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September 2003

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Upcoming Events/Speakers

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People

Upcoming Events

 1. UPCOMING EVENTS

Civil Society in Global Perspective: An Overview  (September 30, 12:30 to 2:00 p.m.)
1033 Massachusetts Ave, Room M-11
Lester Salamon, Director, Center for Civil Society Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Open to the public, RSVP not required. Light lunch provided. For more information, please visit www.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/schedule.htm
(Co-sponsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Hauser Center.)

Going Global: International Politics, International Norms, and the Japanese Environmental Movement in the 1990s (October 7, 12:30 to 2:00 p.m.)
1033 Massachusetts Ave, Room M-11
Kim Reimann, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University (Reimann is also an alum of the Hauser Center Doctoral Fellowship Program)
Open to the public, RSVP not required. Light lunch provided. For more information, please visit www.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/schedule.htm
(Co-sponsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Hauser Center.)

Activities

Hauser Center Course Guide and Latest Newsletter Now Available!
The Hauser Center Guide to Nonprofit Courses at Harvard University and Beyond and the Center's most recent Newsletter are now available on-line.  Hard copies of both these publications may be requested by emailing Al Mujenda at al_mujenda@harvard.edu.

Hauser Center Participates in the Kennedy School's Annual Celebration of Public Service
On Friday, September 18 the Kennedy School celebrated its 25 years on the banks of the Charles River with a "Celebration of Public Service." Derek Bok delivered the keynote address at the Celebration's luncheon and Marion Fremont-Smith, Mark Moore and William Ryan led a panel discussion, "Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Increasing Demands for Accountability in the Nonprofit Sector," as part of the afternoon research center presentations. Hauser Center staff, including Sarah Alvord, Shawn Bohen, Andras Kosaras, Maryann Leach, Corinne Locke, Anne Mathew (and her son, Ashwin) and Al Mujenda, joined some forty other Kennedy School staff, students and friends who volunteered to coordinate logistics and help make the Celebration, which included over 800 invited guests, a success.

Rights and Responsibilities of Global Citizenship Workshop Funded by the Ford Foundation
Peggy Levitt and Peter Dobkin Hall were awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation to support a workshop retreat on the Rights and Responsibilities of Global Citizenship. The workshop is part of a larger research initiative at the Hauser Center called "Understanding Transnational Dynamics" led by Sanjeev Khagram. The two day meeting will be held in March 2004 and will bring together a small group of practitioners and researchers from the north and the south to better understand the following issues: how contemporary social, economic, and political life transcends national borders; the identities and institutions that emerge in response to these dynamics; and, the values and responsibilities associated with them. For more information, please contact Sarah Alvord at sarah_alvord@harvard.edu.

The Art and Science of Community Problem-Solving Project Launches Innovative On-Line Resource
Xavier de Souza Briggs recently launched www.community-problem-solving.net, an on-line strategy resource for people and institutions worldwide. With seed support from the Hauser Center and additional investments by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, the Art and Science of Community Problem-Solving Project aims to help practitioners, trainers, investors, and other supporters of community change "make new mistakes." The site provides easy access to a variety of original strategy tools for problem-solving across the sectors--public, private, and nonprofit/non-governmental. It also offers links to effective practice in many program areas (housing, education, environment, public safety, health, etc.), a Learning Community for peer exchange, and a creator's log (weblog) to narrate the site and communicate with users as the Project evolves. Harvard's Robert Putnam, author of "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of Community in America" and a Hauser Center Faculty Fellow, says, "Communities worldwide are struggling to create the civic capacity that's essential for tackling social problems and making the future brighter. Xav Briggs is re-writing the rulebook on how to think about and practice community leadership in a changing world." And Chris Gates, President of the National Civic League, adds, "As leaders in government, business, and the nonprofit sector look to re-define community building and democracy for a new age, there is a shortage of roadmaps for getting the job done. These tools are must-have's for the catalytic leadership we really need. Based on Xav Briggs' well regarded classes and training programs at Harvard, the tools offer straight talk on the power and potential of problem-solving at the local level."

Executive Education Collaboration in Colombia
Sarah Alvord, Marsha Frazier and Dave Brown hosted a series of meetings during the second week of September with representatives of universities and civil society networks from Colombia and colleagues from Harvard's Weatherhead Center. The meetings launched the planning of the joint development of executive education programs to strengthen civil society Peace and Development Projects at the grassroots level in Colombia. Dave Brown and his colleagues hope to develop a process for building programs that will enable the use of Hauser Center resources with Colombian partners who will, in turn, deliver the programs to hundreds of NGO and civil society leaders who would not otherwise have access to Hauser executive education programs in Cambridge.

Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation: Excellence in Community Development Executive Education Program
The Hauser Center concluded the last of three executive education modules for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NRC) the week of September 15. The NRC program has been a collaborative effort led by Christine Letts and including curriculum development and teaching by Frances Kunreuther, Xavier de Souza Briggs, Marshall Ganz, Dave Brown and Srilatha Batliwala.

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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/Srilatha Batliwala/L. David Brown/Frances Kunreuther
L. David Brown, Gabriele Bammer, Srilatha Batliwala, and Frances Kunreuther, "Framing practice-research engagement for democratizing knowledge," Action Research, Volume I, No.1, July 2003, pp. 81-102.

Srilatha Batliwala
Srilatha Batliwala, "Bridging Divides for Social Change," Organization, Volume 10, Issue 3, August 2003, pp. 595-616.
This article is based on the paper Batliwala presented at a Hauser Center Works-in-Progress seminar last year, "Practice Research Engagement for Social Change: The South Asian Experience."

Julia Berger
Julia Berger presented her research on international religious NGOs at the International Conference on Religion and Globalization July 27 yo Aug 2 in Chiang Mai, Thailand thanks to funding from the Hauser Center. Based on learnings from this conference, Berger is developing her research into a paper about transnational religious organizations for the Center's IF-4 project and Joint Program on Religion and Public Life. She will be presenting at the SSSR (Society for the Scientific Study of Religion) and ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action) conferences this fall.

L. David Brown
Dave Brown, in cooperation with the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, gave two seminars on NGO Accountability and Legitimacy in Tokyo at the Japanese Association for Evaluation and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation. From Tokyo he went to Manila where he worked with a Workshop on Accountability and Legitimacy and gave a talk at the Asia-Pacific Philanthropy Consortium on the same topic. There appears to be a great deal of interest in Asia about this issue, which has been a focus of several Hauser Center research programs.

Martha Chen
Marty Chen presented two sessions to the participants of China's Leaders in Development Executive Program on September 9. Chen's remarks focused on the informal economy in a globalizing world and compared available data on China, India, and other countries. Chen also presented a session on the informal economy at the Financial Institutions for Private Enterprise Development (FIPED) Executive Program.

Chen served as a discussant at the Committee of Donor Agencies for Small Enterprise Development Meeting hosted by the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) in Copenhagen, Denmark. The panel, which focused on impact measurement and performance, also included Donald Snodgrass (Independent Consultant), Eric Oldsman (Nexus Associates), and Jeanne Downing (USAID).

Marty Chen and others in the WIEGO network including Francie Lund (University of Natal, Durban), Winnie Mitullah (IDS, University of Nairobi), and Caroline Skinner (University of Natal, Durban) as well as Renana Jhabvala and Reema Nanavaty (Self-Employed Women's Association), have been commissioned to write case studies on the constraints in the external environment faced by informal entrepreneurs as background papers for a forthcoming World Development Report on the "Investment Climate." These case studies will feature the constraints faced by, respectively, street traders in six African countries; garment manufacturers and street traders in Durban, South Africa; and street traders, garment makers, small farmers, gum collectors, salt farmers, and embroiderers in Gujarat, India.

Marion Fremont-Smith
Marion Fremont-Smith presented the findings of her study of "Wrongdoing by Officers and Directors of Charities: A Survey of Press Reports 1995-2002" at the fall meeting of the American Bar Association's Tax Section, September 12, in Chicago. The study will be published in the October 2003 issue of Exempt Organization Tax Review.

Peter Frumkin
Peter Frumkin's report "Making Public Sector Mergers Work" was released by the IBM Center for the Business of Government and was profiled in the Washington Post. His paper on "The Strategic Management of Charter Schools" was just released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Frumkin spoke at a philanthropy seminar in Indianapolis sponsored by Donors Trust from September 11 to 13.

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Peter Dobkin Hall
Peter Dobkin Hall will be presenting papers at the following conferences: "Desperately Seeking the Bourgeoisie: Education and Leadership in America, 1890-1940," and, "Distinction and Identity: Bourgeois Culture in Nineteenth Century America," Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, October 24 to 26.

Hall will present "A Methodist is a Baptist with Shoes; a Presbyterian is a Methodist with a College Education; an Episcopalian is a Presbyterian with Money: Religion and the Stratification of Civic Engagement in Twentieth Century American Cities" to the Panel on "Trends in Civic Leadership in Six American Cities, 1931-1991," at the Social Science History Association in Baltimore, MD November 13 to 16 and to the annual research conference of ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action), Denver, November 20 to 22.

Hall is serving as chair of ARNOVA's annual book award committee. The award is given for the outstanding book on nonprofits published within the past three years.

Sanjeev Khagram
Sanjeev Khagram is on leave this year working on a number of research projects including the completion of his book on the International Commission on Dams. Two of his other research projects include the initiative on Understanding Transnational Dynamics and a four-country comparative analysis of corporate social responsibility. In August, he traveled to Chile to make a series of presentations to leading Chilean businesses and government officials on corporate citizenship through corporate responsibility. In October, Khagram will travel to Japan to present a paper he recently published in an edited volume on "transnational dynamics and emerging architectures of governance" at a workshop on Globalization and Global Governance .

Frances Kunreuther
Frances Kunreuther wrote "The Changing of the Guard: What Generational Differences Tell Us About Social-Change Organizations," published in the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3, September 2003.

Jonathan Laurence
Jonathan Laurence gave a paper on "State-Church Relations and the Politics of Corporatism: The case of Islam in France" at the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia on Labor Day Weekend. In October, he will present a related talk on creating institutional interlocutors for Muslim populations in France and Germany at a Boell Stiftung conference in Toronto on "Immigrant Incorporation Regimes in Germany, Western Europe and North America," which will bring together government officials and academics. Laurence is also organizing a small colloquium on the new Conseil Francais du Culte Musulman (French Council of the Muslim Religion) at the Centre Americain de Sciences Po in Paris in November. He recently joined the Center on the US and France at the Brookings Institution as an affiliated scholar.

Peggy Levitt
Peggy Levitt co-edited with Josh De Wind and Steven Vertovec the Special Volume on Transnational Migration of International Migration Review, Fall 2003. Levitt wrote the Introduction and an article entitled "You Know Abraham Really was the First Migrant: Transnational Migration and Religion."

Levitt co-wrote with Rafael de la Dehesa "Transnational Migration and the Redefinition of the State: Variations and Explanations," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 26(4), pp. 587-611.

Since December of last year, Levitt has spoken to audiences at the University of Osnabruck in Germany, York University in Toronto, Syracuse University, University of Southern California and MIT. She has also presented: "Transnational Perspective on Migration: Theorizing Simultaneity," at the Conference on Conceptual and Methodological Developments in the Study of International Migration." Princeton University, May 2003; and "Transnational Migration: An Overview," to Pacific Council on International Affairs meeting on Transnational Opportunities, Los Angeles, April 2003

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