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...

Coping with Crisis: Hong Kong Public Health Officials and the "Bird Flu"

Publication Date: June 01, 1998

This case recounts the efforts of Hong Kong public health authorities first to identify and then control a dangerous new flu virus not previously known to infect humans. The case focuses on the authorities' communication with the public, as they...

The General and the "War" on Drugs: Barry McCaffrey and the Office of National Drug Control Policy

Publication Date: June 01, 1998

When General Barry McCaffrey, a decorated war hero, agrees to take command of the U.S. office of National Drug Control Policy, he encounters an office in such disarray that some in Congress doubt whether it should continue to exist. He boasts...

Going Against the Grain: A "Conservative" Think Tank in Massachusetts

Publication Date: June 01, 1998

When a retired Massachusetts oil company executive decided, in the mid-1980s, to establish a free market-oriented public policy think tank, he faced daunting obstacles. Massachusetts had historically been one of the nation's most politically...

USDA's Civil Rights Reform (Part 2): Making Change Happen

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...

Policing Chicago's Public Housing Developments: Operating in a Unique Environment

Publication Date: June 01, 1998

The infamous Cabrini-Green public housing project, dominated by large violent criminal gangs, is the setting for this case describing the unusual tactics of a group of Chicago police. The "Slick Boys", a group of veteran officers use rap...