Please enjoy a sample of Tiziana's multimedia portfolio:
PRINT:
- A Method to the Madness (December 15, 2009, The Boston Pilot)
- In Their Own Words (November 27, 2009, The Boston Pilot)
- It's in the Bag (October 23, 2009, The Boston Pilot)
- Golden Opportunities (May 15, 2009, The Boston Pilot)
- Enfranchising Immigrants (March 20, 2009, The Boston Pilot)
- Restocking the Shelves (February 20, 2009, The Boston Pilot)
- Love the Poor (The Boston Globe, December 29, 2008)
- The Poor Need More Urgent Attention (The Dorchester Reporter, July 11, 2008)
- Food Stamps and Hunger in America (December 3, 2009, NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook)
- Redefining Homelessness(Oct 23, 2008, WBZ AM 1030)
- Economy Down but Charitable Giving Up(Oct 28, 2008, WBZ AM 1030)
- The Economy and the Working Poor (Dec 5, 2008, WBUR Radio Boston)
TELEVISION:
- Tough times for charities (June 16, 2009, NECN)
- Non-profit hospitals(June 9, 2009, NECN)
- Caring for the elderly (July 21, 2009, NECN)
- Refugee resettlement (July 7, 2009, NECN)
- Preventing youth violence (May 25, 2009, NECN)
ADVOCACY:
- Meeting People on the Back Streets,” a Catholic Charities USA Congressional Briefing (Video: January 15 2009, Washington, D.C.)
About Tiziana C. Dearing
Tiziana Dearing is President of Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of Boston. The first woman to serve in this role in Boston, she has held the post since September 2007.
Prior to joining Catholic Charities, Ms. Dearing was Executive Director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. In that capacity, Ms. Dearing managed the organization’s operations, as well as writing, speaking, and doing research on nonprofit organizations and civil society.
For a decade before joining the Hauser Center, Ms. Dearing consulted to senior managers in nonprofits and corporations. In 1997, she started her own consultancy, working with nonprofits and specializing in strategy development and implementation, executive decision making and coaching, and large and small group facilitation. Her clients represented organizations local and international, academic and non-profit, and with budgets ranging from one to several hundred million dollars.
Prior to launching her business, Ms. Dearing worked with a management consulting firm specializing in knowledge management, process development and Balanced Scorecard services to Fortune 500 companies. While at the firm, she wrote one of the early knowledge management methodologies. She came to consulting after working for Women’s Self-Employment Project, a nonprofit micro-lending organization in Chicago.
Ms. Dearing has a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, with concentrations in International Security Policy and Negotiation and Conflict Resolution. She had a merit-based scholarship as a Kennedy School Fellow. She has a BA in English with High Distinction from the University of Michigan.
In addition to her work, Ms. Dearing remains active in her community, including serving on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Cooperative Society, on the Advisory Board of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, on the selection committee of the Quadir Prize – the Annual Global Contest to Strengthen Bangladesh, and as a trustee of the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation. She appears each week on the new segment “Good Works with Tiziana Dearing” on New England Cable News (NECN). She has published and provided commentary for media outlets such as WBUR/NPR radio, The Boston Globe¸ MSNBC, BBC Radio, and the Battle Creek Enquirer, and has had a semi-regular column with The Philanthropy News Digest. She also serves on the editorial board of the scholarly journal, The Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. She was named as one of the Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” in 2008, and in 2009 received the New England Women’s Leadership (NEWLA) Award.
Ms. Dearing lives in Bedford, Mass. with her husband, one daughter, and one son.
