Groundbreaking research illuminates the pivotal, problematic role of consultants in the nonprofit world.
The nonprofit sector leans heavily on consultants to guide strategic planning, advise on fundraising strategy, gather data on program effectiveness and more. How Consultants Shape Nonprofits explores how consultants, while working diligently to customize solutions for their clients, reinforce status-quo practices and ideas while prioritizing the opinions of people in power (nonprofit funders, leaders, etc.) over those of lower-level staff and communities. Consultants thus leave unaddressed some of the most pernicious problems in the nonprofit sector. The book's important conclusions about the complex role of consultants in the nonprofit world are based on more than a year of ethnographic research and nearly 200 interviews with practitioners. Dr. Reisman concludes with guidance on how consultants, nonprofit leaders, and donors can better collaborate, and overcome traditional "blind spots" in the nonprofit-consultant relationship.
- ISBN10 1503635368
- ISBN13 9781503635364
- Publish Date 5 November 2024
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Stanford University Press
- Imprint Stanford Business Books,US
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 246
- Language English