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January 2004

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Upcoming Events/Speakers

Activities

People

Upcoming Events

Foundations as Agents of Social Change Series
February 2, 2004, 1:00 PM
Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Fainsod Room, Third Floor, Littauer Building
Debra Schwartz, Program Officer for Program Related Investments, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur 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.

Faith-Based Home Ownership Programs in Jacksonville, Florida
February 5, 2004 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Hauser Center Conference Room, 5 Bennett Street
J. Randall Evans-MPP'77, Chair, Jacksonville Florida Housing Commission
Organized by the Joint Program on Religion and Public Life
This event is free and open to the public. 

Bridge Builders Conference
The International Bridge Builder Conference held at Harvard University from February 23 to 27 brings together activists from around the world to share their skills, successes, and struggles in international development and community organizing. Bridge builders are grassroots and nonprofit leaders who take innovative approaches to solving problems in their own communities. Participating activists work on a wide range of issues, including economic development, sustainable agriculture, indigenous rights, women's empowerment, refugee and human rights, and HIV/AIDS awareness. Conference events are open to the public and free of charge. For more information, please visit www.bridgebuilding.org.

Foundations as Agents of Social Change Series
March 15, 2004, 1:00 PM
Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Fainsod Room, Third Floor, Littauer Building
Darren Walker, Director, Working Communities, The Rockefeller 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.

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Activities

Hauser Center Course Guide for Spring 2004
The Center's "Guide to Nonprofit Courses at Harvard University and Beyond" is available on-line at www.ksg.harvard.edu/hauser/publications/np_courses/index.htm Hard copies may be requested by emailing Al Mujenda at al_mujenda@harvard.edu. 

Seminar on Emerging Issues in Philanthropy: After the Boom: Dealing with Real and Perceived Fiscal Squeezes on the Charitable Sector
The Seminar on Emerging Issues in Philanthropy, a joint project of The Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy and the Hauser Center, held its tenth seminar on December 5th in Cambridge. The topic was "After the Boom: Dealing with Real and Perceived Fiscal Squeezes on the Charitable Sector." Invited guests included scholars, practitioners, journalists, and government officials who discussed the following topics: (1) Is the Sector being squeezed and, if so, where are the pressures coming from?; (2) What are the differences among components of the Sector?; (3) What responses are appropriate?; and (4) Choices and their consequences. For more information, please contact: Marion Fremont-Smith at marion_fremont-smith@harvard.edu.

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.

New Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative
The Hauser Center is partnering with the Kennedy School of Governments Center for Business and Government, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, and Center for Public Leadership to launch a new initiative on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The kick-off event for the new initiative is March 4th at the Kennedy School. The CSR Initiative seeks to study and enhance the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility. It is a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder effort dedicated to exploring the intersection between corporate responsibility, corporate governance, public policy and the media. It aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice, encourage innovation, build leadership skills and support better understanding and constructive action between different sectors. The CSR Initiative achieves its mission through a combination of: 1) Research conducted by Harvard faculty, fellows and students, and in collaboration with external practitioner experts and organizations; 2) Dialogues and workshops that convene leaders from business, government, civil society, academia and the media around emerging trends and critical dilemmas in corporate social responsibility; 3) Education activities to build relevant skills among the next generation of public and private sector leaders; and 4) Outreach to share research findings and conclusions from dialogues with policy-makers, business leaders, academics, investors and the media. For more information, please visit: www.ksg.harvard.edu/cbg/CSRI/about.htm.

Understanding Transnational Dynamics
Understanding Transnational Dynamics is a research initiative co-led by Sanjeev Khagram and Peggy Levitt. Peter Dobkin Hall is also integrally involved in the project. This initiative explores and analyzes, from a variety of theoretical, methodological, ontological and epistemological perspectives, the forms and consequences of different kinds of transnationalisms, how these relate to one another, and how they define and redefine social relations and institutions. This initiative is organized around a series of workshops and research conversations involving scholars from across the disciplines as well as practitioners from a variety of fields working around the world. The workshops focus on the following topics: global citizenship, transnational identities and institutions, multi-stakeholder sovereignty and governance, religion, terrorism, arts and culture and corporate citizenship/social responsibility. Various articles, an edited volume, and several books will result from these efforts.

The initiative will host its third workshop on "The Rights and Responsibilities of Global Citizenship" on March 11th to 13th. Participants will include scholars, representing the fields of sociology, political science, anthropology, religion, and history, and practitioners representing various fields of practice including social service and advocacy organizations and philanthropic institutions. This workshop is funded by the Ford Foundation. A fourth workshop is planned in the late fall/winter 2004/05 on the organizations, institutions and innovations that produce and are the product of transnationalism. This meeting is generously supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. For further information on the initiative, please contact Sarah Alvord at sarah_alvord@harvard.edu.

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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/.

Srilatha Batliwala/L David Brown
Srilatha Batliwala and Dave Brown worked with colleagues from Transparency International, Oxfam International, and CIVICUS to present a workshop on Legitimacy, Transparency and Accountability for Transnational Advocacy NGOs at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai. Batliwala and Brown also hosted a meeting of leaders of transnational advocate organizations at the WSF in Mumbai. The meeting discussed emerging plans for Kofi Annan's UN-Civil Society Relations Commission and for the Multilateral Development Goals with UN representatives as well as planning for the next Executive Session on Transnational Advocacy NGO Leadership meeting in London in May.

L. David Brown
Dave Brown was a featured speaker at the Seminar on Grassroots Development at the Silver Jubilee of Gram Vikas in Bhubaneshwar, India. He also facilitated a strategic planning initiative for the Board and Staff of the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) in New Delhi.

Brown spoke January 29th about NGOs as a resource to the Word Trade Organization (WTO) for a conference, "The WTO: End its Reign or Rein it in?" organized by the Bretton Woods Committe in Washington, DC.

Peter Frumkin/Elizabeth Keating
Elizabeth Keating and Peter Frumkin's article "Reengineering Nonprofit Financial Accountability" won the prize for best paper published in Public Administration Review in 2003.

Peter Frumkin
Peter Frumkin presented his paper "Trouble in Foundationland" at the Bradley Center for Philanthropy at the Hudson Institute on January 15th in Washington, DC.

Frumkin received grants from the Smith Richardson Foundation and the Milton Fund at Harvard to carry out a study of the impact of AmeriCorps and other national service programs.

Jonathan Laurence
Jonathan Laurence organized a one-day conference in late-November on the Conseil Franais du Culte Musulman at Sciences Po (Paris) with current and former government ministers, bureaucratic advisors, academic specialists and French Muslim leaders. He presented a chapter from his dissertation and participated in debates over the institutional form and role of the new Council on Islam in French political life.

In January, Laurence participated in a conference organized by the American Embassy in Germany on the role of Arabs in the West in the political and economic development of the Arab world. Laurence was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article on January 13th about Saudi funding of Islam in France.

Peggy Levitt
Peggy Levitt visited with colleagues at the East China Normal University in Shanghai, China to explore collaborative research opportunities on globalization.

Levitt co-directed a research workshop on religion, immigration and civic engagement, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

Levitt recently delivered invited lectures at Columbia University, Boston University, Tufts University, and Framingham State College on her research on transnational migration and religion.

Orly Lobel
Orly Lobel's essay "Orchestrated Experimentalism in the Regulation of Work" was published in the Michigan Law Review, vol 101. Her paper, "Between Individualism and Solidarity: Collective Efforts for Social Reform in the Heterogeneous Workplace," will be published in Research in the Sociology of Work 2004.

Mark Moore
Mark Moore and J. Richard Hackman, Cahners-Rabb Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Harvard, will be leading the fourth START Executive Program session with Arts Midwest in Biloxi, Mississippi on February 15th, 2004. The theme has been to 'recognize the public value created by State Arts organizations. START IV will look at how performance measurement systems can be used not only to recognize public value, but also to animate performance inside one's organization.

Moore spoke before a group of 100 current managers at the World Bank on January 29th about performance measurement in public institutions. The talk was entitled "Recognizing Public Value: The Challenge of Measuring Performance in the Public Sector."

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