Event: Hauser Center Fall Open House
Nonprofits in China Seminar
Growing Old in China: New Services for the Elderly
A Speech By
Dou Yupei 窦玉沛 Vice Minister of Civil Affairs, People’s Republic of China
Moderated by
Anthony Saich Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
At this seminar, Dou Yupei will lead a discussion on China’s current policies and services available to the elderly. As China’s Vice Minister of Civil Affairs, he oversees social welfare programs within the Ministry, with a strong emphasis on policymaking for the elderly. The Vice Minister will address his country’s aging issues as well as newly created services for the elderly. In Chinese with translation available. This event is co-sponsored by the Nonprofits in China domain and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
September 8, 2011 11:30–1:00pm
L 150, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
79 JFK Street Cambridge
Monday, August 29, 2011 3:00 to 5:00PM
FACULTY DEBATE
“The distinction between nonprofits and for-profits is no longer important except at the tactical level: the focus today should be on getting social problems solved through whatever sectors are best suited to the task.”
Christopher Stone
Hauser Center Faculty Director
Dick Cavanagh
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Followed by meet and greet with Hauser Center faculty, researchers, and staff.
Weil Town Hall
Belfer Building Main Entrance (lobby Level)
Harvard Kennedy School
Food and light refreshments will be served
BROWN BAG:
April 26, 2011
2:00-3:30pm
Gaming the system: Do eligibility requirements for access to social programs distort spending decisions?
Sara Nadel, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy;
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations Fellow, 2010-2011
Weil Town Hall (Lobby Level, Belfer Building) Harvard Kennedy School
June 5-8, 2011
Course in Exponential Fundraising
at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
at Harvard University
May 3, 12:30 to 2:00pm – Belfer Building, Lobby Level, Room 4, Harvard Kennedy School
“Trends, Trajectories and Future of International NGOs”
PRESENTER: Ramesh Singh, former chief executive of ActionAid International,
Hauser Visiting Fellow
FACILITATOR: Sherine Jayawickrama, Hauser Domain Manager, Humanitarian and Development NGOs
International NGOs (INGOs) have been on the rise and rise for decades now. They are bigger, sleeker, professional, visible, noisier and influential. However, the world around them have changed and have been changing in many big ways presenting all kinds of crises, competitions and challenges, The presentation will discuss whether and how INGOs and the sector are responding or not and will explore what kinds of INGOs will survive, thrive and emerge.
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April 14, 2011
4:15 to 6:00pm
Atlas Versus The Cherry Tree:
Museums, The Nation, and the World
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building (Lobby Level)
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
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MONTHLY BROWN BAG SERIES 2011
February 8, 12:30 to 2pm – Belfer Building, Lobby Level, Room 4, Harvard Kennedy School
"AIDS NGOs in China: Leading the Way in Forging New Working Partnerships with Government"
PRESENTERS: Qiushi Liu, Associate Professor, NGO Research Center, Tsinghua University, Hauser Visiting Fellow and Joan Kaufman, Director AIDS Public Policy Project, Harvard Medical School and Hauser Center Principal
The AIDS NGO sector has seen explosive growth in China, aided by donor governance mandates and global NGO counterparts engaged in transnational organizing. There is increasing acknowledgement by government AIDS officials of their value, as well as contracted service provision to high risk groups like gay men. China's AIDS NGO sector is opening political space for other NGOs working on social justice and humanitarian issues. We will review the overall picture of AIDS NGOs engagement and China's AIDS response and reflect on how these benefit the NGO sector overall.
March 8, 12:30 to 2pm – Belfer Building, Lobby Level, Room 4, Harvard Kennedy School
“To Tell The Truth: Combining Corporate Financial and Sustainability Reporting on a Global Scale”
PRESENTER: Robert K. Massie, former president of Ceres, co-founder of the Global Reporting Initiative, Hauser Senior Visiting Fellow
FACILITATOR: Steve Lydenberg, Hauser Senior Research Fellow
As we rocket forward into the 21st century, questions have erupted around the world about whether the financial and economic information used by corporations, investors, and governments is guiding us towards -- or away from -- sustainable prosperity. This debate in turn has raised fundamental questions about the purpose of the modern corporation, the relationship between shareholders and stakeholders, and the alignment of corporate actions with long-term public policy objectives. Global accounting societies and firms are actively pursuing a merger of financial and sustainability disclosure; the results are likely to shape the structure of the global economy for decades to come. Bob Massie, will review the state of the international debate and what it means for the future of capital markets and public policy.
March 23rd, 4:30 pm-5:30 pm – Allison Dining Room, 5th floor, Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street
City Week: Helping Urban Areas Thrive
A Conversation
Rip Rapson
President of The Kresge Foundation
Moderated by
Jim Bildner
Managing Director of the Center for Applied Philanthropy
MPA/MC ’11 and Hauser Center Fellow
The Kresge Foundation is a $3.1 billion private, national foundation that seeks to influence the quality of life for future generations through its support of nonprofit organizations in six fields of interest: health, the environment, community development, arts and culture, education and human services. The Foundation is headquartered in metropolitan Detroit, in the suburb of Troy, Michigan.
Cosponsored by the Office of Career Advancement and The Hauser Center for Nonprofit
Organizations at Harvard University
March 24, 2:30–4:00 PM – Weil Town Hall, 1st Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
(Entrance at the corner of JFK Street and Eliot Street)
“The Human Rights Movement: Prospects for the Next Decade”
A Conversation
Martín Abregú
Ford Foundation
Director of the Human Rights and Governance Program
Christopher Stone
Faculty Director of the Hauser Center
Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice and Director, in Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management
Martín Abregú will share his perspectives on today’s human rights movement and directions for its development over the next decade. This exchange with Professor Christopher Stone, Faculty Director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations will be followed by an open discussion with participants.
Beverages will be served
April 7, 1:30 to 3:00pm – Weil Town Hall, 1st Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
“Hybrid Organizations: The New Face of Social Enterprise?”
PRESENTERS: Marion Fremont Smith, Hauser Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School, Luther M. Ragin, Jr., William H. Bloomberg Lecturer in Public Management
In recent years, a number of commentators have suggested that traditional forms of legal organization have constrained the development of a robust social enterprise sector. New legal structures -- L3Cs and B Corporations to name the best known -- have been introduced with the intention of better catalyzing resources for social benefit. What are these hybrid forms and are they part of the solution?
March 3, 2011
3:00 to 4:15pm and 4:15- 6:00pm
Bronzes and Broadcasts:
How Museums and the Media Reach Global Audiences
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building (Lobby Level)
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
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February 8, 2011 12:30 - 2:00 PM
AIDS NGOs in China:
Leading the Way in Forging New Working Partnerships with Government
The AIDS NGO sector has seen explosive growth in China, aided by donor governance mandates and global NGO counterparts engaged in transnational organizing. There is increasing acknowledgement by government AIDS officials of their value, as well as contracted service provision to high risk groups like gay men. China's AIDS NGO sector is opening political space for other NGOs working on social justice and humanitarian issues. We will review the overall picture of AIDS NGOs engagement and China's AIDS response and reflect on how these benefit the NGO sector overall.
A Panel Discussion With:
Qiushi Liu Associate Professor, NGO Research Center, Tsinghua University Hauser Center visiting fellow
Joan Kaufman
Lecturer, Harvard Medical School
Hauser Center Principal
Beverages will be served Belfer Building, Lobby Level #4, Harvard Kennedy School
(Entrance at the corner of JKF Street and Eliot Street)
Downloads: Kaufman PPT Liu PPT
February 8, 2011
3:00-5:00pm
The Role of NGOs in Affordable Housing: The Habitat for Humanity Perspective
Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International
Come and meet Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity since 2005, as he discusses the role of NGOs in meeting the worldwide need for affordable housing. Reckford is a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. His prior work experience includes a stint as president of stores for Musicland, senior vice president for corporate planning and communication at Circuit City, and various roles at Walt Disney Corp., Marriott Co., and Goldman Sachs & Co. This event is sponsored by the Social Enterprise Club and the Humanitarian & Development NGOs domain of practice at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
Hawes 201 (Harvard Business School)
Monday, February 7, 2011 4.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Tracking the Performance of African States: Lessons from a Civil Society Advocacy Coalition
Irungu Houghton
Pan Africa Director, Oxfam International
In 2010, thirteen African and international civil society organizations undertook ten national studies and one continental study into the performance of African states against four continental policy standards and ten legal human rights instruments. The compliance reports were presented to national delegations and the African Union in the African Union Summits of July 2010 and January 2011. Come and hear what research methodology and advocacy strategy they used, the challenges they faced and the impact the State of the Union Coalition has had in just six months. The compliance reports are a critical pan-Africanist tool in contributing to a prosperous, just and democratic Africa driven by its peoples.
This study group will be convened by
Ramesh Singh
Visiting Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Former Chief Executive, ActionAid International
Belfer L-4 (ground floor, Belfer Building) Harvard Kennedy School Irungu Houghton is the Kenyan Pan Africa Director for Oxfam, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Irungu has over a decade of policy research, advocacy and lobbying international and African continental multi-lateral institutions including the World Bank, United Nations and the African Union. He is a regular source of pan Africanist analysis for policymakers and the media. He supports a number of Pan African coalitions to hold African states accountable for continental policy standards and to challenge unfair global policies. In 2007, Irungu was nominated by Ghanaian President John Kuffuor to join an independent High Level Panel to Audit the Performance of the African Union (2004-2008). His presentation is based on the ongoing work of the State of the Union Coalition.
Conference on Civil Society and Nonprofits in China
January 21-23, 2011
Fall 2010
NGOs & Development Study Group
The NGOs & Development Study Group
meets biweekly to discuss and debate issues related to
emerging paradigms in development, evolving roles of NGOs,
and specific management, leadership and governance
challenges in the NGO world. The study group brings
interested students from across Harvard together with
practitioners dealing with these questions in real time or
with academics investigating similar questions. This
is a space for open discussion and lively exchange, where
all participants come with a commitment to share, listen
and reflect. It is a place for building
relationships, exchanging ideas and connecting scholarship
with practice.
Each session is led by a guest who will launch the
discussion on the topics listed below and serve as a
resource person. This study group is convened by the
Humanitarian & Development NGOs domain of practice at
the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
This study group meets every other
Tuesday from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Weil Town Hall (Belfer
L-1 at the Harvard Kennedy School).
Tuesday, September
14
Fundraising for Global Issues: Challenges and New Frontiers
Jeremy Barnicle
Vice President, Marketing & Communications
Mercy Corps
Tuesday, September
28
Scenarios for the Future: Implications for NGOs
Claudia Juech
Managing Director, Research
Rockefeller Foundation
Tuesday, October
12
Bottom-Up Development in Practice
John Coonrod
Executive Vice President
The Hunger Project
Tuesday, October
26
Challenges of Internationalizing International NGOs
Ramesh Singh
Former CEO
ActionAid International
Tuesday, November
9
The United Nations and NGOs: Dynamics of a Complex
Relationship
Nora McKeon
Author, The United Nations and Civil Society
Tuesday, November
23
How Effective is the Aid System? Listening to Community
Voices
Dayna Brown and Isabella Jean
The Listening Project
CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
Ending Hunger in Africa:
What Strategies? What Governance?
Monday,
November 8
5.00 pm – 6.30 pm
Bell
Hall (5th floor, Belfer Building) Harvard Kennedy
School
Ndiogou
Fall
Founding President, Network of Peasant and Agricultural
Producer Organizations of West Africa (ROPPA)
Nora McKeon
Formerly responsible for FAO-civil society relations;
author of publications on small farmers and food policies
Philip McMichael
Professor of Development Sociology, Cornell University
Robert Paarlberg
Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School;
Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College
Moderated by
Peter O’Driscoll
Executive Director, ActionAid USA
More
info>>
PHILANTHROPY
STUDY GROUP
Monday, October 18,
2010
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Hauser Center Conference Room L-4 (Belfer Lobby
Level)
Come meet and greet at the year's first philanthropy study
group. Learn and share your expertise, thoughts, and
curiosities about the field of philanthropy, and contribute
ideas for future study group discussions.
For questions contact Desiree Flores, Hauser Center
Philanthropy Fellow: desiree_flores@hks11.harvard.edu
Development of Philanthropy in China and the China Foundation Center
Oct. 7 Thursday, 2010
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Community networking to follow
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building L 1
Presentation by and Discussion With:
Dr. Ailing Zhuang 庄爱玲
Executive Director, China Foundation Center, Beijing
Founding Chair and Former Executive Director, NPO Development Center Shanghai
Sophie Delaunay
Executive Director
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières USA
NOT IN OUR NAME:
Preserving Humanitarian Independence in an Era of Counterinsurgency and Intervention
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
3.00 pm – 4.30 pm
Bell Hall (5th floor, Belfer Building)
Harvard Kennedy School
More Info>>
Hauser Summer Fellows Showcase
Friday, October 1st from 3:00-4:30pm
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Lobby Level, Harvard Kennedy School (79 JFK St.)
The panel will feature the Hauser summer fellows 2010 and the conversation will be moderated by Johanna Chao Kreilick, Justice & Human Rights domain manager, and Sherine Jayawickrama, Humanitarian & Development NGOs domain manager.
Rohini Nilekani, philanthropist, author and social entrepreneur will reflect on the progress and new frontiers of India's philanthropy sector. Sponsored by the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
The Emerging Philanthropy Sector in India
Tuesday, October 5
4:00-5:00pm, Weil Town Hall
Welcome and Fall Preview
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
12:30PM to 2:00PM
Belfer Building, Weil Town Hall Lobby level, Harvard Kennedy School (79 JFK St.)
Harvard Kennedy School Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Christopher Stone, Hauser Faculty Director and Christine Cole, Executive Director
Domains of Practice Discussions to Follow
More Info>>
NGO Leaders Seminar Series
Dr. Darius Mans, President, Africare
“NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: The Africare Experience”
Thursday, September 9, 2010
2.40 pm – 4.00 pm
Bell Hall, Belfer – 5th Floor
Harvard Kennedy School
Dr. Mans will talk about how NGOs work alongside poor communities and developing country governments to advance the MDGs, how they leverage resources from the private sector and philanthropists, and how project level work can be scaled up for broader impact. He will focus particularly on MDG 7 which touches on access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The particular effort Dr. Mans will discuss in Ghana is partly funded by President Obama’s Nobel Prize money.
More Info>>
BROWN BAG:
Thursday August 5th, 2010 12:45
Weil Town Hall Belfer Building
Hauser Center Mid-Career Fellowships Information Session
Learn about Hauser Center academic year fellowships available: Faith-Based Organizations; Humanitarian & Development NGOs; Nonprofits in China
Tuesday May 18th, 2010
Weil Town Hall Belfer Building
Crowdsourcing the
Impossible
Patrick Meier, Director of Crisis Mapping
at Ushahidi
Patrick Meier – Director of Crisis Mapping at Ushahidi and
former co-director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s
(HHI) Program on Crisis Mapping and Early Warning – will
discuss “crowdsourcing the impossible”.
How did hundreds of student volunteers around the world use
Ushahidi to save hundreds of lives in Haiti? How did these
volunteers, most of whom spent weeks on end on their
laptops in a dimly-lit school basement in snowy Boston,
revolutionize humanitarian response and receive an Award
for Excellence by the 2nd in command of NORTHCOM? How did
they process and map thousands of urgent life-and-death
text messages from Haiti in near real-time? And how did the
volunteers come to Skype live with the Search and Rescue
(SAR) teams in Port-au-Prince to directly support urgent
relief efforts? Why did they get emails from the World Food
Program and the USS Aircraft Carrier Vinson in the middle
of the night? How did they get direct access to Digital
Globe’s very high resolution imagery and to SOUTHCOM’s
video footage from military drones? Indeed, how did they
crowdsource the impossible?
Speaker Bio:
Patrick Meier is the Director of Crisis Mapping at Ushahidi
and the co-founder of the International Network of Crisis
Mappers. At Ushahidi, Patrick recently launched and
spearheaded the deployments in Haiti and Chile. He was
previously the co-director of the Harvard Humanitarian
Initiative’s (HHI) Program on Crisis Mapping and Early
Warning. Patrick has consulted for numerous international
organizations including the UN, OSCE and OECD on crisis
mapping and early warning projects in countries ranging
from the Sudan and Thailand to East Timor and Colombia.
Patrick is also a PhD candidate at The Fletcher
School/Tufts where his dissertation focuses on the role of
technology in civil resistance against repressive regimes.
He has an MA in International Affairs from Columbia
University and is an alum of the Sante Fe Institute (SFI)
Complex Systems Summer School. Patrick blogs at
iRevolution.net.
Additional Resources:
“Wag the Dog, or How Falsifying Crowdsourced Data Can Be a
Pain” –
http://irevolution.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/wag-the-dog/
“My TEDx Talk: From Photosynth to ALLsynth” –
http://irevolution.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/photosynth-to-allsynth/
TED blog: Ushahidi aggregates, disseminates Haiti crisis
info: Q&A with Patrick Meier –
http://blog.ted.com/2010/01/ushahidi_brings.php
Speaker at Chirp: The Official Twitter Developer Conference
–
http://chirp.twitter.com/speakers.html
Tufts Roundtable: The Future of News: Mobilizing the Masses
to Write the First Draft of History –
http://tuftsroundtable.org/irevolution/2909-the-future-of-news-mobilizing-the-masses-to-write-the-first-draft-of-history
Speaker at Where 2.0 Conference 2010 –
http://en.oreilly.com/where2010/public/schedule/speaker/82425
BROWN BAG:
Thursday August 5th, 2010 12:45
Weil Town Hall Belfer Building
Hauser Center Mid-Career Fellowships Information Session
Learn about Hauser Center academic year
fellowships available: Faith-Based
Organizations; Humanitarian & Development NGOs;
Nonprofits in China
Tuesday May 18th, 2010
Weil Town Hall Belfer Building
Crowdsourcing the
Impossible
Patrick Meier, Director of Crisis Mapping
at Ushahidi
Patrick Meier – Director of Crisis Mapping at Ushahidi and
former co-director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s
(HHI) Program on Crisis Mapping and Early Warning – will
discuss “crowdsourcing the impossible”.
How did hundreds of student volunteers around the world use
Ushahidi to save hundreds of lives in Haiti? How did these
volunteers, most of whom spent weeks on end on their
laptops in a dimly-lit school basement in snowy Boston,
revolutionize humanitarian response and receive an Award
for Excellence by the 2nd in command of NORTHCOM? How did
they process and map thousands of urgent life-and-death
text messages from Haiti in near real-time? And how did the
volunteers come to Skype live with the Search and Rescue
(SAR) teams in Port-au-Prince to directly support urgent
relief efforts? Why did they get emails from the World Food
Program and the USS Aircraft Carrier Vinson in the middle
of the night? How did they get direct access to Digital
Globe’s very high resolution imagery and to SOUTHCOM’s
video footage from military drones? Indeed, how did they
crowdsource the impossible?
Speaker Bio:
Patrick Meier is the Director of Crisis Mapping at Ushahidi
and the co-founder of the International Network of Crisis
Mappers. At Ushahidi, Patrick recently launched and
spearheaded the deployments in Haiti and Chile. He was
previously the co-director of the Harvard Humanitarian
Initiative’s (HHI) Program on Crisis Mapping and Early
Warning. Patrick has consulted for numerous international
organizations including the UN, OSCE and OECD on crisis
mapping and early warning projects in countries ranging
from the Sudan and Thailand to East Timor and Colombia.
Patrick is also a PhD candidate at The Fletcher
School/Tufts where his dissertation focuses on the role of
technology in civil resistance against repressive regimes.
He has an MA in International Affairs from Columbia
University and is an alum of the Sante Fe Institute (SFI)
Complex Systems Summer School. Patrick blogs at
iRevolution.net.
Additional Resources:
“Wag the Dog, or How Falsifying Crowdsourced Data Can Be a
Pain” –
http://irevolution.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/wag-the-dog/
“My TEDx Talk: From Photosynth to ALLsynth” –
http://irevolution.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/photosynth-to-allsynth/
TED blog: Ushahidi aggregates, disseminates Haiti crisis
info: Q&A with Patrick Meier –
http://blog.ted.com/2010/01/ushahidi_brings.php
Speaker at Chirp: The Official Twitter Developer Conference
–
http://chirp.twitter.com/speakers.html
Tufts Roundtable: The Future of News: Mobilizing the Masses
to Write the First Draft of History –
http://tuftsroundtable.org/irevolution/2909-the-future-of-news-mobilizing-the-masses-to-write-the-first-draft-of-history
Speaker at Where 2.0 Conference 2010 –
http://en.oreilly.com/where2010/public/schedule/speaker/82425
Wednesday, May 5th,
2010
12:30 – 2:00pm
Hauser Conference Room L4, Belfer Building -
Harvard Kennedy School
Can’t Take
It With You - The Art of Making and Giving Money
Lewis B. Cullman, Philanthropist
Jennifer McCrea, Senior Research Fellow,
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Lewis B. Cullman has given more than $225 million dollars
away to nonprofit organizations in the arts, education and
sciences. Through this highly interactive discussion,
moderated by veteran fundraiser and Hauser Center Senior
Research Fellow, Jennifer McCrea, Lewis will share
highlights of his journey from the top of Wall Street (he
engineered the Country’s very first leverage buyout,
purchasing a $62 million company with only a thousand
dollars of his own money) to the very top of philanthropic
world. He will share his insights on how to make and give
money — and also what it means to be a truly successful
fundraiser and board member.
Booklet Download
This event is a brown-bag presentation. Refreshments
will be served.
Nonprofits in China Study Group
A Case of a Chinese Nonprofit Creating an Anti-Discrimination Movement in China
Thursday, May 6, 2010
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Belfer Building L 4, Harvard Kennedy School
(Entrance at the Corner of Eliot Street and JFK Street)
Lu Jun
Co-Founder & Legal Representative,
Beijing Yirenping Center
Earlier this year, the Chinese government unveiled a series of regulations prohibiting discriminations against Hepatitis B (HBV) patients at work places and schools. The civil society organizations in China played an important role in bringing about such policy changes and eliminating social and policy discriminations against people with certain diseases. Lu Jun is going to share his journey at the Yirenping Center in defending individual’s rights and pushing for policy changes. http://www.yirenping.org/
The study group will examine the role and operation of the Yirenping in doing so from the nonprofit perspective. Students will have opportunities to interact with the social entrepreneur speaker, and help solving some strategic questions for the organization that the speaker is going to discuss about.
Wednesday, April 21
4.00 pm – 5.30 pm
Weil Town Hall (Belfer Building L-1), Harvard Kennedy School
Seizing Opportunities to Enhance U.S. Aid Effectiveness:
The State of Play and Ways Forward
Moderated by:
Professor Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
Featuring:
Steve Feldstein, Professional Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Congress (TBC)
Karen Hanrahan, COO, Quadrennial Diplomacy & Development Review, U.S. State Department
Paul O’Brien, Vice President for Policy and Advocacy, Oxfam America
Jonathan Quick, President and CEO, Management Sciences for Health
This policy panel will consider three important policy processes now underway – the Quadrennial Diplomacy & Development Review (QDDR) being advanced by the State Department, the Presidential Study Directive (PSD) being carried out by the National Security Council to review U.S. global development policy, and efforts to rewrite the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act within the U.S. Congress – and the historic opportunity they offer to reshape U.S. foreign assistance and global development policy to be more effective, coherent and integrated.
The panel will bring NGO perspectives, drawn from decades of working in poor communities worldwide, together with U.S. government policy perspectives. How does the QDDR weigh diplomacy and development as U.S. foreign policy priorities? How should the U.S. government’s development capacity be strengthened – and how should it relate to diplomacy and defense imperatives? What major principles should guide U.S. foreign assistance reform in order to dramatically enhance aid effectiveness? What are the political prospects of such aid reform legislation being passed? How will the PSD relate to the QDDR and aid reform? These are some of the questions that will be considered in the panel discussion and the Q&A to follow.
This policy panel is organized by the Humanitarian & Development NGOs Domain of Practice at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Contact Sherine Jayawickrama for more information.
Light refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
2:30-4:00 pm
Land Auditorium, Belfer Building 4th floor - Harvard Kennedy School
A conversation with Population Services International (PSI)
Karl Hofmann, President, Population Services International
Ashley Judd, MPP 2010, Board Member, Population Services International
Marshall Ganz, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
A presentation, discussion and Q & A.
Population Services International is the world’s largest social marketing NGO and helps make markets work for the poor. PSI has human right-based, grassroots programs in 65 countries. The focus is delivering measurable and sustainable health impact to the most poor and vulnerable.
PSI celebrated 40 years of service in 2010, and has an annual budget of about $450 million. Major funders include: USAID, DFID, the Dutch, Global Fund, Gates, and others. Programs are as varied as the people and cultures they serve: soap operas in Central America; hair stylists in Zimbabwe, street theatre in Kenya, mobile audio-video trucks in Cambodia, etc.
NGO Study Group Discussion
Building Development Partnerships with NGOs: The Experience of Corporate Foundations.
This study group organized by the Development and Humanitarian NGOs Domain of the Hauser Center will be held on
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
4 -5 p.m. at the Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building.
The session will be lead by Salimah Samji, who was formerly with Google.org and Shalaka Joshi, Vice President, Global Strategies, CSO Partners.
Please RSVP Balu at ramaswami_balasubramaniam@hks10.harvard.edu
Shalaka Joshi has lived and worked at the interstices of the academic, business and the development sectors in India, Germany and the UK, and holds multiple postgraduate degrees in gender and development studies, literature and journalism. Shalaka has worked with the United Nations Children’s Fund, and a range of NGOs including GiveIndia Foundation where she advised business leaders on innovative strategic philanthropy models and ways of aligning social and economic goals, and Ashoka, a citizen sector group focused on social entrepreneurship. Shalaka has also worked with India’s largest private sector bank- ICICI, where she led the process of integrating other private sector partners into the Bank’s initiatives in health, education and micro finance.
Salimah Samji is currently taking time off after two years as a Program Manager at Google.org leading efforts to develop the transparency and accountability initiative in India. She spent three years at the World Bank in South Asia (based in India) as a social/rural development and monitoring/evaluation specialist. Born in Kenya, Salimah has a Bachelor of Mrthematics from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and a Masters in Public Administration in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School. She is a qualified Casualty Actuary who decided to change careers after her 18 months experience working in Afghan refugee camps with a Candian NGO based in PakistantShe was worked in Kenya, Canada, USA, Pakistan, India and Tajikistan.
Hauser
Center Spring Open House
Wednesday, March
24th,
2010
3:30 – 5:00 PM
Hauser Center Offices
The program for the Open House
will be an opportunity for students and others from around
the Harvard community to get to know the people, programs,
and projects of the Hauser Center. From 3:30 – 5:00
pm visitors can participate in a Hauser Center introduction
and overview in Weil Town Hall and/or can take a map and
visit Hauser faculty, researchers, and staff in their
offices for individual or small group discussions.
Also snacks and beverages and informal mixing and mingling.
Past Events:
Feb 26, 2010, Friday 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Nonprofits in China Seminar
Lunch Meeting with Foundation and Nonprofit Professionals from China (in Chinese)
与中国基金会和非营利组织负责人午餐座谈（中文）
With:
Rao Jinxing
Managing Director of Huaxia Social and Development Research Institute,
Founder of China Private Foundation Forum
Cheng Gang
CEO of Beijing Websoft Information Technology (providing website for many foundations: Narada Foundation, Chinese Red Cross Foundation, China Children Teenagers Fund, etc.)
Tao Ze
Managing Director, NPP (www.nppcn.com)
Holly Chang
Executive Director, Golden Bridges Foundation
Li Yusheng
Associate, Narada Foundation
Hu Xing (Moderator)
Manager, Nonprofit in China Domain, Hauser Center
Lunch will be provided, first come first serve
Location: Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building L 1 Harvard Kennedy School
REPRESENTING AMERICANNESS?
MUSEUMS, THE NATION AND THE GLOBE
During his trip to Europe during the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama told an adoring crowd of more than 200,000 gathered in Berlin’s Tiergarten that he was speaking to them as a citizen of the United States and as a citizen of the world. But what does it really mean to be a global citizen? Where do the values undergirding global citizenship come from? To what extent do national artistic and cultural institutions which were, in part, established to create national publics see themselves as creating global publics too? In this panel, curators from three of the country’s most prominent museums will debate the role of cultural institutions in representing the nation and the world.
FEBRUARY 16th, 2010
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building (Lobby Level)
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
map of location
Panelists:
Elliot Bostwick Davis
John Moors Cabot Chair, Art of the Americas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Kathleen A. Foster
The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Senior Curator of American Art and Director, Center for American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Timothy Anglin Burgard
The Ednah Root Curator of American Art Curator–in-Charge, American Art Department Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Discussant: Ivan Gaskell
Margaret S. Winthrop Curator, Fogg Art Museum
Senior Lecturer on History, Harvard University
Moderator: Peggy Levitt
Professor, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College
Co-Director, Transnational Studies Initiative, Harvard University
For further information contact: Deepak Lamba-Nieves.
This event is co-sponsored by the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Office for the Arts at Harvard.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
11:30-1:30
Leadership and Effectiveness of Transnational NGOs: Research Perspectives
On December 1, from 11.30 am to 1.00 pm, Tosca Bruno VanVijfeijken and Hans Peter Schmitz from Syracuse University will lead a seminar on Leadership and Effectiveness of Transnational NGOs: Research Perspectives on Development, Human Rights and Environmental NGOs. The seminar will be held at Weil Town Hall (Belfer L1) at the Harvard Kennedy School; it is hosted by the Humanitarian & Development NGOs domain at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
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December 2, 2009
1:30–3:00pm
Social Enterprises & Philanthropic Investment in China:
How to Break New Ground in Emerging Markets
A Dialogue with
Michael Chu
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative; Managing Director, IGNIA Fund in Mexico dedicated to investing in commercial enterprises serving low-income populations in developing countries
Grace Chiang
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Social Venture Group in Shanghai and Hong Kong
Moderator: Xing Hu
Domain Manager, Nonprofits in China Domain of Practice, Hauser Center of Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard
Location: Nye B & C, Taubman Building 5th Floor , Harvard Kennedy School
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
10:30 am
Student-only discussion with Nancy Lindborg, President of Mercy Corps
Host: Humanitarian and Development NGOs Domain, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Location: Nye A, Taubman 5th floor
Limited seating, RSVP required to Sherine Jayawickrama
Thursday, December 3, 2009
4:30-6:00
Transnational Studies Initiative - Conversations Across Borders
Musical Migrations: Lessons From Latin America
Location: Rm S153 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Mass 02138
Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Tufts University
From Cumbia Colombiana to Cumbia Cosmopolatina: Local roots, transnational routes
Wayne Marshall, Post-Doctoral Fellow, MIT
From Música Negra to Música Urbana: Reggaeton, Race, and Commerce
Deborah Pacini Hernandez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, and an affiliate with the Latino Studies and American Studies Programs. Her publications include Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music, Temple University Press, 1995; Reggaeton, co-edited with Raquel Rivera and Wayne Marshall (Duke 2009) and Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America, co-edited with Eric Zolov and Hector Fernández L'Hoeste (University of Pittsburgh Press 2004). Her most recent book, Oye Como Va!: Hybridity and Identity in Latin/o Popular Music, is in production with Temple University Press.
Wayne Marshall is an ethnomusicologist, blogger, DJ, and, beginning this year, a Mellon Fellow in Foreign Languages and Literatures at MIT. His research focuses on the production and circulation of popular music, especially across the Americas and in the wider world, and the role that digital technologies are playing in the formation of new notions of community, selfhood, and nationhood. He is the co-editor of Reggaeton (Duke 2009), and has published reviews and articles on hip-hop, reggae, and global dance music in various academic and journalistic publications.
November 16, 2009
The Progress of China’s Civil Society and the Role of China’s Nonprofits in Climate Change Control
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: NYE B&C, Taubman Building 5th Floor, HKS
Map:http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=E7&quadrant=D&series=M
Thursday, November 12, 2009
12:00 – 1:30 pm
A Clash of Expectations:
Shaping Collaborations between Domestic Human Rights NGOs
in Developing Countries & International Human Rights NGOs
A Brown-Bag Discussion with
Innocent Chukwuma
Executive Director of Nigeria’s CLEEN Foundation & Hauser Center Fellow 2010
Location: BL-4 Belfer (across Weil Town Hall), Harvard Kennedy School
Mr. Chukwuma will share lessons-learned from his organization’s experience working with two international NGOs - the World Organization Against Torture (Switzerland) and Human Rights Watch (New York).
He'll address collaboration between western international NGOs and local NGOs from the global south, the issue of building relations with the state , balancing advocacy and partnership , working in coalition , and building and retaining a staff that balances activists with professionals.
As a Hauser Center Fellow, Mr. Chukwuma will be teaching at Harvard Kennedy School in 2010. For more about class offerings and the work of the CLEEN Foundation, see http://hausercenter.org/jhr/
Co-sponsored by the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Human Rights Professional Interest Council, the Africa Caucus HKS and the Harvard African Law Association
Light Snacks & Beverages will be served
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
The Philanthropist and the Fundraiser:
Co-creating Authentic, Impactful Partnerships
Jennifer McCrea and Jeff Walker
Location: Weil Town Hall at Belfer Building at Harvard Kennedy School
Friday, November 6, 2009
12noon - 1:30pm
Catalytic Philanthropy
Mark Kramer, Managing Director of FSG Social Advisors
Location: Weil Town Hall at Belfer Building at Harvard Kennedy School
Hosted by: The Philanthropy Study Group of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Transnational Migration: Current Research and Future Directions
Jorge Duany; Jean-Michel LaFleur; Laura Morales; Rosanna Rocha Reis; and moderated by Peggy Levitt
Location: CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
4:00-5:30 pm
Community Mobilization and Good Governance: NGO Perspectives
Ruth Allen, who is a Global Advisor for Mercy Corps
Hosted by NGOs and Development Study Group,
Humanitarian and Development NGOs Domain, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Location: Hauser Center Conference Room – Belfer L-4
RSVP required to: Balu Balasubramaniam
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
9:00 - 10:30 AM
Meet Philanthropists from China:
Governance Challenges in Private Foundations in China
Coffee social starts at 8:45 AM
Location: NYE A, B, C, Taubman Building 5th Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
October 19, 2009
Weil Town Hall
79 JFK Street, Belfer Building
Harvard Kennedy School
A PUBLIC CONVERSATION 4:30 PM
When is an Open Society also a Just Society?
George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Institute
Michael J. Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard
Christopher Stone, Moderator, Hauser Center Faculty Director and
Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice
Live stream of event (requires Real Player)
Following the conversation
Please join us as we honor
Gustave M. and Rita E. Hauser
and celebrate the new location
of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
at the Harvard Kennedy School
DEDICATION CEREMONY 5:30 PM
RECEPTION 6:00 PM
with remarks by
Drew Gilpin Faust
President of Harvard University and
Lincoln Professor of History
David T. Ellwood
Dean of Harvard Kennedy School and
Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy
Rita E. Hauser
President of the Hauser Foundation
October 14th, 2009
The Obama Administration’s Global Development Policy: Enhancing Coherence and Effectiveness
Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Paul O’Brien, Director, Aid Effectiveness Initiative at Oxfam America
Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School.
4:00-5:30 pm
Weil Town Hall
Thursday,
October 22, 2009
4:00-5:30 PM
Philanthropy
Study Group:
Fully Leveraging
Philanthropic Assets for Long-Term Social and
Environmental Impact
@ Weil Town Hall in
Belfer Building at Harvard Kennedy School
Thursday, October 22, 2009
4:00-5:30 PM
Peter Singer and Richard Stearns in Conversation: The Imperative to Act Against Poverty
First Parish Church, 3 Church Street (corner of Mass Ave and Church St), Cambridge, MA
The Hauser Center for Nonprofits Organizations and Harvard Book Store will host a conversation between two influential voices making the case (from two very different perspectives) that taking concrete action to fight global poverty is respectively a moral imperative and a Christian obligation.
Peter Singer, acclaimed bioethics professor, argues in The Life You Can Save that the industrialized world’s response to poverty is ethically indefensible and that living an ethical life must involve giving one’s resources to the cause of fighting poverty. Richard Stearns, CEO of World Vision U.S., argues in The Hole in Our Gospel that living a Christian life involves living out one’s faith by taking action to care for the poor and fight the systemic causes of poverty.
Peter Singer is an atheist. Richard Stearns is a devout Christian. Yet, from two very different angles, these two individuals issue a powerful call to action, and their books challenge Americans to take a look at the choices they make and reflect on how they can take action on the most urgent issue of our time: global poverty.
This event will bring Peter Singer and Richard Stearns together for a conversation moderated by Aviva Argote, Executive Director of The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations that will explore their two perspectives, contrast the motives of why various groups of people might take action against poverty, and take questions from the audience to further deepen the exchange.
Free and open to the public; tickets are not required.
For more information:
http://hausercenter.org/iha/archives/138
http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2388
October 6th, 2009
Meet Li Dan:
From an Astrophysics Student to a Leader for
HIV/AIDS Orphans' Human Right in China
(Working Language: Chinese)
Weil Town Hall
5:00-6:00 pm
Being a
Social Entrepreneur in China
Policy, Philanthropic Environment and
Beyond
A Panel Discussion With:
Dr. Ailing
Zhuang: Founding Chair
and Executive Director, NPO Development Center Shanghai
Prof. Hanlong
Lu: Professor,
Institute of Sociology, Shanghai Academy of Social
Sciences; Director of Shanghai Center for Charity Studies
Ms. Zhaomin
Jin: Executive
Director, NPO Development Center Shanghai
Dr. David Brown
(Moderator): Senior Research
Fellow of Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
September
30, 2009
12:00 - 1:30 pm
(Lunch will be provided)
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
New Brand, New Strategy: Forging a New Identity as an NGO
Anne Lynam Goddard, President and CEO of ChildFund International
Friday, September 25, 2009
11:30
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Mapping the Philanthropic Sector:
Structure, Strategy and Emerging Programming Trends among US Foundations
Steven Lawry, Senior Research Fellow
Tuesday, September 29th
4:00-5:30 pm
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Meet The New Neighbors
Tuesday, September 15th
1:00-2:00 pm
We invite HKS faculty and staff to visit our new offices. Please join us for light refreshments and a tour of our new space.
STUDENT OPEN HOUSE
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Tuesday, September 15th
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall
Please join us to learn more about courses taught by our faculty, opportunities to engage in Hauser activities, and meet our affiliated faculty, fellows and staff.
Light food and refreshments will be served
Hauser Center Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents:
“The Internet is People”
Building the User-Centered Web
Presented by
Ben Werdmuller
Thursday June 25, 2009, 12:00-1:45 pm
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Limited seating:
RSVP to rsvp@hausercenter.org
Hauser Center Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents:
“Are Human Rights too political to be charitable?”
The Charities Act 2009 and the Future of Human Rights Organizations in Ireland
Presented by
Dr. Oonagh Breen
Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 12:30-1:45 pm
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Dr. Oonagh Breen is a visiting research fellow at the Hauser Center and a Senior Lecturer in Law at University College Dublin, Ireland. A graduate of Yale Law School, her research lies in the area of comparative charity regulation and the role of nonprofits in public policy formation. She has worked with both nonprofit organizations and the Irish Government on the current charity law reform agenda in Ireland and has engaged with regulators in Northern Ireland and Great Britain in their search for regulatory solutions that work across national borders. Her recent publications explore the challenges of regulating charitable solicitations, European charity governance issues, and the problems of overlapping regulatory regimes for cross-border charities.
May 1, 2009
China’s Think Tanks
James G. McGann,
Director of Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at Foreign Policy Research Institute,
Assistant Director of the International Relations Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Responded by
• Xufeng Zhu, Visiting Scholar, Harvard Yenching Institute; Associate professor from Nankai University of China
• Xijin Jia, Visiting Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University.
Associate Professor, and Deputy Director of NGO Center at Tsinghua University of China
Friday, May 1, 2009 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (TBD).
Taubman Building 5th Floor, Room NYE C, Harvard Kennedy School
May 4, 2009
Media as a Venue for Civil Participation in China
1:00 - 2:20 PM
Brown Bag
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
中文讨论组
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
The First Intifada and the Transformation of
Palestinian Civil Society
Presented by
Dr. Salim Tamari
12:30-1:45 pm
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Does Global Philanthropy Really Make People’s Lives Better?
Insaan Group: A model for going beyond charity, for creating a legacy
Presented by
Farahnaz Karim
12:30-1:45 pm
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Thursday, May 14, 2009, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
A Marriage of Core Competencies:
Bridging the Non-Profit and For-Profit Arenas to Fight Poverty
Steve Hollingworth, Chief Operating Officer, CARE USA
L-130, Bolton Lecture Room, Littauer Building, HKS
Light refreshments served
Free and open to the public
Thursday, April 30, 2009, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Seeing Like a Citizen:
International Perspectives on Deepening Democracy
John Gaventa
Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Vera Coelho
Visiting Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Moderated by Archon Fung
Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship, Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Light refreshments served
Fainsod Room, L324, Harvard Kennedy School
Free and open to the public
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009, 12:30-1:45 pm
Immigrant Community Organizations:
Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Presented by
Dr. Richard Hung
April 28, 2009
Foreign Philanthropies in China
Peter Geithner, Ford Foundation’s first China Representative in Beijing and advisor to the Asia Center at Harvard University.
Responded by Professor Xijin Jia, Visiting follow at Hauser Center and Deputy Director of NGO Research Center at Tsinghua University in China.
(Event Details TBA)
Friday, April 24, 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Is Humanitarian Assistance Becoming Too Politicized and Militarized?
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Conference Room, 5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel Courtyard)
Light refreshments served
Friday, April 24, 2009, 9:30-12 noon
CRAFT WORKSHOPS ON NONPROFIT START-UPS
Do you really want a 501c3?
Laws & legal issues affecting nonprofit organizations; new IRS requirements.
Marion Fremont-Smith
Senior Research Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Pamela Peters, Former President, Florida Philanthropic Network
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Fully Leveraged Philanthropy
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 12:30-1:45
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Joshua Humphreys, Founder and Director of the Center for Social PhilanthropyDr. Humphreys, a lecturer on history and literature at Harvard, founded the Center for Social Philanthropy following a residency at the Rockefeller Archive Center in 2006. Since 2009 the Center has been housed at Tellus Institute in Boston, where Dr. Humphreys is a Senior Associate. Dr. Humphreys has advised numerous organizations on issues in social and environmental finance, including the Environmental Grantmakers Association, Green Harbor Financial, Proxy Democracy, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the Social Investment Forum, Sustainable Endowments Institute, and the World Bank Group. For the Social Investment Forum, he has served as Research Director for its biennial Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States and the lead author of is Mission-Related Investing resource guide, Mission in the Marketplace (2007).
Dr. Humphreys will provide a survey of the growing practice on the part of foundations to direct significant amounts of their endowment capital toward marketplace investments that serve their philanthropic missions.
CRAFT WORKSHOPS ON NONPROFIT START-UPS
Fundraising for Nonprofits, Part II: Non-Traditional Capital
An introduction to the non-traditional capital models emerging and how they may be applied in today’s context.
Luther Ragin, Jr. Vice President of Investments, The F.B. Heron Foundation & Hauser Senior Research Fellow
Andrea McGrath, Director, Center for Applied Philanthropy
Friday, April 10, 2009, 9:30-12 noon
Malkin Penthouse - Littauer 4th Floor
79 JKF Street, Kennedy School of Government
Do Boards Matter?
A Study of Board Practices and Health Quality at U.S. Hospitals
Arnold M. Epstein
John H. Foster Professor, Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
April 9, 2009, 12:00 noon to 1:30PM
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, 5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel Courtyard)
More info
Philanthropy Study Group
Wednesday, April 8th from 4:00-5:30 pm in the Fainsod Room (HKS, Littauer 3rd Floor) for “Educational Innovation – What do Funders Want? A View from the Ford Foundation and Grantmakers for Education”. We will tackle the issue of education reform and how funders think about education and work with grantee organizations. We will have two esteemed guests to present the challenges to effective grantmaking in education:
Alison Bernstein is the Vice President for Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom at the Ford Foundation which funds innovative educational programs that support the human search for knowledge, meaning and understanding. The program supports work in two broad areas: 1) Education, Sexuality and Religion and 2) Media Arts and Culture.
James Honan is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Co-Chair of the Institute of Educational Management. Jim has worked closely with Grantmakers for Education to develop principle and practices for effective grantmaking in education.
Please come prepared with your comments and questions. We are hoping for a lively and vigorous discussion around the central questions facing philanthropy today.
Philanthropy Study Group
Thursday, April 2nd from 4:30-6:00 pm in Rubenstein G-20 (HKS campus) for “The Ins and Outs of Mission-Related Investing: When, Why and How?” Mission-related investment strategies are increasingly popular in philanthropic circles, particularly among newer foundations. What does it mean for foundations to invest in the financial success of grantee organizations? How do these investments shape philanthropic funding choices and what is their impact on the performance of grantee organizations?
Luther Ragin, Jr. Vice President for Investments at the FB Heron Foundation will lead the meeting and share his thoughts on the value of mission-related investments. Luther is a widely acknowledged expert in the capitalization of nonprofit organizations (e.g. the use of "program related investments"), as well as in mission-related investing among private foundations. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1999, Luther was CFO of the National Community Capital Association, a trade association of community development financial institutions that provide access to capital in low-income communities. Luther is a senior research fellow this spring at the Hauser Center and an HKS adjunct lecturer co-teaching a course with Jim Honan on nonprofit financial strategies.
Please come prepared with your comments and questions. We are hoping for a lively and vigorous discussion around the central questions facing philanthropy today.
Critical Issues in Humanitarian Response Disscussion Group
First Meeting: Thursday, March 19th, 2:00 – 3:30 pm
HKS Faculty Dining Room, Littauer 163
Friday, Mar. 6, 2009 9:30-12:00 noon
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (within the Charles Hotel complex), Kennedy School of Government
Strategic Financial Management
Stewardship & sustainability; nonprofit financial basics; budgeting; reading & analyzing financial statements.
Jim Honan
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Aviva Argote
Executive Director, Hauser Center
A Presentation by
Geoff Mulgan
Director of the UK's Young Foundation
Former Director of Policy under Prime Minister Tony Blair
Co-founder of the Demos think tank
Date and Time: Thursday March 12, 2009 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Trustman Room 150, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Light refreshments and cookies will be provided.
Kindly RSVP
This seminar is co-sponsored by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation
and the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
Hauser Center Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents:
China’s Civil Society and Political Transformation
Presented by
Professor Xijin Jia
Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 12:30-1:45 pm
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Is there an emerging civil society in China? What are the forces and dilemmas for China in moving toward self-government? What roles can we expect for civil society actors in dealing with these forces and dilemmas?
Join the discussion with Professor Xijin Jia. Professor Jia is a visiting scholar at the Hauser Center and Associate Professor in Tsinghua University in China. Her research is the area of civil society and governance. She has rich experience both in field research and international comparative studies. Her publications include books about China’s Citizen Participation: Cases and Models; Mind and Order; The Third Reform; etc.
This meeting is one of a series on China’s NPOs and civil society organizations that will be carried out over the next several years.
L. David Brown, Associate Director for International Programs at the Hauser Center, will moderate the seminar.
Hauser Center Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents:
Going to Scale:
Growing a Nonprofit Social Service Innovation in Perilous Financial Times
Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 12:30-1:45 pm
Taubman A , 79 JFK Street
Presented by Mindy Tarlow
Please join us for the next meeting of the Practical Issues in Philanthropy Study Group (PSG) on Tuesday, March 3rd from 4:30-6:00 pm in the Hauser Conference room for “Educational Innovation – What do Funders Want? A View from the Ford Foundation and Grantmakers in Education”. We will tackle the issue of education reform and how funders think about education and work with grantee organizations. We will have two esteemed guests to present the challenges to effective grantmaking in education:
Alison Bernstein is the Vice President for Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom at the Ford Foundation which funds innovative educational programs that support the human search for knowledge, meaning and understanding. The program supports work in two broad areas: 1) Education, Sexuality and Religion and 2) Media Arts and Culture.
James Honan is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Co-Chair of the Institute of Educational Management. Jim has worked closely with Grantmakers for Education to develop principle and practices for effective grantmaking in education.
Please come prepared with your comments and questions. We are hoping for a lively and vigorous discussion around one of the central questions facing philanthropy today – how can philanthropy support innovation in education.
Starting Nonprofits in Perilous Financial Times
A brown-bag discussion with
Meryl Schwartz
Portfolio Manager,
The Blue Ridge Foundation, New York
Date and Time: Wednesday, February 4th, 12:30-1:45 PM
Location: Hauser Center Conference Room, 5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel complex)
Meryl Schwartz joined the Blue Ridge Foundation New York one year ago as its Portfolio Manager. The Foundation supports start-up nonprofit organizations in New York City. Its mission is to help develop effective strategies for connecting people living in high poverty communities to the opportunities, resources, and support that they need to fulfill their full potential. The Foundation engages with talented leaders to turn innovative ideas into sustainable, effective organizations and by working to facilitate connections among our network of grantees. Meryl Schwartz works directly with the Foundation’s grantees to build their organizational capacity.
Students
and faculty attending the Spring 2009 Hauser Center Open
House.
Dan Palotta: Uncharitable
Location: Hauser Center Conference Room
Event: Uncharitable: How Restraints On Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential
A discussion with the author Dan Pallotta.
SEMINAR: "GETTING INSIDE PHILANTHROPY"
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations will host Brad Smith, the new president of the Foundation Center, on Wednesday, January 21st from 3:30 until 5pm in the Hauser Center main conference room.
As part of the Hauser Center’s philanthropy domain speaker series, Brad will lead a discussion on “Getting Inside Philanthropy.” This informal discussion is open to students, faculty, staff, and community members. More Info >>
December 11, 2008:
Gara LaMarche
President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies
Event info >>
NGO Leaders Seminar Series
"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.
Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, Harvard Kennedy School.
Free and open to the public.
More
info>>
NGO Leaders Seminar Series
Duncan Green, Head of Research, Oxfam GB
"From Poverty to Power"
Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development, HKS
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, HKS
Co-sponsored with Center for International Development
More info>>
New Leaders in Philanthropy Seminar Series
A conversation with
President, The Ford Foundation
Christopher Stone
Faculty Director, The Hauser Center
November 12, 2008
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Bell Hall (HKS Belfer Building, 5th Floor
More info>>
EVENT - Brown Bag Lunch - Tuesday, Oct 28th
Please come and join the conversation!
Tuesday October 28th, 12:30-1:45 at the Hauser Conference Room, 5 Bennett Street, (inside the Charles Hotel Plaza)
Cookies and refreshments will be served.
EVENT - Brown Bag Lunch - Tuesday, Oct 21st
We invite you to join us as Hauser Center Visiting Research Fellow Els de Graauw will speak about her research on the role of nonprofits as public policy advocates on behalf of disadvantaged immigrants in San Francisco."Representation from Below: Nonprofits and the Politics of Immigrant Incorporation in San Francisco."
Please come and join the conversation!
Tuesday October 21st, 12:30-1:45 at the Hauser Conference Room, 5 Bennett Street, (inside the Charles Hotel Plaza)
Cookies and refreshments will be served.
EVENT - Brown Bag Lunch - Tuesday, Oct 14th
Hauser Center Senior Research Fellow Steve Lawry will speak about the Center's research on the contributions of international philanthropy to efforts by civil society organizations to develop and test innovative approaches to poverty reduction.
Discussion will be
wide-ranging and informal. In the Conference Room at 5
Bennett Street in the Charles Hotel Plaza. 12:30-2pm.
Cookies and Refreshments.
EVENT - Brown Bag Lunch - Tuesday, Oct 7th
He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center. He will discuss his wide range of interests and work including his new book, Leading with Kindness, published by the American Management Association (his Ph.D. is in Organizational Behavior and Psychology). He will also discuss his recent papers and studies on the "Collapse of American Journalism."
Discussion will be wide-ranging and informal. In the Conference Room at 5 Bennett Street in the Charles Hotel Plaza. 12:30-2pm. Cookies and Refreshments.
EVENT
New Leaders in Philanthropy Seminar Series
A conversation with
The Hon. David M. Walker
President and CEO
Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Former Comptroller General of the United States
