Knowledge
Welcome to our knowledge bank — over 50 pages of leading edge information on the management and governance of nonprofit organisations.
Each section includes a high level summary of key topics and details of the most important books, reports articles and academic research from the UK and the USA. All have links to sites where they can be downloaded free or ordered from publishers.
This section contains information from:
- Books
- Reports
- Presentations
- Articles
- Web sites.
The three best known general text books on the overall management of non profit organisations are listed below:
Books on Management of Non Profit Organisations
Nonprofit organizations
Theory, management, policy
Helmut Anheier, Routledge, 2005
ISBN 0 414 31419 4
Helmut Anheier has been a professor at both LSE and UCLA, so he sees the nonprofit sector from both sides of the Atlantic. This excellent primer for students of nonprofit management sets out the scale of the sector, relevant management theory and includes a selection of management tools.
It goes on to look at wider international and policy issues that the sector has to address.
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Strategic Management for Voluntary Nonprofit Organizations
Roger Courtney, Routledge, 2002
ISBN 0 415 25024 2
This thorough and well researched book sets out different approaches to strategic management, how strategy is developed and how it is implemented.
It includes nine interesting case studies including some from well known national charities.
Managing Without Profit.
Managing Without Profit, Mike Hudson, Directory of Social Change, 2009
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This ground breaking book, now in its third edition, has sold over 20,000 copies and been translated into two other languages. It demonstrates how to:
- Establish strong and suitably constituted boards
- Strengthen strategic management and performance
- Develop a mission and clarify objectives
- Manage and inspire people as individuals and teams
- Create a learning organisation
- Manage change.