AROUND THE CENTER
Fall 2006 Issue of NML
The Fall 2006 issue of Nonprofit Management and Leadership (Volume 17, No. 1), the quarterly journal sponsored by the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations, leads off with a major contribution to the research literature on the economic relation between nonprofits and gaming. Nonprofit managers who rely on revenues from bingo, casino nights, and other such events will not find much comfort in the authors' conclusion that "spending on casino gambling in Illinois, and in bordering areas of Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri, may be displacing consumer expenditures on charitable gambling."
Other articles look at principal-agency theory in the nonprofit context, individual motives for offering a bequest, financial performance predictors for nonprofit CEOs, and a measurement instrument for assessing board member motivations. A case study focuses on the planned transformation of a volunteer-run community crisis-care center into a community clinic. The author discovered that while the agency grew, the demand grew faster.
Contents
Gambling on an Alternative Revenue Source: The Impact of Riverboat
Gambling on the Charitable Gambling Component of Nonprofit Finances
Drew A. Dolan, Southern Illinois University
Jim Landers, Indiana Legislative Services Agency
Principal-Agent Relationships on the Stewardship-Agency Axis
Ralf Caers, Cindy Du Bois, Marc Jegers, Sara De Gieter, Catherine
Schepers, and Roland Pepermans, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels
Bequest Motives and Barriers to Giving: The Case of Direct Mail Donors
Adrian Sargeant, Bristol Business School
Toni Hilton, Auckland University of Technology
Walter Wymer, University of Lethbridge
Executive Functional Experience and Its Relationship to the Financial
Performance of Nonprofit Organizations
William J. Ritchie and Karen Eastwood, Florida Gulf Coast University
A Scale to Assess Board Member Motivations in Nonprofit Organizations
Sue Inglis, McMaster University
Shirley Cleave, University of New Brunswick
Case Study: Organizational Transformation of a Community-Based Clinic
Anthony J. Filipovitch, Minnesota State University, Mankato
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