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November 2003

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Upcoming Events

 1. UPCOMING EVENTS

There are no upcoming Hauser Center events scheduled at this time.

Activities

The Hauser Center Welcomes a New Executive Director
Tiziana Dearing joined the Center in the beginning of November as its new Executive Director. Tiziana brings a decade of experience consulting to senior managers in nonprofits and corporations. In 1997, she started her own consultancy, working with nonprofits and specializing in strategy development and implementation, executive decision making and coaching, and large and small group facilitation. She received a Masters in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government in 2000 with concentrations in International Security Policy and Negotiation and Conflict Resolution. She had a merit-based scholarship as a Kennedy School Fellow, and in 1999 won the student Public Service Award. She received a Bachelor's in English in 1992 from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Writing Award and marched in the University of Michigan Marching Band. Click here to read a full bio.

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. 

New Hauser Center Working Papers
Paper No. 21 by Orly Lobel, "Regulating Coexistence in the New Political-Economy: Cross-Sector Collaboration in a Workforce Development Approach," October 2003.
Paper No. 20 by Marion R. Fremont-Smith and Andras Kosaras, "Wrongdoing by Officers and Directors of Charities: A Survey of Press Reports 1995-2002," September 2003.
Copies of these papers may be downloaded from here. 

Executive Session (ES) on Faith-Based and Community Approaches to Urban Revitalization, Meeting III, October 2003

Launched in 2002 under the auspices of the Joint Program on Religion and Public Life at the Hauser Center, the goal of this Executive Session is to equip public administrators for effective collaboration with local faith communities and funders. To achieve this goal, the Hauser Center has convened three two-day meetings over the past 1.5 years of a group of 30+ innovative mayors, faith-based and community practitioners whose joint task is to address the question of how multiple sectors working together can provide goods of public value.

The ES Meeting III was convened successfully on October 2 to 3. Key members of the ES team crafted five case studies/papers to catalyze and focus the discussions at this meeting. The topics for these papers and discussions revolved around: (i) the various styles of city hall leadership examining the work of several large city mayors considered to be national leaders in the creation of successful collaborations with faith communities; (ii) how religious leaders work with public officials to frame issues critical to their ongoing mission in urban neighborhoods; (iii) the relationships between government and faith based organizations as seen from the point of view of those involved in IAF (Industrial Areas Foundation) organizing; (iv) a KSG case study on mentoring based on the Amachi model, its origins, operations and the establishment of the Amachi program in Philadelphia which raises a number of issues about operationalizing partnerships of a substantial scale; and, (v) the efforts by the Mayor's office and faith-based and secular affordable housing groups in the city of Nashville. For additional information, please contact Anne Mathew at anne_mathew@harvard.edu.

New Book by ES Co-Convener, Mary Jo Bane
Mary Jo Bane and Lawrence M. Mead gave a presentation on October 3, at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology of their new book "Lifting Up the Poor: A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty & Welfare Reform" which is part of the Pew Forum Dialogues on Religion and Public Life.

National Purpose, Local Action - A Project with the Sierra Club
Marshall Ganz is working on a new project with Kenneth Andrews of the University of North Carolina Sociology Department (formerly, Harvard University Sociology Department). The project is called "National Purpose, Local Action" and is sponsored by the Sierra Club. It is designed to learn more about Sierra Club groups and chaptersthe diverse strengths and the challenges they facein order to find ways for the organization to become more effective at the local, state and national levels. The best way to do this is to go directly to the people doing the work that makes the Club what it is: its active volunteer leaders.

In September, Ganz, Andrews, and their research team trained 150 volunteer facilitators at the Sierra Club national meeting. These facilitators have since returned to their local communities, and begun to facilitate 450 self-assessment sessions within their local chapters and group executive committees (excoms).

This exercise, combined with a leadership (written) survey and phone survey of excom chairs, will serve in the end to clearly identify the strengths and successes of chapters and groups, pinpoint the areas of need and development, improve local, chapter and national alignment, guide the development of training curricula, improve the delivery and support provided to chapters and groups, identify new structures for today's Sierra Club activists, and provide templates for future activists.

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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/Sanjeev Khagram/L. David Brown
Srilatha Batliwala, Sanjeev Khagram and Dave Brown are organizing two workshops at the World Social Forum in Mumbai in January. One will focus on "Transnational NGO Legitimacy, Transparency and Accountability," drawing on the experiences of transnational advocacy NGOs. The other focuses on "Building Alliances with Progressive U.S. Grassroots Groups to Transform the United States," and is co-sponsored with Frances Kunreuther's Building Movement in(to) the U.S. Nonprofit Sector Project and the Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Advocacy Initiative.

Sarah Alvord/L. David Brown/Chris Letts
Sarah Alvord, Dave Brown and Chris Letts' paper "Social Entrepreneurship and Social Transformation" will be published in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science in early 2004.

Julia Berger
Julia Berger presented her research on religious NGOs at the 2004 ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action) Conference in Denver, where she was also the recipient of the ARNOVA Focus Field Award for research in the area of religious studies.

L. David Brown
Dave Brown will be a speaker at the Reunion Conference of the Yale University World Fellows Program on December 12 to 13. He will speak about the roles of civil society organizations in multi-sectoral governance processes.

Martha Chen
Martha Chen presented a session at the Oxfam Canada Strategizing Workshop on Women and Precarious Work. Chen and WIEGO Latin America Adviser Carmen Roca, of the International Development Research Center of Canada, discussed WIEGO's framework, social protection, and the central role of the International Labor Organization.

Chen recently published an article entitled, "Rethinking the Informal Economy: In An Era of Global Integration and Labour Market Flexibility" for a special issue of the journal Seminar that focuses on the informal economy in India. The issue can be found at www.india-seminar.com

Aykan Erdemir
Aykan Erdemir presented a paper entitled "Islamic Nonprofits in Turkey: Reconfiguration of Alevi Belief and Practice" at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in Chicago on November 20.

Elizabeth Keating
Liz Keating will assume the role of Treasurer of ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action) the week of November 17. She has also recently joined the Board of the Philips Brooks House Association at Harvard and the Finance Committee of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union in Massachusetts.

Prabha Kotiswaran
Prabha Kotiswaran presented "Rethinking Ideology & Strategy: Progressive Lawyering, Globalization and Markets," held at Northeastern University School of Law, November 6 to 8 on The Body Trade: Migration and Human Trafficking panel; and also presented "Injury and Distribution: An Inquiry into the State of our Art on Sex, Sexuality, Gender and the Family," held at Harvard Law School, November 20 to 22 on the Feminism and its Critique: Care/Work//Sex/Work panel.

Christine Letts
Christine Letts spoke at the Investor's Circle Conference in Cambridge as part of a panel on the community contribution continuum from social investing to philanthropy on November 3. She also spoke to nonprofits and donors in meetings sponsored by the Donor's Forum of Milwaukee on Improving the Relationships Between Donors and Nonprofits on November 11.

Peggy Levitt
Peggy Levitt edited a special volume of International Migration Review entitled "Transnational Migration: International Perspectives," Vol. 37, Fall 2003.

Orly Lobel
Orly Lobel gave a talk at the Center for World Affairs and Global Economy-UW and Wisconsin Law School in October on "The Fall of Regulation and the Rise of Governance in Contemporary Legal Thought." In an address to the State Bar of Wisconsin, 15th Annual Environmental Law Update on October 21,Secretary Scott Hassett, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, recognized her contribution (excerpt): "From Harvard's JFK School, Orly Lobel said that new governance models of social conduct are replacing historic regulatory governing. She had examples affecting employment, social services, health, education, policing, intellectual property, corporate shareholder protection and environmental protection.One of her contrasts was between what she called coercive law affecting discrete actions and aspirational law that produces holistic actions."

Orly also participated on November 6 at a conference at Northeastern University on Progressive Lawyering, Ideology, and Globalization, where she gave a talk entitled "Privatization and Participatory Citizenship."

Mark Moore
Mark Moore presented "Meeting the Demand for Accountability in International NGOs" at a workshop on November 11 sponsored by the Program on NonProfit Organizations at Yale University.

Saubhagya Shah
Saubhagya Shah presented "Historical and Social Background to the Present Conflict in Nepal" at the Strengthening Analytical Capacity at the United Nations: The First Workshop of the UN Knolwedge Management Project, The Pocantico Conference Center, Tarrytown, NY, September 18 to 19.

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