWN, Associate Director for International Programs, Hauser Center; Lecturer in Public Policy, KSG

Dave and Srilatha are coordinating the track on "Practice Research Engagement for Social Transformation" at the Fifth International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) in Cape Town, South Africa July 7 to 10th. The title of the Conference is "Transforming Civil Society, Citizenship and Governance: The Third Sector in an Era of Global (Dis)Order."

Dave gave a presentation on "Mutual Accountability and International NGOs" at the Yale Program on Nonprofit Organizations Seminar on April 16th. This presentation grew out of the Center's ongoing project on Accountability and International NGOs, now expected to continue for a second year with support from the Sasakawa Peace Foundation.

At the request of KSG students planning to do internships in the developing world this summer, Dave helped organize and facilitate a workshop on "Making the Most of Cross-Cultural Catastrophes" to examine the challenges of working effectively across cultural differences.

MARION FREMONT-SMITH

Marion, along with Jill Horwitz, was a guest lecturer this semester in Martha Minow's new Seminar: Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard Law School.

Marion and Jill also ran a one-time session this spring about starting a nonprofit for KSG students.

PETER FRUMKIN, Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Peter received a grant from the PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government to undertake research on the merger and consolidation of public sector agencies and departments. Working with Abt Associates, Peter will also be the principal investigator on a major new evaluation of City Year's corporate and nonprofit partnerships to be carried out over the next three years. He has also received a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation to develop a theory of charter school entrepreneurship.

Peter will speak at the Urban Institute May 16 on "Who cares about nonprofit performance?"

MARSHALL GANZ, Lecturer in Public Policy, KSG

Marshall's PAL177, Organizing: People, Power and Change, has been selected as one of 10 courses on political engagement to be the subject of a 3-year study sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The study will focus on ways to improve the teaching of civic engagement, public leadership, and political action.

Marshall, together with PhD student Lisa Boes, conducted a leadership training session on April 4th for undergraduates from around the state for the Massachusetts Campus Compact, a consortium of colleges and universities engaged in service learning, public service, and community action program.

Marshall co-hosted a visit to the KSG on April 5th by Antonio Villaraigosa, former speaker of the California Assembly, and candidate for mayor of Los Angeles. Although Villaraigosa narrowly missed being elected the first Latino mayor of LA, he remains active in crafting a multi-racial politics in America's most diverse city.

Marshall moderated a panel on April 6th entitled "Who Represents Latino Interests" for the Latino Law and Public Policy Conference at Harvard Law School. Participants included practitioners and scholars from the fields of law, public health, education, labor, and business.

Marshall moderated a panel entitled "Toward a Multiracial Politics" at the ARCO Forum on April 19th focused on the recent book by Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres, the Miner's Canary. In addition to the authors, participants included youth leaders of color from Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angles and Boston, grappling with moving beyond a politics of identity even as race remains a defining contour of American politics.

On May 17th, at a UCLA Conference on Union Research, Marshall will be presenting the first of three papers to come out of his Union Leadership Project, a longitudinal study of leadership development from 1984 to 2001. This paper focuses on who left, who stayed, and why. Others will address questions of who moved up, who didn't, and why; and what influences the shape of the leadership development pathways that are available. His coauthors are Kim Voss, Sociology Department, UC Berkeley, and George Strauss, Industrial Relations Institute, UC Berkeley. The research is funded by the UC Institute on Labor Education, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the KSG Center for Public Leadership.

Marshall will serve as a discussant on a panel on organizing and schools as part of the Graduate School of Education's conference on community education on May 22.

PETER DOBKIN HALL, Lecturer in Public Policy, KSG

Peter was a presenter, with Colin Burke, on "Historical Statistics on Voluntary Associations, Nonprofit Organizations, and Religious Entities and Activities: Challenges and Opportunities," at the Social Science Research Council Conference on Data Resources and Research on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector in Washington, DC October 4, 2001.

At the History of Education Society Annual Meeting in New Haven, CT October 19 to 21, 2001, Peter was a Discussant at the panel on "Yale's Reports of 1828: Origins, Text, and Context," presented on "The Cemetery as an Educational Institution: New Haven's Grove Street Cemetery," and was Chair and Discussant of the panel on "Philanthropy and Education: John D. Rockefeller and Edwin R. Embree."

Peter presented "Learning to Be Civic: Higher Education and Student Life at Harvard and Yale, 1890-1940," at the Panel on Educating Leaders: Higher Education and Civic Elites, 1870-1970 during the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL, November 2001.

New publications:

Historical Perspectives on Religion, Government, and Social Welfare Policy, in Andrew Walsh (ed.), Can Charitable Choice Work? Covering Religion's Impact on Urban Affairs and Social Services, Hartford, CT: Pew Program on Religion and the News Media, The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College.

Inventing the Nonprofit Sector and Other Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations, Paperback Edition. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

SANJEEV KHAGRAM, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, KSG

New publication:

Sanjeev Khagram, James Riker and Kathryn Sikkink (eds.), Restructuring World Politics: The Power of Transnational Social Movements, Networks and Norms, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

FRANCES KUNREUTHER, Fellow for Practitioner Engagement

Frances is presenting at an all day executive directors forum on "Managing for Social Change" at the Third Sector New England Conference on May 13th. She is also presenting at their closing plenary "Zooming In: A Provocative Look Forward" on May 14th.

Frances will present to the Capacity Building for Social Justice group at the Alliance/National Council of Nonprofit Associations conference in June.

CHRISTINE LETTS, Associate Director, Hauser Center; Rita E. Hauser Lecturer in the Practice of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, KSG

Chris attended the plenary meeting of the International Network on Strategic Philanthropy (INSP) March 20th to 23rd in Heidelberg, Germany. She is Coordinator of INSP's Working Group II on "Organizational and Governance Structures in Philanthropic Institutions." Working Group II met for the second time during the plenary meeting in Germany.

Chris was asked to be the inaugural Heloise Waislitz Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Philanthropy and Social Investment at Swinburne University in Australia. The new fellowship is specifically directed at bringing to Australia, on behalf of the Centre, a leading figure in the study and teaching of philanthropy and social investment.

Chris will speak on "Philanthropy's New Agenda" at the Third Annual Symposium for Nonproft Professionals at The Axelasom Center for Nonprofit Management at North Park University, Chicago, IL on May 15th.

Chris will speak at the the 10th Annual Georgia Nonprofit Summit on June 19th.

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