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E-News
November 2007
This edition of the Hauser Center E-News highlights activities and events from
September - October 2007.
Spotlight on
"WIEGO Turns 10"
In April 1997, a group of ten experts on
the informal economy - activists, practitioners, researchers, and
statisticians met at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference
Center in Bellagio, Italy to discuss how to better support the working
poor, especially women, in the informal economy. That meeting gave
"birth" to the research-policy network
called Women and Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO).
For the past ten years, the Hauser Center has been the home of the WIEGO
Secretariat. Based at the Secretariat, Marty Chen, who also teaches at
the Kennedy School, is the international coordinator, Suzanne Van Hook
is the financial manager, and Beth Graves is the administrator of WIEGO.
Over the past decade, WIEGO has grown in size, capacity, and
reputation.
The WIEGO network was formalized in 2006 with the adoption of the
governance and accountability structure mandated in its Constitution and
now has 120 Institutional and Individual Members from 30 countries.
Among its achievements, WIEGO has: developed expertise and a set of activities in three
policy areas - trade, urban policies, and social protection as they
relate to the informal workforce; collaborated with the UN
statistical community, and national statistical services, to develop an
expanded definition and related methods to fully capture all forms of
informality in labor force and other economic statistics; worked
closely with organizations of informal workers to help strengthen their
policy analysis and advocacy capacity; and been able to advance the
conceptual and empirical understanding of the informal economy and has
developed several new conceptual and methodological
frameworks that provide fresh insights into both the multi-segmented
nature of labor markets and the links between informal employment,
poverty, and gender inequality.
WIEGO marked its tenth anniversary with a series of strategic review and
planning retreats: a retreat of the Steering Committee and donor
representatives in May 2007, a research retreat of key researchers in
the network in July 2007, and a staff retreat in October 2007. For more details,
see
www.wiego.org and the June 2007
WIEGO e-newsletter.
The following programs are collaborations between the Kennedy
School of Government Executive Education program and affiliates of the
Hauser Center:
Community Problem-Solving: Skills for Civic
Leadership
This program, held March 3-6, 2008, teaches teams of community
leaders the skills they need to effect deep change. The program is
designed by Harvard Universitys John F. Kennedy School of Government
and the Community Problem-Solving Project at MITs Department of Urban
Studies and Planning. Community Problem-Solving is for key
decision makers from community-based organizations, public agencies,
faith-based organizations, elected offices, and businesses including
board members, CEOs, outreach and advocacy directors, and corporate
social responsibility liaisons. Participants will learn both
practical skills and theoretical frameworks that will strengthen their
ability to exercise effective civic leadership together. Faculty
include Xavier de Souza Briggs, Marty Linsky, and Linda Kaboolian.
For more information visit the
program website.
Strategic Management for Leaders of
Non-Governmental Organizations
This program, held March 25-29, 2008, is designed and taught by
Harvard faculty and researchers and offered at the Athens Information
Technology institute (AIT) in Athens, Greece, in collaboration with the
Kokkalis Foundation and the Middle East Initiative at Harvard. The program is designed to give NGO leaders from
Southeastern and Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the
Middle East the tools, perspectives, and frameworks needed to strengthen
their organizations, engage constituent communities, and cultivate
long-term partnerships and commitments. The program will be chaired by
Christine Letts and faculty include Dave Brown and Bill
Ryan. For more information visit the
program website.
Strategic Frameworks for Nonprofit/Nongovernmental Organizations
This is a 10-week distance learning
program from March 10-May 16, 2008, for leaders of nonprofits and NGOs
in the developing world. The program consists of five (5) two-week
modules on topics including strategy frameworks, mission statements,
portfolio management, marketing, and strategic positioning.
Participants will apply concepts developed at the Kennedy School to
challenges facing their individual organizations using electronic
workbooks and moderated discussion boards where they will share their
experiences and gain insights from other leaders around the globe. Each
two-week module will culminate in a live discussion with faculty chair
Christine Letts. For more information visit the
program
website.
Performance Measurement for Effective Management
of Nonprofit Organizations
Developed jointly by Harvard Business Schools
Social Enterprise Initiative and Harvard Universitys Hauser Center for
Nonprofit Organizations.
This program, held June 16-19, 2008, is designed to show nonprofit leaders
how to use performance measurement to enhance the effectiveness of their
organization. The program covers a range of approaches that address the
specific performance challenges facing executives in the nonprofit
world. The program is designed for senior executives and other leaders
of nonprofit organizations around the world who are committed to
implementing effective performance measurement and management in their
organizations. The faculty chairs are Christine Letts and
Allen Grossman, and faculty include James Honan and Nava Ashraf.
For more information visit the
program website.
Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of
Nonprofit Boards
This program is offered from June 19-20, 2008, in conjunction with the
Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit
Organizations program. Senior executives who are seeking
innovative ways to tap into the full array of talent and energy within
their boards will find this new governance approach illuminating and
practical. Faculty include Bill Ryan. For more
information visit the program
website.
Dave Brown and Kirsten Lundberg developed and
delivered a workshop on teaching and writing cases September 1-3rd for
approximately 25 faculty of Chinese universities at the Center for Civil
Society Studies at Beijing University. Brown then spent several more days
working with faculty at the Center on the design of a distance learning
partnership for executive education, faculty capacity building, joint
research and conferences to strengthen Chinese civil society
organizations, to be funded by the Sun Culture Foundation over the next
three years.
The 17th Emerging Issues in Philanthropy Seminar was held on
September 7th in Washington, D.C., entitled "IRS Form 990 Redesign."
The seminar is part of a series of seminars co-sponsored with The
Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute and
Marion Fremont-Smith on behalf of the Hauser Center. At the
seminar, over 60 attendees, including representatives from the Internal
Revenue Service and the Congress as well as from sector organizations,
practitioners and scholars, explored changes proposed by the IRS to the
Form 990 - which are likely to have a substantial impact on core
nonprofit policy issues - and provided comments to the IRS before
changes are finalized.
On September 10th, Marshall Ganz met with Presiding Episcopal
Bishop Kathryn Jeffries and President of the Episcopal House of Deputies
Bonnie Anderson to plan the Episcopal Public Narrative Project.
The project will train Episcopal deputies to run four workshops (ones
own calling, shared calling, call to action, and putting it all
together) over the course of the 9-day national convention. Deputy
teams will return to their Diocese with the mission of teaching how to
do what they have learned to do at the convention.
The Hauser Center held its annual
Student Open House on September 10th to introduce students to the
faculty and researchers affiliated with the Center, discuss the courses
they are teaching and research they are developing, and familiarize
students with the resources available at the Center.
Robert Putnam presented at the first in a series of Hauser Center
10-Year Anniversary Seminars on September 13th on "American
Grace: The Changing Contribution of Religion to American Civic Life."
On September 19th, Marshall Ganz spoke to "The Momentum Program:
Changing Negotiation Leadership Culture in the Former Soviet Union," a
negotiation workshop for a group of Georgians and South Ossetians
organized by Mercy Corps.
Gabriele Bammer co-organized and attended a one-day workshop on
"Knowledge Brokering" in Sydney, Australia on September 21st. The
workshop brought together nonprofit groups, policy makers and
researchers to discuss how research informs policy and practice in the
areas of child and youth health, development and wellbeing.
Marie Besanon joined the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC as a Public Policy
Scholar from October-December, working on the project "Ending the
Institution of War in the Sudan."
Marty Chen
participated in and made a presentation at a UN Expert Group Meeting on
the priority theme of the forty-sixth session of the Commission for
Social Development entitled "Full Employment and Decent Work for All" on
October 2-4th at the United Nations in New York City.
Peter Dobkin Hall presented a Kennedy School Faculty Research
Seminar entitled "The Decline,
Transformation, and Revival of the Christian Right in the United States,"
on
October 3rd.
Christopher Winship presented at the second in a series of Hauser Center 10-Year Anniversary Seminars on October 4th on "Taking the Measure of the Voluntary Sector."
On October 10th, Marshall Ganz and Richard Parker spoke at the Boston Theological Institutes (BTI) Annual Dinner and Lecture. The topic of the talk was "Advancing the 'Beloved Community' People, Power and Change," and focused on building community in the 21st century. Ganz and Parker were presented with BTIs Social Justice Award at this occasion.
As part of the Nonprofit Governance and Accountability Project and The Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative 2007-2008 Seminar Series "Problems and Prospects in Nonprofit Governance," Dutch Leonard presented on October 10th about "What is a Multi-Governed Organization? And Why Should We Care?"
Students from La Sierra University in California won the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) National Championships (World Cup 2007) for their Darfur community development project administered through the American Sudanese Partnerships, a nonprofit organization run by Marie Besanon. The competition and awards took place October 10-12th in New York City.
Marty Chen was the keynote speaker at the Asia Society in New York City on the topic of widows in India after a showing of a new film, entitled "White Rainbow," on contemporary Indian widows on October 11th. Chen also chaired and spoke on a panel on "Making Ends Meet: Urbanization and Womens Livelihoods" at the annual summit of the American India Foundation in New York City on October 18th.
Marshall Ganz led the plenary session at an organizing training for World Vision on October 12th. The core set of participants in the training were young people working on college campuses and with evangelical Christian groups on global AIDS and the ONE campaign.
Peter Dobkin Hall was a commentator on Robert M. Wuthnow's paper, "Global Civil Society: Does U.S. Religion Contribute?" as part of the Tufts Civic Engagement Research Prize Lecture at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University, on October 15th. On October 16th Hall co-presented a seminar as part of the "Problems and Prospects in Nonprofit Governance" series with Marion Fremont-Smith on "Preliminary Observations on the Structure and Governance of Multi-Governed Organizations." On October 19th, Peter Dobkin Hall was a Humanities panelist for the Ives Vocal Marathon "Songs of Religion, Nature, Fantasy and Love," at Wesleyan University. Hall, along with other Humanities panelists, discussed the religious, philosophical and aesthetic roots of Ives's music.
Marie Besanon joined the Harvard Business School Board of Fellows and attended their kick-off meeting for this academic year on October 16th.
Christine Letts traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil the week of Oct 22nd at the invitation of the Bradesco Foundation. During the trip she presented a case about the education programs of the Foundation to the Bradesco Bank (the largest in South America) and Foundation leadership, and taught the case to an MBA class at the Ibmec Business School. She also gave lectures on corporate social responsibility at the University of Sao Paulo and on building capacity in nonprofit organizations at Grupo de Institutos, Fundaes e Empresas (GIFE - Group of Institutes, Foundations, and Businesses). Additionally, she participated in a meeting organized by the newly-opened David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) office in Sao Paulo to meet with faculty from three universities to discuss case development and teaching.
Alnoor Ebrahim gave a presentation on "Strategy vs. Compliance: Managing Accountability in Business, Government, and Nonprofits," at the Harvard Business School, Social Enterprise Initiative, on October 22nd.
From October 22-24th, Marty Chen co-organized and spoke at a conference at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex entitled "Economic Growth, Informal Work and Social Protection: Exploring the Relationships," in Brighton, UK.
Alnoor Ebrahim participated in a workshop hosted by the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Independent Evaluation Office on October 23rd in Washington, DC. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the methodology for an evaluation of the IMF's corporate governance.
On October 25th Mark Moore presented the third of the series of Hauser Center 10-Year Anniversary Seminars on "Not your father's nonprofit sector: Beyond instrumental conceptions of philanthropy, voluntarism, and nonprofit organizations," with commentary provided by Peter Dobkin Hall.
Marion Fremont-Smith presented at the conference "Forces for Rectitude: Who Oversees Nonprofit Organizations and Their Overseers?" on October 25th sponsored by the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law, New York University School of Law. The paper she prepared for the conference Attorney General Oversight of Charities can be downloaded as Hauser Center Working Paper #41.
Marshall Ganz, Dave Brown, and Kash Rangan gave short talks on the challenges of doing research on multi-governed organizations for the seminar on "Multi-Governed Nonprofit Organizations: Building Practice and Theory," on October 31st. This seminar was part of the Nonprofit Governance and Accountability Project and The Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative 2007-2008 Seminar Series "Problems and Prospects in Nonprofit Governance."
Mark Moore and Dave Brown, in cooperation with other Kennedy School faculty, delivered the annual Innovations in Governance Executive Education Program from October 28 - November 2nd sponsored by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
In the Harvard Crimson
article from October 26th, "U.N. official draws HBS crowd," about the presentation of Srgjan Kerim, president of the
UN General Assembly, Dutch Leonard is quoted. Link to
the
article here.
Marshall Ganz is mentioned in the October 3rd Guardian
article "Barack
Obama's grassroots appeal" for his organizing training work with Camp Obama. Link to the
article here.
In the Harvard Crimson article
from October 3rd,
"Reich
offers new tax structure," Peter Dobkin Hall provides pointed comments
in response to the altered tax structure proposed in an editorial by
Robert Reich. Link to the
article here.
Michael Pirson co-authored the
op-ed article
"Successful leaders must manage stakeholder trust," in
the September issue of The Resource,
a publication for the Harvard community.
In the article
"The political machine
vs. the grass roots" in the September 4th
issue of the Los Angeles Times, Marshall Ganz is
quoted on his organizing work with Camp Obama.
New publications from Hauser-affiliated authors include:
Mattie, John A., McCarthy, John H., Turner, Robert M., and
Johnson, Sanda L., eds., Understanding Financial Statements: A
Strategic Guide for Independent College and University Governing Boards,
2nd Edition (Washington, DC: Association of Governing Boards of
Universities and Colleges, 2007). Link to information about
the book.
Levitt, Peggy, God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the
Changing American Religious Landscape (New York, NY: The New Press,
2007). Link to information about
the book.
Ebrahim, Alnoor and Weisband, Edward, eds.,
Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism and Public Ethics
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Link to
information about
the book.
Levitt, Peggy and Khagram, Sanjeev, eds., The Transnational
Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Intersections and Innovations
(London, UK: Routledge, 2007).
Link to information about
the book.
Ebrahim, Alnoor and Steve Herz. 2007.
"Accountability in Complex
Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society,"
Harvard Business School Working Paper #08-027. Link to
the paper.
Marion Fremont-Smith is
acknowledged in the October 2007
publication Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice: A
Guide for Charities and Foundations, for her contribution.
Link to the
publication here.
Bammer, Gabriele and The Goolabri Group,
"Improving the
management of ignorance and uncertainty. A case illustrating integration
in collaboration" in Shani, A.B., Mohrman, S.A., Pasmore, W.A.; Stymne,
B.; Adler, N. (eds) Handbook of Collaborative Management Research
(Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007): 421-437.
New additions to the Hauser Center Working Paper Series include:
Hauser Center Working Paper No. 39
What Matters to Whom? Managing Trust Across Multiple
Stakeholder Groups
by Michael Pirson and Deepak Malhotra (May 2007)
Abstract
Download
Paper No.39
Hauser Center Working Paper No. 40
The Road Less Traveled: Funders Advice on the Path to
Nonprofit Sustainability
by Primary Author - Kathleen W. Buechel and Secondary Author - Esther Handy (July 2007)
Abstract
Download
Paper No.40
Hauser Center Working Paper No. 41
Attorney General Oversight of Charities
by Marion R. Fremont-Smith (October 2007)
Abstract
Download
Paper No.41
STUDENT ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES FUND
The Hauser Center is inviting proposals for the
2007-2008 round of funding
from the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations Student Organization
Activities Fund. We have up to $7,500 available for student groups
activities from across the University. Because of the size of the fund
and the number of applications, we are reviewing proposals just once
this academic year. Please keep this in mind when applying, especially
if your event is in the spring. Examples of
previously-funded student
organizations include: KSG Arts Council; Corporate Responsibility
Council; Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy; Human Rights
PIC; KSG Latino Caucus; Progressive Caucus; Social Enterprise in Action
(SEIA); HBS Social Enterprise Club (SEC); and Human Rights PIC.
Criteria for selection include: 1) Relevance to the Center; 2) Level of
student involvement; 3) Clarity of proposal and budget; 4) Need versus
availability. Please note that we will not fund requests for
individual student projects.
Click here for additional
information, the funding
requirements, and
application form. Please submit your applications to Maryann Leach
via
email or hard copy, in accordance with the instructions, no later
than close of business on December 6th. Applicants will be notified not
later than December 14th.
This edition of the Hauser Center E-News highlights activities and events from September - October 2007.
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