Voluntary Nonprofit Enterprise Management, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984 Nonprofit Management and Finance Series

My values, attitudes, and behaviors, like those of most Americans, have been profoundly influenced by not-for-profit enterprises. My parents were students in one when they met. I was born in one. I learned about God in one, my ABCs in another, how to make a fire and tie knots in another, how to play ball and be part of a team in another, and I met my first girlfriend in another. I prepared for my career at a not-for-profit university, met my wife at a not-for-profit church, went on to several not-for-profit graduate schools, joined numerous not-for-profit profes­ sional and special interest groups, brought two newly born sons horne from not-for-profit hospitals. I read magazines published by several of them, sail Cj. nd hunt with their members, and when I vote I consider a variety of their admonitions. Voluntary not-for-profit enterprises have been molding and shaping me as long as I have been alive, and they will even be represented at my funeral. Therefore, it seems only fair that I should help to shape some of them. I have been at that task for some time now-Ieading seminars, consulting, writing, and serving on boards and committees. This book is an outgrowth of what I have learned through formal study, observation and analysis, and personal experience in more than half the states of the union and many foreign nations.

1. Voluntarism.- 2. A Distinctive Management Approach.- 3. Management Measurability and the Immeasurable.- 4. Distinctive Purposes.- 5. The Volunteer Tool.- 6. Dual Internal Systems.- 7. A Constituency.- 8. Money Matters.- 9. Special Legal Status.- 10. Profit and Loss.- 11. Politics and Diplomacy.- 12. Multiple Purposes.- 13. Distinctive Social Character.- 14. Boundless Resources.- 15. Staggering Consumption.- 16. The Complexity of Voluntary Enterprises.- 17. Where Do You Go from Here?.- References.