SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Convene a CEO Workshop to bring together business leaders from the America's to promote grassroots development as a strategy for poverty alleviation
- Notice Date
- 3/7/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541720
— Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD), Division of Procurement, UNB 4th Floor 200 Third Street, Parkersburg, WV, 26101-5312
- ZIP Code
- 26101-5312
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-IAF-12000-05-0002
- Response Due
- 4/7/2005
- Archive Date
- 3/8/2006
- Description
- Subject to final approval, the Bureau of the Public Debt, Administrative Resource Center intends to award a sole source purchase order for the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) to Harvard University, Hauser Center for event coordination and tasks described herein. The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) requires a sole source contract with Harvard University, Hauser Center, for this project. Harvard is the only qualified entity that can carry out the multiple tasks described herein. Of particular interest are the following qualifications of Harvard University in regards to this requirement: The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations is an interdisciplinary research center at the John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) at Harvard University. Based in Cambridge, the Center seeks to expand understanding and accelerate critical thinking about nonprofit organizations and civil society among scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and the general public. The Center aims to illuminate the vital role the voluntary nonprofit sector plays in aiding societies to discover and accomplish important public purposes. Faculty and researchers at the Center help equip policy makers and nonprofit leaders with the knowledge and tools they need to develop to their full potential. The Hauser Center is well known and highly respected among members of RedEAm?rica for its multiple programs and initiatives in Latin America. Harvard?s power to convene: IAF through BPD intends to task Harvard to plan a CEO Hemispheric Workshop in the summer of 2005 to bring together business leaders from the Americas to discuss and promote grassroots development (GRD) as a strategy for poverty alleviation. High attendance to this important event will depend in great part on who convenes the meeting. Business owners and CEOs will be asked not only to give of their time to attend this event but also to pay their own travel, hotel, and other expenses. Harvard University (the Hauser Center in conjunction with the Business School) has a unique power to convene such a meeting. In addition to the general world-wide prestige of Harvard, the university is especially known and respected among Latin America business leaders for multiple programs and initiatives that it has carried out over the years with these leaders. Harvard?s power to convene business leaders in the America?s can be linked to multiple efforts, including the Program on Philanthropy, Civil Society and Social Change in the Americas (PASCA) created to better understand to the role of private philanthropy and of organized civil society in the development of Latin America. Broad multi-sector expertise of Harvard: The Hauser Center will be able to tap into other relevant units within the university, and in this way directly contribute to quality, state of the art products. These are: -The Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative (CSR) at the Kennedy School of Government. This initiative is a multi-disciplinary program that undertakes research, education and outreach activities to study and enhance the public role of private enterprise. It focuses on exploring the intersection between corporate responsibility, corporate governance and strategy, public policy, and the media. The CSR Initiative is a cooperative effort between the Center for Business and Government, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Center for Public Leadership and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. -The Social Enterprise Program in the Business School. Includes the following Executive Education Programs that will contribute to capacity-building for business support to GRD: 1. Governing for Nonprofit Excellence (GNE): Critical Issues for Board Leadership is an Executive Education program developed at Harvard Business School to help maximize the contributions of nonprofit board leaders. Three distinguishing characteristics of GNE are: (a) A strong leadership focus?reflected in both the level of participant experience and the issues that the program addresses; (b) The effectiveness of Harvard Business School's interactive approach to learning; and (c) Harvard Business School faculty who combine extensive research and experience in board leadership and nonprofit management with world-class teaching expertise. 2. Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations (PMNO): is an Executive Education program developed by Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative and the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. PMNO enables nonprofit leaders to address the challenging work of measuring the performance of nonprofit organizations. Specifically, the program focuses on the strategic use of performance measurement to improve the key areas of management concern, such as resource allocation, organizational learning, internal processes, and internal and external accountability. 3. Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) Effective nonprofit leaders face many challenges in successfully leading their organizations. First, there has to be clarity regarding the mission itself?they have to define the very reason that the nonprofit exists. Then, there are the pressures to become more professionally managed, and to articulate and achieve bottom-line performance objectives that are pertinent to the organization. All of this must be undertaken in the context of shifting demands for services, changing operating environments, and recurring financial pressures. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE. Public Debt will consider all affirmative responses received no later than April 7, 2005. Affirmative responses shall reference IA-12000-05-0002 and shall be accompanied by sufficient documentation to clearly show the ability to provide the required services or functional equivalent at terms more advantageous to the Government. Requests for more information or a copy of the solicitation will not be considered affirmative responses. If no affirmative response is received that clearly demonstrates the ability to meet all requirements and that it is more advantageous to the Government, a sole-source purchase order award will be made to the Harvard University-The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, 5 Bennett Street, Cambridge, MA02138. .
- Record
- SN00764036-W 20050309/050307212023 (fbodaily.com)
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