All of the Hauser Center's educational initiatives are geared toward a combination of goals: teaching creative, critical thinking about the role and functioning of nonprofits and other organizations in civil society; and building skills that can create effective organizations with long-term capacity. We are committed to supporting Harvard students with experience or interest in nonprofits and civil society through our teaching, research, and events.
 


HKS January Seminar "Acting in Time"
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DPI-106 M, Acting in Time
January 8 – 15, 2010: An intensive January session addresses how to leverage scenario planning and research to anticipate crisis and proactively prevent failures of public policy. This course invites you to join in a continuing research initiative based at the Kennedy School and extending across the University. Since 2006, teams of Harvard scholars have been asking the question:
Why do societies and their governments fail so often to act in time to avert crises that appear in plain sight?

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Student Engagement Office Hours:
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Laura Johnston is the Hauser staff person responsible for our student engagement initiatives.  If you would like to meet with her to discuss ways to connect with Hauser and to navigate through nonprofit-related resources at Harvard, please contact her by email.
Her office hours are every Thursday from 3-5pm.

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Hauser Center Summer Fellows 2009
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