Elgar encyclopedia of nonprofit management, leadership and governance / edited by Kevin P. Kearns (Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh) and Wenjiun Wang (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Sam Houston State University, US).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kearns, Kevin P., editor.

Wang, Wenjiun, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar encyclopedias in the social sciences series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonprofit organizations--Encyclopedias.

Nonprofit organizations.

Corporate governance.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (650 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"The Elgar Encyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance is the ultimate reference guide for those interested in the rapidly growing nonprofit sector. Each insightful entry includes a definition of the concept, practical applications in nonprofit organizations, and discussion of current issues and future directions. With contributions from over 200 renowned experts in the field, this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the essential topics related to nonprofit management, leadership and governance. Entries explore a diverse range of issues and actors within the nonprofit sector, including business planning, crowdfunding and fundraising, governing boards, mergers and acquisitions, risk management, stakeholder management and wealth inequality. They cover the foundations of the sector alongside more current and topical issues including celebrity, diaspora, LGBTQ+ and e-philanthropy; authoritarian regimes; the digital divide; and the Millennial generation's civic engagement. This Encyclopedia is a vital resource for students and scholars of organization studies, business and management, corporate governance, and public administration. Its practical applications will prove beneficial to a diverse range of stakeholders across the nonprofit sector, including professional managers, board members, donors, government officials, and media professionals. Fully cross referenced and accessible in style Authoritative summaries of nearly 200 essential topics Written by leading scholars and practitioners across the field Provides definitions, applications, and discussions of current issues and future directions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction to elgar encyclopedia of nonprofit management, leadership and governance / Kevin P. Kearns and Wenjiun Wang

Accountability / Barbara S. Romzek

Accounting practices, rules, and standards / Carolyn Cordery

Accreditation / Madeline Y. Lee

Administration costs / Tianyi Li, Elizabeth A. M. Searing and Jesse D. Lecy

Advocacy / Sheldon Gen

Affordable care act / Berkeley Franz

Antitrust / Alexander C. Campbell

Articles of incorporation / William M. Klimon

Arts and cultural organizations / Constance DeVereaux

Audit / Anne-Mie Reheul and Tom Van Caneghem

Authoritarian regimes and the nonprofit community / Mark Sidel

Beneficiaries / Lehn M. Benjamin

Black philanthropy / Jacqueline Bouvier Copeland

Board policies manual / Robert C. Andringa

Branding and brand strategies / Walter Wymer

Budget process / Marcus Lam and Bob Beatty

Business planning / David La Piana

Bylaws / William M. Klimon

Campaign: Annual campaign / Bobbi Watt Geer

Campaign: Capital campaign / Eugene R. Tempel and Sarah K. Nathan

Capacity building / Judith L. Millesen

Careers and preparation / Amanda J. Stewart and Ryne A. Crout Jones

Case for support / Karen Wolk Feinstein

Cause-related marketing / Gordon Liu

Celebrity philanthropy / Hilde Van den Bulck

Charitable giving / Kevin P. Kearns

Charity law / Alexander C. Campbell

Chief executive director: Compensation / Nathan J. Grasse and Leonor Camarena

Chief executive officer: Performance review / Jessica K. A. Word

Chief executive officer: Relations with the board of directors / Scott E. Robison

Civic agency / Jo Anne Schneider

Civil rights organizations / Leon L. Haley

Civil society / Annette Zimmer

Collaboration strategies / Stuart Mendel

Commercialism / Janelle A. Kerlin and Meng Ye

Commons / Brenda K. Bushouse, Brent Never and Robert K. Christensen

Community foundations / Laurie E. Paarlberg

Community-based organizations / Carl Milofsky and Margaret Harris

Comparative perspectives on nonprofit organizations / Paul J. Nelson

Competition / Omer Topaloglu

Competitive forces / Teresa D. Harrison

Conversion foundations / Karen Wolk Feinstein

Co-production / Tony Bovaird and Elke Loeffler

Corporate foundations / Kathleen W. Buechel

Corporate philanthropy / Georg von Schnurbein

Corporate social responsibility / Archie B. Carroll

Crisis management / Thomas W. Haase

Crowdfunding / Jeremy C. Short

Crowding out / Joycelyn Ovalle and Ji Ma

Cultural competence / Heather Getha-Taylor

Curricula for nonprofit management in higher education / Roseanne M. Mirabella and Timothy J. Hoffman

Democracy and philanthropy / Wenjiun Wang

Diaspora philanthropy / Shawn Teresa Flanigan

Digital divide / Jaclyn Piatak

Dissolution of nonprofit organizations / Jiahuan Lu

Diversity, equity, and inclusion / Ruth Sessler Bernstein and Paul Salipante

Donor-advised funds / Eileen R. Heisman

Donor and donor motivation / Kevin P. Kearns

Donor choice / Michaela Neumayr

Donor retention and stewardship / Richard D. Waters

Earned income / Kimberly M. Reeve

Education-focused organizations / Gregg Behr

Effectiveness of nonprofit organizations / David O. Renz and Elizabeth Ireland

Endowment / Thad D. Calabrese and Todd L. Ely

Ephilanthropy / Abhishek Bhati and Andrew

Douglas burk

Faith and philanthropy / Sabith Khan

Faith and volunteering / M. D. Kinoti

Faith-based organizations / Gaynor Yancey

Family philanthropy / Julie Fisher Cummings, Douglas Bitonti Stewart and Caitlen Macias

Federation / Patricia Bradshaw and Madeline Toubiana

Financial documents and control / John T. Zietlow

Financial performance indicators / Tianyi Li and Elizabeth A. M. Searing

Financial ratios / Christopher R. Prentice

Financing nonprofit organizations / George E. Mitchell and Elizabeth A. M. Searing

Fiscal sponsor / Fredrik O. Andersson

Forming a nonprofit organization / William M. Klimon

Foundations - history and functions / Stefan Toepler

Founder's syndrome / Joanne G. Carman

Fraud and corruption / Carolyn Cordery

Fraud detection and investigation / Dennis Neier, Harry Sandick and Justin Zaremby

Fundraising / Kirsten A. Grønbjerg

Gender and philanthropy / Debra Mesch

Giving circles / Julia L. Carboni

Global conflict and philanthropy / Colin Knox

Governance / Anne Wallestad, Joy Folkedal and Andrew Davis

Governing board: Chairperson / Kevin P. Kearns

Governing board: Composition / William A. Brown

Governing board: Dynamics and meeting management / Michael R. Ford

Governing board: Membership / Anne Wallestad, Joy Folkedal and Andrew Davis

Governing board: Responsibilities / Anne Wallestad, Joy Folkedal and Andrew Davis

Government failure theory / Laurie E. Paarlberg and Samantha Zuhlke

Government funding and contract management / Steven Rathgeb Smith

Grant / Janine Lee, David Miller and Stephen Sherman

Grassroots ingos / Susan Appe

Growth strategies / David Gras and Gavin Williamson

Housing organizations / Rachel G. Bratt

Human service organizations / Bowen McBeath and Michael J. Austin

Hybrid organizations / Wenjue Knutsen

Identity-based philanthropy / Noah D. Drezner

Impact investing / Wenjue Knutsen

Income portfolio analysis / Hanjin Mao and Lindsey McDougle

Industry analysis / Kevin P. Kearns

Innovation in nonprofit organizations / Kristina Jaskyte

Institutional isomorphism / Nadeen Makhlouf

Intermediate sanctions / Bok Gyo Jeong

Internal revenue service / David A. Bell

International aid / David A. Bell

Investment policy statement / Matthew Rice

Journals, periodicals, and associations / Wenjiun Wang and Kevin P. Kearns

Leadership / Kevin P. Kearns

Leadership succession / Amanda J. Stewart and Ryne A. Crout Jones

LGBTQ+ philanthropy / Elizabeth J. Dale

Lifecycles of nonprofit organizations / Rikki Abzug

Limited life foundations / Lynda Mansson

Major donors / Beth Breeze

Managerialism / Kevin P. Kearns

Marketing / Walter Wymer

Membership associations / Kevin P. Kearns

Mental health organizations / Alicia C. Bunger and Thomas K. Gregoire

Mergers and acquisitions / Theresa Ricke-Kiely

Microfinance / Cécile Godfroid, Marek Hudon and Marc Labie

Millennial generation's civic engagement / Young-joo Lee

Mission and economics / Richard S. Steinberg

Mission statement / Kevin P. Kearns

Motivation: Paid staff / Jed DeVaro

Motivation: Volunteers / Arthur A. Stukas, Mark Snyder and E. Gil Clary

Multisite nonprofit organizations / Seth J. Meyer

Nascent organizations / Fredrik O. Andersson

Nongovernmental organizations / Paloma Raggo

Nonprofit sector / Peter Frumkin and Mark A. Hager

Operating foundations / Khrista McCarden

Operating reserves / Thad D. Calabrese

Payout requirement / Richard C. Sansing

Performance management / David A. Campbell and Kristina T. Marty

Philanthropy: Definition and history / Michael Moody

Place-based philanthropy / Susan D. Phillips

Planned giving / Russell N. James III

Politics and philanthropy / David Callahan

Principal-agent theory / Tracey M. Coule

Private foundations / Michael Moody

Private inurement prohibition / Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer

Professionalism / Kevin P. Kearns

Program evaluation / Lehn M. Benjamin, Dana R. H. Doan, Alnoor Ebrahim and Mary Kay Gugerty

Program-related investments / Heng Qu

Project management / Nicholas J. Chakos

Public charity / Penina K. Lieber

Public policy and nonprofit organizations / Shannon K. Vaughan and Shelly Arsneault

Public relations / Richard D. Waters

Public trust in nonprofit organizations / Jurgen Willems

Recruitment and retention / Kunle Akingbola

Refugee services / Lisa S. Alfredson

Regulation of nonprofit organizations / Putnam Barber

Resilience management / Dennis R. Young

Restricted / unrestricted funds / ChiaKo Hung, Arjen de Wit and Pamala Wiepking

Retrenchment strategies / Yuan (Daniel) Cheng and Shuyi Deng

Revenue diversification / Heng Qu

Risk management / Grace L. Chikoto-Schultz

Sarbanes-oxley act / Sarah A. Garven

Self-help groups / Melanie Boyce

Self-regulation / Angela L. Bies

Service portfolio analysis / Kevin P. Kearns

Settlement house / T. Laine Scales

Sexual harassment / Erynn E. Beaton and Elizabeth J.

Dale

Social capital / Tristan Claridge

Social change and nonprofit organizations / Theresa Anasti

Social economy / Laurie Mook

Social enterprise / Wenjue Knutsen

Social entrepreneurship / Rasheda L. Weaver

Social responsibility of nonprofit organizations / Shawn Pope

Social return on investment / Kate Cooney

Stakeholder management / Kevin P. Kearns

Strategic analysis: Swot / Kevin P. Kearns

Strategic human resource management / Kunle Akingbola

Strategic planning / David La Piana.

Supporting organizations / Penina K. Lieber

Tax policy: Federal / Joseph Cordes

Tax policy: State and local / Joseph Cordes

Technology and social media / Chao Guo and John McNutt

Transparency / Erica E. Harris

Triple bottom line / Dragana Djukic-Min, Allison R. Russell and Elizabeth A. M. Searing

Unfair competition / Alexander C. Campbell

United Way / Laurie E. Paarlberg and Jin Ai

Unrelated business income / Alexander C. Campbell

Venture philanthropy / Tamaki Onishi and Arisa Miyakozawa

Voluntarism / Allison R. Russell and Femida Handy

Volunteer management / Christopher J. Einolf

Wage equity within and across sectors / David A. Macpherson and Barry T. Hirsch

Watchdog organizations / Margaret F. Sloan and Kennedy M. Musyoka

Wealth inequality / Claire Le Barbenchon and Lisa A. Keister

Index 617.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781800880092 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.