Humanitarian NGOs Domain
NGO Leaders Seminar Series:
President and CEO, Save the Children US
"Donors and the Developing World: How Private Philanthropy is Changing Development Aid."
Moderated by Peter Bell, Senior Research Fellow,
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008 12:00 - 1:30 pm.
Lunch at 11:45
Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, Harvard Kennedy School.
Free and open to the public.
Private contributions and resources for international development are growing rapidly and rivaling the amount of official development aid (ODA) made available by donor countries. Reducing extreme poverty has captured the attention of mega-philanthropies like the Gates Foundation, global companies that are seeking to be socially responsible, faith-based givers, and a new generation of donors and activists. Dr. Charles MacCormack, CEO of Save the Chlidren US and current chair of Interaction, will explore the implications of the heightened importance of private aid for NGO impact, accountability, and innovation.
Dr. Charles (Charlie) MacCormack is president and CEO of Save the Children US, an independent nonprofit organization with programs in the United States and more than 50 countries. He also serves on the board of directors of the International Save the Children Alliance, which implements programs totaling $1 billion for children in 120 countries, and is chair of the board of InterAction. He co-chairs both the Basic Education Coalition and the Campaign for Effective Global Leadership, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was selected to participate on the Founding Committee of the United Nations University, and served as a member of the United States Delegation to the 1997 World Food Summit and the 2002 General Assembly Special Session on Children. Prior to his current position, Dr. MacCormack was President of World Learning (formerly the Experiment in International Living) from 1977 to 1992, and was Assistant to the Dean of the International Fellows Program at Columbia University. Dr. MacCormack received his doctorate and master’s degree from Columbia University and his undergraduate degree from Middlebury College. He was a National Science Foundation Fellow at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City and a Fulbright Fellow at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas.
Peter D. Bell is a senior research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University and chairs the facilitation group of the NGO Leaders Forum. He is also co-chair of the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS. Peter previously served as president of CARE USA for ten years. He has also been president of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, President of the Inter-American Foundation, and Deputy Under Secretary of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in the Carter Administration. At the outset of his career, he worked for 12 years with the Ford Foundation, including ten years with its Latin American program. Peter’s volunteer positions include being vice-chair of the Inter-American Dialogue, vice chair of the Bernard Van Leer Foundation, a director of the Global Water Challenge and a trustee of the World Peace Foundation. He is a graduate of Yale College and holds a master’s degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton.