Nonprofits and evaluation: Managing expectations from the leader's perspective

New Directions for Evaluation

Volumn 2008, Issue 119, 2008, Pages 73-92

  Alaimo, Salvatore P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849131302     PISSN: 10976736     EISSN: 1534875X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ev.269     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Anthes, E. W. (1987). Organizational issues in nonprofit personnel administration and management. Personnel matters in the nonprofit organization. Hampton, AR: Independent Community Consultants.
2. Block, S. R. (2004). Why nonprofits fail. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
3. Boyle, R., Lemaire, D., & Rist, R. C. (1999). Introduction: Building evaluation capacity. In R. Boyle & D. Lemaire (Eds.), Building effective evaluation capacity: Lessons from practice. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
4. Brinkerhoff, P. (2000). Mission-based management. New York: Wiley.
5. Carlson, M., & Donohoe, M. (2003). The executive director's survival guide. San Francisco: Wiley.
6. Davis, S. (1984). Managing corporate culture. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger.
7. Decatur Cooperative Ministry (DCM). (2007). Mission and vision.
8. Retrieved April 1, 2007, from http://www.decaturcooperativeministry.org/missionvision2.htm
9. Denhardt, R. B., Denhardt, J. V., & Aristigueta, M. P. (2002). Managing human behavior in public and nonprofit organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
10. Drucker, P. F. (1967). The effective executive. New York: Harper & Row.
11. Drucker, P. F. (1990). Managing the nonprofit organization. New York: Harper-Collins.
12. Dym, B., & Hutson, H. (2005). Leadership in nonprofit organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
13. Families First. (2007). Welcome to Families First.
14. Retrieved April 1, 2007, from http://www.familiesfirst.org/index.html
15. Fredericks, K. A., Carman, J. G., &.Birkland, T. A. (2002, Fall). Program evaluation in a challenging authorizing environment: Intergovernmental and interorganizational factors. In R. Mohen, D. J. Bernstein, & M. D. Whitsett (Eds.), Responding to sponsors and stakeholders in complex evaluation environments. New Directions for Evaluation, no. 95 (pp. 5–22). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
16. Frost, P. J., Moore, L. F., Louis, M. R., Lundberg, C. C., & Martin, J. (1985). An allegorical view of organizational culture. In P. J. Frost, L. F. Moore, M. R. Louis, C. C. Lundberg, & J. Martin (Eds.), Organizational culture (pp. 13–29). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
17. Gray, S. T., & Stockdill, S. H. (1995). Leadership is: Evaluation with power. Washington, DC: Independent Sector.
18. Green, F. L. (2004). Ten things nonprofits must do in the twenty-first century. In R. E. Riggio & S. Smith Orr (Eds.), Improving leadership in nonprofit organizations (pp. 19–35). San Francisco: Wiley.
19. Grudens-Schuck, N. (2003). The rigidity and comfort of habits: A cultural and philosophical analysis of the ups and downs of mainstreaming evaluation. In J. J. Barnette & J. R Sanders (Eds.), The mainstreaming of evaluation. New Directions for Evaluation, no. 99 (pp. 23–32). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
20. Hay, R. D. (1990). Strategic management in nonprofit organizations. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
21. Herman, R. D., & Heimovics, D. (1991). Executive leadership in nonprofit organizations: New strategies for shaping executive-board dynamics. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
22. Herman, R. D., & Heimovics, D. (2005). Executive leadership. In R. D. Herman & Associates (Eds)., The Jossey-Bass handbook of nonprofit leadership and management (pp. 153–170). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
23. Herman, R. D., & Renz, D. O. (1997). Multiple constituencies and the social construction of nonprofit organization effectiveness. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 26(6), 185–206.
24. Ivancevich, J. M., Szilagyi, A. D., Jr., & Wallace, M. J., Jr. (1977). Organizational behavior and performance. Santa Monica, CA: Goodyear.
25. Kaplan, R. S., & Norton, D. P. (2006). Alignment: Using the balanced scorecard to create corporate strategies. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
26. Lynch, R. (1993). Lead!: How public and nonprofit managers can bring out the best in themselves and their organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
27. Marais, L. C. (1998). The relationship between organizational culture and the practice of program evaluation in human service organizations. Unpublished dissertation, Western Michigan University, UMI Dissertation Services.
28. Mesch, D. J., & McClelland, J. (2006). Managing for performance and integrity. In D. Young (Ed.), Wise decision-making in uncertain times: Using nonprofit resources effectively (pp. 33–54). New York: Foundation Center.
29. Murray, V. (2005). Evaluating the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations. In R. D. Herman & Associates (Eds.), The Jossey-Bass handbook of nonprofit leadership and management (pp. 345–370). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
30. Nanus, B., & Dobbs, S. M. (1999). Leaders who make a difference: Essential strategies for meeting the nonprofit challenge. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
31. Nord, W. R. (1985). Can organizational culture be managed? In P. J. Frost, L. F. Moore, M. R. Louis, C. C. Lundberg, & J. Martin (Eds.), Organizational culture (pp. 187–196). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
32. Northouse, P. G. (2004). Leadership: Theory and practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
33. Oster, S. M. (1995). Strategic management for nonprofit organizations: Theory and cases. New York: Oxford University Press.
34. Ott, J. S. (1989). The organizational culture perspective. Chicago: Dorsey Press.
35. Paddock, S. C. (2001). Evaluation. In J. S. Ott (Ed.), Understanding nonprofit organizations: Governance, leadership, and management (pp. 359–365). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
36. Palumbo, D. J. (1987). Politics and evaluation. In D. J. Palumbo (Ed.), The politics of program evaluation (pp. 12–46). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
37. Patton, M. Q. (1997). Utilization-focused evaluation: The new century text. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
38. Pfeffer, J., & Salancik, G. R. (2003). The external control of organizations: A resource dependence perspective. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
39. Poole, D. L., Davis, J. K., Reisman, J., & Nelson, J. E. (2001). Improving the quality of outcome evaluation plans. Nonprofit management and leadership, 11(4), 405–421.
40. Preskill, H., & Catsambas, T. T. (2006). Reframing evaluation through appreciative inquiry. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
41. Sanders, J. R. (2003). Mainstreaming evaluation. In J. J. Barnette & J. R. Sanders (Eds.), The mainstreaming of evaluation. New Directions for Evaluation, no. 99. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
42. Schein, E. (1992). Organizational culture and leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
43. Senge, P. (1996). Leading learning organizations. In F. Hesselbein, M. Goldsmith, & R. Beckhard (Eds.), The leader of the future (pp. 41–58). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
44. Sonnichsen, R. C. (1999). Building evaluation capacity within organizations. In R. Boyle & D. Lemaire (Eds.), Building effective evaluation capacity: Lessons from practice (pp. 53–74). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
45. Stockdill, S. H., Baizerman, M., & Compton, D. W. (2002). Toward a definition of the ECB process: A conversation with the ECB literature. In D. W. Compton, M. Baizerman & S. H. Stockdill (Eds.), The art, craft, and science of evaluation capacity building. New Directions for Evaluation, no. 93 (pp. 7–26). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
46. Stufflebeam, D. (2002). Institutionalizing evaluation checklist.
47. Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University. Retrieved March 18, 2007, from http://www.wmich.edu/evalctr/checklists/institutionalizingeval.pdf
48. Thomas, J. C. (2005). Outcome assessment and program evaluation. In R. D. Herman & Associates (Eds.), The Jossey-Bass handbook of nonprofit leadership and management (pp. 391–416). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
49. Tschirhart, M. (1996). Artful leadership: Managing stakeholder problems in nonprofit arts organizations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
50. United Way of America. (1996). Measuring program outcomes: A practical approach. Alexandria, VA: United Way of America.
51. Volkov, B., & King, J. (2005, Oct.). A grounded checklist for implementing evaluation capacity building in organizations. Unpublished paper presented at the Joint Meeting of the American Evaluation Association and the Canadian Evaluation Society, Toronto, Canada.
52. Weiss, C. (1987). Where politics and evaluation research meet. In D. J. Palumbo (Ed.), The politics of program evaluation (pp. 47–70). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
53. Weiss, C. (1998). Evaluation (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
54. Werther, W. B., Jr., & Berman, E. M. (2001). Third sector management: The art of managing nonprofit organizations. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.