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 and the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) 2025 Outstanding Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Book Award Volunteers play a critical role in serving communities and delivering ...
Voluntary Organizations and Public Service Delivery
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Cunningham, Philip James
October 14, 2024
Voluntary Organizations and Public Sector Delivery examines how aspects of voluntary sector employment are affected by its engagement with the growing trend to the market-based outsourcing in the delivery of public services within industrialized countries. The volume draws together a team of ...
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 ...
Financing Nonprofit Organizations
1st Edition
Edited
By Inigo Garcia-Rodriguez, M. Elena Romero-Merino
September 30, 2021
The financial issues of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have increased their importance in recent years, especially after the last global economic downturn. In this way, NPOs have been threatened by a reduction of income, while their work and expenses have not decreased. In this book, the editors ...
Philanthropy in Practice: Pragmatism and the Impact of Philanthropic Action
1st Edition
By Ekkehard Thümler
December 05, 2019
Philanthropic foundations are experiencing a crisis of professional identity. They attract considerable hopes due to an unusually high degree of independence and freedom of manoeuvre, which theoretically places them in a privileged position to find novel solutions to societies’ most severe and ...
Regulating Charities: The Inside Story
1st Edition
Edited
By Myles McGregor-Lowndes, Bob Wyatt
June 06, 2019
In this volume charity commissioners and leading charity policy reformers from across the world reflect on the aims and objectives of charity regulation and what it has achieved. Regulating Charities represents an insider’s review of the last quarter century of charity law policy and an insight for...
Transformational Leadership and Not for Profits and Social Enterprises
1st Edition
Edited
By Ken Wiltshire, Aastha Malhotra, Micheal Axelsen
June 06, 2019
Recent decades have seen a significant transformation of the not-for-profit (NFP) sector. This includes rise in the number of organisations and people employed, shift from charities and philanthropic agencies to hybrid social enterprise business models, competing stakeholder interests and ...