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E-News
November 2005
E-Newsletter
People in the News
Hauser Accolades
Spotlight on the Gleitsman Foundation 2006 Citizen Action Awards
WIEGO
In September 2004, UNIFEM (United
Nations Development Fund for Women) asked WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment:
Globalizing and Organizing) to write the 2005 issue of Progress of the
Worlds Women - UNIFEMs biennial flagship publication - on the topic of
Women, Work, and Poverty. Officially released at the United Nations on
September 16, 2005, to coincide with the Millennium Development Summit, the
publication focuses on employment, especially informal employment, as a key
pathway to reducing poverty and gender inequality. The publication covers
topics such as the totality of womens work, the linkages among the different
types of womens work (paid and unpaid, formal and informal), and how these
linkages tend to situate women in the more insecure forms of informal
employment. Also included are the latest data on the size and composition of
the informal economy in different regions and official national data on average
earnings and poverty risk across different segments of both the informal and
formal workers in several countries.
To read The Progress of
the Worlds Women 2005 in full, please
click here.
Advancing the Overhead Debate
Currently there is little agreement about whether the most prevalent overhead funding policies help or hurt nonprofit organizations. Nor is there a consensus about which non-programmatic costs foundations should fund. The Advancing the Overhead Debate Project responds to these problems. Having undertaken extensive fieldwork, Hauser Center faculty Elizabeth Keating is now running a series of roundtables on identifying, managing and funding overhead. The first roundtable was held September 23rd and focused on the nonprofit perspective. This project is funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
* A similar roundtable session
was held for foundations on October 28th and will be reported on in
the next edition of the Hauser Center E-News.
National Purpose, Local Action
Project
At the Sierra Club National Convention and Expo, held in San Francisco, CA from September 8-11, 2005, Hauser Center faculty Marshall Ganz presented the report and findings from the National Purpose, Local Action Project. The report, currently in publication, is the culmination of a two-year collaboration between Ganz, his research team, and the Sierra Club. Ganz also presented a Working Smart Session on What Affects Grassroots Effectiveness in which he described key elements for making an organization strong. For additional information, please refer to the Sierra Summit website.
In the interest of
space, the E-News does not included titles for Hauser faculty,
researchers or staff. For full titles and bios, please visit our
People pages.
Peter Dobkin Hall published an article on cultural
institutions in the
Encyclopedia of
New England. The Encyclopedia, released in August by
Yale University Press, is touted as an essential work,
the first to celebrate, document, and
interpret New Englands unique regional history and culture.
At the annual conference of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management,
The Communities We Serve: Building Capacity for Impact, held in
Chicago, IL from July 14-17th, 2005, Bill Ryan
participated in a plenary panel on nonprofit governance issues. At
the conference he also presented key findings and concepts of the
book Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Works of Nonprofit
Boards, co-authored with Richard P. Chait and Barbara E. Taylor.
For additional information, please refer to conference website,
click here.
On September 9th, 2005
Mark Moore presented his recently published monograph, Creating
Public Value through State and Arts Agencies at the National
Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) Annual Meeting, in Boise,
Idaho. Professor Moore was commissioned to write the monograph by
Arts Midwest in association with The Wallace Foundation as part of
the State Arts Partnerships for Cultural Participation (START)
Program. For additional information on the meeting and to view the
slides from the presentation, please visit the
annual conference
website here.
At the Global Governance 2005 Conference, which took place from May
29th to June 1, 2005 in Montral, Canada, David Brown
organized and facilitated a panel in collaboration with CIVICUS.
The panel, entitled Participation with Responsibility: Civil
Society Responses to Accountability and Legitimacy Challenge,
took place in two sessions on May 31st as a part of the
conference track Civil Society Participation: Opportunities and
Responsibilities. The report from the Conference, developed by the
conference conveners, the Montreal International Forum, was recently
released and includes a summary of the panel. The full
conference report can be found on the
g05
website.
Elizabeth Keating
is publishing The Single Audit Act: How Compliant are
Not-For-Profit Organizations? with Mary Fischer, Teresa P. Gordon
and Janet Greenlee. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and
Financial Management, 17(3), Fall 2005, 285-309.
In the August 31, 2005 edition of SF Gate, Marshall Ganz is featured in this story about the future of the Sierra Club, The Sierra Club at a Crossroads, in which he reflects on his research on social movements and the effectiveness of the Sierra Club. Link to the full text is here.
In the September 18, 2005 edition of
the Cape Cod Times, Christine Letts is quoted in the
story Donations Sparse for Cape Charities,
about the possibility of local charities
on Cape Cod being left out as people open their wallets for victims
of Hurricane Katrina.
On September 22, 2005 Peter Dobkin Hall participated in a discussion about the Red Cross and its response to Hurricane Katrina during NPR-affiliate KCRW radios (Los Angeles) To The Point show on Katrina: America's Worst Disaster and the American Red Cross. Click here for a link to full audio.
In the September 28, 2005 edition of The New York Sun, Marion-Fremont Smith is quoted in Watchdog Cites Failures at Charity, about Bill Clinton's charitable foundation which failed to meet at least 6 of 19 accountability standards established by the Better Business Bureau, according to a recent report from a watchdog group. A Link to full text is here.
The book Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Works of Nonprofit Boards, co-authored by Richard P. Chait, Bill Ryan, and Barbara E. Taylor has received several awards since its recent publication. The book received The John Gretzenbach Award for Outstanding Research in Philanthropy, awarded by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the Skystone Ryan Prize for Research from the Association of Fundraising Professionals, and Honorable Mention for the 2005 Virginia Hodgkinson Research Prize, awarded by The Independent Sector.
Marion Fremont-Smiths book Governing Nonprofit Organizations has won this years ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action) award for Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research. As the awarding organization states about the book: There are few books in the nonprofit field that stand as enduring landmarks: works outstanding for their deep knowledge, timeliness, and wisdom. Marion Fremont-Smiths Governing Nonprofit Organizations is unquestionably such a bookGoverning Nonprofit Organizations should be a required reference for any scholar who teaches about the nonprofit sector, and should be required reading for scholars from any discipline writing or teaching about nonprofits.
Spotlight On The Gleitsman Foundation
2006 Citizen Action Awards.
The Gleitsman Foundation Citizen Activist Award is designed to encourage individual commitment and leadership by recognizing the exceptional achievement of people who have initiated social change. The award recognizes activist efforts in the United States to confront, challenge and correct social injustice. As the Foundation begins its search for nominees for the 2006 Citizen Activist Award, they invite friends of the Hauser Center to become Nominators in the process and to advise them of those individuals whose efforts you feel should be recognized. Please note that the deadline to receive nominations from friends of the Hauser Center has been generously extended to November 11th, 2005.
Additional information about the award and the nomination form can be found on the Gleitsman website.
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