Note on Strategic Giving

Publication Date: April 01, 2000

Even though tremendous amounts of money are given away each year, the field of philanthropy lacks a clear definition of strategy. Strategic giving is defined here as the tight alignment of the philanthropic value to be produced, the identity and...

The Social Sector Entrepreneurship foundation and the Citizens Homelessness Initiative (B) Business Director Wendy Milner

Publication Date: March 01, 2000

This pair of fictionalized accounts form the basis of a role-playing exercise in which participants explore the relationship between a foundation program officer and the executive director of a major social service agency funded by the...

The Social Sector Entrepreneurship Foundation and the Citizens Homelessness Initiative (A) Executive Director Anton Williams

Publication Date: March 01, 2000

This pair of fictionalized accounts form the basis of a role-playing exercise in which participants explore the relationship between a foundation program officer and the executive director of a major social service agency funded by the...

The Massachusetts DNA Database: Getting Started (Sequel)

Publication Date: March 01, 2000

This organizational strategy and implementation case describes the effort to develop a major new capacity in Massachusetts state government--that of gathering and making use of DNA test results as part of the criminal justice system. To do so,...

The Massachusetts DNA Database: Getting Started

Publication Date: March 01, 2000

This organizational strategy and implementation case describes the effort to develop a major new capacity in Massachusetts state government--that of gathering and making use of DNA test results as part of the criminal justice system. To do so,...

Reducing the Complaints Backlog at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Publication Date: March 01, 2000

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is the agency charged with investigation of non-criminal complaints of civil rights-related violations in the U.S. workplace, including racial and gender discrimination. This case describes the...

Tackling Poor Performance, Extreme Inequality, Public Complaisance: Brazil's Education Minister Forges a New Role for the Ministry (Sequel)

Publication Date: March 01, 2000

This sequel accompanies the case "Tackling Poor Performance" (1571.0). When Paulo Renato de Souza accepts an appointment to become Brazil's minister of education, he faces extreme challenges. Public education in Latin America's most populous...

Tackling Poor Performance, Extreme Inequality, Public Complaisance: Brazil's Education Minister Forges a New Role for the Ministry

Publication Date: March 01, 2000

When Paulo Renato de Souza accepts an appointment to become Brazil's minister of education, he faces extreme challenges. Public education in Latin America's most populous nation is widely viewed as a failure. Brazil's vast population of poor...

Costa Rica's Forests and the Market for Carbon Emissions Reduction Credits

Publication Date: February 01, 2000

In 1999, Costa Rica's Vice President and Minister of Environment and Energy, Elizabeth Odio, had to decide whether to sell additional credits for greenhouse gas emissions reductions and, if so, at what price. Over the previous decade, the...

The Woman in the Corridor

Publication Date: February 01, 2000

This powerful first-person memoir-style case tells the story of a Western journalism teacher in post-war Cambodia where, amidst near-ubiquitous hardship and tragedy, she finds herself drawn to one individual tragedy--that of a woman she...

The Ladder and the Scale: Commitment and Accountability at Project Match (Abridged)

Publication Date: February 01, 2000

Located in one of the most troubled housing projects in Chicago, the job training program known as Project Match has an unusual approach to the task of bringing welfare recipients into the world of work. Rather than trying to broker a simple job...

Principle and Politics: Washington State Health Secretary Mary Seleky and HIV Surveillance (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 20, 2000

When Mary Selecky, a long-time county health official in Washington state, is named by Governor Gary Locke to be acting state health commissioner, she finds herself in the midst of a pitched battle related to the public health treatment of those...