Description
Understanding Nonprofit Organizations examines crucial issues that face nowadays’s leaders and managers of nonprofit organizations through the writing of scholars, consultants, and practicing executives. It makes a speciality of governing, leading, and managing nonprofit organizations and how such organizations differ from both the private and non-private sectors. Every part opens with a framing essay that identifies the central themes and issues and summarizes the significance of the contribution that Every piece makes to the development of knowledge within the field.
Completely revised and up to date, the third edition includes new articles on legal frameworks, philanthropy, managing volunteers and accountability, in addition to an original essay on capacity building. As well as, the third edition features new, thought-provoking case studies by C. Kenneth Meyer―making it an much more student-friendly text for graduate and upper-division undergraduate nonprofit organizations and management survey courses.