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Date	Author	Category	Title
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 2007	Scott C. Beardsley, Sheila Bonini, Lenny Mendonca, & Jeremy Oppenheim	Corporate Social Responsiblity	A New Era for Business [Free!] More and more business leaders recognize that their company’s future is increasingly intertwined with the needs and demands of society. But many executives don’t understand how to manage that changing relationship. In this article, McKinsey & Company consultants provide a model for incorporating sociopolitical issues into the strategic decision-making process.
Summer 2007	Alana Conner	Health Care • Nonprofit Management	Stopping the Spread of Trauma Many Iraq War veterans can’t shake the feeling of being constantly imperiled, and their therapists, in turn, may develop traumatic stress symptoms themselves. A new study tells how organizations can protect their frontline providers from psychic distress.
Summer 2007	Alana Conner	Nonprofit Management	Putting Women in Their Place Which woman is more likely to attract unpleasant sexual attention: the office sweetheart or the ambitious upstart? A new study by social psychologist Jennifer Berdahl points to the upstart. From her findings, Berdahl concludes that “men aren’t harassing women to get into their pants, but to put them down....”
Fall 2007	Alana Conner & Keith Epstein	Environment • Nonprofit Management	Harnessing Purity and Pragmatism As the wall between the nonprofit and corporate worlds crumbles, many social change organizations are asking themselves: Do we stick to our activist guns, or do we cross the divide and work with business? Research suggests that social movements need both kinds of organizations to make the changes they seek.
Fall 2007	No author cited	Corporate Social Responsiblity	15 Minutes with Hannah Jones [Free!] SSIR Academic Editor Jim Phills spoke with Nike’s Hannah Jones about the sportswear giant’s extensive corporate social responsibility programs.
Fall 2007	Paul Schmitz	Nonprofit Management	Worst Practices of a Social Entrepreneur You can learn more from your mistakes than from your successes. Paul Schmitz, president and CEO of Public Allies, gives a sampling of classic foibles of not only social entrepreneurs, but leaders in general.
Fall 2007	Alana Conner	Arts, Culture, and Religion • Nonprofit Management	Creative Spaces Five tips for designing workplaces that nurture great ideas.
Fall 2007	Alana Conner	Nonprofit Management	Butter Your Way to the Top Flattery, not good governance, reaps corporate directorships – especially for white males.
Winter 2008	Suzie Boss	Nonprofit Management	Give Away the Store Why Portland’s ReBuilding Center refuses to franchise, but is happy to share.
Spring 2003	Jeffrey L. Bradach	Nonprofit Management	Going to Scale [Free!] The challenge of replicating social programs.
Spring 2003	Robert I. Sutton	Nonprofit Management	Sparking Nonprofit Innovation Weird management ideas that work.
Spring 2003	Jan Masaoka		The Effectiveness Trap Funders, government agencies, and donors get lost on the labyrinth.
Summer 2003	Jan Chong	Nonprofit Management	Fostering Diversity Employee network groups keep minority managers on the job.
Summer 2003	Gerald Burstyn	Nonprofit Management	The Knowing Doing Gap Human services managers are not implementing strategic decisions.
Summer 2003	Robert B. Cialdini		The Power of Persuasion [Free!] Putting the science of influence to work in fundraising.
Summer 2003	Victor Wishna	Nonprofit Management	Leaders Without a Paycheck New York Cares uses volunteers to recruit and retain other volunteers.
Summer 2003	SSIR editors	Nonprofit Management	15 Minutes with John Seffrin CEO of the American Cancer Society.
Winter 2003	Jane Dutton	Nonprofit Management	Fostering High-Quality Connections [Free!] How to deal with corrosive relationships at work.
Winter 2003	Roger Martin	Nonprofit Management	To the Rescue [Free!] Beating the heroic leadership trap.
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