Cases and applications in nonprofit management / edited by Robert T. Golembiewski, Jerry G. Stevenson.

Contents



Foreword                       vii
Preface                   xi
Introduction                   xv
Alternative Table of Contents: Classification of Cases
  by Managerial Focus and Function   xxix


SECTION 1

The Dynamic Context of Nonprofit, Voluntary,
and Third-Sector Organizations

 1. Board Membership Has Its Privileges                      3
 2. Friends, Volunteers, and Adversaries: Sorting Out the Players      5
 3. Greed, Sex, and Abuse of Power                           7
 4.Humanitarian Road to Hell? Some Ravages of International
 NGO Intervention                             11
 5.Nonprofit Board Governance                           15
 6.Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services                   17
 7.A Do-Gooder Gets Done In: Mary T's View of a Support Group     23
 8.Images of Third-Sector Organizations and Participants               33
 9.Why a "Third Sector"?                                35
 10.Rethinking Our Approach to Poverty                       39


SECTION 2

Key Dimensions of Organizing and Managing Nonprofit,
          Voluntary, and Third-Sector Organizations

 11. Dinosaurs Are Extinct: Should the Museum Be, Too?                 49
 12. Retraining Displaced and Older Workers                                 55
 13. Camp Robinson                                                               65
 14. HIV and Employee Rights                                                     67
 15.The Supply Side of Volunteerism                          71
 16.Conflicts on the Human Services Coordination Team             73
 17.Right to Know?                                      83
 18.ACLU v. Tyler County                                85
 19.After All, Nobody Got Hurt!                              91
 20.An Unwelcome Advance                                93
 21.Anna Lieberman, Deceased                            97
 22.For Better or Worse                                 103
 23.Taking Risks for a Good Cause                            109
 24.The Diverse Meanings of Diversity                        111
 25.The Homeless Just Need a Fighting Chance                 117


SECTION 3

Strategies for Managing and Improving Nonprofit,
Voluntary, and Third-Sector Organizations

 26. Changing Missions for Nonprofits                                       121
 27.Organization Development in the Ashfield Youth Corps               123
 28.Barrytown Community Resource Center                                133
 29.Moving Toward the Future                                                147
 30.Putting the Pieces in Place                                                  149
 31.Knowing Why Makes the What and the How Straightforward   153
 32.Big John Changes Careers                            157
 33.The Midvalley Recreation Department                      163
 34.Three Go-Arounds Toward Assessing a Nonprofit            167
 35.Dual Roles and Conflict in Voluntary Organizations            171
     

Cases by Contributor                                           181
Contributors to Series of Casebooks                      183