Fall 2014
Fall 2014 Digital Issue
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Click the cover image below to read and download the Fall 2014 digital issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly.
Nonprofit Management
Competitive Positioning: Why Knowing Your Competition Is Essential to Social Impact Success
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The issue of competition may show up a little differently for nonprofits than for for-profits—and, of course, collaboration is the new competition—but being able to assess this component of our environments is core to many a nonprofit’s strategic decision-making.
Leadership
Nineteen Practices toward a Nonprofit Theory of Leadership and Organizational Culture
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Nonprofit organizations are different from those in the business and government sectors—so, reasons the author, it would be logical to expect to manage and govern them differently. In the absence of a general framework for nonprofit management, however, thirdsector organizations are under persistent pressure to look like something else. The nineteen practices laid out in this article were developed by the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits in aid of reversing this trend.
Nonprofit Management
Fair or Foul? A Review of Federal Tax Laws Governing Unfair Competition
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This article outlines the nonprofit legal issues that emerge when nonprofits and for-profits compete in each others’ fields of endeavor.
Fall 2014
Are We “Walmartizing” the Social Sector?
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Organizations wishing to scale would do well to prioritize impact over size and take care not to disrupt the community’s ecological balance by inadvertently competing with already existing local organizations for scant resources.
Fall 2014
Is This as Good as It Gets? The False Promise of Risk-Based Medicare and For-Profit Dominance of Care
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Was it a good idea to allow for-profits in the field of healthcare to receive government funding and, in effect, compete with nonprofits?
Policy & Government
Nonprofit Health Co-ops: Designed to Compete for the Public Good
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Rick Cohen, National Correspondent |
This week is the anniversary of the opening of the ACA enrollment, and this article is the only public review of this important new field of nonprofits charged to have immediate and broad impact in a highly competitive and politically charged environment.
Collaboration
Just So Much and No More
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This column by the late Donella Meadows is a powerful meditation that asks what will happen if our economic systems continue competing instead of collaborating with Earth’s sustainability.
Executive Transition
Stakeholders, Shareholders, and the Meaning of Market Basket: An Interview with Tom Kochan
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This article is featured in NPQ’s upcoming fall 2014 edition of its print journal, on markets and competition. SUBSCRIBE TODAY to ensure that you do not miss this important collection.