Interviews with forty-five chief executives of nonprofit organizations
in the Kansas City area provide evidence about the nature of man
agement in nonprofit organizations suggesting, first, that adapting
programs to shifts in funding patterns has been a major challenge
and, second, that fundraising and board-executive relations-issues
generally regarded as distinctly characteristic of nonprofit organiza
tion management-are often experienced as critical.
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