Master Plan Will Not Be Wasted

Illustrates a typical situation of a developing country where privatization or commercialization of public authority has taken place. Students must search for ways to balance useful market forces with comprehensive government planning.

Little Rock School District

This case highlights the political challenges contemporary urban school leaders face, it can be used in courses that focus on Education Policy, Political Representation, and Leadership and Management.

Lideres Campesinas: Grassroots Gendered Leadership, Community Organizing, and Pedagogies of Empowerment

Lideres Campesinas empowered women farm workers to solve the problems of injustice in their communities. The ethnography addresses the organization’s history, changes in leadership, community organizing; and pedagogical model.

Legislative Strategy: State Government Reorganization

Role-play exercise teaching subtle and practical lessons about legislative/executive relations and strategies for making progress on program issues through legislative processes.

Building Black Leadership on HIV/AIDS Issues: Unleashing the Power of Existing Communities and Organizations: Saving Our Own Lives

This leadership story describes how, with the powerful motivation of community survival, the Black AIDS Institute is raising the participation of African-Americans in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Making Ends Meet: Barton Family Case Study

This case is based on a number of family obstacles; poverty, addiction, teen pregnancy, neglect, adolescent risk-taking, and others. The case also supports learning of human growth and development in the context family circumstances and surroundings.

Managing A Health Project: HIV/AIDS in Thailand

A team of Japanese medical experts and their Thai counterparts disagree on the priorities of a health project focused on HIV/AIDS care and prevention. As it nears completion, the question becomes how to evaluate the project’s impact.

Building Community Power by Building Grassroots Leaders: Sacramento Valley Organizing Community (SVOC)

Grassroots leaders secured funding to build affordable housing, enabled immigrants to become U.S. citizens and created a welfare to work center for living-wage jobs. Through these efforts the community focused on leadership development.

Building Alliances: An Ethnography of Collaboration between Rural Organizing Project (ROP) and CAUSA in Oregon

This ethnography examines what can allow quality solidarity work to happen between organizations with diverse leadership and constituencies, and explore the history and lessons learned from the collaborative work between the two organizations.

Managing Student Aid in Sweden

National Student Aid Board is inefficient almost to the point of collapse. Case describes the fundamental transformation that restored the agency, and elicits discussion of problem definition, organizational productivity, and operational capacity.