Understanding nonprofit organizations : governance, leadership, and management / edited by J. Steven Ott and Lisa A. Dicke.

Other author Ott, J. Steven.
Other author Dicke, Lisa A., 1960-
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoBoulder, CO : Westview Press, 2012.
Descriptionxxi, 330 pages ; 26 cm
Subjects
Nonprofit organizations--United States.
Voluntarism--United States.

Contents I. Governance of nonprofit organizations. Board of directors / Stephen R. Block (1998) -- The high-impact governing model / Doug Eadie (2009) -- Guide to nonprofit corporate governance in the wake of Sarbanes-Oxley / American Bar Association, Coordinating Committee on Nonprofit Governance -- II. The legal framework. Organizational, operational, and related tests and doctrines / Bruce R. Hopkins (2007) -- Update: the current state of nonprofit director liability / Jaclyn A. Cherry (1999) -- III. Effective, ethical leadership. Executive director / Stephen R. Block (1998) -- Ethics in nonprofit management: creating a culture of integrity / Thomas H. Jeavons (1994) -- IV. Capacity building. Building nonprofit capacity: a framework for addressing the problem / Carol J. De Vita, Cory Fleming, and Eric C. Twombly (2001) -- Introduction to strategic planning / Michael Allison and Jude Kaye (2006) -- V. Fund development: generating revenues. The fundraising process / Wesley E. Lindahl (2010) -- Analyzing the dynamics of funding: reliability and autonomy / Jon Pratt (2004) -- The giving circle landscape / Angela M. Eikenberry (2009) -- Foundations / Elizabeth T. Boris (1998) -- VI. Social entrepreneurship and commercialism. Nonprofit entrepreneurship / Dennis R. Young (1998) -- The legitimacy of social enterprise / Raymond Dart (2004) -- Taking social entrepreneurship seriously / J. Gregory Dees (2007) -- Conceptualizing nonprofit commercialism: a case study / Stefan Toepler (2004) -- VII. Managing under government contracts, through networks, and in collaborations. Dilemmas of management in nonprofit organizations / Steven Rathgeb Smith and Michael Lipsky (1993) -- A manager's guide to choosing and using collaborative networks / H. Brinton Milward and Keith G. Provan (2006) -- Collaboration: mission driven partnerships / Carol Chetkovich and Frances Kunreuther (2006) -- VIII. Budgets, financial reports, and management control. The underpinnings of financial and fiscal operations / Dale Swoboda and Georgalu Swoboda (2009) -- Types of nonprofit income: financial and cash flow management considerations / Murray Dropkin and Allyson HAyden (2001) -- IX. Managing volunteers. What is volunteering? / Marc A. Musick and John Wilson (2008) -- Volunteers at work / Jone L. Pearce (1993) -- It ain't natural: toward a new (natural) resource conceptualization for volunteer management / Jeffrey L. Brudney and Lucas C.P.M. Meijs (2009) -- X. Accountability and evaluation. Multiple constituencies and the social construction of nonprofit organization effectiveness / Robert D. Herman and David O. Renz (1997) -- Balancing competing accountability requirements: challenges inn performance improvement of the nonprofit human services agency / Seok-Eun Kim (2005) -- Measuring outcomes of United Wat-funded programs: expectations and reality / Michael Hendricks, Margaret C. Plantz, and Kathleen J. Pritchard (2008).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2011292706
ISBN9780813344683 (alk. paper : pbk.)
ISBN0813344689 (alk. paper : pbk.)

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