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Activities
Two New Senior Faculty Join the Hauser
Center
Father J. Bryan Hehir
Fr. J. Bryan Hehir returned to Harvard this fall as the Parker
Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public
Life. Bryan is an eminent theologian who most recently served as
president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA and Distinguished
Professor of Ethics and International Affairs at Georgetown
University. As a principal of the Hauser Center, Bryan will play a
key role in the Center's Program on Religion and Public Life. He
will also teach at the Kennedy School.
Herman "Dutch" Leonard
Dutch Leonard is the George F. Baker, Jr., Professor of Public
Management at the Kennedy School. He teaches leadership,
organizational strategy, and financial management for public sector
and nonprofit organizations. As part of his role at the Hauser
Center, Dutch will focus on questions of governance and
accountability and on social enterprise curriculum.
Hauser Center Annual Newsletter and Guide
to Nonprofit Courses Available
The 2004 annual Hauser
Center newsletter and Guide to Nonprofit Courses: Harvard
University and Beyond were both produced over the summer. The
publications can be donwloaded from the publications section of the
Hauser website by clicking here. Hard
copies of either publication can be requested by emailing Al Mujenda
at al_mujenda@harvard.edu.
New Executive Program for Charter School
Leaders Launched this Summer
Peter Frumkin and Gordon
Bloom developed a new Kennedy School Executive Education program
entitled Creating New Schools: Strategic Management and Governance
for Charter School Leaders, designed in collaboration with faculty
from the Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School.
Partial funding for this program came from the Annie E. Casey
Foundation, the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, and the Pisces
Foundation. It launched August 10 to 12, 2004 with 82 U.S. charter
school movement leaders in attendance. Three new teaching cases
featuring managerial dilemmas in charter schools were developed for
the program. Christine Letts and William Ryan also
taught in the program, which will be offered again next summer.
Click here
for more information.
Executive Session on Global Health
Governance and Accountability
The first planning meeting
for this Executive Session was held June 2 and 3 bringing together
scholars from Harvard, the Australian National University and the
Fulbright New Century Scholars program. Hosted by Mark Moore
and Gabriele Bammer, the group discussed six dimensions of
the global health crisis: the growth of epidemics, the lack of
sustainable health systems, the deterioration of the
socio-economic-political context, the loss of a clear values base,
the increased number of global actors with accompanying
fragmentation of activity, and systems failure. These ideas are
presented in more detail in Kickbusch, I and Payne, L Constructing
Public Health in the 21st Century. The meeting was funded by a
Fulbright Institutional Partnerships grant. The next meeting is
planned for early 2005.
Religion, Politics and Public Life
seminar series
The Program on Religion and
Public Life (PRPL) has launched a faculty seminar series on
"Religion, Politics and Public Life," which is co-convened
by J. Bryan Hehir and Mary Jo Bane. The Program plans
to conduct five seminars over the '04 to '05 academic year, bringing
together scholars and practitioners for conversations that will
enhance our understanding of the changing role of religion in
politics and public life, both nationally and internationally.
PRPL's goal is to have a conversation across disciplines, within a
faculty community that can begin to flesh out the public policy,
legal, constitutional and sociological ramifications of religion in
civic and political life. The first seminar is October 4 on Politics
and Faith: The US Presidential Elections with panelists Anna
Greenberg (Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research), Joseph Loconte
(The Heritage Foundation) and J. Bryan Hehir. This event
is by invitation only. For additional details, please contact Anne
Mathew at anne_mathew@harvard.edu
New case studies
Two new Kennedy School case
studies have emerged from the Program on Religion and Public Life's
Executive Session on Faith-Based and Community Approaches to Urban
Revitalization. They are: 1) United Way Mass Bay and the Faith and
Action Initiative (A and Sequel to A): Should Faith Be Funded? and
United Way Mass Bay and the Faith and Action Initiative (B): Going
For the Gold?; and 2) Faith in the City: Patrick McCrory and the
Mayors Mentoring Alliance. To view these new case studies, please
visit the Program on Religion and Public Life at http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hauser/programs/JPRPL/ES/es_products.htm.
Colombia Civic Sector Initiative
Building on two years of
conferences and discussions with colleagues at two universities and
two networks of civil society peace and development organizations in
Colombia, a team from Harvard spent a week in Bogota in June working
with almost a hundred representatives of NGOs, foundations and
universities in two pilot workshops, initiating a pilot program for
the Hauser Center's "Executive Education 3.0" initiative.
This approach to executive education seeks to develop programs that
integrate Hauser Center knowledge with local knowledge and resources
that can be delivered by local--in this case Colombian--universities
and NGOs. One workshop was focused on capacity building for local
civil society organizations, and touched on strategic thinking,
organizational learning, and organization change management.
Participants in that workshop included NGO leaders, university
faculty and foundation leaders. The Colombian university staff have
agreed to now adapt the materials and the program to the Colombian
context for delivery to local NGO leaders at a follow-up workshop in
January 2005. Dave Brown will attend that workshop as a
consultant, but the intent is to build local university capacity to
deliver this program to audiences that would never be able to
participate in workshops on campus at Harvard. At the same time, Ted
Macdonald from the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
at Harvard conducted a workshop with university and NGO leaders
focused on facilitating the collection of research narratives about
successful local peace-building and reconciliation efforts. A
follow-up to that workshop is also planned as an approach to
building better understanding of what it takes to foster peace and
conflict resolution in rural Colombia.
Partnership with Monterrey Tec in Mexico
On behalf of the Kennedy
School's alliance with new public administration programs at
Monterrey Tec in Mexico, Dave Brown spent a week in April
visiting the Monterrey and Mexico campuses where he met with faculty
to discuss the development of civil society education and research
programs, taught classes in the graduate and undergraduate programs,
and met with networks of local NGOs to discuss their potential links
to the public administration programs. Sanjeev Khagram also
visited Monterrey Tec this summer and gave talks and seminars on
transnational dynamics, corporate responsibility and new forms of
regulation with students and faculty, as well as business and civil
society leaders in Mexico City. The Hauser Center is discussing the
possibility of further cooperation around the development of
executive education programs, such as the pilot program (described
above) that has been started in Colombia.
Civil Society Legitimacy and
Accountability Project
The Hauser Center began a
three-year project on the legitimacy and accountability of civil
society organizations in cooperation with the CIVICUS World Alliance
for Citizen Participation in April. The project will build
frameworks for understanding the issues of civil society legitimacy
and accountability, explore innovations around the world for meeting
those challenges, and build capacity for effective response in
various regions and countries. Jagadananda, a CIVICUS Senior
Fellow and a founding leader of the Centre for Youth and Social
Development in India, spent the months of July and August at the
Hauser Center drafting a report on civil society legitimacy and
accountability innovations around the world. In connection with this
initiative Hauser Center faculty and researchers have participated
in a series of international and regional conferences. Other events
in this ongoing series of activities included:
gave a keynote address
to a conference on Seeking NGO-Donor Partnerships for Greater
Effectiveness and Accountability organized by the Multilateral
Investment Fund of the InterAmerican Development Bank in May.
His talk was titled "Mutual Accountability and Development
Partnerships."
Dave Brown also made a presentation
of the issue of "Mutual Accountability and Development
Partnerships" at the Institute for Development Studies at the
University of Sussex in June.
Srilatha Batliwala and Dave
Brown organized with CIVICUS a well attended pre-conference
workshop at the International Society for Third Sector Research
meetings in Toronto, July 11-14. Srilatha also was one of
two speakers in a conference plenary on civil society
accountability, and Srilatha and Dave both
participated in a symposium on Legitimacy, Transparency and
Accountability there as well.
International Advocacy NGOs Strategy and
Leadership Workshops
Leaders of about twenty
international advocacy NGOs and networks (IANGOs) focused on issues
like human rights, environment, women's rights, development,
governance, and indigenous peoples came together for three days in
Oxford in late May to discuss challenges, strategies and the
potentials for alliance across issues. Srilatha Batliwala, Sanjeev
Khagram, Dave Brown and Erin Belitskus from the
Hauser Center and Kumi Naidoo from the CIVICUS World Alliance
for Citizen Participation worked with leaders from Oxfam
International, Transparency International, and Amnesty International
to organize and facilitate the meeting, which was the second in what
is expected to be an annual series.
Community Advocacy Project
In June, Marshall Ganz
returned to Israel to continue his ongoing collaboration with Haifa
University and Shatil, a capacity-building center that provides
training, consultation, and coalition-building assistance to over
1,000 nonprofit organizations in Israel each year, on the Community
Advocacy Project. The project's pilot was kicked off in December
2003, and has since trained over a dozen community organizers from
all corners of Israeli society (Russians, Ethiopians, Palestinian
Israelis, Bedouin, Druze, and religious and secular Jews), using the
model of teaching developed by Marshall at the Kennedy
School. Over the next few years, the program aims to: 1) Recruit,
train and develop a community of organizers skilled in developing
the leadership needed to bring about significant social change in
Israel; 2) Develop the practice of organizing and community
participation, mobilization and advocacy by learning from the
Israeli experience as well as that of others around the world; 3)
Strengthen community based organizations and enhance their
effectiveness, sustainability, and influence; and 4) Build a
community of democratic practice by creating bridges and networks
among different groups in Israeli society through joint study and
organizing around social issues.
Understanding Transnational Dynamics
Initiative
The initiative, which is
co-led by Sanjeev Khagram and Peggy Levitt, will be
hosting a fourth workshopBeyond the National and the Global:
Transnational Organizations and Institutionson November 11 to 13,
2004 in Cambridge, MA. The conference is generously funded by the
Rockefeller Foundation. The goal of the initiative, one of the
Centers five Intellectual Foundations projects, is to bring
together scholars who can help identify patterns, trends, and
conceptual and methodological frameworks to establish
"intellectual foundations" for the emergent field of
Transnational Studies. Other workshops the initiative has hosted
include: Transnational Dynamics and the Emerging Architectures of
Governance, Financial and Transnational Dynamics of Terrorism, and
Rights and Responsibilities of Transnational Citizenship. Additional
workshops are planned on the topics of transnational religion, arts
and culture and transnational America. The workshops will also
furbish some of the materials from which Sanjeev and Peggy
will write a synthetic volume on the ideas, identities,
organizations, and institutions associated with transnationalism. Sanjeev
and Peggy have produced a working paper available on the
Hauser Center Working Paper Series (http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hauser/publications/index.htm)
entitled "Constructing Transnational Studies."
Social Accountability of Corporations
Research Project
Sanjeev Khagram and Suzanne
Shanahan, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke University,
are nearing completion on their social accountability of
corporations research project. Given the research completed to date,
Sanjeev and Suzanne have conceptualized a way to
understand corporate responsibility and social regulation that
highlights the multilevel and interactive dynamics. By conceptually
focusing on the broader notion of corporate citizenship, they are
looking at both the spectrum of behaviors from corporate
responsibility to corporate accountability as well as the dramatic
cross-country, sector and firm level variations in behaviors since
the 1970s and especially the 1990s. Further, they propose a field
approach to corporate citizenship that enables a better explanation
of some of the counter-intuitive dimensions of the phenomenon.
Conceptualizing corporate citizenship as a transnational field also
accents its contested nature. Finally, they have developed a set of
tentative propositions about the role of transnational cross-sectoral
activist and professional networks in promoting, spreading and
deepening the social accountability of corporations. One of the
forthcoming publications of the project is a Harvard Business
Review/Latin America (November 2004) article on Brazilian social
balance sheets.
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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/.
Sarah Alvord, Dave Brown and Chris Letts
An article written by Sarah
Alvord, Dave Brown and Chris Letts was published
in the September 2004 issue of the Journal of Applied Behavioral
Science. The article is titled "Social Entrepreneurship and
Societal Transformation: An Exploratory Study."
Bill Ryan, Mark Moore and Dave Brown
Bill Ryan, Mark
Moore and Dave Brown will give a colloquy on
"Emerging Frameworks in Governance, Accountability, and
Legitimacy" at the Association for Research on Nonprofit
Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Conference in Los
Angeles on November 18.
Mark Moore and Dutch Leonard
Mark Moore and Dutch
Leonard will teach in the Kennedy School's second year of the
Executive Fellows Program with the Australia and New Zealand School
of Government held at the Melbourne Business School, University of
Melbourne.
Derek Bok
Derek Bok
participated on a Senate Committee on Finance panel on "Charity
Oversight and Reform: Keeping Bad Things from Happening to Good
Charities" on June 22.
Dave Brown
Dave Brown gave a
presentation to the national Academy of Management Meetings on
August 10. The overall theme of the meetings was "Actionable
Knowledge," and he talked about the Hauser Center's approaches
to practice-research engagement in a symposium on centers of action
research around the world.
Marion Fremont-Smith
An interview with Marion
Fremont-Smith on striking a balance in nonprofit governance and
oversight was featured in the Social Enterprise section of the
Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge website: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4320&t=nonprofit
Marion was also featured in an
article in the September/October 2004 issue of Foundation News
& Commentary.
Marion was invited to submit comments
to the Senate Committee on Finance discussion draft of legislative
proposals to regulate charities that was issued in July, and also
appeared at a round table discussion of the proposals that was held
in D.C. on July 20.
Peter Frumkin
An article by Peter
Frumkin and Joseph Galaskiewicz, "Institutional
Isomorphism and Public Sector Organizations," appeared in the Journal
of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2004 14: 283-307.
Peter has begun work with Abt
Associates on a major new retrospective study of VISTA volunteer
program, looking at long term effects of volunteer service under a
grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service. He
has also received grants from the Smith Richardson Foundation and
the Milton fund for broader research on national service programs.
Marshall Ganz
"Duty to the Race:
African American Fraternal Orders and the Legal Defense of the Right
to Organize" appeared in the Fall 2004 issue of Social
Science History (SSH). Co-written by Marshall Ganz and Ariane
Liazos, the article is one output of the multi-year Civic
Engagement Project (CEP). Supported by the Ford Foundation and
headed by Theda Skocpol, the CEP also produced several other
articles in SSHs latest issue, a special edition entitled
"African American Fraternal Associations and the History of
Civil Society in the United States."
Marshall has also recently published
"Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social
Movements" in both The Psychology of Leadership (2005,
Messick and Kramer, eds) and Rethinking Social Movements
(2004, Goodwin and Jasper, eds), as well as "Organizing"
in the Encyclopedia of Leadership, Vol. 3 (2004, Goethals et
al, eds) and "Another Look at Farmworker Mobilization" in The
Social Movements Reader (2003, Goodwin and Jasper, eds). His
third book chapter to be published in the last year, "Against
the Tide: Projects and Pathways of the New Generation of Union
Leaders, 1984-2001" in Rebuilding Labor (2004, Milkman
and Voss, eds), is the product of Marshall's 20-year Union
Leadership Project. The project is a study of the leadership
pathways of California labor leaders over an extended period of
time, and examines the motivations, choices, and opportunities that
led many to stay, some to leave, and others to later return to union
work.
On September 11, 2004, Marshall
and colleagues Kenneth Andrews (UNC Chapel Hill) Hahrie
Han (Stanford), Matthew Baggetta (Harvard), and Chaeyoon
Lim (Harvard), presented the preliminary report to the Sierra
Club Board of Directors from their research project, "National
Purpose, Local Action: Leadership, Membership and Organization and
the Effectiveness of Sierra Club Groups and Chapters" (NPLA).
The project, begun in 2003 and slated to continue through 2005,
evaluates the effectiveness of local Sierra Club Chapters and
Groups. As part of the Clubs effort to return to its
well-established grassroots, NPLA is a groundbreaking, thorough,
ambitious view of a volunteer membership association. It has also
developed with an unprecedented level of support and openness on the
part of the host organization. Through a leader survey, phone
interview, self-assessment session, and supplementary data, Marshall
and his colleagues endeavor to learn what motivates grassroots
Sierra Club members to action, and how the club can once again
become a powerful grassroots force in this country.
In Cambridge in early August 2004, Marshall
participated in the third session of the executive education
program Achieving Excellence in Community Development (AEII): An
Advanced Practitioner Program. Along with a team of skilled
facilitators, he led the participantsall Neighborhood
Reinvestment Corporation (NRC) Executive Directorsin several
sessions on organizing: Resources, Deliberation, Strategy; Values,
Motivation, Narrative; and Action.
Peter Dobkin Hall
Peter Dobkin Hall presented
"Religion, Philanthropy, Service, and Civic Engagement in
Twentieth Century America," presented to the Symposium on Gifts
of Money in America's Communities at the Campbell Institute of
Public Affairs, Syracuse University on April 16, 2004.
Peter was also a panelist on a
session discussing the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on board governance
at CAPLAW (Community Action Program Legal Services) National
Training Conference in Boston on June 16.
Peter contributed "A Historical
Perspective on Evaluation in Foundations," in Marc T. Braverman,
Norman A. Constantine, & Jana Kay Slater (eds)., Foundations
and Evaluation: Contexts and Practices for Effective Philanthropy
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2004).
His paper, "Learning to Be Civic:
Higher Education and Student Life, 1890-1940," was featured in
the Center for Public Leadership Working Papers (Cambridge: Center
for Public Leadership, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University, 2004).
Peter has been reappointed as chair
of ARNOVA's annual book award committee. This award honors the most
outstanding book published in the nonprofits field during the past
three calendar years. He is also currently serving as Book Review
Editor for Nonprofit Management & Leadership (NM&L).
Based at Case Western Reserve's Mandel Center for Nonprofit
Organizations, NM&L is one of the leading scholarly journals in
the nonprofits field.
Paul Hodge
This year, in addition to
his research fellow appointment at the Hauser Center, Paul Hodge
is a part-time Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Oxford University.
More about his work can be found at http://www.martininstitute.ox.ac.uk/distvisiting.asp.
Paul has also recently joined the Board of the Schwab
Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship in Geneva http://www.schwabfound.org/board.htm.
On October 1, Paul testified in
Washington, D.C. before the 2005 White House Conference on Aging
about the policy issues relating to the aging of the United States'
baby boomers, "Living Younger Longer: Baby Boomer
Opportunities."
Elizabeth Keating
Elizabeth Keating is
on sabbatical this year. She is hosting a conference April 1-2, 2005
on "Promoting Financial Stewardship in the Public Sector."
More information about the conference will be posted on the Hauser
Center website (www.ksg.harvard.edu/hauser)
shortly.
Sanjeev Khagram
Sanjeev Khagram is on
sabbatical this year and is a Visiting Professor at the Institute
for International Studies at Stanford University.
In August, Cornell University Press
released Sanjeev's book, Dams and Development:
Transnational Struggles for Water and Power. The book narrates
changes in our ideas of what constitutes appropriate development
through the shifting transnational dynamics of big dam construction.
Big dams built for irrigation, power, water supply, and other
purposes were among the most potent symbols of economic development
for much of the twentieth century. Of late, they have become a
lightning rod for challenges to this vision of development as
something planned by elites with scant regard for environmental and
social consequences-especially for the populations that are
displaced as their homelands are flooded. Former Irish Prime
Minister and UN High Commissioner Mary Robinson noted Sanjeevs
book in her keynote address to the American Sociological Association
in August "Such collaboration [between sociologists and
human rights organizations] has already produced valuable new
evidence and increased observance of human rights. The sustained
advocacy of the anti-dam network, an affiliation of
conservationists, environmentalists, and other civil society groups,
was directly responsible for the formation of the World Commission
on Dams (WCD), which published a report assessing the social impacts
of dams. It found in many instances that these dams had an
overwhelmingly negative effect that was rarely "adequately
addressed or accounted for" and were directly responsible for a
range of human rights violations including: forced displacement
without compensation of between 40-80 million people around the
world, loss of livelihood, loss of cultural heritage, loss of
development capacity, and so on. [Khagram's book] brilliantly tells
the detailed story." The book is available from Cornell
University Press at http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.
Sanjeev recently traveled to Thailand
as the keynote speaker for CARE USAs global leadership
conference. He spoke on transnational dynamics and how they impact
the work of international NGOs.
On September 28 to 29, 2004, Sanjeev
coordinated an Ash Institute workshop on Innovations in Democratic
Governance: Constructing a Research Agenda with leading scholars
from around the world.
Jonathan Laurence
Second-year doctoral fellow Jonathan
Laurence is spending several months as a visiting fellow at the
Brookings Institution's Center on the US and Europe. He will be back
regularly to Hauser during this time and looks forward to returning
in December for the remainder of the academic year.
Chris Letts
Chris Letts started
the second cohort of an executive education program for community
development corporation leaders in the Achieving Excellence Program
sponsored by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation.
Chris spoke at a Venture Philanthropy
Summit in Palo Alto, CA on September 29 and also to the Common Good
Ventures Investors Circle meeting in Augusta, Maine on September 22.
Peggy Levitt
Peggy Levitt is on
sabbatical this year from Wellesley College and is working on a book
on the nexus between transnational migration and religion.
This summer, Peggy gave invited
talks at the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton
University and at the Ford Foundation's Migration Learning Community
Grantmakers Workshop.
Peggy was appointed to the North
American Transnational Communities Program Advisory Board at the
Rockefeller Foundation She continues with her work as a steering
committee member of the Social Science Research Council Working
Group on Globalization and Religion.
Peggy was awarded with Sally Merry,
Professor of Anthropology at Wellesley College and co-director of
the Peace and Justice Studies Program, a National Science Foundation
grant to study the localization of global discourses on women's
rights. In addition, she was awarded a grant from the Ford
Foundation to study historical and comparative perspectives on
transnational religion.
Mark Moore
On May 6 to 7, 2004 Mark Moore and
Richard Hackman, through a grant from the Wallace Foundation,
organized a two day focus group on The Arts in the 21st Century
American Society: Expanding and Deepening Participation. They
gathered a group of important art administrators throughout the
country to discuss the present state of participation in the arts.
During the month of October, Mark
will be the featured speaker and conduct a workshop on Creating
Public Value: Political and Administrative Leadership in Local
Government at The SOLACE Conference 2004 "People, Politics and
Performance" in Brighton UK. The conference will explore the
special challenges of managing people and performance in a political
environment. While in the UK, Mark will also visit the
Institute of Governance of Public Management at the Warwick Business
School at the University of Warwick where he will conduct a
leadership master class.
At the end of October, Mark will
travel to the National University of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew School
of Public Policy to meet with the Dean and conduct two seminars for
faculty and students.
Rajesh Tandon
The Hauser Center will
welcome as a visiting fellow Rajesh Tandon in October and
November. Rajesh is the founder of the Society for Participatory
Research in Asia, a major civil society support organization in
India and South Asia. He is also a former Chairman of the CIVICUS
World Alliance for Citizen Participation, the International Forum
for Capacity-Building of Southern NGOs (IFCB), and the Asia-Pacific
Bureau for Adult Education (ASPBAE).
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