Cases and Applications in Non-Profit Management,9780875814124

Cases and Applications in Non-Profit Management

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780875814124
ISBN10: 0875814123
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-01-01
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary

This casebook addresses a broad range of realistic management situations and problems encountered in nonprofit organizations. In addition to a collection of lively and challenging cases, it includes a substantial introduction on using cases in the classroom, plus exercises and questions that help students delineate some of the unique issues facing nonprofit managers today.

Table of Contents

Section One: THE DYNAMIC CONTEXT OF NONPROFIT, VOLUNTARY, AND THIRD-SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS
1. Board Membership Has Its Privileges
2. Friends, Volunteers, and Adversaries: Sorting Out the Players
3. Greed, Sex, and Abuse of Power
4. Humanitarian Road to Hell? Some Ravages of International NGO Intervention
5. Nonprofit Board Governance
6. Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services
7. A Do-Gooder Gets Done In: Mary T's View of a Support Group
8. Images of Third-Sector Organizations and Participants
9. Why a "Third Sector"? 10
Rethinking Our Approach to Poverty
Section Two: KEY DIMENSIONS OF ORGANIZING AND MANAGING NONPROFIT, VOLUNTARY, AND THIRD-SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS
11. Dinosaurs Are Extinct: Should the Museum Be, Too? 12
Retraining Displaced and Older Workers
13. Camp Robinson
14. HIV and Employee Rights
15. The Supply Side of Volunteerism
16. Conflicts on the Human Services Coordination Team
17. Right to Know? 18
ACLU v
Tyler County
19. After All, Nobody Got Hurt! 20
An Unwelcome Advance
21. Anna Lieberman, Deceased
22. For Better or Worse
23. Taking Risks for a Good Cause
24. The Diverse Meanings of Diversity
25. The Homeless Just Need a Fighting Chance
Section Three: STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING AND IMPROVING NONPROFIT, VOLUNTARY, AND THIRD-SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS
26. Changing Missions for Nonprofits
27. Organization Development in the Ashfield Youth Corps
28. Barrytown Community Resource Center
29. Moving Toward the Future
30. Putting the Pieces in Place
31. Knowing Why Makes the What and the How Straightforward
32. Big John Changes Careers
33. The Midvalley Recreation Department
34. Three Go-Arounds Toward Assessing a Nonprofit
35. Dual Roles and Conflict in Voluntary Organizations

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