Women in Philanthropy: Elisabeth "Betty" Bottomley Noyce

Publication Date: January 01, 2000

This collection of cases written for the Hauser Center on Nonprofit Management provide essential histories of the lives and philanthropic motivations and choices of some of the most significant women philanthropists in American history. They...

Women in Philanthropy: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Publication Date: January 01, 2000

This collection of cases written for the Hauser Center on Nonprofit Management provide essential histories of the lives and philanthropic motivations and choices of some of the most significant women philanthropists in American history. They...

Women in Philanthropy: Mrs. Russell Sage (Margaret Olivia Slocum)

Publication Date: January 01, 2000

This collection of cases written for the Hauser Center on Nonprofit Management provide essential histories of the lives and philanthropic motivations and choices of some of the most significant women philanthropists in American history. They...

Mother Tongue Education in Hong Kong: Convincing the Public

Publication Date: January 01, 2000

When the government of Hong Kong moves to change the language of secondary school instruction from English to Chinese, it confronts the fact that the overwhelming majority of parents, although themselves Chinese-speaking, believe that an...

The NYPD Takes on Crime in New York City (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 2000

This abridgement is based on the epilogue "Assertive Policing, Plummeting Crime: The NYPD Takes on Crime in New York City" (1530.1).Learning Objective:This case, in addition to the questions it raises, provides a powerful telling of one of the...

Mayor Steve Judy of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and the Parade Permit Request by Neo-Nazis

Publication Date: January 01, 2000

In February, 1998, the 28-year-old newly-elected mayor of the small city of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho faces, without warning, a decision which would tax both the most experienced mayor and constitutional lawyer. The neo-Nazi group known as the Aryan...

Mayor Steve Judy of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and the Parade Permit Request by Neo-Nazis (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 2000

In February, 1998, the 28-year-old newly-elected mayor of the small city of Coeur d'Alene Idaho faces, without warning, a decision which would tax both the most experienced mayor and constitutional lawyer. The neo-Nazi group known as the Aryan...

Family Net: An Automated Child Welfare Information System

Publication Date: December 23, 1999

When, in 1998, Massachusetts Department of Social Services adopts an innovative information system to track some of its most sensitive responsibilities: the oversight of families with abused or neglected children. Officials are optimistic that...

Family Foundation Governance at the J.M. Kaplan Fund

Publication Date: December 2, 1999

When the patriarch of a long-establish New York family foundation dies, long-submerged tensions within and between generations spark a crisis in the governance of the foundation. One family member who had historically been given license by the...

Seeking Neighborhood Revitalization in Philadelphia: Using Tax Credits to Link the Private and Nonprofit Sectors

Publication Date: December 01, 1999

In this case, the relationship between public goals of the revitalization of distressed neighborhoods in Philadelphia and nonprofit organizations is mediated by an unusual vehicle. A Pennsylvania state tax credit program is designed to channel...

Containing the Chaos: the US-UN Intervention in the Congo 1960-1965

Publication Date: November 15, 1999

The end of the colonial period in the former Belgian Congo in 1960 precipitates a period of civil war, linked to the US-USSR Cold War rivalry. This case tells the story of the United States' and United Nations' attempts to stabilize the...

Tradition, Transformation, and a Divided Spirit: A 21st Century Quandary for the American Red Cross

Publication Date: November 12, 1999

During the 1990s, the AIDS crisis and changes in the structure of the U.S. blood supply industry force the American Red Cross, one of the premier U.S. nonprofit organizations, into a major reorganization and a decade which its president calls...