Nonprofit Management: Principles and Practice

“The most comprehensive and current textbook available on nonprofit management. Essential for the classroom.”
—Robert Silverman, University at Buffalo  

Nonprofit Management: Principles and Practice, the first comprehensive textbook written for the Nonprofit Management course, covers such topics as the scope and structure of the nonprofit sector, leadership of nonprofits, managing the nonprofit organization, fundraising, nonprofit enterprise, financial management, collaborations and mergers, nonprofit lobbying and advocacy, and international trends. Written specifically for students, this text integrates research, theory, and the practitioner literature and includes more than is found in the more prescriptive, practitioner-oriented alternatives. Providing an overview suitable for students enrolled in their first course in the field, the book also includes cases and discussions of advanced issues for those with experience.

Key Features

• Takes a balanced approach to varied perspectives and controversial issues and encompasses traditional concepts as well as new approaches and thinking
• Integrates social sciences research, management theory, and practitioner literature
• Includes mini-cases to enhance student understanding of the issues involved in real-world situations
• Gives students direction on where to go in the literature to learn more through chapter-ending “Suggestions for Further Reading”
• Includes “Questions for Discussion” at the end of each chapter to help students apply chapter content to actual nonprofit organizations

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Nonprofit Management is ideal for courses in Nonprofit Management, Not-for-Profit Management, and Public Management.

Michael J. Worth is professor of Nonprofit Management in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. He teaches graduate courses related to the governance and management of nonprofit institutions and organizations and philanthropic fundraising. Dr. Worth served as vice president for Development and Alumni Affairs at The George Washington University for eighteen years, where he planned and directed two major campaigns and provided support to the Board of Trustees for board development programs. In addition, Dr. Worth has served as director of Development at the University of Maryland College Park, as a member of the Commission on Philanthropy of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), and as editor of the CASE International Journal of Educational Advancement, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused on the practice of institutional advancement in educational institutions.