Jossey-Bass Leadership Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations, (Paperback)

Well-grounded in theory, research, and practice, Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations is a comprehensive resource that goes beyond traditional nonprofit management theory to offer the latest in cutting-edge thought on leadership for nonprofit organizations. The book offers a wealth of new directions and ideas for leadership and features chapters written by such well-known experts as Frances Hesselbein, Stephen Dobbs, Florence Green, and Jay Conger. Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations discusses the most compelling leadership challenges and issues for nonprofit organizations and

• Shows that transformational leaders of nonprofits lead more effective organizations
• Includes a comparison of highly functioning for-profit boards with boards of nonprofit organizations
• Provides an analysis of dysfunctional boards
• Discusses for-profit "organizations of hope" that provide important leadership for social change and responsibility
• Suggests strategies for managing and motivating a volunteer workforce
• Presents a model for leading nonprofit projects
• Offers a valuable model for program evaluation in nonprofit organizations
• Considers the ongoing development of nonprofit leaders
• Includes strategies to develop leadership capacity