By Lakshmi Iyer I have always believed that a successful NGO develops successful partnerships. In the non-profit funding world, it is a critical challenge for NGOs to ensure that relationships with donors are not muddled with power imbalances but, in fact, are true joint efforts to achieve a shared mission. The April 8 NGOs & Development [...]

The last session of this year’s NGOs & Development Study Group will be held on Thursday, April 22 from 4.00 to 5.00 pm in Belfer L4 at Harvard Kennedy School. The session is titled “The Challenges of Haiti: A Critical Test for International NGOs.”  Peter Bell, Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and [...]

By Lakshmi Iyer Most of us interested in solving humanitarian or development issues get excited about the term ‘social innovation’ – i.e. finding new, sustainable models to achieve high social impact. But are we paying attention to what drives innovation? Why is it that new ideas that solve age-old problems usually come from specific geographical [...]

The next session of the NGOs & Development study group will meet Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 4:00pm in Weil Town Hall (Belfer L1) at the Harvard Kennedy School.  This discussion, entitled “Leveraging Social Entrepreneurship for Development: Strategies to Promote Innovation and Leadership”, will be led by Nishith Acharya, Executive Director of the Deshpande Foundation. 

By Lakshmi Iyer Thinking of starting an NGO? Grappling with sustaining an NGO? A discussion with five fellow Kennedy School students who have started NGOs across countries explores lessons learned. “Ask what you can do…” is the Harvard Kennedy School motto, and most of us at this school have chosen the path of public service [...]

The next session of the NGOs & Development study group will meet Thursday, March 11 at 4:00pm in Weil Town Hall (Belfer L1), HKS. The discussion, entitled “Managing Strategy in NGOs: Experiences, Challenges and Useful Tools”, will be led by Eric Dupree-Walker and George Veth.

The next session of the NGOs & Development Study Group will meet at 4 pm on Thursday, February 25 at Weil Town Hall (Belfer L1). The topic of discussion will be “Establishing and Sustaining an NGO: Successes, Dilemmas and Lessons Learned.” The session will be an open conversation with five Harvard Kennedy School students who [...]

By George Veth On February 9, Professor L. David Brown joined the NGOs & Development study group, convened by the Hauser Center, where he led a discussion on “NGOs and the Puzzle of Legitimacy and Accountability”. To tee up the discussion, he started by pointing out the recent failure of several supposed bastions of trustworthiness [...]

The next session of the NGOs & Development study group will meet at 4 pm on Tuesday, February 9 at Weil Town Hall (Belfer L1) at the Harvard Kennedy School.  The topic of the discussion, led by Professor L. David Brown, will be “NGOs and the Puzzle of Legitimacy and Accountability”. Professor Brown, who recently [...]

The Humanitarian & Development NGOs domain at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations convenes a study group on NGOs and Development.   The next study group session, titled Measuring NGO Performance: Difficulties, Dilemmas and A Way Ahead, will be held on Tuesday, November 24 at 4:00 pm in the Hauser Center conference room (Belfer L-4 at the Harvard [...]