October Events:
October 6th, 2009
Meet Li Dan:
From an Astrophysics Student to a Leader for
HIV/AIDS Orphans' Human Right in China
(Working Language: Chinese)
Weil Town Hall
5:00-6:00 pm
October 14th, 2009
The Obama Administration’s Global Development
Policy: Enhancing Coherence and
Effectiveness
Nicholas
Burns, Professor of
the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at
the Harvard Kennedy School.
Paul
O’Brien, Director, Aid
Effectiveness Initiative at Oxfam America
Lant
Pritchett, Professor of
the Practice of International Development at the Harvard
Kennedy School.
4:00-5:30 pm
Weil Town Hall
October 19th, 2009
When is an Open Society also a Just Society?
George Soros, Founder and Chairman of
the Open Society Institute
Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass
Professor of Government at Harvard
Moderated by Christopher Stone, Hauser Center Faculty
Director and Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of
the Practice of Criminal Justice
6:00-7:30 pm
JFK Jr Forum
Recent Events:
Being a Social Entrepreneur in China
Policy, Philanthropic Environment and Beyond
A Panel Discussion With:
Dr. Ailing Zhuang: Founding Chair and Executive Director, NPO Development Center Shanghai
Prof. Hanlong Lu: Professor, Institute of Sociology, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; Director of Shanghai Center for Charity Studies
Ms. Zhaomin Jin: Executive Director, NPO Development Center Shanghai
Dr. David Brown (Moderator): Senior Research Fellow of Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
September 30, 2009
12:00 - 1:30 pm (Lunch will be provided)
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
New Brand, New Strategy: Forging a New Identity as an NGO
Anne Lynam Goddard, President and CEO of ChildFund International
Friday, September 25, 2009
11:30
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Mapping the Philanthropic Sector:
Structure, Strategy and Emerging Programming Trends among US Foundations
Steven Lawry, Senior Research Fellow
Tuesday, September 29th
4:00-5:30 pm
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Meet The New Neighbors
Tuesday, September 15th
1:00-2:00 pm
We invite HKS faculty and staff to visit our new offices. Please join us for light refreshments and a tour of our new space.
STUDENT OPEN HOUSE
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Tuesday, September 15th
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall
Please join us to learn more about courses taught by our faculty, opportunities to engage in Hauser activities, and meet our affiliated faculty, fellows and staff.
Light food and refreshments will be served
Hauser Center Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents:
“The Internet is People”
Building the User-Centered Web
Presented by
Ben Werdmuller
Thursday June 25, 2009, 12:00-1:45 pm
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Limited seating:
RSVP to rsvp@hausercenter.org
Hauser Center Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents:
“Are Human Rights too political to be charitable?”
The Charities Act 2009 and the Future of Human Rights Organizations in Ireland
Presented by
Dr. Oonagh Breen
Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 12:30-1:45 pm
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Dr. Oonagh Breen is a visiting research fellow at the Hauser Center and a Senior Lecturer in Law at University College Dublin, Ireland. A graduate of Yale Law School, her research lies in the area of comparative charity regulation and the role of nonprofits in public policy formation. She has worked with both nonprofit organizations and the Irish Government on the current charity law reform agenda in Ireland and has engaged with regulators in Northern Ireland and Great Britain in their search for regulatory solutions that work across national borders. Her recent publications explore the challenges of regulating charitable solicitations, European charity governance issues, and the problems of overlapping regulatory regimes for cross-border charities.
May 1, 2009
China’s Think Tanks
James G. McGann,
Director of Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at Foreign Policy Research Institute,
Assistant Director of the International Relations Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Responded by
• Xufeng Zhu, Visiting Scholar, Harvard Yenching Institute; Associate professor from Nankai University of China
• Xijin Jia, Visiting Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University.
Associate Professor, and Deputy Director of NGO Center at Tsinghua University of China
Friday, May 1, 2009 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (TBD).
Taubman Building 5th Floor, Room NYE C, Harvard Kennedy School
May 4, 2009
Media as a Venue for Civil Participation in China
1:00 - 2:20 PM
Brown Bag
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
中文讨论组
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
The First Intifada and the Transformation of
Palestinian Civil Society
Presented by
Dr. Salim Tamari
12:30-1:45 pm
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Does Global Philanthropy Really Make People’s Lives Better?
Insaan Group: A model for going beyond charity, for creating a legacy
Presented by
Farahnaz Karim
12:30-1:45 pm
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Thursday, May 14, 2009, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
A Marriage of Core Competencies:
Bridging the Non-Profit and For-Profit Arenas to Fight Poverty
Steve Hollingworth, Chief Operating Officer, CARE USA
L-130, Bolton Lecture Room, Littauer Building, HKS
Light refreshments served
Free and open to the public
Thursday, April 30, 2009, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Seeing Like a Citizen:
International Perspectives on Deepening Democracy
John Gaventa
Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Vera Coelho
Visiting Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Moderated by Archon Fung
Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship, Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Light refreshments served
Fainsod Room, L324, Harvard Kennedy School
Free and open to the public
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009, 12:30-1:45 pm
Immigrant Community Organizations:
Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Presented by
Dr. Richard Hung
April 28, 2009
Foreign Philanthropies in China
Peter Geithner, Ford Foundation’s first China Representative in Beijing and advisor to the Asia Center at Harvard University.
Responded by Professor Xijin Jia, Visiting follow at Hauser Center and Deputy Director of NGO Research Center at Tsinghua University in China.
(Event Details TBA)
Friday, April 24, 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Is Humanitarian Assistance Becoming Too Politicized and Militarized?
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Conference Room, 5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel Courtyard)
Light refreshments served
Friday, April 24, 2009, 9:30-12 noon
CRAFT WORKSHOPS ON NONPROFIT START-UPS
Do you really want a 501c3?
Laws & legal issues affecting nonprofit organizations; new IRS requirements.
Marion Fremont-Smith
Senior Research Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Pamela Peters, Former President, Florida Philanthropic Network
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Fully Leveraged Philanthropy
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 12:30-1:45
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Joshua Humphreys, Founder and Director of the Center for Social PhilanthropyDr. Humphreys, a lecturer on history and literature at Harvard, founded the Center for Social Philanthropy following a residency at the Rockefeller Archive Center in 2006. Since 2009 the Center has been housed at Tellus Institute in Boston, where Dr. Humphreys is a Senior Associate. Dr. Humphreys has advised numerous organizations on issues in social and environmental finance, including the Environmental Grantmakers Association, Green Harbor Financial, Proxy Democracy, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the Social Investment Forum, Sustainable Endowments Institute, and the World Bank Group. For the Social Investment Forum, he has served as Research Director for its biennial Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States and the lead author of is Mission-Related Investing resource guide, Mission in the Marketplace (2007).
Dr. Humphreys will provide a survey of the growing practice on the part of foundations to direct significant amounts of their endowment capital toward marketplace investments that serve their philanthropic missions.
CRAFT WORKSHOPS ON NONPROFIT START-UPS
Fundraising for Nonprofits, Part II: Non-Traditional Capital
An introduction to the non-traditional capital models emerging and how they may be applied in today’s context.
Luther Ragin, Jr. Vice President of Investments, The F.B. Heron Foundation & Hauser Senior Research Fellow
Andrea McGrath, Director, Center for Applied Philanthropy
Friday, April 10, 2009, 9:30-12 noon
Malkin Penthouse - Littauer 4th Floor
79 JKF Street, Kennedy School of Government
Do Boards Matter?
A Study of Board Practices and Health Quality at U.S. Hospitals
Arnold M. Epstein
John H. Foster Professor, Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
April 9, 2009, 12:00 noon to 1:30PM
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, 5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel Courtyard)
More info
Philanthropy Study Group
Wednesday, April 8th from 4:00-5:30 pm in the Fainsod Room (HKS, Littauer 3rd Floor) for “Educational Innovation – What do Funders Want? A View from the Ford Foundation and Grantmakers for Education”. We will tackle the issue of education reform and how funders think about education and work with grantee organizations. We will have two esteemed guests to present the challenges to effective grantmaking in education:
Alison Bernstein is the Vice President for Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom at the Ford Foundation which funds innovative educational programs that support the human search for knowledge, meaning and understanding. The program supports work in two broad areas: 1) Education, Sexuality and Religion and 2) Media Arts and Culture.
James Honan is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Co-Chair of the Institute of Educational Management. Jim has worked closely with Grantmakers for Education to develop principle and practices for effective grantmaking in education.
Please come prepared with your comments and questions. We are hoping for a lively and vigorous discussion around the central questions facing philanthropy today.
Philanthropy Study Group
Thursday, April 2nd from 4:30-6:00 pm in Rubenstein G-20 (HKS campus) for “The Ins and Outs of Mission-Related Investing: When, Why and How?” Mission-related investment strategies are increasingly popular in philanthropic circles, particularly among newer foundations. What does it mean for foundations to invest in the financial success of grantee organizations? How do these investments shape philanthropic funding choices and what is their impact on the performance of grantee organizations?
Luther Ragin, Jr. Vice President for Investments at the FB Heron Foundation will lead the meeting and share his thoughts on the value of mission-related investments. Luther is a widely acknowledged expert in the capitalization of nonprofit organizations (e.g. the use of "program related investments"), as well as in mission-related investing among private foundations. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1999, Luther was CFO of the National Community Capital Association, a trade association of community development financial institutions that provide access to capital in low-income communities. Luther is a senior research fellow this spring at the Hauser Center and an HKS adjunct lecturer co-teaching a course with Jim Honan on nonprofit financial strategies.
Please come prepared with your comments and questions. We are hoping for a lively and vigorous discussion around the central questions facing philanthropy today.
Critical Issues in Humanitarian Response Disscussion Group
First Meeting: Thursday, March 19th, 2:00 – 3:30 pm
HKS Faculty Dining Room, Littauer 163
Friday, Mar. 6, 2009 9:30-12:00 noon
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (within the Charles Hotel complex), Kennedy School of Government
Strategic Financial Management
Stewardship & sustainability; nonprofit financial basics; budgeting; reading & analyzing financial statements.
Jim Honan
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Aviva Argote
Executive Director, Hauser Center
A Presentation by
Geoff Mulgan
Director of the UK's Young Foundation
Former Director of Policy under Prime Minister Tony Blair
Co-founder of the Demos think tank
Date and Time: Thursday March 12, 2009 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Trustman Room 150, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Light refreshments and cookies will be provided.
Kindly RSVP
This seminar is co-sponsored by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation
and the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
Hauser Center Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents:
China’s Civil Society and Political Transformation
Presented by
Professor Xijin Jia
Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 12:30-1:45 pm
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel plaza)
Is there an emerging civil society in China? What are the forces and dilemmas for China in moving toward self-government? What roles can we expect for civil society actors in dealing with these forces and dilemmas?
Join the discussion with Professor Xijin Jia. Professor Jia is a visiting scholar at the Hauser Center and Associate Professor in Tsinghua University in China. Her research is the area of civil society and governance. She has rich experience both in field research and international comparative studies. Her publications include books about China’s Citizen Participation: Cases and Models; Mind and Order; The Third Reform; etc.
This meeting is one of a series on China’s NPOs and civil society organizations that will be carried out over the next several years.
L. David Brown, Associate Director for International Programs at the Hauser Center, will moderate the seminar.
Hauser Center Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents:
Going to Scale:
Growing a Nonprofit Social Service Innovation in Perilous Financial Times
Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 12:30-1:45 pm
Taubman A , 79 JFK Street
Presented by Mindy Tarlow
Please join us for the next meeting of the Practical Issues in Philanthropy Study Group (PSG) on Tuesday, March 3rd from 4:30-6:00 pm in the Hauser Conference room for “Educational Innovation – What do Funders Want? A View from the Ford Foundation and Grantmakers in Education”. We will tackle the issue of education reform and how funders think about education and work with grantee organizations. We will have two esteemed guests to present the challenges to effective grantmaking in education:
Alison Bernstein is the Vice President for Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom at the Ford Foundation which funds innovative educational programs that support the human search for knowledge, meaning and understanding. The program supports work in two broad areas: 1) Education, Sexuality and Religion and 2) Media Arts and Culture.
James Honan is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Co-Chair of the Institute of Educational Management. Jim has worked closely with Grantmakers for Education to develop principle and practices for effective grantmaking in education.
Please come prepared with your comments and questions. We are hoping for a lively and vigorous discussion around one of the central questions facing philanthropy today – how can philanthropy support innovation in education.
Starting Nonprofits in Perilous Financial Times
A brown-bag discussion with
Meryl Schwartz
Portfolio Manager,
The Blue Ridge Foundation, New York
Date and Time: Wednesday, February 4th, 12:30-1:45 PM
Location: Hauser Center Conference Room, 5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel complex)
Meryl Schwartz joined the Blue Ridge Foundation New York one year ago as its Portfolio Manager. The Foundation supports start-up nonprofit organizations in New York City. Its mission is to help develop effective strategies for connecting people living in high poverty communities to the opportunities, resources, and support that they need to fulfill their full potential. The Foundation engages with talented leaders to turn innovative ideas into sustainable, effective organizations and by working to facilitate connections among our network of grantees. Meryl Schwartz works directly with the Foundation’s grantees to build their organizational capacity.
Students and
faculty attending the Spring 2009 Hauser Center Open
House.
Dan Palotta: Uncharitable
Location: Hauser Center Conference Room
Event: Uncharitable: How Restraints On Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential
A discussion with the author Dan Pallotta.
SEMINAR: "GETTING INSIDE PHILANTHROPY"
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations will host Brad Smith, the new president of the Foundation Center, on Wednesday, January 21st from 3:30 until 5pm in the Hauser Center main conference room.
As part of the Hauser Center’s philanthropy domain speaker series, Brad will lead a discussion on “Getting Inside Philanthropy.” This informal discussion is open to students, faculty, staff, and community members. More Info >>
New Leaders in
Philanthropy Seminar Series
December 11, 2008:
Gara LaMarche
President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies
Event info >>
NGO Leaders Seminar Series
"Donors and the Developing World: How
Private Philanthropy is Changing Development Aid."
Moderated by Peter
Bell, Senior Research
Fellow,
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Tuesday, Nov. 18,
2008 12:00 - 1:30 pm.
Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, Harvard Kennedy School.
Free and open to the public.
More
info>>
NGO Leaders Seminar Series
Duncan Green, Head of Research, Oxfam GB
"From Poverty to Power"
Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development, HKS
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, HKS
Co-sponsored with Center for International Development
More info>>
New Leaders in Philanthropy Seminar Series
A conversation with
President, The Ford Foundation
Christopher Stone
Faculty Director, The Hauser Center
November 12, 2008
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Bell Hall (HKS Belfer Building, 5th Floor
More info>>
EVENT - Brown Bag Lunch - Tuesday, Oct 28th
Please come and join the conversation!
Tuesday October 28th, 12:30-1:45 at the Hauser Conference Room, 5 Bennett Street, (inside the Charles Hotel Plaza)
Cookies and refreshments will be served.
EVENT - Brown Bag Lunch - Tuesday, Oct 21st
We invite you to join us as Hauser Center Visiting Research Fellow Els de Graauw will speak about her research on the role of nonprofits as public policy advocates on behalf of disadvantaged immigrants in San Francisco."Representation from Below: Nonprofits and the Politics of Immigrant Incorporation in San Francisco."
Please come and join the conversation!
Tuesday October 21st, 12:30-1:45 at the Hauser Conference Room, 5 Bennett Street, (inside the Charles Hotel Plaza)
Cookies and refreshments will be served.
EVENT - Brown Bag Lunch - Tuesday, Oct 14th
Hauser Center Senior Research Fellow Steve Lawry will speak about the Center's research on the contributions of international philanthropy to efforts by civil society organizations to develop and test innovative approaches to poverty reduction.
Discussion
will be wide-ranging and informal. In the Conference Room
at 5 Bennett Street in the Charles Hotel Plaza. 12:30-2pm.
Cookies and Refreshments.
EVENT - Brown Bag Lunch - Tuesday, Oct 7th
He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center. He will discuss his wide range of interests and work including his new book, Leading with Kindness, published by the American Management Association (his Ph.D. is in Organizational Behavior and Psychology). He will also discuss his recent papers and studies on the "Collapse of American Journalism."
Discussion will be wide-ranging and informal. In the Conference Room at 5 Bennett Street in the Charles Hotel Plaza. 12:30-2pm. Cookies and Refreshments.
EVENT
New Leaders in Philanthropy Seminar Series
A conversation with
The Hon. David M. Walker
President and CEO
Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Former Comptroller General of the United States