This book provides some pragmatic guidelines to help nonprofits become more successful organizations through the development of a performance-oriented relationship between board members and executive directors.

This book proposes to strengthen nonprofit boards and to improve their productivity through an organizational format called the Corporate Model. Although the switch to the Corporate model is not easy to achieve, it is, I assure you, worth the effort.

<p>This book offers some outlines, ideas, and starting points as tools for putting together and maintaining a local arts agency.</p>

This book is written for artists and administrators who want to set up arts organizations, reorganize existing ones, or simply think about some of the possibilities open to them. The bias of this book is towards small- to medium-size arts institutions, and above all towards the innovation that can take place in these settings. The book is divided into three sections.

This book is dedicated to the board members of America's voluntary organizations. It is also written for them - to try to match their spirit and determination with some hard-won lessons from thirty years as a community organizer.

This booklet is designed to respond to the current climate of concern by realistically and clearly describing the responsibilities and potential liabilities of nonprofit organization managers, particularly the director of the nonprofit corporation and the trustee. As lawyers we must, of course, present such issues in the context of their full range of legal possibilities. It would be unfair and unwise, however, to offer this material without also emphasizing three practical concepts already touched upon in this introduction. First, nonprofit arts organizations and the rich cultural...