Should Non-Profits Act Like Corporations?

Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World
by Michael Edwards

Reviewed by Angilee Shah

Anyone who has worked in the nonprofit sector, with big or small organizations, has likely felt pressure to think about markets and quantify outcomes in a corporate style. Michael Edwards’ Small Change does much to explain and challenge this kind of corporatization of the nonprofit world.

Now a distinguished senior fellow at the progressive New York City think tank Demos, Edwards is a relief and development nongovernmental organization (NGO) veteran who has, since 1982, held senior positions with …

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by James H. Mittelman

Reviewed by Angilee Shah

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Reexamining Cesar Chavez

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Reviewed by Saskia Vogel

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