How to be great at doing good : why results are what count and how smart charity can change the world / / Nick Cooney |
Autore | Cooney Nick |
Edizione | [1st edition] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina | 361.7068 |
Soggetto topico |
Charities
Nonprofit organizations Social change |
ISBN |
1-119-04172-4
1-119-15385-9 1-119-04224-0 |
Classificazione | BUS074000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Schindler's Regret; Chapter 1 Why Charity?; Asking Why; The Goal of Charity; Barriers to Good; The Challenge of "Why?"; Chapter 2 Doing Good or Doing Great?; A Tale of Two Charities; Doing Good, or Doing a Lot of Good?; Chapter 3 Facing the ""Brutal Facts'' on How Much Good We Are Accomplishing; Gritting Our Teeth and Heading Down the Slope; All Charities Are Not Created Equal; Asking the Genie in the Bottle: Making Comparisons When Comparisons Seem Hard; There Are Always Big Differences Between Charities
Accepting the Fact That We Can Always Do Better It's Always Subjective, and There's No Way Around That; But Wait...Does That Mean All Theaters Are Doomed?; Chapter 4 Chasing the Bottom Line: How to Do More Good for Less Money; Defining Our Bottom Line; Doubling Down on Saving Rabbits; Where Following the Bottom Line Leads, and Why It Can Be Hard to Follow; When Following the Bottom Line Means Making Big Changes; Why We Lose Sight of the Bottom Line; Chapter 5 Why Efficiency Means Everything for Donors (and Charities, Too); Bringing It Back to the Bunnies; The Space to Be Human There Are Massive Differences Between Charities in the Same Field Coming to Grips with the Hard Facts; Chapter 6 How We Can Drive Our Favorite Charities to Succeed; The 1,500 Bottle of Soda; The Free Market and the World of Charity; Giving Non-Profits the Incentive to Be Great; It's Not All Donors' Fault; Unhelpful Advice; A New Breed of Charity Advisors; Chapter 7 Our Brains Don't Want Us to Be Great at Doing Good, But We Can Outsmart Them; What Charity Looks Like on the Inside; Questioning Our Motives; Looking Out for Number One, in More Ways Than One Our Biases Try to Rule Us, and This One Is Really Bad Empathy and Evolution; More Biases and Other Mental Quirks; Defeating Our Brains and Doing as Much Good as Possible; Putting Our Self-Centeredness to Work; Chapter 8 The Advice We Are Given About Charity Is Wrong-Here's the Truth; Following Your Passion Is a Bad Idea; Being Great at What You Do Doesn't Matter Unless You're Doing the Right Thing; Not All Charity Work Is Needed or Worth Doing Right Now; We Have to Make Hard Decisions About Who to Help and Who to Ignore; Doing Good Doesn't Always Feel Good; Charity Is All About Winning Chapter 9 Moving Forward with Humility: Admitting What We Don't KnowKnowing What We Don't Know; The Wonderful World of Science; Learning How to Do Good Instead of Guessing How to Do Good; Chapter 10 Nine Steps to Greatness; 1. Get Serious; 2. Never Forget the Goal of Charity; 3. Shun Fuzzy Thinking and Feel-Good Rhetoric-They Are Self-Centered; 4. Be Aware of the Psychological Biases We All Have; 5. Be Willing to Face the Hard Facts; 6. Define and Make Decisions Around a Bottom Line; 7. Measure, Measure, Measure; 8. Give Non-Profits the Incentive to Be Great 9. And Remember: Never Forget the Goal of Charity |
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The "how to" grants manual : successful grantseeking techniques for obtaining public and private grants / / David G. Bauer |
Autore | Bauer David G. |
Edizione | [8th ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (395 p.) |
Disciplina | 658.15/224 |
Soggetto topico |
Fund raising
Grants-in-aid Nonprofit organizations |
ISBN | 1-4758-1011-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797530603321 |
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The "how to" grants manual : successful grantseeking techniques for obtaining public and private grants / / David G. Bauer |
Autore | Bauer David G. |
Edizione | [8th ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (395 p.) |
Disciplina | 658.15/224 |
Soggetto topico |
Fund raising
Grants-in-aid Nonprofit organizations |
ISBN | 1-4758-1011-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821687603321 |
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HRM in Mission Driven Organizations [[electronic resource] ] : Managing People in the Not for Profit Sector / / edited by Chris Brewster, Jean-Luc Cerdin |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIII, 300 p. 3 illus.) |
Disciplina | 658.3 |
Soggetto topico |
Personnel management
Nonprofit organizations Office management Business—Religious aspects Organization Planning Human Resource Management Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises Office Management Faith, Spirituality and Business |
ISBN | 3-319-57583-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. The Management of People in Mission Driven Organizations; Chris Brewster and Jean-Luc Cerdin -- 2. People Management in the Public Sector; Eva Knies and Peter Leisink -- 3. People Management in Volunteer Organizations and Charities; Kerstin Alfes -- 4. HRM in the International Organizations; Chris Brewster, Paul Boselie and Claudia Purpura -- 5. Understanding HRM in Religious Organizations: HRM Practices Within Two Churches of the Protestant Federation of France; Lovanirina Ramboarison-Lalao.- 6. HRM in Cultural Institutions; Dino Ruta and Isabella Sala -- 7. HRM in Sport Organizations; Dino Ruta and Isabella Sala -- 8. People Management in Social Enterprises: B Corporations; Anne-Laure Winkler and Florencio Portocarrero -- 9. Talent Management in Mission Driven Organizations; Jean-Luc Cerdin, Kushal Sharma, Ibraiz Tarique and Claudia Purpura -- 10. Management of People in Mission Driven Organizations: Current State and Future Directions; Jean-Luc Cerdin, Chris Brewster and Kushal Sharma. |
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Improving board effectiveness : practical lessons for nonprofit health care organizations |
Autore | Holland Thomas P |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : American Hospital Pub, 1997 |
Disciplina | 362.1/068 |
Soggetto topico |
Health services administration
Hospital trustees Nonprofit organizations Governing Board - organization & administration Hospital Administration - methods Health Services Administration Organizations, Nonprofit - organization & administration |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910224583203321 |
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Improving board effectiveness : practical lessons for nonprofit health care organizations |
Autore | Holland Thomas P |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : American Hospital Pub, 1997 |
Disciplina | 362.1/068 |
Soggetto topico |
Health services administration
Hospital trustees Nonprofit organizations Governing Board - organization & administration Hospital Administration - methods Health Services Administration Organizations, Nonprofit - organization & administration |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996217478103316 |
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The Independent Director in Society [[electronic resource] ] : Our current crisis of governance and what to do about it / / by Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse, Filipe Morais |
Autore | Brown Gerry |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxi, 271 pages) |
Disciplina | 658.422 |
Soggetto topico |
Corporate governance
Nonprofit organizations Health care management Health services administration Management Sports sciences Sports - Economic aspects Corporate Governance Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises Health Care Management Sport Science Sports Economics |
ISBN | 3-030-51303-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Challenges and opportunities -- 3. Independence and value creation -- 4. Engaged stewardship: governance and service -- 5. The importance of knowledge -- 6. Engagement and evidence -- 7. The role of the chair -- 8. Making impact -- 9. Selection, training and evaluation -- 10. Recommendations for policy. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910427043303321 |
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Intellectual Capital in German Non-profit Organisations [[electronic resource] ] : An Empirical Study / / by Katrin Blankenburg |
Autore | Blankenburg Katrin |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXII, 233 p. 32 illus., 11 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 658.4 |
Collana | Contributions to Management Science |
Soggetto topico |
Corporate governance
Nonprofit organizations Public relations Organization Planning Mass media Law Corporate Governance Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises Corporate Communication/Public Relations IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property |
ISBN | 3-319-62655-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- A Conceptual Framework of Intellectual Capital -- Introduction to the Non-profit Sector -- Methodology -- Theoretical Framework for Intellectual Capital Reporting of NPOs -- Methods -- Presentation of Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Appendix: List of Codes. |
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An introduction to ethics for nonprofits and NGOs / / Craig Hanson |
Autore | Hanson Craig |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 pages) |
Disciplina | 341.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Non-governmental organizations - Moral and ethical aspects
Nonprofit organizations |
ISBN |
9783031230776
9783031230769 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part 1 Introduction: A framework for analyzing moral situations -- Ethics, naive vs. nuanced -- The is/ought distinction -- Relativism -- Deontological ethics: duty and law -- Teleology: judging cases by consequences -- Insights from medical ethics -- Virtue Ethics and Feminist Ethics -- Practical tips for instituting ethics in your institution -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part 2 From Theory to Action -- Ethics Vs Law -- Demanding the “Right” Answer -- The informed argument -- Applying Moral Theories -- Coallating our Observations.-Part 3 Boards and Oversight -- Covid-19 vaccine policy in a medium-sized NFP -- The helpful board member -- When democracy and mission collide -- The employee with family on the board -- Social -- Enterprise vs. Social Service -- The board member’s pet project -- Regime change and the perils of being a hero -- The possessive major gifts officer -- When personal problems threaten the mission -- Part 4 Moral Dilemmas in Executive Leadership.-Meltdown in Monrovia -- Cutting vital services -- Changing staff’s job descriptions -- Child sponsorship in the after school program -- Accepting crypto donations -- The White Savior in the Dark Continent -- Internship or exploitation? -- Graft at the top -- Part 5 Money, Finance and Fundraising -- Misallocation or resources or unreasonable donor? -- Lean or starving? On the tyranny of low administrative cost rates.-That time when your NFP became his PR crisis response plan -- A successful event -- Missing money at the group home -- Bribery or just doing business? -- Coalition building or finder’s fee? -- Inheriting an albatross -- The school for civil war orphans -- The best president we could ever dream of -- The post-mortem “take” -- Missing money? -- “Give me a child you don’t care about” -- Part 6 Inter-Cultural and Cross-Cultural Ethics -- Short-Termer headaches -- “Hire a young woman” -- In our country they would be married -- What counts as diversity numbers? -- Vaccine resistance in vulnerable communities -- The at-least-somewhat racist missionary -- Later that evening, in the same town -- Part 7 Ethics in Program Operations -- The protective guardian -- Dealing with noncompliance in Syracuse -- Putting nationals in harm’s way -- Another feeding program begins -- What could go wrong? -- Land title woes in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Microfinance, interest and Islam -- Indian nationalism and the foreign NGO -- Lying to the Police -- Closing the orphanage -- Professorial Malfeasance Abroad?Part 8 Digital, Online and Cyber Ethics -- Archiving a Nation’s Text Messages -- Where there are no government-issued ID’s -- Political Disinformation, Community Outreach and Vaccine Drives -- Election Season and Viral Online Videos -- Revealing the Location of Vulnerable Women -- Child Porn, Revenge Porn and Non-Fungible Tokens -- Appendix I: Discussion-Leader Tips -- Appendix II: Structuring an Ethics Discussion -- Appendix III Evaluating Ethics Argumentation -- Appendix IV: Examples of good and bad case analyses -- Appendix IV: Discussion Guides to each Case. |
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IRS examination selection : IRS should strengthen internal controls for exempt organzation selection : testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight, Committee on Ways & Means, House of Representatives / / statement of Jay McTigue |
Autore | McTigue Jay |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Government Accountability Office, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (5 pages) : color illustration |
Collana | Testimony |
Soggetto topico |
Nonprofit organizations
Tax exemption |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | IRS examination selection |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910703836803321 |
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[Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Government Accountability Office, , 2015 | ||
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