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November 2008 - Issue #45
Welcome to New Hauser Affiliates:
The Hauser Center welcomes
our new affiliates:
William
F. Baker, Senior Research
Fellow
Els de Graauw, Visiting Research
Fellow
Joanna Hamilton, Faculty Assistant to
Marshall Ganz
Sherine
Jayawickrama, Domain
Manager
Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation
Professor of International
Education
Jia
Xijin, Visiting Research
Fellow
Read more about new affiliates
>>
Craft
Workshops on Nonprofit Start-Ups:
As the Hauser Center
enters its second decade, one of our goals is to help
prepare Harvard students to be the next generation of
effective leaders in the nonprofit sector. We are excited
to offer for the first time a series of not-for-credit
“Craft Workshops on Nonprofit Start-Ups” that will teach
the nuts and bolts of starting, managing, leading and
sustaining a nonprofit organization.
October
3, 2008
Starting a Nonprofit
Organization: Is a 501c(3) the best way to launch your
innovative idea? Exploring options.
Co-presenters: Cheryl Dorsey, President/Echoing Green and
Christopher Stone, Faculty Director/Hauser Center;
Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice.
November
14, 2008
Creating and Nurturing a
Value-Adding Board: Recruiting the right board; tapping
board talent & resources; building a Board-CEO
partnership; avoiding board-room dysfunction.
Co-presenters: William Ryan, Research Fellow/Hauser Center
& Katya Fels Smyth, Principal & Founder/The Full
Frame Initiative
Upcoming
events in this series include:
December
19, 2008
Marketing: Identify your
target audience (both for your mission & fundraising),
articulate your core benefit to these audiences, define
your strategies in terms of the P's of non-profit
marketing, (positioning, price, promotion, packaging,
policy, place).
Presenter: Sandy Hessler, Assistant Dean and Director,
Office of Career Advancement, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS
alum)
More info on workshops
>>
Or contact:
Anne Mathew, Director Non Profit
Incubator Program
New
Leaders in Philanthropy Seminar Series:
This seminar series brings
new leaders from the major US charitable foundations to the
Hauser Center for discussions with faculty, students, and
other leaders about trends in US philanthropy and their
ambitions for the nonprofit sector.
Read More >>
October
1, 2008
David M. Walker, President
and CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Read more and
watch event on video >>
November
12, 2008 Luis A. Ubinãs ,
President, Ford Foundation
Read more
>>
Upcoming
events in this series include:
December
11, 2008 Gara LaMarche President
and CEO, The Atlantic
Philanthropies
3:00 – 4:30 pm Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall
Get
More Event Info >>
NGO Leaders in
Humanitarian Aid and Development Seminar Series:
October
15, 2008
“Greater Influence,
Growing Threats: The Shifting Landscape for
NGOs”
Sam
Worthington, President and CEO of InterAction
November
14, 2008
“From Poverty to Power”
Duncan Green, Head of Research, Oxfam Great Britain
Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International
Development, Harvard Kennedy School.
November
18, 2008
Charlie MacCormack,
President and CEO, Save the Children
Fainsod Room, 12 - 1:30 pm
Upcoming
events in this series include:
December
8, 2008
Nancy Lindborg, President,
Mercy Corps
Bell Hall, time tentatively 12 - 1:30 pm
More info on these
seminars >>
People in
Action
Peter
Dobkin Hall will receive ARNOVA's
Distinguished Achievement and Leadership Award for 2008. He
will accept the award during an awards luncheon at the
annual ARNOVA conference November 20-22nd in Philadelphia, PA.
Srilatha
Batliwala, Alnoor
Ebrahim and Dave
Brown were panelists on
“International
Advocacy Network Governance and Architecture: Implications
for Performance and Accountability” at the Annual Meeting
of the International Society for Third-Sector Research in
Barcelona, Spain from July 9-12th. This panel focused on
papers written as part of the research program on
Governance and Architecture of International Advocacy NGOs
and Networks.
Dave
Brown participated in the
CIVICUS World Assembly in Glasgow, Scotland from June
17-21st. He continues to serve on the advisory committee to
the CIVICUS Program on Civil Society Legitimacy,
Transparency and Accountability.
Dave
Brown presented a paper on
“International Advocacy NGOs and Networks, Accountability
and Global Governance” at the Study Group of Eminent
Scholars on Civil Society Engagement in National and Global
Governance at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii on
July 21st.
As Co-chair of the Joint Learning Initiative on Children
and HIV/AIDS, Peter
Bell participated in the
conferences of the Coalition of Children Affected by AIDS
and the International AIDS Society in Mexico City, Mexico
July 31 - August 7. The Joint Learning Initiative has
brought together 60 researchers, policymakers, donors,
advocates and practitioners and a much broader network of
stakeholders to sift through the evidence on what
approaches are likely to be most effective in supporting
and caring for children affected by HIV/AIDS and extreme
poverty.
On October 2nd, Peter
Bell delivered the annual
Jarivs Lecture before the students, faculty and trustees at
Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury, the oldest
continuously operated school in the U.S. Bell spoke about
the role of NGOs in seeking to reduce global poverty and in
working toward a better world.
Marty
Chen was interviewed for the
Insights series of video-taped interviews with HKS faculty
in June 2008 on the topic of the working poor in the
informal economy. The interview was featured on the HKS
website in September 2008: click here to see the video clip and
transcribed interview.
Marty
Chen was a featured speaker
in a High Level Forum entitled “Working Out of Poverty:
A Decent Work Approach to Development and the MDGs”
organized by the International Labour Office (ILO) and
Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
(RR/EGI) on September 22, 2008 in New York. The Forum
was organized to strengthen commitment to the Decent
Work Agenda during the 63rd session of the United
Nations General Assembly in New York, particularly
within the High Level Meeting on Africa’s Development
Needs and Challenges, and at the High Level Event on the
MDGs. Realizing Rights President Mary Robinson, ILO
Director General Juan Somavia, and SEWA Founder and
Elder Ela Bhatt (who received an honorary degree from
Harvard University in 2001 and was the graduation
speaker at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2006) led the
discussions with Presidents and Ministers, international
organizations, workers and employers associations,
companies and civil society organizations, to build the
political will, multi-stakeholder dialogue and technical
support that can create innovative employment and decent
work policies and programs needed to achieve development
and poverty reduction outcomes that are sustainable and
inclusive.
Hauser Center in the
News
In the November 14th Chicago Tribune
article “Top aides split over grass-roots
network”
Marshall
Ganz is quoted on
leveraging the power of Barack Obama's volunteers.
Marshall Ganz
comments on Barack Obama’s
victory in the November 4th CQ Politics article
“Obama Wins; America Elects Its First Black
President.”
Archon
Fung’s online project
to track voting conditions was cited in the October 29th
Boston Globe article “Mapping voter problems next
Tuesday.” This
project was also mentioned in the Wall Street Journal
article after the election on November 5th,
“Voters post experiences
online.”
Marshall Ganz is
quoted in the October 29th Wall Street Journal article
“Campaigns Try New Web Tactics In Battle to
Tap Fresh Supporters” about new uses of the internet to
garner campaign support.
The October 27th HBS Working Knowledge article
“Achieving Excellence in
Nonprofits”
contains an interview with Dutch
Leonard.
Marshall
Ganz’s history in
grassroots community organizing is highlighted in the book
review for Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the
Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century. The review
appeared in the October 26th edition of the Daily Kos.
Dutch Leonard
was quoted in the October
4th
Associated
Press article
“Blog on meat plant was astroturf, not grassroots” about
corporate supported entities disguised as grassroots.
In the September 24th,
article “Reality show” in Canadian Business
Online,
Marshall
Ganz is quoted on
the American presidential election system.
Christine Letts
and Dutch Leonard
are both quoted in the
US Daily
article “Clinton summit hopes
for generosity amid turmoil” from September
22nd,
on the U.S. economic crisis and charitable donations.
Christopher
Stone is quoted in the
September 21st
Memphis Commercial
Appeal article
“School cops: Is it
time?” about a
potential police force in Memphis public schools.
Mark Moore
is mentioned in the August
27th
Boston Globe
article “Harvard scrutinizing its police on
race” for his
participation in a review committee of the Harvard
police force, as convened by Harvard’s President Drew
Faust.
In the August 14th India Times article “Making public services in India efficient and
equitable” Mark
Moore’s work on
creating public value and its relevance to public
services in India is featured.
More In the News
>>
New
Publications
L. David
Brown, Creating Credibility: Legitimacy and
Accountability for Transnational Civil
Society
Visit the Virtual Book Tour
>>
William
F. Baker and Michael
O’Malley, Leading with Kindness: How Good People
Consistently Get Superior
Results
Steven
Lawry, The Parable of the
Professor and the Foundation: Lessons in Philanthropic
Accountability, Risk, and
Impact, Hauser Center Working
Paper # 44
Marion R.
Fremont-Smith, Governing Nonprofit Organizations: Federal
and State Law and Regulation
In September, Marty
Chen’s
case study on SEWA entitled “A Spreading Banyan Tree: the
Self-Employed Women’s Association, India” was published in
an edited volume called From Clients to
Citizens: Communities Changing the Course of Their Own
Development,
edited by
Alison Mathie and Gordon Cunningham of the Coady Institute,
Canada.
See Other Books by Hauser
Center Authors >>
Women in
Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing
(WIEGO):
The WIEGO network held a Board
meeting in Geneva, Switzerland in early June 2008. It
was the first meeting of the WIEGO Board since WIEGO was
registered as a not-for-profit company limited in the
United Kingdom. The first day of the Board meeting
focused on WIEGO’s progress and plans; the second day
focused on the legal and financial requirements of being
a not-for-profit company limited and applying for
charity status in the UK. Prior to registration in the
UK, WIEGO had received and managed funds through fiscal
intermediaries. Since registering the UK, WIEGO has
opened a small office and a bank account in the UK.
After seeking further tax and legal advice in the UK,
the Management Committee (or Executive Committee) of the
WIEGO Ltd. Board approved in August 2008 a set of
decisions and actions that made WIEGO eligible for
charity status in the UK.
Over the summer, Marty Chen wrote a briefing paper on
informal and poverty for the UN Poverty in
Focus report, an entry on the
informal economy for the International Encyclopedia of
Civil Society, a regional review on informality in South
Asia for the Swedish International Development Cooperation
(Sida), two reviews (one of an OECD book on the informal
economy, the other of a prospective journal article
in Feminist
Economics), and several new pages
for the WIEGO website. In July, a set of personal and
technical reflections by a group of mainstream economists,
WIEGO researchers (including Chen), and activists from the
Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) who are engaged in
an on-going dialogue about the nature, behavior, and
regulation of labor markets was published electronically as
a compendium (the third in a series): see
2008 Dialogue, Ahmedabad and Delhi:
Compendium of Personal and Technical
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