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Understanding Your Social Agency
Third Edition
- Armand Lauffer - University of Michigan (Emeritus)
Series:
SAGE Human Services Guides
SAGE Human Services Guides
January 2011 | 392 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Understanding Your Nonprofit Agency, written by internationally renowned scholar Armand Lauffer, will fill the growing need for the distinction between corporate business operations and nonprofit operations. The book will focus on how nonprofit agencies operate and not how they are managed. It has been assumed that both entities function similarly. Currently, this assumption is increasingly seen as groundless: nonprofit and profit-driven organizations have different goals and function differently from each other. This text addresses the current trend to differentiate how nonprofits are disctint.
Prologue
Introduction
PART I: CONTEXT, CONCEPTS, AND CHALLENGES
1. Where Your Agency Came From and Where It's Going
Prequel to Chapter 2
2. Concepts, Theories, and Classifications
PART II: UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE AT WORK
3. Role Playing and Group Membership
4. Motivation and Satisfaction at Work
5. Agencies, Jobs, and Careers
6. Professionalism and Volunteerism
PART III: UNDERSTANDING PROCESSES, PROGRAMS, AND OPERATIONS
7. Organizational Culture
8. Leadership, Management, and Governance
9. Fundraising and Development
10. Agency Structure and Change
About the Author
1) I am no longer teaching this course
2) Lauffer's focus is on social service organizations and our program is integrated (SW & Community Health)... so emphasis was a bit too narrow. (This textbook would have been perfect if there were additional public health examples.)
Dep't of Health, Human Services & Public Policy, California State University- Monterey Bay
July 23, 2013
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter 1 - Where Your Agency Came From and Where It’s Going
Chapter 2 - Concepts, Theories, and Classifications
