"Managing Nonprofit Organizations offers a comprehensive treatment of the key topics in nonprofit management for practitioners, professors, and students in both graduate and undergraduate courses. This groundbreaking volume serves as both text and handbook and includes supplemental online materials and additional cases. The authors Tschirhart and Bielefeld (two of the top scholars in nonprofit management) bring theory and practice together in a cohesive way so readers are both informed and interested"-- Provided by publisher

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The Authors -- Part One. : Understanding, Envisioning, and Creating -- 1. : Understanding Nonprofit Organizations -- A Roadmap Through the Chapters -- The Nature of Nonprofit Organizations -- Diversity in the Nonprofit Sector -- Leading and Managing in the Nonprofit Sector -- 2. : Effective and Ethical Organizations -- Multiple Dimensions for Evaluating Effectiveness -- Goal Accomplishment -- Resource Acquisition -- Internal Processes -- Stakeholder Satisfaction -- Growth, Learning, and Adaptation -- Taking a Balanced Approach -- Ethics for Nonprofits -- Personal Ethics.

Professional EthicsOrganizational Ethics -- Societal Ethics -- Concluding Thoughts -- Questions for Consideration -- Exercises -- Exercise 2.1: Rough Stakeholder Map -- Exercise 2.2: Annual Report Analysis -- Exercise 2.3: Situations for Ethical Analysis -- Exercise 2.4: Multilevel Ethical Influences -- 3. : Founding Nonprofits and the Business Case -- Organizational Founding -- Entrepreneurship for Social Benefit -- Social Entrepreneurship -- Entrepreneurial Process -- Recognition of an Entrepreneurship Opportunity -- Making a Business Case for a New Nonprofit -- Nonprofit Vision and Mission Statements -- Executive Summary.

Key ObjectivesEstablishment Process -- Starting a Nonprofit from an Existing Organization -- Spin-Offs -- Companion Organizations -- Subsidiaries -- Franchise Relationships -- Concluding Thoughts -- Questions for Consideration -- Exercises -- Exercise 3.1: Social Entrepreneurship Model -- Exercise 3.2: The Founder's Story -- Exercise 3.3: Mission Analysis -- 4. : Organizational Structure -- What Is Organizational Structure -- Dimensions of Structure -- Types of Structure: Two Ideal Types -- Common Organizational Configurations -- Major Influences on Organizational Structure -- Structure and Information Processing.

Political, Cultural, and Institutional Influences on StructureStructural Deficiency -- Concluding Thoughts -- Questions for Consideration -- Exercises -- Exercise 4.1: Dimensions of Structure -- Exercise 4.2: Structural Design -- Exercise 4.3: Structure and Information -- Part Two. : Strategizing, Resourcing, and Aligning -- 5. : Formulation of Strategy -- Business Strategy: A Starting Point for Nonprofit Strategy -- A Brief History of Business Strategy -- Contemporary Business Strategy -- Nonprofits and Strategic Planning -- General Strategic Orientations -- Strategic Positioning -- MacMillan's Framework.

The Strategic Planning ProcessPreparing to Plan -- Situation Analysis: Assessment of External and Internal Environments -- Identification of Strategic Issues -- Using SWOT to Establish Strategic Issues -- From Strategic Issues to Strategies -- Adopting and Implementing a Strategic Plan -- Periodic Review and Reassessment of Strategic Plans -- Challenges to Planning: Emergent Strategy -- Combining Perspectives -- Concluding Thoughts -- Questions for Consideration -- Exercises -- Exercise 5.1: Strategic Orientation -- Exercise 5.2: Strategic Planning -- Exercise 5.3: Strategy Emergence -- 6. : Resource Acquisition.

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