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Understanding Nonprofit Organizations examines the most important issues that face today's leaders and managers of nonprofit organizations through the writing of scholars, consultants, and practicing executives. It focuses on governing, leading, and managing nonprofit organizations and how such organizations differ from both the public and private sectors. Each part opens with a framing essay that identifies the central themes and issues and summarizes the significance of the contribution that each piece makes to the development of knowledge in the field.

Completely revised and updated, the third edition includes new articles on legal frameworks, philanthropy, managing volunteers and accountability, as well as an original essay on capacity building. In addition, the third edition features new, thought-provoking case studies by C. Kenneth Meyer--making it an even more student-friendly text for graduate and upper-division undergraduate nonprofit organizations and management survey courses.

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• Tables and Figures(p. ix)
• Foreword(p. xi)
• Preface(p. xvii)
• Acknowledgments(p. xxi)
• I Governance of Nonprofit Organizations(p. 1)
• 1 Board of Directors(p. 7)
• 2 Applying Sarbanes-Oxley Governance Principles to Nonprofit Organizations American Bar Association Coordinating Committee on Nonprofit Governance (2005)(p. 18)
• Case Study 1 Welcome to the Board of Directors(p. 25)
• Case Study 2 Unwelcome News: Nonprofit Scandal(p. 29)
• II The Legal Framework (Jared C. Bennett)(p. 33)
• 3 Organizational, Operational, and Related Tests and Doctrines(p. 43)
• 4 Evaluating the Charitable Deduction and Proposed Reforms(p. 59)
• 5 Punctilios and Nonprofit Corporate Governance: A Comprehensive Look at Nonprofit Directors' Fiduciary Duties(p. 70)
• Case Study 3 Daughter Dearest: Nonprofit Nepotism(p. 82)
• Case Study 4 Conflicting Values(p. 87)
• III Strategic Leadership(p. 91)
• 6 Executive Director(p. 98)
• 7 When No One Is in Charge: The Meaning of Shared Power(p. 106)
• Case Study 5 The Downward Spiral of Founder's Hospital(p. 113)
• Case Study 6 Between a Rock and a Boulder(p. 117)
• IV Innovation and Capacity(p. 121)
• 8 Taking Social Entrepreneurship Seriously(p. 128)
• 9 Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World(p. 137)
• Case Study 7 Creative Curmudgeonry(p. 145)
• Case Study 8 Introspection, Creativity, and Cloud Computing(p. 148)
• V Fund Development: Generating Revenues(p. 151)
• 10 Capacity-Building: Strategies for Successful Fundraising(p. 157)
• 11 Analyzing the Dynamics of Funding: Reliability and Autonomy(p. 167)
• 12 Foundations(p. 173)
• Case Study 9 Ethical Considerations in Fundraising(p. 183)
• Case Study 10 The Selling of America(p. 185)
• VI Philanthropy in Action(p. 189)
• 13 Philanthropic Social Ventures: A Framework and Profile of the Emerging Field(p. 197)
• 14 Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children(p. 206)
• Case Study 11 Growing Support Online One Meal at a Time(p. 216)
• Case Study 12 Volunteer and Donor Recruitment on Social Media(p. 221)
• VII Contracts, Partners, and Collaborations(p. 225)
• 15 A Manager's Guide to Choosing and Using Collaborative Networks(p. 232)
• 16 Paradox and Collaboration in Network Management(p. 241)
• Case Study 13 Printing, Politics, and Personal Preferences(p. 257)
• Case Study 14 Show Me the Money(p. 261)
• VIII Budgets, Financial Reports, and Management Control(p. 267)
• 17 The Underpinnings of Financial and Fiscal Operations(p. 272)
• 18 Types of Nonprofit Income: Financial and Cash Flow Management Considerations(p. 280)
• Case Study 15 Throwing the First E-Stone(p. 287)
• Case Study 16 When the Funding Stops(p. 289)
• IX Managing Volunteers(p. 293)
• 19 What Is Volunteering?(p. 300)
• 20 It Ain't Natural: Toward a New (Natural) Resource Conceptualization for Volunteer Management(p. 308)
• Case Study 17 Now You See 'Em, Now You Don't: Volunteers and Nonprofits(p. 320)
• Case Study 18 Turning the Tide: Transitioning from Volunteers to Paid Staff(p. 324)
• X Accountability and Evaluation(p. 327)
• 21 Balancing Competing Accountability Requirements: Challenges in Performance Improvement of the Nonprofit Human Services Agency(p. 334)
• 22 Accountability Online: Understanding the Web-Based Accountability Practices of Nonprofit Organizations(p. 345)
• Case Study 19 An Awareness Campaign Gone Awry(p. 361)
• Case Study 20 Technology and Transparency at the Museum(p. 365)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

J. Steven Ott is director of the institute of Public and International Affairs and professor of political science and public administration at the University of Utah.
Lisa A. Dicke is professor of public administration at the University of North Texas.