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Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Dr. Mark H. Moore, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617-495-5675; FAX: 617-495-0996
E-mail: hauser_center@harvard.edu,
anne_mathew@harvard.edu (Anne Mathew,
Program Manager/Research Initiatives); WWW: www.ksghauser.harvard.edu/,
http://www.ksghauser.harvard.edu/html/internet.html
The
Hauser Center for Nonprofit
Organizations is a university-wide, interdisciplinary research center
at Harvard that seeks to expand understanding and accelerate critical
thinking about civil society among scholars, practitioners, policy makers,
and the general public, by encouraging scholarship, developing curriculum,
fostering mutual learning between academics and practitioners, and shaping
policies that enhance the sector and its role in society. The Hauser Center
for Nonprofit Organizations aims to: broaden public understanding of the
third sector to include all sizes and forms of civil society endeavors—advocacy,
faith-based, service delivery, and member-serving organizations, and political
and associational activities and social movements; cross the boundaries
that divide academics and practitioners by developing models for engagement
that ground scholarship and education efforts in the realities of practice;
bridge the gulf between domestic and international nonprofit/NGO knowledge
and experience; encourage the development of public policies that support
and strengthen the sector; rediscover the democratic, associational, and
political purposes of nonprofit/NGOs. The Center’s three activity areas
(education, research, and practitioner engagement) cover a broad agenda,
initially focused within five content areas. These areas were chosen based
on a combination of needs of the sector, expressed by practitioners and
scholars and faculty interest: The Nonprofit Sector and Public Policy;
Nonprofits in Developing Countries and the International Community; Philanthropy
and Social Investing; Leading and Managing Nonprofits for Performance;
and Nonprofits in Political and Community Engagement.
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