20
February 2009
Past Event
Apocalypse Now for Nonprofits?

Apocalypse Now for Nonprofits?

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
February 20, 2009
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20
February 2009
Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Transcript Now Available - Click Here! (PDF format, 33 pages, 693 KB)

 

A complete, edited transcript is now available of the February 20 panel discussion, cosponsored by Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal and The Nonprofit Quarterlyentitled

Apocalypse Now for Nonprofits?

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Friday, February 20, 2009 - 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Hudson Institute - Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
1015 15th Street, NW - Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005

Event Description

     Light, Ni, Schambra, Salamon, and Frumkin

"During these troubled times, what lies in store for the nonprofit sector, and what do we need to do about it? Along with every family in America, the nonprofit sector is wondering about its future. Will we miraculously survive as we largely do today? Will we starve our organizations to the core or emerge from the current economic calamity mostly intact? Will we fight the prevailing downturn on behalf of our individual institutions and leave others to defend themselves, or instead will we join forces to shore up the sector as a whole? In the aftermath of this financial crisis, will we have real options and choices?" New York University political scientist PAUL LIGHT recently posed these questions, along with some answers, in an article for the Winter 2008 issue of The Nonprofit Quarterly ("Four Futures" - click here to access the article on the NPQ web site). 

On Friday, February 20, Hudson Institute's Bradley Center co-sponsored with NPQ a panel discussion of Professor Light's article. Panelists, alongside PAUL LIGHT, included LESTER SALAMON of Johns Hopkins University; GreatNonprofits CEO PERLA NI; and PETER FRUMKIN of the University of Texas at Austin. The Bradley Center's WILLIAM SCHAMBRA moderated the discussion. 

  

Program and Panel

11:45 a.m.
Registration, lunch buffet

12:00 p.m.
Welcome by Hudson Institute's WILLIAM SCHAMBRA

12:10
Panel discussion
PAUL LIGHT, New York University

PERLA NI, GreatNonprofits

PETER FRUMKIN, University of Texas at Austin

LESTER SALAMON, Johns Hopkins University

1:10
Question-and-answer session

2:00
Adjournment


Transcript Information

The event transcript was prepared from an audio recording and edited by Krista Shaffer. To request further information on this event or the Bradley Center, please contact Kristen McIntyre at (202) 974-2424 or kmcintyre@hudson.org.

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