Hauser Center Brown Bag Lunch
Series Presents:
Immigrant
Community Organizations:
Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges
Presented by
Dr.
Richard Hung
Wednesday, April
29th, 2009, 12:30-1:45 pm
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel
plaza)
Dr. Richard Hung teaches at the College of Public and
Community Service, University of Massachusetts Boston. He
received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana. His research areas
include nonprofit organizations, civic and political
participation, as well as microfinance. He has published in
the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Economic
Development Quarterly, Ethnicity and Disease, as well as
Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders: Policy, Practice
and Community. Besides research and teaching, he also
serves on the boards of local nonprofit organizations in
the Boston area. In particular, he was a founding board
member and the immediate past president of Quincy Asian
Resources, Inc. - an Asian American organization located in
a community with the fastest growing Asian American
population in Massachusetts.
Dr. Hung will discuss a profile of immigrant community
organizations, some data on Asian American organization
board members, and his observations based on serving on the
board of Quincy Asian Resources, Inc.