As part of its NGO Leaders Seminar Series, the Humanitarian & Development NGOs Domain at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations will host a senior leadership team from Heifer International on Thursday, February 4.  Led by …

By Brian Williams
Most Westerners did not know anything about microfinance until Muhammad Yunus, an early initiator in the field, won the Nobel Prize in 2006. However, microfinance has been a tool for poverty alleviation since …

By Sherine Jayawickrama
I’ve known since I was 18 that I wanted to be involved in the fight against poverty - not just as a passion but also as a profession.  I’ve been working on development …

On October 22 at 4 pm, the Hauser Center for Nonprofits Organizations and Harvard Book Store will host a conversation between two influential voices making the case (from two very different perspectives) that taking concrete action …

By Sherine Jayawickrama
When Anne Lynam Goddard started as CEO of the Christian Children’s Fund (now called ChildFund International) in January 2007, she was given two charges: to develop a new strategy and to change the …

I am beginning to like this blogging thing.  I must confess that I had predicted that my first post would end up lost in a cyber black hole.  But no – quite the contrary!  To …