The value of constituent data to the non-profit sector is higher than ever (Hagen, 2006). Yet for small nonprofit organizations in particular, collecting, maintaining, accessing, and summarizing constituent data remains a daunting and frustrating task. This research examines why this is so. Using case studies of two small nonprofit organizations, we identify challenges faced by these organizati...

Administrative cameralistics (ACAM), which is a particular accounting model for use by governmental organizations in continental European German-speaking countries, is developed into nonprofit cameralistics (NCAM) and status cameralistics (SCAM). Even though NCAM/SCAM is developed explicitly for use by other nonprofit organizations than governments, it could also be used by the latter organizat...

There has been increasing interest paid to the extent to which individuals have input into and control over the decision-making processes that most affect them. Over the past several decades, a web of technological, economic and socio-demographic forces of social change have been busy laying the groundwork upon which such participatory structures and processes can feasibly thrive. I argue that ...

AGAINST THE BACKGROUND of the debate on quality assurance in nonprofit organizations (Chaffee and Sherr, 1993) and growing economic constraints on nonprofit professional opera companies (Coe, 1994), the issue of measuring artistic performance in opera companies comes to the fore. The management literature has explicitly discussed quality and quality management since the end of the 1980s (Hackma...

Nonprofit equine rescue organizations in the United States provide care for relinquished horses and may offer adoption programs. With an estimated 100,000 "unwanted" horses per year and few municipal shelters providing wholesale euthanasia, there is a need to minimize the number of unwanted horses and maximize their successful transition to new caregivers. This study's objectives were to charac...