Managing nonprofit organizations
By: Mary Tschirhart, Wolfgang Bielefeld
Contributors: Bielefeld, Wolfgang
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470402993
Subjects: Nonprofit organizations; Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Nonprofit Organizations & Charities
Description: "Managing Nonprofit Organizations offers a comprehensive treatment of the key topics in nonprofit management for practitioners, professors, and students in both graduate and undergraduate courses. This groundbreaking volume serves as both text and handbook and includes supplemental online materials and additional cases. The authors Tschirhart and Bielefeld (two of the top scholars in nonprofit management) bring theory and practice together in a cohesive way so readers are both informed and interested"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: Overview?Chapter 1: Understanding Nonprofit Organizations and Social EntrepreneurshipChapter 2: Challenges of Effective and Ethical Organizational Design and ManagementChapter 3:? Managing in a Dynamic Stakeholder EnvironmentPart II: Organizational Stages: Design and Start-up to ClosureChapter 4: The Founding ImpulseChapter 5: The Nonprofit Business CaseChapter 6: Innovation, Change and GrowthChapter 7: Nonprofit Closure, Conversion and MergerPart III.? Organizational Elements? ?Chapter 8: Organizational DesignChapter 9: The Executive Director and Staff (Paid and Volunteer)?Chapter 10: Board GovernanceChapter 11: MembershipChapter 12: Financial Resources and Attraction of Fees, Contracts, Grants, and DonationsChapter 13: Strategic Partnerships and AffiliationsPart IV: Organizational Activities????Chapter 14:? Strategic Planning and Decision-MakingChapter 15: Programming and MarketingChapter 16: Public Relations and CommunicationsChapter 17: Relationships with GovernmentChapter 18: Evaluation of Nonprofit Organizations?Appendix A.? Nonprofit Management EducationSubject IndexAuthor Index .