NonProfit Management Books

New and Published Books

1. Cooperatives and Community Development

   Edited by Vanna Gonzales, Rhonda Phillips

   Series: Community Development – Current Issues Series

   In celebration of cooperatives’ contributions to community development processes and outcomes worldwide, the United Nations designated 2012 as the Year of the Cooperative. Today, as in the past, cooperatives have proved effective in bringing people and organizations together to accomplish a broad...

   Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge
2. Community Economic Development

   Edited by Rhonda Phillips, Terry Besser

   Series: Community Development – Current Issues Series

   The role of economic development in communities is multi-faceted, having an array of antecedents, impacts, and implications. This volume explores the relationships between economic development and community development, focusing on the aspects that impact communities such as social capital,...

   Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge
3. Promoting Nonprofit Organizations

   A Reputation Management Approach

   By Ruth Ellen Kinzey

   Promoting Nonprofit Organizations is a practical guide to developing and implementing a strategic public relations program to enhance a nonprofit’s reputation. The ways in which businesses – both for-profit and not-for-profit – communicate with customers has changed dramatically in recent years....

   Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Accountability and Effectiveness Evaluation in Nonprofit Organizations

   By James Cutt, Vic Murray

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

   This unique volume provides new perspectives on assessing the performance of nonprofit organizations whilst meeting the information needs of decision-makers, both internal (such as resource-providers, regulators and clients), and external (including boards, managers, staff and volunteers). Whilst...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Trust and Confidence in Government and Public Services

   Edited by Sue Llewellyn, Stephen Brookes, Ann Mahon

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

   Trust and confidence are topical issues. Pundits claim that citizens trust governments and public services increasingly less - identifying a powerful new erosion of confidence that, in the US, goes back at least to Watergate in the 1970s. Recently, media exposure in the UK about MP expenses has...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
6. Community Leadership Development

   A Compendium of Theory, Research, and Application

   Edited by Mark A. Brennan

   Series: Community Development – Current Issues Series

   The development of leadership capacities addresses a vital and continuing need in communities and organizations as they attempt to adapt to a wide range of social, economic, environmental, and political changes. Leadership development activities that focus on building new skills and ...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
7. Corporate Responsibility for Cultural Heritage

   Conservation, Sustainable Development, and Corporate Reputation

   By Fiona Starr

   Series: Routledge Studies in Heritage

   This book examines the relationship between two divergent fields – corporate activity and heritage conservation – linking the financing of conservation and its benefits with the corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals of the private sector. Through discussion of physical conservation, benefits...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
8. Public-Private Partnerships in the USA

   Lessons to be Learned for the United Kingdom

   By Tony Wall

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

   Broadly, a Public-Private Partnership (or PPP) is any collaboration between the public and private sector, but research in the UK has tended to focus on those that have been used for major infrastructure projects, such as roads, schools, and hospitals. This book compares and contrasts PPP research...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership

   Edited by Sue Ledwith, Lise Lotte Hansen

   Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

   Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age. It analyses existing models of leadership in various...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
10. Organizational Histories of Nonprofit Human Service Organizations

    Edited by Michael Austin

    This book is based on an important but complicated question: How have nonprofit human service organizations sustained themselves over time? It documents the organizational histories of pioneering nonprofits that have unique missions and significant longevity – in one case, 157 years. This volume...

    Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge