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Winter 2004
Volume 11, Issue 4
Only underlined articles are available online. To read other articles, you may order the paper version of Winter 2004 issue., for $14.95.
Features
Welcome
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to two controversial articles in the Fall 2004 issue
Building Leadership or a Self-Reinforcing Bureaucracy?
Is the charismatic individual the “way,” or just “in the way?” The editors take a new cut at an old subject and ask if we are looking at leadership through the right lens.
by the editors
Are We There Yet? Changing Course Along the Way
Maintaining and expanding the soul and collective energy of an organization and the movement through a generational leadership change is the challenge addressed in this insightful article.
by Robby Rodriguez
Movement is Motion
From generation to generation—how a new crop of nonprofit leaders see their role in the sector.
by Frances Kunreuther
Ten Tried and True Tips to Becoming a Leader: Uplifting Advice for the Young People of America
Phil Anthrop reveals the real secrets “taking leadership” in the nonprofit sector.
by Phil Anthrop
Considerations on Leadership in an Immigrant Population: Lessons from the Haitian Community
With one foot in the home country and one in the host country, immigrant organizations face a host of issues rooted in marginalization, conflicting cultural pressures and historically based attitudes towards leadership.
by Nesly Metayer
Citizen Engagement: The Nonprofit Challenge
According to Pablo Eisenberg, nonprofits and advocacy go together like peanut butter and jelly, or Bogie and Bacall. What has happened during the past 25 years and how can we rekindle the essential connection?
by Pablo Eisenberg
Sherpa? Shepherd? Conductor? Circus Master? Board Chair
What do those who are considered to be excellent board chairs judge to be important in that role, and how does this compare to literature on the subject?
by Judith Millesen
Call to Leadership: Profiles of Board Chairs
Who are the board chairs interviewed in the previous article? What makes them unusually effective? This set of profiles shows the diversity and richness of this layer of leadership in the sector.
by Meghan Brown
Special Supplement
Accounting Software: A Buyer’s Guide
A wonderful buyers’ guide which can help you determine what your organization needs to attend to in purchasing accounting software.
by Jeanne Peters
Directory of Accounting Software
The Nonprofit Quarterly lists vendors that offer accounting software and services.
by the editors
Departments
Exploring the Puzzle of Board Design: What’s Your Type?
Many boards are just a set of accumulated practices that don’t necessarily follow a governance design. This article is an exciting approach to what the primary design principles in nonprofit governance are, and how they should be considered in the development of boards.
by David O. Renz
The Spiral of Sustainable Excellence
One of our readers’ favorite authors presents a new take on nonprofit lifecycles based on his research of high performing organizations.
by Paul C. Light
A Decade of Online Fundraising
Ten years after online fundraising began, Stein and Kenyon present readers with an update on the growing role of the Internet. Has it met it expectations? Which organizations benefit and which can best use it?
by Michael Stein and John Kenyon
Online Fundraising and Engagement:A Conversation with Eli Pariser
From an 8-by-10 room with a laptop and a desk to a leader in Internet organizing, one of MoveOn’s founders discusses how engagement and fundraising are vitally linked.
by the editors
The Tsunami Tsunami: The Charitable and Political Response to the Disaster
Cohen looks at the integration of the charitable and political response to the tsunami in Southeast Asia.
by Rick Cohen
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