PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS
The Hauser Center seeks to expand understanding and accelerate critical thinking about the leadership of nonprofit and non-governmental organizations through the key goals of research, education, and practice.Our programs and projects include:
To engage leading practitioners and enhance the contribution of new scholarship to their work, the Hauser Center will focus its resources in a few, carefully chosen domains.
Domains of Practice
Marion Fremont-Smith and Peter Dobkin Hall embarked on a major collaboration to study federated organizations, a component of the nonprofit sector that has not heretofore been the focus of scholarly research, despite the fact that so many nonprofits central to civil society are federated entities
Federated Organizations
We are engaged in a process to expand research opportunities untapped in nonprofit incubators across the country and expand the knowledge of the dynamics of start-ups.
Nonprofit Incubators
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and the Harvard Law School are joint sponsors of a five-year, $2 million, University-wide research initiative on nonprofit governance and accountability (G&A).
Nonprofit Governance and Accountability
Our goal for this faculty seminar series is to have a set of conversations across disciplines, within a faculty community that can begin to flesh out better the public policy, legal, constitutional and sociological ramifications of religion in civic and political life, both nationally and internationally.
Program on Religion and Public Life
The Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the Kennedy School of Government aims to enable governments to fulfill their obligations to ensure public safety and justice.
Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management
A global research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy.
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