Nonprofit organizations are playing an increasingly important role in delivering basic government services. Yet they are discouraged by federal law from participating in legislative lobbying efforts—even on issues that affect their clients directly. Without the involvement of nonprofits in the...

Winning techniques and strategies for nonprofits and government agencies in creating successful and critical key performance indicators By exploring measures that have transformed businesses, David Parmenter has developed a methodology that is breathtaking in its simplicity and yet profound in...

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"In the new age of philanthropy, donors expect charities to be models of accountability and transparency...Internal controls: Guidance for Private, Government, and Nonprofit Entities is a must read for CEOs and CFOs who want to gain a clear understanding of cost-effective ways to implement the...

This book is an essential tool to help you grow with yournonprofit organization. Whether you are an executive director,manager, board member, pastor, or key volunteer,the details here will help you achieve so much more.The four overarching areas of what the authors term a"virtuous cycle in...

From capitalism and a precursor world-system based on corporatism, governance, and political dissent comes the call for global change - in many respects that remain intertwined. Yet there is another voice out there in this morass of power and conflict; dissent and assertiveness. It is the...

Today, America's nonprofit organizations seem caught in a force field, buffetedby four impulses-voluntarism, professionalism, civic activism, and commercialism.Too little attention, however, has been paid to the significant tensions among theseimpulses. Understanding this force field and the...

In the early 1980s the tenant leaders of the New Orleans St. Thomas public housing development and their activist allies were militant, uncompromising defenders of the city's public housing communities. Yet ten years later these same leaders became actively involved in a planning effort to...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I: The Need for a Policy Perspective of Nonprofits -- Chapter 1 The Significance of the Principal-Agent Paradigm -- Chapter 2 The Policy Significance of Nonprofit Organizations: Beyond the Limits of Failure -- Part II: Nonprofits as Social...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Joint Ventures Involving Exempt Organizations -- 1.4 University Joint Ventures -- 1.5 Low-Income Housing and New Markets Tax Credit Joint Ventures -- 1.6 Conservation Joint Ventures -- 1.8 Rev....