Aguas de Cartagena: The Privatization of Water in Cartagena, Colombia

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

In 1992, Mayor Gabriel Garcia Romero confronted a situation all too familiar in developing countries--an inadequate and under-capitalized water system. Only 28 percent of Cartagena's households had reliable drinking water. Thirty percent were...

Focused Philanthropy: The Steans Family Foundation North Lawndale Initiative

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

The Chicago-based Steans Family Foundation decides, in 1995, to depart from its historic focus on aiding individual, needy Chicago public school students. Frustrated by the persistent perils in neighborhoods in which such beneficiaries of their...

Chile's Water System: The Privatization Debate (A)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

In 1995, the President of Chile proposed to the legislature several reforms designed to strengthen the agency that regulated the tariffs charged by Chile's water companies. Although a half dozen water companies were private, most of the water...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Corporate Philanthropy (D)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Philanthropy by Foundations (C)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Philanthropy by Individual Donors (B)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Landscape of Philanthropy in the United States (A)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Deciding Who Decides: The Debate Over a Gay Photo Exhibit in a Madison School (C)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

When teachers at a Madison, Wisconsin elementary school announce plans to mount a photo exhibit featuring families with gay or lesbian parents, school system superintendent Cheryl Wilhoyte faces a vexing decision. She knows well that the exhibit...

Deciding Who Decides: The Debate Over a Gay Photo Exhibit in a Madison School (B)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

When teachers at a Madison, Wisconsin elementary school announce plans to mount a photo exhibit featuring families with gay or lesbian parents, school system superintendent Cheryl Wilhoyte faces a vexing decision. She knows well that the exhibit...

Deciding Who Decides: The Debate Over a Gay Photo Exhibit in a Madison School (A)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

When teachers at a Madison, Wisconsin elementary school announce plans to mount a photo exhibit featuring families with gay or lesbian parents, school system superintendent Cheryl Wilhoyte faces a vexing decision. She knows well that the exhibit...

San Francisco's Juvenile Justice System: Trying to Do Right by Kids Who Do Wrong

Publication Date: June 01, 1998

This juvenile justice policy case describes the strategic challenge faced by a San Francisco consultant, asked by the city's Mayor Willie Brown, to resolve a bitter and long-standing dispute as to how to structure the city's approach to youthful...

USDA's Civil Rights Reform (Part 1): Defining the Challenge

Publication Date: June 01, 1998

This pair of cases combines description (Part 1) of the political management of a festering issue at the sprawling U.S. Department of Agriculture, with description (Part 2) of specific steps designed to promote and institutionalize...