EDWARD A. SMITH
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES and AWARDS PROGRAM

Distinguished Lecturers
1997 - 2004

April 20, 2004

David Cohen, Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Advocacy Institute
Lecture: Giving Voice to Your Mission: The Secrets of Building Will and Shaping Policy
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2003

Paul Light, Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution and the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University
Lecture: Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence

2002

Rebecca Adamson, Founder and President of First Nations Development Institute
Lecture: Nonprofits as the Community Fabric for a Civic Society

2001

William Ryan, Consultant and Research Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Lecture: Nonprofit Dilemmas: The Struggle Over Values, Capacity and Identity
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2000

Angela Blackwell, Founder and President, PolicyLink
Lecture: The Power of Grassroots Leadership in Building Community

1999

Robert Putnam, Author and Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Lecture: The Power of Social Capital in Building Healthy Communities

1998

David Matthews, President and CEO, Kettering Foundation
Lecture: Leadership in a Civil Society: New Perspectives for Building Healthy Communities

1997

Jeremy Rifkin, Author and Lecturer, "The End of Work"
Lecture: The End of Work