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Articles Tagged With 'accountability'

Date Author Category Title
Summer 2003
J. Magee
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management Doing Away with Lawyers New research shows that binding contracts
may actually reduce trust.
Winter 2003
Abraham Nachbaur
Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Board Governance Going Overboard [Free!] Are foundations paying trustees too much money?
Winter 2003
Steven A. Schroeder
Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Return on Investment • Board Governance Resisting Temptations Lessons on grantmaking.
Spring 2004
Jan Chong
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management Too Much Money, Too Quickly Waste, failure, and Bosnia's lessons for Iraq.
Spring 2004
Melissa Fullwood
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management Out of the Loop For nonprofits, communication is often a one-way street.
Spring 2004
William F. Meehan, Derek Kilmer, and Maisie O'Flanagan
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Altruism • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Return on Investment Investing in Society [Free!] Charitable donors should think of themselves as "investors" – and should expect returns, just like a stock market investor would. But too often, givers don't see themselves this way, contributing to an inefficient "social capital market."
Summer 2004
Melissa Fullwood
Philanthropy • Altruism • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management Seal of Approval Accreditation prompts higher charitable giving.
Summer 2004
John Healy, Paul Brest, Robert Joss, & Michael Klausner
Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership Money Talk [Free!] Top foundation leaders reveal how they set
payout rates, executive salaries, and trustee compensation.
Summer 2004
Katie Cunningham & Marc Ricks
Philanthropy • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Return on Investment Why Measure [Free!] Nonprofits use metrics to show that
they are efficient. But what if donors don’t care?
Summer 2004
Miguel Unzueta
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Business • Social Enterprises The Profitable Nonprofits Almost half of revenue-seeking organizations are in the black.
Summer 2004
Rosanne M. Siino
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Global Issues • Religion & Culture Playing Loose with God’s Money Study shows religious organizations lack financial controls.
Fall 2004
SSIR editor
Nonprofits • Global Issues • Civil Society 15 Minutes with Cheryl Phillips [Free!] Journalist, Seattle Times.
Winter 2004
Sheila Kaplan
Philanthropy • Foundations Foundations’ Double Standard How funders flout their own rules.
Winter 2004
David Suarez
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Government • Social Policy Review: The Charity of Nations Humanitarianism has failed, say the authors.
Spring 2005
Michael Klausner & Jonathan Small
Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Board Governance Failing to Govern? The disconnect between theory and reality in nonprofit boards, and how to fix it.
Summer 2005
Stephanie Lowell, Brian Trelstad, & Bill Meehan
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Social Return on Investment The Ratings Game [Free!] Evaluating the three groups that rate the charities.
Summer 2005
Jan Masaoka & Jeanne Bell Peters
Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Board Governance • Government • Social Policy What We Really Need Eight reforms to make nonprofits more accountable and effective.
Fall 2005
Peter Manzo
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership • Government • Social Policy Moving Beyond Reproach Accountability proposals should focus more on ways to help nonprofits deal with actual ethical crises.
Spring 2009
Renée Irvin
Social Innovations • Cause Marketing • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Fundraising • Nonprofit Leadership • Reviews The Double Standard [Free!] Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential by Dan Pallotta
Spring 2009
Pete Smith
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership • Board Governance • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Global Issues • Education What Didn’t Work: Tongue-Tied at the Top [Free!] While boards sat in silence, executives milked American University and the Smithsonian.
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