Entrusted : the moral responsibilities of trusteeship / David H. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, David H., 1939-2024.

Series:

Philanthropic studies

Philanthropic studies Entrusted

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonprofit organizations--United States.

Nonprofit organizations.

Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations--United States.

Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations.

Endowments--United States.

Endowments.

Trusts and trustees--United States.

Trusts and trustees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 124 p. )

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indiana University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Thoughtful essays on the morality, obligations, practice, and virtues of trusteeship." - ARNOVA News In Entrusted, David H. Smith offers some ideas and raises some issues that may put trusteeship into perspective. The main idea presented in these pages is that trustees should be reflective, that the board should be a community of inquiry, more precisely, a community of interpretation. And, because the trustee's historically and currently important role has been little studied by moralists, philosophers, or theologians, moral issues associated with nonprofit governance have fallen into the cracks. This book serves to suggest the need for academically sophisticated discussions of the moral parameters of trusteeship, studies that will go beyond and improve on this attempt. " Entrusted provides a much-needed contribution to the literature on ethics in the healthcare arena." - Health Progress "A splendid and invaluable book, one every trustee with an active conscience would want to read and one every trustee with a dormant conscience ought to read." -Richard Chait, Center for Higher Education Governance and Leadership "[Smith's] contribution breaks some new and difficult ground by helping us to think beyond the routine and mundane dimensions of trusteeship." - Academe "Essential reading for trustees." - Ethics " Entrusted should be required reading for trustees of any not-for-profit." - Advancing Philanthropy

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-122) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612075964

9781282075962

1282075969

9780253113412

0253113415

9780585225692

0585225699

OCLC:

1016590996