Understanding Nonprofit Organizations
Governance, Leadership, and Management
2nd Edition
August 2011
Trade Paperback · 352 Pages
$47.00 U.S. · $54.50 CAN · £36.99 U.K. · €33.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780813344683
Westview Press
Trade Paperback · 352 Pages
$47.00 U.S. · $54.50 CAN · £36.99 U.K. · €33.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780813344683
Westview Press
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Description
Understanding Nonprofit Organizations is a collection of the most insightful classics and recent articles, chapters, and encyclopedia entries about managing a nonprofit organization in the United States. The anthology examines the distinctiveness of nonprofit organizations through the writing of scholars, consultants, and practicing executives. It focuses on governing, leading, and managing nonprofit organizations and how nonprofit organizations differ from both the public and private sectors.
Completely revised and updated with twenty new readings, the second edition speaks to the most important concepts that face today’s leaders and managers of nonprofit organizations. Each section includes one or more new contributions from the past decade on topics ranging from governance, legal frameworks, capacity building and strategic planning, fundraising, social entrepreneurship, finance, managing volunteers, and accountability—making Understanding Nonprofit Organizations the most current and topical compendium of essays on the nonprofit sector. Additionally, each part opens with a framing essay that identifies the central themes and issues presented within the part and also briefly summarizes the significance of the contribution that each piece makes to the development of knowledge in the field.
Understanding Nonprofit Organizations is an ideal text for use in graduate and upper-division undergraduate survey courses on nonprofit organizations and management.
Completely revised and updated with twenty new readings, the second edition speaks to the most important concepts that face today’s leaders and managers of nonprofit organizations. Each section includes one or more new contributions from the past decade on topics ranging from governance, legal frameworks, capacity building and strategic planning, fundraising, social entrepreneurship, finance, managing volunteers, and accountability—making Understanding Nonprofit Organizations the most current and topical compendium of essays on the nonprofit sector. Additionally, each part opens with a framing essay that identifies the central themes and issues presented within the part and also briefly summarizes the significance of the contribution that each piece makes to the development of knowledge in the field.
Understanding Nonprofit Organizations is an ideal text for use in graduate and upper-division undergraduate survey courses on nonprofit organizations and management.
About the Authors
J. Steven Ott is a professor and center director at the University of Utah. He has served as a consultant to numerous nonprofit organizations and local and state government agencies, and has chaired the Executive Committee of the Nonprofit Management Education Section of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). Dr. Ott has authored and edited many books, articles, and chapters on the nonprofit sector and its organizations, organization theory, organizational behavior, human resource management, administrative theory, accountability, and organizational culture.
Lisa A. Dicke is an associate professor at the University of North Texas. Dr. Dicke serves on the Executive Council and on the Committee of the Nonprofit Management Education Section of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). Her research interests include organizational leadership, as well as accountability in government and nonprofit organizations, and her articles have been published in numerous books and journals
Lisa A. Dicke is an associate professor at the University of North Texas. Dr. Dicke serves on the Executive Council and on the Committee of the Nonprofit Management Education Section of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). Her research interests include organizational leadership, as well as accountability in government and nonprofit organizations, and her articles have been published in numerous books and journals