Spring 2008 – Digital Issue

Leadership Without a Safety Net

Spring 2008: Volume 15, Issue 1

Features

• Welcome
  
  
• The Nonprofit Ethicist
  What to do with “dirty” money, and why a bad deed usually doesn’t go unpunished. by Woods Bowman
  
  
• Powerful Nonprofit Leadership: The D Factor
  Should your context drive your leadership style? NPQ’s editors think so. by the editors
  
  
• Boards and Leadership Hires: How to Get It Right
  The hiring of a new executive director is one of the most important jobs of a board, but many make missteps that are hard to reverse. by Deborah Linnell
  
  
• Gap or Pap: Generational Differences at Work
  Is there is a real difference between what generations want and expect from a workplace? by Jennifer J. Deal

• The Bright Future of Community Building
  Traditional approaches toward community building may do more to push people away than engage them. by Bill Traynor
  
  
• A Leader’s Guide to Executive Coaching
  When is it time to call a coach, and what should you expect a coach to do? by David Coleman
  
  
• The Nonprofit ED’s First 100 Days
  What should a new executive do— and not do—in the first 100 days? by Oliver Tessier and Ruth McCambridge

Special Supplement

• The Evolution of Nonprofit Management Programs
  Here’s the inside scoop from those who teach on what’s changing in nonprofit management education. by Judith Millesen
  
  
• NPQ Nonprofit Management Education Directory 2008

Departments

Philanthropy

• Just Another Emperor? The Myths and Realities of Philanthrocapitalism
  It’s hot, but is there anything new in the new philanthropy? by Michael Edwards

Human Resources

• Volunteer Management: Once More with Meaning
  Volunteer management is typically all upside-down trying to fit volunteers to the organization rather than the organization to the volunteers. by Jennifer Woodill

Opinion

• A Conversation with California Congressman Xavier Becerra
  Daring to go where others fear to tread, a California congressman asks tough questions about whether nonprofits provide what taxpayers expect to get for their money. by Rick Cohen

ARNOVA Abstracts

• ARNOVA Abstracts
  A selection of the most recent abstracts from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.
  
  
• The Take-Away
  A summary of the articles in this issue.
  
  
• Classifieds

Satire

• Eliminating Random Acts of Kindness by 2010
  The National Bureau of Evaluation comes of age courtesy of brave advocates bucking the trend of fluff evaluations. by Phil Anthrop