Organizational and Structural Dilemmas in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations

Hillel Schmid

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780789025517
  9780789025500
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136426117
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Improve your organization's performance for the well-being of your clients!

Organizational and Structural Dilemmas in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations explores the common pitfalls that plague nonprofit human service organizations and cause them to fail in their missions. In this book, leading scholars analyze and evaluate the inherent difficulties that impede effectiveness in these organizations. With this wide-ranging body of knowledge, research findings, and information, you will be able to identify key areas in your organization that may become troublesome at a later date and prevent them from deteriorating.

This valuable tool also includes advice and suggestions for repairing detrimental situations that have already occurred or are taking place. The book supplies solutions for repairing or preventing any permanent damage to your organization's structure, value, or reputation. Organizational and Structural Dilemmas in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations will help you set successful long-term strategies for your organization, despite changes in laws, programs, and public sentiment.

With this book, you will learn more about:

• the changing identity of federated community service organizations
• the role of congregations as social service providers
• volunteer and paid staff relations
• the implications of welfare-to-work programs
• the cycles of public sentiment as expressed through the media
• the issue of nonprofit executive misbehavior
• the preferences of social work graduates for employment in various sectors of the welfare economy such as for-profit as opposed to nonprofit
• the differences between for-profit and nonprofit organizations

Index

Academy of Management Executives, 163

Action for Boston Community Development Fund, 39

Adelphia, 142

Advocacy groups, 39

African-American congregations, 57

Aging population, government burden, 4

Alternative funds

changing identity, 38–40

community organizations, 24

history, 38

organizational identity, 41

types, 38

American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), 78

American Ballet Theatre, 165

American Cancer Society, 31, 70

American Heart Association, 31

American Red Cross, 30, 70, 144

America’s Charities, 40

Ann Arbor News, 173

Aramony, W., 163, 170

Asian-American congregations, 57

Asian Pacific Community Fund, 39

Associated Press, 149

Astraea Lesbian Foundation, 38

Australia, welfare economy, 203

Balanced Budget Act (1997), 93

Better Business Bureau, 138

Black United Fund, 26, 38

Block grants, community services, 50

Board of Community Chests and Councils, 29

Boston Globe, 139

Brookings Institution, 150

Brooklyn Manor (New York), 146

Bush, G. W., 50, 140, 144, 152

Business Ethics, 148

California, welfare-to-work programs, 123

Canada, social work graduates, 204–210

Cantor Fitzgerald, 149

Capuchin Soup Kitchen (Detroit), 164

Caring Connection, 39

Carlough, E., 169

Catholic Charities

changing identity, 24, 36

Cleveland, 37

community problem solver, 36

diocesan foundations, 37

economic regulator, 36

executive calamity, 164, 169

fiscal intermediary, 36

organizational identity, 36, 41

San Francisco, 169

Center for Creative Leadership, 178

Charitable mutual funds, 28, 33

Child and family services, 143

Children, social services, 54

Children’s Health Insurance Program, 144

Chronicle of Philanthropy, 151

Citizens Study Committee,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• The Role of Nonprofit Human Service Organizations in Providing Social Services: A Prefatory Essay
• The Changing Identity of Federated Community Service Organizations
• Congregations as Social Service Providers: Services, Capacity, Culture, and Organizational Behavior
• Volunteer and Paid Staff Relationships: Implications for Social Work Administration
• The Role of Non-Profit Agencies in the Provision of Welfare-to-Work Services
• Nonprofit Organizations and Welfare-to-Work: Environmental Turbulence and Organizational Change
• Searching for Utopia: The Cycles of Service Provider Preferences
• Flameout at the Top–Executive Calamity in the Nonprofit Sector: Its Precursors and Sequelae
• Ownership and Age in Nonprofit and For-Profit Home Care Organizations: What Makes the Difference?
• Social Work Graduates and Welfare Economy Sector Preferences: A Cross-National Perspective
• Index