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The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, 5th Edition
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The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, 5th Edition

by David O. Renz, William A. Brown, Fredrik O. Andersson
March 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
816 pages
29h 26m
English
Jossey-Bass
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CHAPTER NINEUNDERSTANDING NONPROFIT EFFECTIVENESS

David O. Renz and Robert D. Herman

In an era of heightened concern for nonprofit performance, results, and accountability, we hear more and more about organizational effectiveness and our need to ensure it. Nonprofit leaders and funders all feel increased pressure to guarantee results, and it seems that the mantra of “effectiveness” has become the standard answer. Who can be against effectiveness? But what are we really talking about? Are we all talking about the same thing? Nonprofit organization effectiveness continues to be an elusive and contested concept. The reality is that most nonprofit leaders and researchers, lacking the simple criterion of bottom-line profit or loss, struggle with ...

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