Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
About the Book Series
Voluntary and non-profit organizations are playing an increasingly significant role, worldwide, in the provision and management of public services. Drawing together significant and ground breaking research, this series will be essential reading for students of public policy and management as well as the thinking manager. Topics covered include the management of innovation and change, financial management, performance evaluation and management and organizational development and project management.
Governance, Nonprofit Organizations and Strategy: The Network Philanthropy Model
1st Edition
By Giacomo Boesso, Fabrizio Cerbioni
December 30, 2024
Grant-making foundations play a crucial role in financing a wide range of philanthropic projects that contribute to the social and economic development of targeted communities. In fulfilling this essential function, the trustees who serve on each foundation's board of directors must ensure not only...
Volunteer Management: A Strategic Approach
1st Edition
By Jaclyn S. Piatak, Jessica E. Sowa
November 11, 2024
Winner of the 2025 Academy of Management Public and Nonprofit Division Book Award Volunteers play a critical role in serving communities and delivering public services. Volunteers serve across many areas — in schools, human service organizations, emergency services, and more. By providing services ...
Non-profit Organizations and Co-production: The Logics Shaping Professional and Citizen Collaboration
1st Edition
By Caitlin McMullin
May 27, 2024
Non-profit Organizations and Co-production:The Logics Shaping Professional and Citizen Collaboration develops a novel framework for analyzing the practices of co-production between citizens and professionals in the non-profit sector. Analysing organizations in three contexts (Sheffield, England; ...
Public Sector Volunteer Management: Best Practices and Challenges
1st Edition
By Aminata Sillah
May 27, 2024
In order to effectively and consistently provide services to citizens, local governments have had to come up with creative ways for offering services demanded by their citizens. One popular approach became the creation of volunteer programs as local governments became increasingly reliant on ...
Internal Evaluation in Non-Profit Organisations: Practitioner Perspectives on Theory, Research, and Practice
1st Edition
By Leanne M. Kelly, Alison Rogers
January 29, 2024
Focused on the interpersonal aspects of internal evaluation in non-profit organisations, this book presents practice-based discussions centred on six key topics identified through the authors’ experience as evaluation practitioners. Internal Evaluation in Non-Profit Organisations: Practitioner ...
Organizing Logics, Nonprofit Management and Change: Rethinking Power, Persuasion and Authority
1st Edition
By Tracey Coule, Carole Bain
August 29, 2022
Nonprofit organizations are conventionally positioned as generators of social and cultural forms of capital for the common good. As such they occupy a different space to other types of organizations such as corporate firms that exist primarily to generate economic capital for private owners/...
Remittances and International Development: The Invisible Forces Shaping Community
1st Edition
By Sabith Khan, Daisha Merritt
April 29, 2022
This is a first of its kind book which examines the remittances in the two largest corridors in the World: India-Saudi Arabia and Mexico-U.S.A. This book aims to treat remittances as an act of social norm involving individuals, nation-states, and diaspora communities. It treats ...
Managing Nongovernmental Organizations: Culture, Power and Resistance
1st Edition
By Frederik Claeyé
August 10, 2018
The idea that international development aid needs to be better managed and coordinated gained currency in the early 1990s. The increasing emphasis on management has resulted in the present vogue of ‘managing for development results’ as one of the central tenets in the discourse on international aid...
Performance Management in Nonprofit Organizations: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Zahirul Hoque, Lee Parker
August 06, 2018
With increased competition for external funding, technological advancement, and public expectations for transparency, not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations are facing new challenges and pressures. While research has explored the roles of accounting, accountability, and performance ...
Management Innovations for Healthcare Organizations: Adopt, Abandon or Adapt?
1st Edition
Edited
By Anders Örtenblad, Carina Abrahamson Löfström, Rod Sheaff
June 08, 2018
Innovations in management are becoming more numerous and diverse, and are appearing in organizations providing many different kinds of products and services. The purpose of this book is to examine whether some widely-promoted examples of these management innovations – ranging from techniques such ...
Employment Relations in the Voluntary Sector: Struggling to Care
1st Edition
By Ian Cunningham
May 13, 2016
This new book addresses the topical issues surrounding employment relations in UK voluntary organizations that operate within the quasi-market of social care. Combining an analysis of the established literature with in-depth qualitative field work, Ian Cunningham explores the nature of power ...
A Democratic Architecture for the Welfare State
1st Edition
By Victor A. Pestoff
January 20, 2016
The welfare state faces various challenges in Scandinavia and many European countries today, including a poor work environment in the public sector, a growing democracy deficit, and demographic obstacles. In this new book, Victor A. Pestoff argues that the state cannot resolve these challenges ...