White The Nonprofit Challenge

Integrating Ethics into the Purpose and Promise of Our Nation’s Charities
2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-11400-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, eBook

This book describes the challenges facing charities, explains how they must reassess their commitment, and pushes charities to be their best. It also examines how two sectors of society  - business and government  - would benefit from a similar corrective journey.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ethics Start Here PART I: THE SHIFTING PERCEPTIONS OF ALLIES AND REGULATORS The Public's View Regulating and Scrutinizing Charities PART II: HOW THE QUEST FOR MONEY AFFECTS NONPROFITS Philanthropy is Big  - But Does it have a Purpose? The Perils of a Profit-Making Ethos in the Nonprofit World PART III: PERCEPTIONS AND MONEY: THEIR FRAGILE COMPACT WITH GOOD DEEDS Do Some Charities want too Much? How Long Does the Dead Hand Live? When Should Heads Roll? PART IV: THE ETHICAL SECTOR Four Concepts: The Backbone of Ethics at Nonprofits Inside a Good Charity The Voluntary Sector as the Ethical Sector

Über Autor(innen)

DOUG WHITE is the Academic Director of the George H. Heyman, Jr. Centre for Philanthropy and Fundraising at New York University, USA. He also speaks and consults around the world on Philanthropy, Ethics, and Nonprofit Governance .