Understanding Nonprofit Organizations

Focuses on micro-level issues to complement its companion reader, The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector, 4th Edition, which explores macro-level issues and theories. Presents the major challenges associated with effectively leading and managing nonprofit organizations through the words of the leading authors in the field. Each chapter in Understanding Nonprofit Organizations considers a specific topic related to governance, leadership, or management, and examines its central themes and issues from different perspectives. All chapters open with a framing essay written by the editors that identifies central themes and issues, provides an overview of often-competing points of view, and briefly summarizes the significance of the contribution that each reading has made to the development of knowledge in the field. Includes 18 case studies that illustrate the complex governing, leading, and managing issues raised in the chapters.