Pathways to nonprofit excellence / Paul C. Light.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Light, Paul Charles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonprofit organizations--Management.

Nonprofit organizations.

Organizational effectiveness.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fourth in a series of reports on the changing nature of public service in government and the nonprofit sector, Pathways to Excellence focuses on a unique survey of contemporary thinking about creating effective nonprofit organizations. Based on interviews with 250 leading thinkers from the worlds of philanthropy, scholarship, and consulting, as well as 250 executive directors of some of the nation's most effective nonprofits, the book argues that there is no one best way to higher performance. Although higher performance clearly requires a commitment to excellence, it can be achieved along more than one pathway using one of several different strategies. Pathways to Excellence shows that every nonprofit organization can improve--no matter how well or poorly it is currently performing--often by taking simple first steps up a development spiral to high performance.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Foreword

Table of Contents

Chapter One: The Nonprofit Present

Chapter Two: Imagining a Nonprofit-like Future

Chapter Three: Views from a Distance

Chapter Four: Views from the Front Lines

Chapter Five: Pathways to Excellence

Appendix A

Appendix B

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815798873

0815798873

OCLC:

614589041