Homepage – Ash Center
Oct 1, 2024 · Ash Center Seminar Room 225, Suite 200, 124 Mount Auburn Street. 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST. 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST. JFK Jr. Forum (79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA 02138) 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST. The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic ...
Programs – Ash Center
The Transparency for Development Project was a novel, decade-long research initiative, housed at the Ash Center and executed in partnership with Results for Development. The Project investigated whether, why, and in what contexts local transparency and accountability interventions improve development outcomes, such as those around health and ...
About – Ash Center
The Ash Center was established in 2003 as the Ash Institute to address critical issues of governance and make governments more effective and responsive. Its history begins with three great visionaries: Susan Berresford, former president of the Ford Foundation, and Roy and Lila Ash. In 2001, the Ford Foundation announced a $50 million endowment ...
‘The writing was on the wall’ – Ash Center
14 hours ago · Given the razor thin polls, Biden’s low approval ratings, and the last minute emergence of Harris as the Democratic Party candidate, Rigueur said we ought to have known better, lamenting, “The writing was on the wall.”. She reassured the audience that the rightward shift is not necessarily “a hard shift or a permanent shift.”.
Research & Resources – Ash Center
Aug 5, 2024 · Through our books, case studies, journal articles, papers, and surveys, the Ash Center is home to some of the world’s most advanced research and publications on issues related to democratic governance and self-governance. To explore all research authored by Ash Center faculty, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School website.
Antiracism – Ash Center
Mar 12, 2024 · Antiracist institutions and organizations address and challenge racial disparities by instituting policies and recommendations to foster greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project at the Ash Center uses research and policy to promote antiracism as a core value and institutional norm.
Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project – Ash Center
Oct 28, 2024 · During the fifth-annual convening of the Truth and Transformation Conference hosted by the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project (IARA), experts discussed challenges as well as best practices for holding organizations accountable for antiracist change. Panel 3 — Turning Up the Heat: Social Pressure for Organizational Accountability.
Issue Areas – Ash Center
Issue Areas – Ash Center. Antiracism is a critical building block for a modern, healthy democracy. At the Ash Center, we’re generating new ideas and insights for the future of civic engagement — everything from voter participation to democratic deliberation. Protest is the bedrock of democracy. But why do people take to the streets, and ...
Research Reveals Path to Effective Antiracist Change in American ...
Mar 30, 2023 · Cambridge, MA—In 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 and rising wave of racial justice demonstrations moved many organizations, including those in healthcare, to commit to antiracist change. These public commitments raised important questions about how organizations lead, plan, measure and sustain racial equity interventions in the healthcare ...
New Ash Center Report Offers a Road Map for Building …
Jan 30, 2020 · Cambridge, MA — Today, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, a research center at Harvard Kennedy School, released “Science, Technology, and Democracy: Building a Modern Congressional Technology Assessment Office,” a new paper by Zach Graves and Daniel Schuman offering recommendations and a road map for resurrecting a technology assessment capability in Congress.