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Professor Mary Kay Gugerty’s Book named Best Nonprofit Book of the Year

The Alliance for Nonprofit Management yesterday presented the 2018 Terry McAdam Book Award to Professor Mary Kay Gugerty and her co-author for their recent book,  The Goldilocks Challenge: Right-Fit Evidence for the Social Sector (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Now in its 30th year, the Alliance’s Terry McAdam Book Award Committee reviews books published in the nonprofit sector; highlights the very best thinking in management, governance, and capacity building; and helps expose practitioners to new knowledge and approaches in the field. This year, after reviewing 21 nonprofit capacity-building books published in 2017 or 2018, the committee determined that The Goldilocks Challenge best exemplified the spirit of the award: research-to-practice principles; relevance to the whole nonprofit sector; persuasive reasoning; and readability.

From the Committee:  The Goldilocks Challenge is about measuring impact. Measuring impact: we all want to do it, know we have to do it…and are all too often frustrated by one-size-fits-all expectations of how to do it, expectations based on large nonprofits that represent so few of the organizations that most of us work with. The Goldilocks Challenge offers a solution: an impact measurement framework that helps organizations decide what elements they should monitor and measure. This framework is based on four principles, called the CART principles: Credible data; Actionable data; Responsible data; and Transportable data. Dive in to learn more about the CART principles and how you can immediately begin using them with the organizations you work with.

Congratulations, Professor Gugerty!

Remembering Hubert Locke, Dean Emeritus

Hurbert Locke

The Evans School is saddened by the loss of Evans School Professor and Dean Emeritus Hubert Locke, who passed away Saturday, June 2, 2018.

Hubert was a renowned scholar and dedicated public and civic leader. Early in his career, he led the Citizen’s Committee for Equal Opportunity, a civil rights organization in Detroit. He served as Administrative Assistant to the Detroit Commissioner of Police, and published The Detroit Riot of 1967, his first-hand account of the riots and unrest that swept his city. He continued to work for policy reform throughout his career. He returned to higher education as the founding dean of the College of Public Affairs and Community Services at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, before coming to the University of Washington in 1977.

In more than two decades of service at the University of Washington, Hubert contributed important scholarship on ethics, policy reform, and history while holding administrative roles including Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. As Dean of the then-named Graduate School of Public Affairs from 1982-1987, he saw the school through major budget cuts, and implemented key hiring decisions that led to the school’s growth in size, stature, and impact. He also continued teaching courses on ethics, urban policy, justice, and policing.

He retired from the Evans School and UW in 1999, as Dean Emeritus of Public Affairs. Hubert’s lifelong legacy of advancing issues of race and social equity continues at the Evans School with the Hubert G. Locke Diversity Award, given each year to the student and faculty member who exemplify his commitment to a more equitable world, and the Hubert G. Locke Endowed Fellowship in Social Justice, which supports students pursuing internships in non-profit organizations devoted to social justice.

Hubert was a valued mentor, friend, and teacher to many at the Evans School. This is a sad loss for our community, but we are grateful for the lasting impact he made on our school and the University of Washington. The world is a more just place because of Hubert Locke.