news/resources
MANAGEMENT NEWS/RESOURCES
september 2003
Harvard Business Review articles
At the EUConsult summer conference held in Paris in June, Dr Marilyn Wyatt of BoardSource recommended the following two articles published in the Harvard Business Review:
- The Nonprofit Sector's $Billion Opportunity, May 2003,
by Bill Bradley, Paul Jansen and Les Silverman
- The New Work of the Nonprofit Board, Sept-Oct 1996,
by Barbara E Taylor, Richard P Chait and Thomas P Holland
Copies of the articles can be ordered online from HBR's web site.
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/hbr/hbr_home.jhtml
ACCESS Initiative to provide accountability tools for civil society
In a recent article for Ethical Corporation magazine, Simon Zadek, Chief Executive of AccountAbility, analyses the discussions on NGO accountability. He also reports on the ACCESS Initiative, which aims to provide not only a range of accountability tools for civil society, but also to provide an active forum for debating the challenges of NGO accountability.
visit website (article)
access(at)accountability.org.uk (info on the ACCESS Initiative)
http://www.accountability.org.uk/
New Johns Hopkins handbook to put a value on volunteer effort
Following field tests in 11 countries, the Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions in the System of National Accounts has been prepared by Johns Hopkins University in cooperation with the United Nations Statistics Division, and has been submitted to the UN for editing and final publication. The new handbook calls for national statistical agencies to bring together data on nonprofit institutions in a satellite account and to put a value on the volunteer effort that these organisations often generate. Using the new reporting tools outlined, countries can better define the size, scope and activities of their nonprofit sector. The handbook and test reports can be downloaded from:
A paper in Maecenate Aktuell Nr. 41 (August 2003) by Lester M Salamon and Helen Stone Tice, Capturing Nonprofit Institutions in National Accounts, outlines the handbook's major findings.
http://www.maecenata.de/ (click on >ARCHIV)
Pew Partnership report offers Solutions for America
The findings of research to learn, through the gathering of systematic data on various community projects, precisely what works and what doesn't when it comes to solving tough community problems have been published in What Makes a Solution?: Lessons and Findings from Solutions for America.
http://www.pew-partnership.org/pdf/Freedman_Report.pdf
(Source: FN&C - Foundation News and Commentary)
Maximising the benefits of in-kind donations
A recent McKinsey Quarterly article discusses the best ways to manage in-kind donations, while building a more equal and businesslike partnership between donors and nonprofits.
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_page.asp?ar=1345&L2=33&L3=95 (free registration required)
(Source: Origio Fourth Sector News)
