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April 2004

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Upcoming Events/Speakers

Activities

People

Upcoming Events

Foundations as Agents of Social Change Series
April 14, 2004, 1:00 PM
Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Fainsod Room, Third Floor, Littauer Building
Peter Beard, Senior Vice President of Knowledge Access and Technology Strategy, The Fannie Mae Foundation
Co-sponsored by the Joint Center for Housing Studies and the Hauser Center
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact: elizabeth_england@harvard.edu.

Nonprofit Organizations and Philanthropy: Their Past and Future
A symposium in honor of Marion R. Fremont-Smith, Esq. and her new book, Governing Nonprofit Organizations: Federal and State Law and Regulation
April 19, 2004, 4:15 PM
Harvard Law School, Pound Hall 102
PANEL:
Prof. Martha Minow, Harvard Law School, Moderator
Prof. Derek Bok, Faculty Chair, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Prof. Joel Fleishman, Duke University Law School
Prof. Daniel Halperin, Harvard Law School
William Josephson, Assistant Attorney General-In-Charge, Charities Bureau, New York State Department of Law
This event is free and open to the public.

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Activities

Father J. Bryan Hehir to Join the Hauser Center Fall 2004
The Kennedy School announced in the beginning of February that Fr. J. Bryan Hehir will join the School as the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life. Father Hehir will be affiliated with the Hauser Center and will have an office at the Center by early fall 2004. Click here for the full press release.

Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations (PMNO) Executive Education Program
PMNO is an Executive Program developed jointly by the Hauser Center and Harvard Business School's Initiative on Social Enterprise. Applications are currently being accepted for this year's program, which runs from June 2nd to 5th. The program provides nonprofit leaders with a unique opportunity to step back from their day-to-day pressures and rethink their management systems. Participants will address important challenges managers must face associated with performance measurement and management. Through a powerful combination of faculty presentations, case studies, and group discussions, participants examine the rationale behind performance management and gain valuable insight into its critical aspects. Christine Letts is co-chair of the program. For more information and to apply, please visit: www.execprog.com/programs.asp?programid=128&displaymode=view.

Gordon Bloom Joins the Hauser Center as a Research Fellow
Gordon Bloom comes to Cambridge from Stanford University, where he is a lecturer in the Public Policy Program faculty in the School of Humanities & Sciences, and a faculty affiliate of Stanford's Center for Social Innovation at the Graduate School of Business. His teaching and research interests are primarily in the area of strategy and vision for US and international nonprofits, and social entrepreneurship. For the last three years at Stanford, Gordon taught a well regarded "Social Entrepreneurship Course Series," including an innovative social venture lab he created, the "Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory," an incubator where student teams create and develop pilot programs for U.S. and international social sector initiatives. At the Hauser Center, Gordon is continuing the work of his Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory by incubating a Social Venture Lab, and together with Peter Frumkin will also direct a focused initiative on the strategic management of charter schools.

Understanding Transnational Dynamics Initiative
The Emerging Transnational Dynamics Initiative, which is co-directed by Sanjeev Khagram and Peggy Levitt, hosted its third conference in March 2004 on The Rights and Responsibilities of Transnational Citizenship. While it is clear that many aspects of contemporary life transcend national borders, it is not clear what affect this has, if any, on the kinds of communities that individuals and institutions identify with. As people increasingly live their lives in multiple settings within multiple communities, do they also adapt multiple identities? How do these identities relate to each other? What explains why some individuals develop global affinities while others identify with more particularistic communities? What do these new kinds of belonging, and the different ways of mobilizing associated with them, mean for how we think about governance and civil society? This workshop brought together scholars and practitioners representing various fields to examine the ideas and identities associated with transnational citizenship.

Michael Edwards to speak at the Hauser Center about his new book Civil Society
Michael Edwards, Director, Governance and Civil Society Program at the Ford Foundation, will be at the Hauser Center on Friday, April 16 to speak to an invited group of faculty about his new book, Civil Society, published by Polity Press in January 2004.

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3. PEOPLE IN ACTION
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 www.ksg.harvard.edu/hauser/people/researchers_staff/. Information about our Doctoral Fellows is available

at www.ksg.harvard.edu/hauser/people/doc_fellows/.

Gabriele Bammer
Gabriele Bammer is organizing an Executive Session on Global Health Governance and Accountability from June 2 to 3 at the Hauser Center. A small group of scholars from around the world will join this session to discuss the current state of global health governance and accountability, the key historical trends which have led to the current state, and to speculate about future possibilities.

Srilatha Batliwala/L. David Brown
Srilatha Batliwala and Dave Brown were delegates to the CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation World Assembly in Gaborone Botswana in March. Srilatha was a speaker on several panels and Dave helped to organize and chair a day-long pre-Assembly workshop on Civil Society Legitimacy, Transparency, and Accountability that brought together two dozen representatives of research and capacity building programs on the topic.

L. David Brown
Dave Brown spent the recent spring break in Sao Paulo Brazil researching and consulting to the Development Research Centre (DRC) on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability. The DRC includes civil society research centers from the UK, South Africa, Nigeria, India, Bangladesh, Mexico and Brazil that have been funded by the British Department of International Development to develop policy-related research on the links among participation, citizenship, and public accountability.

Brent Coffin
Michael Sandel spoke on his article appearing in the April 2004 Atlantic Monthly, "The Case Against Perfection: What's Wrong with Designer Children, Bionic Athletes, and Genetic Engineering" at an Institute of Politics Forum event April 7. Brent Coffin was a member of the panel commenting on Sandel's article and the forum discussion.

Tiziana Dearing
Tiziana Dearing will participate in the May 5 meeting of The National Resource Center of the Compassion Capital Fund (CCF) in Washington, D.C. She will be a panelist in the session on identifying non-governmental technical assistance and resources for CCF grantees and the faith-based and community organizations that they serve.

Aykan Erdemir
Aykan Erdemir was a commentator for Markus Dressler's talk entitled "Redefining Religious Authority in Contemporary Turkish Alevism: The Modern Dede" at the March 17 meeting of the Study Group on Modern Turkey, at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

Gordon Bloom
Gordon Bloom hosted "Transforming Public Schools in America: The Role of Government and the Non-Profit Sector in the 2004 Campaign & Beyond," with Jon Schnur, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, New Leaders for New Schools, at the Hauser Center on March 5.

Bloom taught March 6 at the HBS/KSG Social Enterprise Conference "Creating Social Change Organizations: The Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory."

Peter Frumkin/Gordon Bloom
Peter Frumkin has received a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation to launch The Strategic Management of Charter Schools Initiative. Peter is collaborating with Gordon Bloom on this project. As part of the Initiative, they have organized a Kennedy School Executive Education program from August 10 to 12, 2004 on "Strategic Management and Governance for Charter School Leaders."

Peter Frumkin
Peter Frumkin has co-edited a new book with Jonathan B. Imber, In Search of the Nonprofit Sector, published by Transaction Publishers, February 2004.

Jonathan Laurence
Jonathan Laurence served as a commentator in an "author meets critics" session around Riva Kastoryano's book "Negotiating Identity" at the Council of European Studies biannual conference in Chicago in mid-March. He also chaired a panel on "the Retreat of Multiculturalism?" and presented a paper from his dissertation on government organization of Islam in France.

Peggy Levitt
Peggy Levitt published "Redefining the Boundaries of Belonging: The Institutional Character of Transnational Religious Life," in Sociology of Religion, 65(1):1-18.

Mark Moore/Gordon Bloom
Mark Moore and Gordon Bloom were delegates to the Oxford University Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, March 29 to 31, 2004.

Mark Moore
Mark Moore and Richard Hackman will lead, "The Arts in 21st Century American Society: Expanding and Deepening Participation," a two-day conference at the Hauser Center on May 6 and 7 supported by the Wallace Foundation. Individuals from across the country representing nonprofit organizations, foundations, universities and individual artists have been invited for this event.

Moore spent part of this spring at the Warwick Institute of Governance and Public Management in the UK at the invitation of the Director, Professor John Bennington. Moore took this opportunity to write and work on the completion of a draft of his book , Enabling Civil Society. He also worked on a publishable version of the "Public Value Scorecard" that will appear in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. While there, he lectured at the Institute and attended a conference on social entrepreneurship at Oxford.

Sarah Robinson
Sarah Robinson gave a talk entitled "Commercial Fishing Infrastructure in Gloucester, Massachusetts: A Cooperative Effort to Describe, Analyze, and Predict," at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Dallas, Texas, on April 3, 2004. She will present on "Crisis and its Uses: Regulating the New England Groundfish Fisheries," at the annual meeting of the American Ethnological Society in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 24.

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