AROUND THE CENTER:
Winter 2007 Issue of Nonprofit Management and Leadership
The Winter 2007 issue of Nonprofit Management and Leadership (Volume 18, No. 2), the quarterly journal sponsored by the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations, leads off with a timely and highly original piece, “U.S. Nonprofit Organizations’ Demand for Temporary Foreign Professionals,” by Mary Tschirhart and Lois Wise. Much of the national focus on immigration in the United States has been on illegal immigration and the alleged crowding out of low-wage, low-skill native workers. Tschirhart and Wise examine the demand by U.S. nonprofits for foreign professionals to fill specialized and managerial positions on a temporary basis. It is unlikely that anyone in education, health care, the arts, or numerous other nonprofit program sectors is unaware of the importance of this issue.
In “The Relational Determinants of Nonprofit Web Site Fundraising Effectiveness: An Exploratory Study,” Adrian Sargeant and his co-authors develop a framework for assessing the relational content of nonprofit Internet sites. Their model highlights the role of Web sites in accessibility, the case for support, respect, accountability, interaction, education, customization, and empowerment.
In “An Expanded Theory of Pluralistic Interactions in Voluntary Nonprofit Organizations,” Judith Weisinger and Paul Salipante assert that “traditional ways of conceptualizing cultural diversity in U.S. society are becoming outmoded.” On this basis, they expand on their previously published representation-interaction model of diversity in voluntaristic nonprofits using a grounded theory approach.
Also included are two distinct contributions to the literature in the area of faith-based services—one looking at collaborations and the other at the incubation of new services—along with a study focusing on donor organization–public relationships and the contribution of unrestricted funds. Finally, a fascinating case study looks at policy changes at three major national foundations, raising important questions about private foundations in relation to issues of innovativeness, accountability, and independence.
Contents
U.S. Nonprofit Organizations’ Demand for Temporary Foreign Professionals
Mary Tschirhart, Syracuse University
Lois R. Wise, Indiana University, Bloomington
The Relational Determinants of Nonprofit Website Fundraising Effectiveness: An Exploratory Study
Adrian Sargeant, Indiana University, Indianapolis
Douglas C. West, University of Birmingham
Elaine Jay, Sargeant Associates Ltd.
An Expanded Theory of Pluralistic Interactions in Voluntary Nonprofit Organizations
Judith Y. Weisinger, New Mexico State University
Paul F. Salipante Jr., Case Western Reserve University
Collaborations with Faith-Based Social Service Coalitions
Helen Rose Ebaugh, Janet S. Chafetz, and Paula F. Pipes, University of Houston
Urban Congregations as Incubators of Service Organizations
Nancy T. Kinney and Mary L. Carver, University of Missouri–St. Louis
Contributions of Unrestricted Funds: The Donor Organization–Public Relationship and Alumni Attitudes and Behaviors
Marshal H. Wright, Oral Roberts University
Mihai C. Bocarnea, Regent University
Innovation, Accountability, and Independence at Three Private Foundations Funding Higher Education Civic Engagement, 1995 to 2005
Susan A. Ostrander, Tufts University
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.
