David Lewis

Research: Bangladesh NGOs

The Management of NGOs

Organizational Cultures

• a set of values and norms which are constructed within an organization
• ideational processes

David Lewis, p. 122

• the idea of studying organizations as communities

Organizational Ethnography

Things to Examine:

• taken-for-granted assumptions
• power relations
• Western discourses

The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies

PUBLICATIONS AND DATA

NEW! Explaining Civil Society Development: A Social Origins Approach

NEW! Nonprofit Works Interactive Database

New Frontiers of Philanthropy & Leverage for Good

U.S. Nonprofit Jobs Report

Nonprofit Values Report

16-Country Comparative Data Report

36-Country Data Tables

Global Civil Society Index

Volunteering Measurement Manual

America’s Nonprofit Sector: A Primer

The State of Nonprofit America

Country data

Canada - size of sector (standard and actual)

NGOs Studies, Lewis, p. 124

• the management of ambiguity
• paralysis / innovation
• egalitarian relationships
• informal roles
• North / South NGOs

Lewis, p. 126: Many development NGOs seek to build an internal organizational culture and a way of working that can reflect, and is appropriate to, the values of strenthening social justice ....

while at the same time they are seeking to manage complex cross-cultural encounters both within their organizations ... and between themselves and their clients, since organizational success depends on working with diverse communiities

Margaret Harris

Concerns over accountability, effectiveness, credibility and viability of NGOs, p. 97

Voluntary boards must perform well with rise in public skepticism

Governance: ongoing process in institutions by which guidelines for action are developed and adherence to them is monitored; includes ideas about moral and legal accountability and organizational legitimacy (usually distinguished from executive work) system

Key element in the development and maintenance of civil society

3 Problems of Boards

• Autonomy
• Relationship with executive
• Composition

Board-Staff Relationships

• Hourglass metaphor
• Board Chair + Executive Director

Imagine Canada Standards

200 organizations....

Level 1, 2, or 3 org.

Annual and monthly fee

Board Governance

Financial Accountability

Fundraising

Staff Management

Volunteer Involvement

Fundraising Policies

Imagine Canada

Grant Connect

Subscription to Grant Connect

BCIT Fundraising Management

Fundraising readings

• "Somebody sent me a fridge magnet once."
• 1% return on direct mail = 1% success
• 43% letters started: "Thank you for....."
• Why Donors Give.....
• Major Gift Solicitation Script

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