Planning & Practice

• Guest editorial by Professor Hagy entitled “A Charitable Look at Corporate Real Estate”, which appeared in the Corporate Real Estate Journal (London: Henry Stewart Publications, 2011). 

• “The Rooftops Project: Report Summarizing Results of a Survey of Not-for-Profit Organizations” (Fall 2010), our first national field study of the attitudes and approaches of not-for-profit organizations with respect to the owned, leased or hosted real estate that supports their core missions and operations.
   

Profiles

• The Gates Foundation LEED Platinum Seattle Headquarters
  In this first article in his series looking at not-for-profits as urban neighbors, Professor James Hagy, Director of The Rooftops Project, visits with the Gates Foundation at its recently opened LEED Platinum Seattle headquarters campus.
• The California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities
  When the California Endowment planned new headquarters space for its own operations, its vision also included creating conference space suitable for events by other not-for-profits, opportunities for formal and informal collaboration among not-for-profits with compatible missions, and even incubator spaces for smaller organizations in need of an office presence. In this second article in his series looking at not-for-profits as urban neighbors, Professor James Hagy, Director of The Rooftops Project, talks with Anne-Marie Jones, Director of the Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities, and Edward de la Torre, its Director of Facilities and Events.
• Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada
  Responding to an ever-increasing need for pro bono legal services, the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada recently broke ground in downtown Las Vegas on what will become its new headquarters. Professor James Hagy, Director of The Rooftops Project, talks with Eexecutive Director Barbara Buckley about the project and the role that the new facility will play in advancing the Center's mission and its services to clients.
• Fernbank Museum of Natural History
  Any natural history or science museum would be proud to haev the diversity of collections and programmatic resources found at Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, Georgia. But few if any can law claim, as Fernbank does, to having "grown out of a forest." Professor James Hagy, Director of The Rooftops Project, talks wiht Aneli Nugteren, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Fernbank Museum, about its unique campus, mission, and facilities.

Perspectives

• Steve Marcussen and Jonathan Sklar of Cushman & Wakefield
  Steve Marcussen and Jonathan Sklar of Cushman & Wakefield's Los Angeles office share thoughts on how not-for-profit organizations can be more effective with their real estate assets and in implementing projects with outside real estate brokerage advisors

• Benjamin Webb of the Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia
  Benjamin Webb discusses the rewards and challenges of being responsible for facilities management and energy for the largest mixed-program cultural center in the Southeastern U.S.

• Alyssa Bellew of the Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church of Pasadena
  At manyplaces of worship, responsibility for oversight of the physical facilities falls to administrative staff as one more adjunct to an already busy schedule. At others, property tasks may be left to volunteers. The "on-the-job training" may often be self-taught. Professor James Hagy explores these challenges with Alyssa Bellew, Administrative Director of Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church.

Rooftops for Coffee

Check back again for highlights of our ongoing small group discussions and field projects with not-for-profit organizations in greater New York and around the country.

Panorama

• International Perspectives: Kathleen Curran, Director of Casa Nuevo Horizonte, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
  In this first of our series of international perspectives, Kathleen Curran relfects on the important role that physical space has played in her charitable mission in Bolivia supporting promising students seeking an advanced education in a setting of poverty.

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