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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “chris cornforth”
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  • Nonprofit Governance

    Innovative Perspectives and Approaches

    Edited by Chris Cornforth, William A. Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Corporate Governance
    The current fashion for rolling back the state has seen the nonprofit or third sector playing an increasing role in what were previously the heartlands of the public sphere. The growing significance of the sector and its increasing reliance on public funds mean it has also attracted increased scrutiny. From outside the sector concerns have been raised about the accountability and performance of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Governance of Public and Non-Profit Organizations

    Edited by Chris Cornforth ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
    Governing boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and non-profit organizations are publicly accountable and perform well. Until now, there have been relatively few detailed empirical studies of what boards do in practice, but this book fills that gap by bringing together analyses based upon some of the best recent empirical studies.Using ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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  • Governance as Leadership

    Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards

    by Richard P. Chait, William P. Ryan, Barbara E. Taylor ...
    A new framework for helping nonprofit organizations maximize the effectiveness of their boards.Written by noted consultants and researchers attuned to the needs of practitioners, Governance as Leadership redefines nonprofit governance. It provides a powerful framework for a new covenant between trustees and executives: more macrogovernance in exchange for less micromanagement.Informed by theories ... Read more

    $71.00 USD

  • Creative Philanthropy

    Toward a New Philanthropy for the Twenty-First Century

    by Helmut K. Anheier, Diana Leat ...
    Philanthropy and endowed foundation are vitally important institutions of modern society, yet in recent years, they've faced new threats such as declining resources and questions of accountability and performance. To address these questions, individual philanthropists and foundation leaders have looked to strategic philanthropy to become more effective and efficient.This important book provides an ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Bull by the Horns

    Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself

    by Sheila Bair ...
    NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERThe former FDIC chairwoman, and one of the first people to acknowledge the full risk of subprime loans, offers a unique perspective on the financial crisis.Appointed by George W. Bush as the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in 2006, Sheila Bair witnessed the origins of the financial crisis and in 2008 became—along with ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Non Nonprofit

    For-Profit Thinking for Nonprofit Success

    by Steve Rothschild ...
    A top business leader shares the business principles he used to launch both a top company and a thriving nonprofitNonprofit leaders know that solving pervasive social problems requires passion and creativity as well as tangible results. The Non Nonprofit shares the same business principles that drive the world's best companies, showing how they can (and should) be applied to the realm of ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

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  • The Art of Social Enterprise

    Business as if People Mattered

    by Carl Frankel, Allen Bromberger ...
    Mission driven—business as a vehicle for change.The current business-for-profit model rewards short-term thinking, narrow self-interest, and a social-and-environmental-costs-be-damned attitude. Non-profits, while more focused on the greater good, tend to be inherently resource-challenged and rely on increasingly scarce grants and donations to sustain their existence. Social enterprise is an ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Occupy Handbook

    by Janet Byrne ...
    Analyzing the movement's deep-seated origins in questions that the country has sought too long to ignore, some of the greatest economic minds and most incisive cultural commentators - from Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, Michael Lewis, Robert Reich, Amy Goodman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gillian Tett, Scott Turow, Bethany McLean, Brandon Adams, and Tyler Cowen to prominent labor leaders and young, cutting ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Grant Writing 101: Everything You Need to Start Raising Funds Today

    by Victoria Johnson ...
    A Crash Course in Writing Powerful, Persuasive Grants!"Grant Writing 101 provides straightforward and effective strategies for improving results. It is a wonderful reference guide for experienced fundraisers and an invaluable 'how-to' manual for those starting their careers."—Emmett D. Carson, Ph.D., CEO and President, Silicon Valley Community Foundation"This new book is an essential tool in ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Internet Management for Nonprofits

    Strategies, Tools and Trade Secrets

    by Ted Hart, James M. Greenfield, Steve MacLaughlin, Philip H. Geier Jr. ...
    Series Book 193 - The AFP/Wiley Fund Development Series
    The essential guide for nonprofits wanting to manage their Internet applications in a coordinated, cost-effective, and efficient mannerThe rapid onset of increasingly advanced and complex technologies has challenged nonprofits to invest with their sparse resources in attempting, and failing, to keep pace with for-profit companies, with the result that most now cannot compete with new commercial ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Joining a Nonprofit Board

    What You Need to Know

    by Marc J. Epstein, F. Warren McFarlan ...
    Often business executives serve (or are asked to serve) as board members of nonprofit organizations. However, without a clear understanding of how nonprofits work, service on a board can be a frustrating experience.Joining a Nonprofit Board offers an important guide to the roles and responsibilities of a nonprofit board member. Marc J. Epstein and F. Warren McFarlan provide a step-by-step guide to ... Read more

    $43.00 USD

  • The New Public Governance?

    Emerging Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Public Governance

    Edited by Stephen P. Osborne ...
    Despite predictions that 'new public management' would establish itself as the new paradigm of Public Administration and Management, recent academic research has highlighted concerns about the intra-organizational focus and limitations of this approach. This book represents a comprehensive analysis of the state of the art of public management, examining and framing the debate in this important ... Read more

    $101.99 USD