Nonprofit Governance, Organizational Purposiveness and Design

Nonprofit Governance, Organizational Purposiveness and Design

Organizational capacity of nonprofit social service agencies.

The U.S. social safety net is formed by governmental and nonprofit organizations, which are trying to respond to record levels of need. This is especially true for local level organizations, such as food pantries. The organizational capacity literature has not covered front-line, local, mostly volunteer and low resource organizations in the same depth as larger ones. This analysis is a consider...

Nonprofit Governance and Accountability by Lester M . Salamon and Stephanie

Purposiveness, Necessity, and Contingency

This paper investigates the relationship between Kant's analytics of biology, and the metaphysical conceptions of contingency and necessity in §§76–7 of the CPJ. In general, the connection between purposiveness and contingency is attested within the very project of a critique of a power of judgment. Indeed, the many particular, empirical laws of nature seem contingent regarding the universal la...

PROSPECTING FOR PRACTICAL METHODOLOGIES TO EXAMINE LINKS BETWEEN GOVERNING BOARDS’ PERFORMANCE AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS Boards and Beyond: Understanding the Changing Realities of Nonprofit Organizational Governance