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Summer 2012 Digital Issue
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Click the cover image below to read and download the Summer 2012 digital issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly.
Nonprofit Management
External Influences on Nonprofit Management: a Wide-Angle View
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
If organizations are a product of their surrounding cultures and social structures, what happens when perceived institutional boundaries dissolve and what used to be business as usual becomes unfamiliar territory? As Ruth McCambridge explains, when “we are beset with disequilibrium, we are challenged to step outside of the system.”
Nonprofit Management
A Tale of Two “Turnarounds”: Heading Back in the Right Direction
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The authors describe what it took for two organizations in crisis to begin their journeys back to financial and operational health.
Nonprofit Management
Technology’s Effect on Nonprofit Management
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This article explores some of the challenges and opportunities introduced into our workplace by the continuing rise of technology, and asks, Will we embrace the discomfort of the new or will we “leave the possibilities on the table.”
Nonprofit Management
Nonprofit Management Isn’t a Game
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“Crowding out,” “venture philanthropy,” “social enterprise,” “game theory”. . . . Is it time for nonprofits to push back against this invasion of for-profit models and trends, and cultivate our own management frameworks?
Financial Management
Managing in the New Economic Reality
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NFF’s Jina Paik outlines strategies used by nonprofits over the past few years to address the changes in public and private funding brought about by the challenging economic environment, and notes: “While organizations will certainly need to include new options in their tool kit of responses, the tried and true will continue to be important.”
Nonprofit Management
The Participatory Revolution in Nonprofit Management
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AN NPQ CLASSIC:
NPQ has a hoard of world class articles on management that inform our thinking and we often will recirculate pieces that we think need to be reconsidered. This classic by Gregory Saxton on participatory leadership and management is so thorough that some facet of it will be thought provoking even for the most cutting edge leaders.
Nonprofit Management
Welcome to Summer 2012
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Our summer 2012 issue looks at the external influences on nonprofit management—so let’s talk about those governing the Nonprofit Quarterly.