Understanding Nonprofit Organizations

by Ott, J. Steven

• ISBN13: 9780813367873
• ISBN10: 0813367875
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-25
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

J. Steven Ott'sUnderstanding Nonprofit Organizations: Governance, Leadership, and Managementis a collection of the most insightful and most recent readings about the challenges of 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. The 37 chapters speak to the most important functions, contextual factors and internal functions, concepts, and issues that face today's leaders and managers of nonprofit organizations.Understanding Nonprofit Organizations: Governance, Leadership, and Managementis an ideal text for use in graduate and upper-division undergraduate survey courses on nonprofit organizations and management.

Author Biography

Steven J. Ott is a professor of political science and the Director of Public Administration Education at the University of Utah. He is the immediate past-president of the Nonprofit Management Education Section of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. He has also authored and edited numerous books and articles regarding nonprofit organizations, administrative theory, organization theory, organizational behavior, and organizational culture.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
I Governance of Nonprofit Organizations	1	(50)
Governance of Nonprofit Organizations	9	(6)
Vic Murray
Board of Directors	15	(10)
Stephen R. Block
Setting Limits: Standards of Ethics and Prudence	25	(13)
John Carver
Female Participation in Public Interest Nonprofit Governance: Yet Another Glass Ceiling?	38	(13)
Ronald G. Shaiko
II The Legal Framework	51	(42)
Developments in the Law: Nonprofit Corporations	61	(19)
Harvard Law Review
The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Organizational, Operational, and Similar Tests	80	(13)
Bruce R. Hopkins
III Effective, Ethical Leadership	93	(34)
Executive Director	100	(8)
Stephen R. Block
Ethics in Nonprofit Management: Creating a Culture of Integrity	108	(12)
Thomas H. Jeavons
Artful Leadership	120	(7)
Mary Tschirhart
IV Strategic Planning	127	(40)
Strategic Planning	131	(11)
John M. Bryson
The Strategic Marketing Planning Process	142	(15)
Philip Kotler
Alan R. Andreasen
Crafting Strategy	157	(10)
Henry Mintzberg
V Fund-Raising: Generating Revenues	167	(44)
Fund-Raising	175	(7)
Erna Gelles
Diversification of Revenue Strategies: Evolving Resource Dependence in Nonprofit Organizations	182	(13)
Karen A. Froelich
Returns on Fund-Raising Expenditures in the Voluntary Sector	195	(7)
Adrian Sargeant
Jurgen Kahler
Foundations	202	(9)
Elizabeth T. Boris
VI Enterpreneurship and Commercialism	211	(28)
Nonprofit Entrepreneurship	218	(5)
Dennis R. Young
Profits for Nonprofits: Find a Corporate Partner	223	(8)
Alan R. Andreasen
Commercialism and the Road Ahead	231	(8)
Burton A. Weisbrod
VII Managing Under Government Contracts	239	(44)
Toward a Contract Culture	247	(9)
Nigel Gann
Dilemmas of Management in Nonprofit Organizations	256	(11)
Steven Rathgeb Smith
Michael Lipsky
The Game of Contracted Services	267	(9)
Susan R. Bernstein
Implications of Welfare Reform: Do Nonprofit Survival Strategies Threaten Civil Society?	276	(7)
Jennifer Alexander
Renee Nank
Camilla Stivers
VIII Budgets, Financial Reports, and Management Control	283	(26)
A View from the Top	289	(6)
Regina E. Herzlinger
Denise Nitterhouse
Budgeting	295	(3)
Jerry L. McCaffery
Financial Statements and Fiscal Procedures	298	(11)
Thomas Wolf
IX Managing Volunteers	309	(36)
Voluntarism	320	(4)
Jeffrey L. Brudney
Volunteers at Work	324	(5)
Jone L. Pearce
Volunteer Administration	329	(10)
Jeffrey L. Brudney
Building Staff/Volunteer Relations: Setting the Stage	339	(6)
Ivan H. Scheier
X Accountability and Evaluation	345	(30)
Accountability Concepts and Controversies	352	(7)
Kevin P. Kearns
Evaluation	359	(7)
Susan C. Paddock
Multiple Constituencies and the Social Construction of Nonprofit Organization Effectiveness	366	(9)
Robert D. Herman
David O. Renz
XI Nonprofit Organizations Internationally	375	(7)
Internationalization of the Nonprofit Sector	382	(9)
Helmut K. Anheier
Kusuma Cunningham
Globalization and Its Effects on NGOs: Efflorescence or a Blurring of Roles and Relevance?	391	(12)
Thomas W. Dichter
Nonprofit Organizations in International Development: Agents of Empowerment or Preservers of Stability?	403
Brian H. Smith