Overview

This set features two texts edited by professors J. Steven Ott and Lisa A. Dicke: The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector, Second Edition, is a volume of classic and contemporary readings that presents the most influential theories, concepts, and issues associated with the nonprofit sector. Understanding Nonprofit Organizations, Second Edition, speaks to the most important functions, contextual factors and internal functions, concepts, and issues that face today's leaders and managers of nonprofit organizations.

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[ The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector and Understand Nonprofit Organizations ] work well together and are valuable resources that will help students, professionals, and scholars alike explore and understand the external and internal environments of nonprofit organizations. Overall, the volumes reach the editors' goals of presenting a story of the nonprofit sector that is readable and focuses on the central ideas that are important for students and professionals to grasp. These books are now part of my 'go-to' books as an instructor for macro-level social work courses and as a cofounder and community organizer working with various stakeholder on a new social service initiative. -- Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly Overall, The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector reads easily, and its structure flows wisely through the major parts. The book raises very interesting issues about the changing nature of the nonprofit sector over different eras and across nations... Enlightening and very useful. I think that Ott and Dicke should be applauded for the outstanding efforts, which bridge the macro and micro levels of the nonprofit sector for the first time and consequentially enrich the intellectual understanding of the field. -- Public Administration Review

[ The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector and Understand Nonprofit Organizations ] work well together and are valuable resources that will help students, professionals, and scholars alike explore and understand the external and internal environments of nonprofit organizations. Overall, the volumes reach the editors' goals of presenting a story of the nonprofit sector that is readable and focuses on the central ideas that are important for students and professionals to grasp. These books are now part of my 'go-to' books as an instructor for macro-level social work courses and as a cofounder and community organizer working with various stakeholder on a new social service initiative. -- Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly <br> Overall, The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector reads easily, and its structure flows wisely through the major parts. The book raises very interesting issues about the changing nature of the nonprofit sector over different eras and across nations... Enlightening and very useful. I think that Ott and Dicke should be applauded for the outstanding efforts, which bridge the macro and micro levels of the nonprofit sector for the first time and consequentially enrich the intellectual understanding of the field. -- Public Administration Review

Author Information

J. Steven Ott is a professor and center director at the University of Utah. He has served as a consultant to numerous nonprofit organizations and local and state government agencies, and has chaired the Executive Committee of the Nonprofit Management Education Section of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). Dr. Ott has authored and edited many books, articles, and chapters on the nonprofit sector and its organizations, organization theory, organizational behavior, human resource management, administrative theory, accountability, and organizational culture. Lisa A. Dicke is an associate professor at the University of North Texas. Dr. Dicke serves on the Executive Council and on the Committee of the Nonprofit Management Education Section of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). Her research interests include organizational leadership, as well as accountability in government and nonprofit organizations, and her articles have been published in numerous books and journals

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