By Sherine Jayawickrama On June 3, at the 2010 InterAction Forum, the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations convened a panel discussion on Capitalizing on Convergence: Prospects for Collaboration Among Development, Environment and Human Rights NGOs.  The panel was moderated by L. David Brown, Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center, and featured Marcia Marsh, Chief [...]

By Laura Kavazanjian In mid-October, I interviewed Stephanie Baric, Senior Technical Advisor in CARE USA‘s Basic & Girls Education Unit (and Program Manager for the Power to Lead Alliance).  I asked her about The Power to Lead: A Leadership Model for Adolescent Girls, a paper (launched today) which outlines an approach to developing leadership skills among young adolescent girls [...]

The blog has been silent for a while as we’ve undergone a transition at the Hauser Center.  I’m delighted to announce that Sherine Jayawickrama, who’s served in a variety of leadership positions with CARE USA over the past ten years, is taking over responsibility for the Center’s work with humanitarian NGOs, which includes writing this [...]

Michael Edwards, who recently stepped down as director of the Governance and Civil Society Program at the Ford Foundation, explores similar issues in “Have NGOs Made a Difference?”* He finds that development NGOs have been influential in getting the mainstream to address the negative aspects of globalization, commit to participation and human rights as basic [...]