United Way Mass Bay and the Faith & Action Initiative (B): Going for the Gold?

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

In July 2002, the United Way of Massachusetts Bay (UWMB) faced a dilemma it could not have imagined five years earlier: whether to lead a coalition of faith-based organizations applying for a grant from the Compassion Capital Fund (CCF),...

United Way Mass Bay and the Faith & Action Initiative (A): Should Faith Be Funded? (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

In March 1997, United Way of Massachusetts Bay (UWMB) contemplated a dramatically new approach to its grant-making. The Faith and Action Initiative (FAA) had the potential to direct United Way funds to religious organizations. For decades, UWMB...

United Way Mass Bay and the Faith & Action Initiative (A): Should Faith Be Funded

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

In March 1997, United Way of Massachusetts Bay (UWMB) contemplated a dramatically new approach to its grant-making. The Faith and Action Initiative (FAA) had the potential to direct United Way funds to religious organizations. For decades, UWMB...

Parks and Partnership in New York City (C): Riverside Park, Soldiers' & Sailors' Plaza

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

This is the third, in a series of cases, that details the means by which New York City's Parks Department sought private funds to maintain public properties in Riverside Park, on the west side of Manhattan. The case outlines the complex internal...

Making the Madisonian System Work: Case Studies in Contemporary American Government

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

The cases in this collection, taken from the Kennedy School's Senior Executive Fellows Program for federal public managers, are based on the experiences of public sector managers, and designed for would--be or active practitioners focused on...

DC Agenda: A Nonprofit 'Intermediary' Arrives at a Crossroads (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

This epilogue accompanies the case 1777.0. This case details the emergence and challenges of a nonprofit, blue-ribbon citizens' group which sought to influence public discourse and decisions surrounding Washington D.C.'s financial crisis in the...

DC Agenda: A Nonprofit 'Intermediary' Arrives at a Crossroads

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

This case details the emergence and challenges of a nonprofit, blue-ribbon citizens' group which sought to influence public discourse and decisions surrounding Washington D.C.'s financial crisis in the early 1990s. DC Agenda, founded in 1974 by...

Convener or Player? The World Economic Forum and Davos

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

The Swiss alpine resort Davos became, during the last quarter of the 20th century, synonymous with a conference which made possible informal conversations amongst some of the world's most successful and influential people. Over time, global...

Placebo Trials in Africa: The African American Dilemma at the Centers for Disease Control (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

In 1997, a small group of African American doctors and scientists on the staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found themselves on the horns of a painful dilemma. For months, they had been making known their objections to...

Placebo Trials in Africa: The African American Dilemma at the Centers for Disease Control

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

In 1997, a small group of African American doctors and scientists on the staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found themselves on the horns of a painful dilemma. For months, they had been making known their objections to...

The Ad Hoc Conference and Sammy Sockeye

Publication Date: November 01, 2003

When a career public employee in a research division of the US Forest Service gets a call from a lobbyist for a coalition of environmental advocacy groups, he finds himself confronting an opportunity of which he's not sure it's right to avail...

A Letter to Professor Dutch Leonard

Publication Date: November 01, 2003

This letter to a Kennedy School faculty member from a former student is a plea for advice about one of the most difficult dilemmas faced by public employees in a bureaucratic chain of command: what to do when one thinks a new boss is moving an...