Innovative Practices to Reduce Inequality: The Effectiveness of Nonprofit Organizations

A TQM and JIT Integrated Continuous Improvement Model For Organizational Success: An Innovative Framework

Abstract Manufacturing companies must find competitive methods to produce products cheaper, faster and better to continuously satisfy their customers and acquire organizational success. For continuous improvement to be more successful, hybrid programs such as integrated TQM and JIT approaches give better results. As the existing TQM and JIT integrated approaches in literatures are not analogous...

Building trust for shared services: a model for collaboration between nonprofit reproductive health organizations.

A challenging economy, uncertain political support and evolving health technologies call for innovation, collaboration and fresh thinking for all members of the reproductive health community. Clinical practices in the United States are responding to these challenges by testing and implementing shared support services and information systems, driven by the economic downturn, emergence of electro...

Information, Community, and Action: How Nonprofit Organizations Use Social Media

The rapid diffusion of ‘‘microblogging’’ services such as Twitter is ushering in a new era of possibilities for organizations to communicate with and engage their core stakeholders and the general public. To enhance understanding of the communicative functions microblogging serves for organizations, this study examines the Twitter utilization practices of the 100 largest nonprofit organizations...

Quarterly Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Relationships among Board Structure, Process, and Effectiveness Do Nonprofit Boards Make a Difference? an Exploration of the on Behalf Of: Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action

The Governance Self- Assessment Checklist An Instrument for Assessing Board Effectiveness

This article describes the development and validation of the Governance Self-Assessment Checklist (GSAC). The GSAC was designed to assist boards of directors of nonprofit and public sector organizations to identify strengths and weaknesses in the governance of their organizations, educate board members about the essentials of good governance, and improve their governance practices. The instrume...