Understanding Nonprofit Organizations: Governance Leadership and Management

About this book

Understanding Nonprofit Organizations examines the most important issues that face todays 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 by Michele Cole. In addition the third edition now features brand-new case studies adapted by C. Kenneth Meyer specifically for Understanding Nonprofit Organizationsmaking it an even more student-friendly text for graduate and upper-division undergraduate nonprofit organizations and management survey courses.