Governing, Leading, and Managing Nonprofit Organizations: New Insights from Research and Practice

by Dennis R. Young, Robert M. Hollister, Virginia A. Hodgkinson

A Publication of INDEPENDENT SECTOR A publication of INDEPENDENT SECTOR This volume provides insights into how managers, board members, and other leaders can meet the pressing challenges of governance and management, and lead their organizations with informed vision and renewed purpose. It identifies what is unique about leadership in the nonprofit sector, and outlines what can be adapted and applied to nonprofit organizations from management research and practices developed in the business and public sectors. The book brings together leaders in the field to chart new directions for nonprofit management theory and practice in such areas as board structure and function, the mission of nonprofits, resource development and management, management for social change, and more.

344 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1992