Editors:
- Examines the non-profit and NGO realm internationally through the lens of the social sector
- Provides an overview of the current trends, issues and challenges in the social sector
- Outlines strategies and practices to strengthen organizational work in governance, innovation, leading change, dealing with environmental and organizational complexity, talent and leadership development, policy advocacy and performance measurement
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Fit for the Future: Leading Social Innovation
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Engaging Meaningfully in the Complex Social Context
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Fostering Organization Resilience
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Leading in Social Sector Organizations
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Measuring Success
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About this book
The social sector is currently in a vibrant, dynamic, and exciting stage. The sector’s role and relevance to advancing human dignity and social justice is greater than ever. The number and types of social sector organizations have increased exponentially around the world and are offering extraordinary and much needed contributions toward an array of social issues. The traditional NGOs and non-profit organizations continue to be an integral part of the global civil society. At the same time, the emerging organizational forms under the social entrepreneurship umbrella are providing new momentum and excitement within and outside of the social sector. The interest in social entrepreneurship is encouraging existing social sector entities to actively embrace and encourage innovation. This interest is also inspiring a new breed of professionals and organizations to contribute to the social sector. This trend falls under the larger social sector dynamic promoting the creation of “hybrid” and emergent organizational forms, which cross and combine the traditional non-profit and for-profit domains.
Despite the increased interest, the socialsector still faces challenges around the world. CIVICUS – an international group promoting civil society organizations and groups-- recently reported a rise in the restrictions on civil society activities in a number of countries through worsening policy and legal environments. Funding challenges for the social sector are thus becoming more significant. At the same time, the calls for social sector accountability and emphasis on results and impact are growing. This book aims to offer approaches and tools which allow for the bridging of demands between creativity and accountability, between inspiration and results, and between gaining individual commitment and shared ownership of agendas and achievements, all of which are needed to effectively operate in the changing social sector.
Editors and Affiliations
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Graduate School of Leadership and Change, Antioch University, Yellow Springs, USA
S. Aqeel Tirmizi
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The Michael Harrington Center for Democratic Values and Social Change, Queens College/CUNY , Queens, USA
John D. Vogelsang
About the editors
John D. Vogelsang, PhD, has been consulting since 1979 in the areas of organizational and social change, conflict transformation, participatory evaluation, board development, strategic planning, and small and large group dialogue and deliberation facilitation. He works with social service and social change organizations, foundations, mental health agencies, community health centers, professional associations, universities, and religious judicatories. Some of his clients have included: The Hunger Project, Institute for Global Ethics, Association of Black Foundation Executives, New York State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, Community Health Care Association of New York State, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, Fiscal Policy Institute of New York State, and Hispanics in Philanthropy. He is the Director of the Michael Harrington Center for Democratic Values and Social Change and Director of the Dialogue Project for the Queens College/CUNY Center for Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Understanding. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the American University MS program inOrganization Development. For two years, he was a visiting professor of organizational conflict transformation, and leading and managing nonprofits and NGOs at the School for International Training Graduate Institute. During his fourteen years with the Support Center for Nonprofit Management, he was a lead consultant and eventually the associate director. Since 2009, he has served as the Editor in Chief of the OD Practitioner, the quarterly journal of the Organization Development Network. He has published many articles and monographs, and co-edited two collections of articles. He is the 2013 recipient of the OD Network Larry Porter Award for communicating OD.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Leading and Managing in the Social Sector
Book Subtitle: Strategies for Advancing Human Dignity and Social Justice
Editors: S. Aqeel Tirmizi, John D. Vogelsang
Series Title: Management for Professionals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47045-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47044-3Published: 02 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83647-8Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47045-0Published: 22 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2192-8096
Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 288
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises, Organization