AROUND THE CENTER:
Fall 2007 Issue of NML
The Fall 2007 issue of Nonprofit Management and Leadership (Volume 18, No. 1), the quarterly journal sponsored by the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations, leads off with two articles using quantitative and qualitative research methods, respectively.
First, "Street Lamps, Alleys, Ratio Analysis, and Nonprofit Organizations" offers an accounting-based model for evaluating the efficiency of nonprofit organizations that draws inspiration from the well-known DuPont framework for analyzing for-profit return on equity. The formula provides a multiplicative simulation of the process of transforming revenue inputs into units of output.
"Nonprofit Association CEOs: How Their Context Shapes What, How, and Why They Learn" takes a phenomenological approach to explore how national membership association CEOs perceive and describe their learning. Critical to these executives' success, the authors conclude, is learning centered around power dynamics, responsibility, and accountability.
"The Role of Social Anxiety in Volunteering" looks at social shyness as a factor in volunteer management as well as fundraising. Two other articles consider nonprofit uses of electronic media.
Contents
Street Lamps, Alleys, Ratio Analysis, and Nonprofit Organizations
Daniel Tinkelman, Hofstra University
Bairj Donabedian, Pace University
Nonprofit Association CEOs: How Their Context Shapes What, How, and Why They Learn
John J. Sherlock, Western Carolina University
Maria L. Nathan, Lynchburg College
The Role of Social Anxiety in Volunteering
Femida Handy and Ram A. Cnaan, University of Pennsylvania
Nonprofit Organizations' Use of the Internet: A Content Analysis of Communication Trends on the Internet Sites of the Philanthropy 400
Richard D. Waters, North Carolina State University
From the Field: The Perils of E-Mail Communications in Nonprofits
Srivatsa Seshadri and Larry Carstenson, University of Nebraska at Kearney
To read abstracts of these articles, or to subscribe to Nonprofit Management and Leadership, visit the Wiley InterScience website: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/104049461
