Understanding nonprofit organizations : governance, leadership, and management /

Understanding nonprofit organizations : governance, leadership, and management /

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Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001.
Description:xvi, 410 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Nonprofit organizations -- United States.
Voluntarism -- United States.
Nonprofit organizations.
Voluntarism.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4527274
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Other authors / contributors:Ott, J. Steven.
ISBN:0813367875 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. Governance of Nonprofit Organizations
  • 1. Governance of Nonprofit Organizations
  • 2. Board of Directors
  • 3. Setting Limits: Standards of Ethics and Prudence
  • 4. Female Participation in Public Interest Nonprofit Governance: Yet Another Glass Ceiling?
  • II. The Legal Framework
  • 5. Developments in the Law: Nonprofit Corporations
  • 6. The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Organizational, Operational, and Similar Tests
  • III. Effective, Ethical Leadership
  • 7. Executive Director
  • 8. Ethics in Nonprofit Management: Creating a Culture of Integrity
  • 9. Artful Leadership
  • IV. Strategic Planning
  • 10. Strategic Planning
  • 11. The Strategic Marketing Planning Process
  • 12. Crafting Strategy
  • V. Fund-Raising: Generating Revenues
  • 13. Fund-Raising
  • 14. Diversification of Revenue Strategies: Evolving Resource Dependence in Nonprofit Organizations
  • 15. Returns on Fund-Raising Expenditures in the Voluntary Sector
  • 16. Foundations
  • VI. Entrepreneurship and Commercialism
  • 17. Nonprofit Entrepreneurship
  • 18. Profits for Nonprofits: Find a Corporate Partner
  • 19. Commercialism and the Road Ahead
  • VII. Managing Under Government Contracts
  • 20. Toward a Contract Culture
  • 21. Dilemmas of Management in Nonprofit Organizations
  • 22. The Game of Contracted Services
  • 23. Implications of Welfare Reform: Do Nonprofit Survival Strategies Threaten Civil Society?
  • VIII. Budgets, Financial Reports, and Management Control
  • 24. A View from the Top
  • 25. Budgeting
  • 26. Financial Statements and Fiscal Procedures
  • IX. Managing Volunteers
  • 27. Voluntarism
  • 28. Volunteers at Work
  • 29. Volunteer Administration
  • 30. Building Staff/Volunteer Relations: Setting the Stage
  • X. Accountability and Evaluation
  • 31. Accountability Concepts and Controversies
  • 32. Evaluation
  • 33. Multiple Constituencies and the Social Construction of Nonprofit Organization Effectiveness
  • XI. Nonprofit Organizations Internationally
  • 34. Internationalization of the Nonprofit Sector
  • 35. Globalization and Its Effects on NGOs: Efflorescence or a Blurring of Roles and Relevance?
  • 36. Nonprofit Organizations in International Development: Agents of Empowerment or Preservers of Stability?

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