Achieving Success in Nonprofit Organizations

­Appendix

­Our Research Process

This appendix briefly explains the research processes we used to identify the topics and sections for this book. The two ­co-­editors first performed literature searches of books, journals, the Web, and so forth. (Sources appear in our references.) We found well over 100 ideas suggested that were either important in creating or measuring success in ­faith-­based and other nonprofit organizations.

The second research step was to conduct a focus group. We facilitated 10 active participants who ranged from executive directors, board members, volunteers, and a retired CEO of United Way of Greater ­Cincinnati. The members ranged in age from one person under 30 who had just established her own agency to those past normal ...