The Nonprofit Challenge : integrating ethics into the purpose and promise of our nation's charities / Doug White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Douglas E., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonprofit organizations.

Nonprofit organizations--Finance.

Nonprofit organizations--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

248 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Nonprofit challenge

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Summary:

"Nonprofit organizations hold a special place in society as the nation's ethical sector. They promote service, goodwill, and kindness and serve to better humanity Like any business, however, they can also experience ethical indiscretions. The group of organizations whose sole purpose in this world is to be good and to spread that good has yet to fully form an operational code of ethics-a code that promotes humanity as only the nonprofit sector can. Describing the challenges facing today's charities, Doug White explains how nonprofits must reassess their commitment to their role in society. This corrective journey can serve as a role model for all the for-profit businesses as well as the government sector. By reexamining the business of philanthropy with a new and ethics-based mindset, nonprofits can push themselves to be their very best and continue to make the world a better place."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Section I. The Shifting Perceptions of Allies and Regulators

One. The Public's View

Two. Regulating and Scrutinizing Charities

Section II. How the Quest for Money Affects Nonprofits

Three. Philanthropy is Big But Does It Have a Purpose?

Four. The Perils of Profit-Making in the Nonprofit World

Section III. Perceptions and Money: Their Fragile Compact with Good Deeds

Five. Do Some Charities Want Too Much?

Six. How Long Does the Dead Hand Live?

Seven. Why Good Governance Matters

Section IV. The Ethical Sector

Eight. The Four Pillars: The Backbone of Ethics at Nonprofits

Nine. Inside a Good Charity

Ten. The Voluntary Sector as the Ethical Sector.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-240) and index.

ISBN:

9780230623927

0230623921

OCLC:

515438852