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Articles: Nonprofit Management

Date	Author	Category	Title
Fall 2006	Alana Conner Snibbe	Nonprofit Management • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing • Government	Overhead Isn’t Everything [Free!] How donors should think about nonprofit efficiency.
Fall 2006	Alana Conner Snibbe	Arts, Culture, and Religion • Nonprofit Management	For Love or Money Innovative plays are good for all theaters, but lucrative for only a few.
Fall 2006	Peter Asmus, Hank Cauley, & Katharine Maroney	Environment • Nonprofit Management • Corporate Social Responsiblity	Turning Conflict into Cooperation The Rainforest Action Network launched an intensive consumer boycott of several Mitsubishi companies, leading to significant changes in the way the Japanese giant and many of its partners do business. That engagement provides critical lessons for both activist NGOs and corporations.
Fall 2006	Paul C. Light	Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship	Reshaping Social Entrepreneurship Social entrepreneurship has come to be synonymous with the individual visionary – the risk taker who goes against the tide to start a new organization to create dramatic social change. The problem with focusing so much attention on the individual entrepreneur is that it neglects to recognize and support thousands of other individuals, groups, and organizations that are crafting solutions to troubles around the globe.
Fall 2006	Alana Conner Snibbe	Nonprofit Management • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing	Drowning in Data [Free!] In the frenzy over accountability, funders, donors, and the general public are calling for more program evaluation. But few understand evaluation well enough to conduct or bankroll high-quality studies. Without sufficient knowledge or funding, nonprofits are often collecting heaps of dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Summer 2006	Thomas J. Tierney	Nonprofit Management	The Leadership Deficit: Research Methodology [Free!] Research methodology for the article “The Leadership Deficit”
Summer 2006	various authors	Nonprofit Management • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing	Pundits Weigh In [Free!] “The Leadership Deficit” sidebar
Summer 2006	Thomas J. Tierney	Nonprofit Management	The Leadership Deficit [Free!] One of the biggest challenges facing nonprofits today is their dearth of strong leaders – a problem that’s only going to get worse as the sector expands and baby boom executives retire. Over the next decade nonprofits will need to find some 640,000 new executives, nearly two and a half times the number currently employed. To meet the growing demand for talent, the author offers creative ways of finding and recruiting new leaders from a wide range of groups, including business, the military, and the growing pool of retirees.
Summer 2006	Les Silverman & Lynn Taliento	Nonprofit Management	What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits [Free!] Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations. In this article, 11 executives who have played leadership roles in both for-profits and nonprofits reveal the critical differences between the two, and suggest ways that business and nonprofit leaders can use this information to create a more effective social sector.
Summer 2006	SSIR Editors	Economic Development • Arts, Culture, and Religion • Nonprofit Management	15 minutes with Jonathan Reckford [Free!] Habitat for Humanity’s new CEO picks up the hammer.
Summer 2006	Beth Kampschror	Human Rights • Nonprofit Management • Government	Balkan Boom to Bust Vanishing NGOs in Bosnia leave lessons in their wake.
Summer 2006	Alana Conner Snibbe	Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship	The Enterprising Type How the personalities of entrepreneurs and managers differ.
Summer 2006	Alana Conner Snibbe	Nonprofit Management	All That Jazz Managing innovation is more like leading a jazz band than conducting an orchestra.
Summer 2006	Jennifer Daw Holloway	Nonprofit Management	Embedding Employees Relationships keep workers from walking out.
Summer 2006	Alana Conner Snibbe	Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship	What Profits Do for Nonprofits A rare study shows how earned income helps agencies –- and how it doesn’t.
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