Special Edition of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Social Enterprise Newsletter, Spring 2000

In November 1998, 55 leading practitioners and scholars, from such organizations as CARE, Save the Children, and Yale School of Management, came to HBS as part of the Social Enterprise Research Forum on Nonprofit Strategy. They focused on the question of whether the management challenges of nonprofit organizations are distinctive enough from those of for-profit organizations to warrant the development of different strategy models and frameworks. Organizers and participants agreed that the conference papers and discussions led to significant, new insights about nonprofit strategy. This spring, that knowledge is being disseminated through nine articles in the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ) supplement "New Directions in Nonprofit Strategy" with guest editors Elaine Backman, Allen Grossman, and Kash Rangan. Sponsored by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), NVSQ reports on research related to voluntarism, citizen participation, philanthropy, civil society, and nonprofit organizations.

Later this year, eight more articles from the Social Enterprise Research Forum will appear in a special issue of Nonprofit Management and Leadership (NML), another leading nonprofit journal. "For us at Social Enterprise this has been a major contribution to scholarship, rounding out our already solid achievement in educational programs," said Rangan, the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at HBS and lead organizer of the Social Enterprise Research Forum.

NVSQ ARTICLES

Introduction (Elaine V. Backman, Allen Grossman, and V. Kasturi Rangan)

Philanthropic Funding of Human Services: Solving Ambiguity through the Two-Stage Competitive Process
(Kirsten A. Grønbjerg and Laura Martell, with Laurie Paarlberg)

From Grantmaking to Changemaking: How the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Impact Services Model Evolved to Enhance the Management and Social Effects of Large Initiatives
(Karen E. Lake, Thomas K. Reis, and Jeri Spann)

Strategic Collaboration between Nonprofits and Businesses (James E. Austin)

Exploring the Effects of Collaborations on Member Organizations: Washington County's Welfare-to-Work Partnership (Melissa M. Stone)

Nonprofit and For-Profit Partnerships: Rationale and Challenges of Cross-Sector Contracting
(Katherine M. O'Regan and Sharon M. Oster)

When Missions, Markets, and Politics Collide: Values and Strategy in the Nonprofit Human Services
(Peter Frumkin and Alice Andre-Clark)

Spinning Straw into Gold: The Tenuous Strategy, Funding, and Financial Performance Linkage (William F. Crittenden)

Managing for Value: Organizational Strategy in For-Profit, Nonprofit and Governmental Organizations (Mark H. Moore)