Nineteen Practices toward a Nonprofit Theory of Leadership and Organizational Culture (Fall 2014)

Nonprofit organizations are different from those in the business and government sectors—so, reasons the author, it would be logical to expect to manage and govern them differently. In the absence of a general framework for nonprofit management, however, third-sector organizations are under persistent pressure to look like something else. The nineteen practices laid out in this article were developed by the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits in aid of reversing this trend. by Jon Pratt, JD, MPA