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Inessa Lurye

Before graduate school, Inessa Lurye, through consulting work at McKinsey, helped the Harlem Children's Zone nearly double the number of children it served. She worked with the Washington DC's mayor's office to reduce street homelessness... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)

less a figure than Gerson Cohen, the head of The Jewish Theological Seminary, agreed to be my tutor. For six years we met once a week; that, too, was an extraordinary education. Then, in 1988, I read Rachel and Her Children by Jonathan Kozol, a shocking book about... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance
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In The Community | About

Academy Honan-Allston Library Jackson Mann Community Center New England Center for Homeless Veterans Oak Square YMCA West End House Boys & Girls Club Year Up * Locally focused (Greater Boston) FY24 figures. View Details
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • News

Hungry for Change

crops that otherwise would have gone to waste. The organization distributed a total of 76 million pounds of food in 2012 (26 million of which was perishable), both directly and through a network of nearly 1,000 food pantries and homeless... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
  • 18 May 2017
  • News

Pioneer Spirit

rehabilitation projects that resulted in affordable housing, and finally took on historic rehabilitation projects by themselves, working in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Today, the company focuses on providing affordable housing for low-income families, seniors, and... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
  • 21 Jul 2011
  • News

Social Investing’s Time Has Come

with little or no measurable result, SIBs offer a new way to address intractable societal problems. Here’s how the bonds work. Private investors purchase bonds that finance preventive programs run by nonprofit groups. If the programs, such as reducing View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 21 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

achieve that. Then I think the impact of what she is doing for girls, for homeless women, through an NGO (Mijwan Welfare Society) she started. She is having great impact there. Homelessness is a huge, huge... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 29 Apr 2016
  • News

The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

momentous. Since we launched in December 2013, we have already seen five of our formerly homeless artists gain housing; not simply because of this new opportunity to earn income, but because being validated—being shown their talent is... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Better than Cash

Boston Teamwork: From left, Chuck Eisenberg (MBA ’78), Arjuna Costa (MBA ’01), John Flanagan (AMP 96, 1985), Tom White (MBA ’69), Mark Alston-Follansbee, Marco Bitran (MBA ’03), and Charles Cassidy (MBA ’83). When Mark Alston-Follansbee, executive director of the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; CAP; HBS; nonprofits; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 13 Dec 2011
  • News

Carry It On

community-oriented philosophy and practices. At one point, it counted more than 600 nonprofit groups among its customers, as the bank aggressively supported environmental, HIV/AIDS, affordable housing, and homeless causes and issues. In... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Alumni Books

Community by Bert Berkley (MBA ’50) and Peter Economy (Wiley) Profiling many highly effective charitable organizations — for example, Kiva, Horizons for Homeless Children, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Stonyfield Farm Profits for the... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

A CEO Goes Undercover

Before working for our aquarium, she had been homeless for eighteen months, sleeping with her son on the floor of his daycare center while she searched for employment. So what then was my takeaway? I learned the family culture our company... View Details
Keywords: Joel Manby; reality television; social class; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 13 May 2014
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Willing Hands

a longtime passion of mine." In addition to helping to develop the first SRO (single-room occupancy) residence for homeless men in Charlotte, Spencer has served on the board of the Charlotte Housing Authority Transitional Families... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate
  • 01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

to be a doctor, but over time I became interested in larger health-care systems issues, too.” After graduating from Harvard College, where he started a health clinic for homeless people in Harvard Square, Jain completed three years at... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
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Frank Spencer

trust. "Affordable housing in particular has been a longtime passion of mine." In addition to helping to develop the first SRO (single-room occupancy) residence for homeless men in Charlotte, Spencer has served on the board of... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Services
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Kanwaljit Bakshi

going into science and engineering. But those paths never felt like quite the right fit. "Since high school, I had done volunteer work with homeless kids and vulnerable children and domestic violence victims," she says.... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 03 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

9 Lessons from the Class of 2019

Robin Hood Army has been introduced into new countries including Indonesia, Nigeria, and Chile. Locally, he could be seen leading groups of students after section events to Harvard Square to deliver leftover food to homeless people in the... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2018
  • News

Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits

sending nonprofit leaders from all over the world to HBS. In the last 16 years, HBSASNE has sent 33 local nonprofit leaders to the SPNM program, representing a wide range of social action, from addressing homelessness and improving... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 06 May 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

though, are not administrative. "The biggest challenge we face is a cultural shift. People who by and large get into these organizations have amazing compassion. They want to clothe the homeless and feed the hungry. And for them to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

HiHome Sweet HiHome

journey where we thought a method like this would work.” Shu is currently completing a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing through the international Schwarzman Scholars program. Housing has always fascinated Shu, who studied the... View Details
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