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The Managerial Apprenticeship of FDR’s Budget Director: Harold D. Smith and the Michigan Municipal League, 1928–1937

Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2021
Public administration history often notes the seminal role of Harold D. Smith, FDR’s budget director (1939–1945), in the professionalization of the field and his principles for public budgeting.
Mordecai Lee
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Quality Assurance Translated? Comparing Nonprofit Evaluation Practices in Germany and the United States

Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 2023
This article presents findings from a study of management practice in youth career assistance nonprofits in Germany and the United States, focusing on the area of evaluation.
Karl Urban
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The Relationship Between Public Administration and Third Sector Organizations: Voluntary Failure Theory and Beyond

Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2023
Among Lester Salamon’s early theoretical contributions was the introduction of the “Voluntary Failure” concept. In a series of articles published in the second half of the 1980s (Salamon, L. M. 1987a.
Bassi Andrea
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The Impact of Long-Term Care Home Ownership and Administration Type on All-Cause Mortality from March to April 2020 in Madrid, Spain

Epidemiologia, 2022
Our aim is to assess whether long-term care home (LTCH) ownership and administration type were associated with all-cause mortality in 470 LTCHs in the Community of Madrid (Spain) during March and April 2020, the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Maria Victoria Zunzunegui, Manuel Rico, François Béland, Fernando J. García-López   +3 more
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Organizational and social innovation in Non-Profit Organizations performance in the context of an emergent economy

Intangible Capital, 2021
Purpose: This study provides empirical evidence on the innovations that Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs) in Colombia have implemented within their own management to address social problems which are the object of their institutional mission.
César A. Bernal-Torres, Maricela Isabel Montes-Guerra, Álvaro Turriago-Hoyos, Hugo Fernando Castro-Silva   +3 more
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Institutional Structures and Processes to Support Sepsis Care: A Multihospital Study

Critical Care Explorations, 2023
OBJECTIVES:. To identify opportunities for improving hospital-based sepsis care and to inform an ongoing statewide quality improvement initiative in Michigan. DESIGN:. Surveys on hospital sepsis processes, including a self-assessment of practices using a
Meghan K. Lóser, MD, Jennifer K. Horowitz, MA, Peter England, MD, Rania Esteitie, MD, Scott Kaatz, DO, MSc, FACP, SFHM, Elizabeth McLaughlin, MS, RN, Elizabeth Munroe, MD, Megan Heath, PhD, Pat Posa, RN, BSN, MSA, CCRN-K, FAAN, Scott A. Flanders, MD, Hallie C. Prescott, MD, MSc   +10 more
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Nonprofit governance: Improving performance in troubled economic times [PDF]

, 2012
Nonprofit management is currently pressured to perform effectively in a weak economy. Yet, nonprofit governance continues to suffer from unclear conceptions of the division of labor between board of directors and executive directors.
Barber D. M., BoardSource, Brinckerhoff P. C., Brown J., Carver J., Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, Chait R. P., Cheverton J., Christie Davis, Drucker P., Dym B., Howe F., Jerry Marx, Karsh E., Klein K., Klein K., Linnell D., Marx J. D., Newman D., O'Connell B., Panas J., Pettey J. G., Pettey J. G., Robinson A., Schick J. D., Smith H. S., Stoecker R., The New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits (n.d.), Tweeten B. L., Weinstein S., Young J., Yuen F. K.   +31 more
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"the other side of the coin": What do business schools teach the typical business undergraduate student about the nonprofit sector? A case study from the Netherlands [PDF]

, 2007
This article focuses on the exposure of the typical undergraduate business student to the nonprofit sector and management, as opposed to focusing on learning opportunities available to interested students in particular, as is typically reviewed in ...
Brudney, J.L. (Jeffrey), Hoorn, E.M. (Esther) ten, Meijs, L.C.P.M. (Lucas)   +2 more
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Editorial: Combining the Science and Practice of Restoration Ecology—Case studies of a Grassroots Binational Restoration Collaborative in the Madrean Archipelago Ecoregion (2014-2019)

Air, Soil and Water Research, 2021
The Sky Island Restoration Collaborative (SIRC) is a growing partnership between government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private landowners in southeast Arizona, the United States, and northern Sonora, Mexico.
Laura M Norman, H Ronald Pulliam, Michele M Girard, Steve M Buckley, Louise Misztal, David Seibert, Carianne Campbell, James B Callegary, Deborah J Tosline, Natalie R Wilson, David Hodges, Jeffrey A Conn, A Valer Austin-Clark   +12 more
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Transition management strategies of confiscated mafia-type firms: the role of public administrations and nonprofit organizations

Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, 2023
PurposeThis study aims to investigate transition patterns originating from the confiscation of mafia-type firms, examining public administrations and nonprofit organizations' roles.Design/methodology/approachThis study investigates the case of “Calcestruzzi Ericina Libera,” a firm located in Sicily and confiscated from the Mafia in 1996.
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