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  • Catalytic Governance

    Leading Change in the Information Age

    by Patricia Meredith, Steven A. Rosell, Ged R. Davis ...
    Although the information age offers individuals from all walks of life the power to make their voices heard, we often end up with a cacophony of competing voices rather than a conversation. With so many people empowered to join the decision-making process, the number and diversity of stakeholders in governance situations poses a special challenge: how do you steer when so many hands are on the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • The Tools of Government

    A Guide to the New Governance

    Edited by Lester M. Salamon ...
    The Tools of Government is the first professional guide to the principles and practices of public administration in an age when governments no longer provide many services--but arrange for others to do so. Characterized by extensive collaboration among levels of government and between government and the private sector, this new approach to solving public problems presents many new important issues ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • Nonprofit Law and Governance For Dummies

    by Jill Gilbert Welytok, Daniel S. Welytok ...
    As the number and size of nonprofit organizations continues to grow, NFPs are coming under ever-increasing government scrutiny. Soon Congress will require that nonprofits comply with rigorous accounting and governance standards very similar to those set forth for for-profits in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.If you work for a nonprofit and are concerned about meeting impending changes to tax and finance ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy

    Endangered Species Policy in Canada and the United States

    by Andrea Olive ...
    Canada and the United States are similar in terms of the species of wildlife that mingle freely across their shared border. Despite this similarity, however, there are significant differences between approaches to wildlife management in these two nations. In Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy, Andrea Olive examines the divergent evolution of endangered species policy on either side of the 49th ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Why Organizations Thrive: Lessons from the Front Lines for Nonprofit Executive Directors

    by Jonathan Poisner ...
    On January 2, 1997, I showed up for my first day of work as the Executive Director of the Oregon League of Conservation Voters (Oregon LCV).The Board shouldn't have hired me.I was only 30. I had zero fundraising experience, virtually no personnel supervision experience, and had only been involved previously with one other nonprofit organization.I was given lots of training to make up for my lack ... Read more

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  • Philanthropic Foundations, Public Good and Public Policy

    by Diana Leat ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book discusses a series of related but independent challenges faced by philanthropic foundations, drawing on international, contemporary and historical data. Throughout the world, private philanthropic foundations spend huge sums of money for public good while the media, policy-makers and the public have little understanding of what they do and why. Diana Leat considers the following ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Passing the Torch

    Planning for the Next Generation of Leaders in Public Service

    by Karl Besel, Charlotte Lewellen Williams ...
    Public-service executives, both elected and appointed within the public and nonprofit sectors, are retiring at record levels, and the number of Americans reaching age sixty-five annually will continue to rise over the next decade and is expected to surpass four million in 2020. Finding qualified, motivated leaders to fill vital public-service positions will challenge the public and nonprofit ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Third Sector Management

    The Art of Managing Nonprofit Organizations

    by William B. Werther Jr., Evan Berman ...
    Trying to do good deeds does not guarantee that a nonprofit organization will succeed. The organization must do good deeds well. This textbook offers a blueprint for nonprofit success, adopting a strategic perspective that assumes vision, mission, strategy, and execution as the pillars upon which success is built.While many experts on nonprofits argue that fundraising is the single key to success, ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding the Social Economy

    A Canadian Perspective, Second Edition

    by Jack Quarter, Laurie Mook, Ann Armstrong ...
    Suitable for courses addressing community economic development, non-profit organizations, co-operatives and the social economy more broadly, the second edition of Understanding the Social Economy expands on the authors’ ground-breaking examination of organizations founded on a social mission – social enterprises, non-profits, co-operatives, credit unions, and community development organizations ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Ethics Management for Public and Nonprofit Managers

    Leading and Building Organizations of Integrity

    by Donald C Menzel ...
    This practical book is dedicated to building ethical organizations. It has been written for college students preparing for careers in public service as well as for elected and appointed officials, administrators, and career public servants in the United States and elsewhere. Concise and comprehensive, Ethics Management for Public and Nonprofit Managers takes a managerial ethics approach to ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Managing Local Governments

    Designing Management Control Systems that Deliver Value

    by Emanuele Padovani, David W. Young ...
    Series series Routledge Masters in Public Management
    Local Government is an area where management skills are tested to the extreme. With political considerations evident both locally and nationally, managing resources can be complex and subject to change.This book introduces new concepts and new ways of doing business that can greatly enhance the value of the services a local government provides to its citizens, without putting a greater financial ... Read more

    $121.99 CAD

  • Valuing Detroit’s Art Museum

    A History of Fiscal Abandonment and Rescue

    by Jeffrey Abt ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores the perilous situation that faced the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city's bankruptcy, when creditors considered it a "nonessential asset" that might be sold to settle Detroit's debts. It presents the history of the museum in the context of the social, economic, and political development of Detroit, giving a history of the city as well as of the institution, and providing ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD