Private Sector Strategies for Social Sector Success: the Guide to Strategy and Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations

Liberally borrowing from the corporate world, Kearns illustrates how traditional for-profit business strategies can be applied, or at least modified, to work in social sector programs. Citing research by Michael Porter, Henry Mintzberg and others, Kearns presents ways in which the management literature can be understood and applied in such settings as a public library dependent on community funding, a nonprofit organization dedicated to introducing inner city kids to the arts, and a rehabilitation clinic. On the last page of each of the nine chapters are three or four questions which serve to help the reader focus on their own organizations. Required reading for anyone who sits on the board of a public or nonprofit organization.