February 21, 2002 | Read Time: 1 minute
How Centers Work: Building and Sustaining Academic Nonprofit Centers, by R. Sam Larson and Sonia Barnes-Moorhead, takes a look at how academic centers focused on philanthropy operate, how they developed, how they are managed, and how they gained credibility. The academic field of nonprofit management and philanthropic studies is one byproduct of the phenomenal growth of nonprofit organizations in the last half-century, according to the authors. An expanding network of academic centers “raised the visibility of nonprofit studies and provided a base for program development, scientific inquiry, service to local nonprofits, and fund raising,” writes Michael O’Neill, a professor of nonprofit management at the University of San Francisco, in a preface. This publication also includes interviews with current or former directors of such academic centers, as well as program proposals and annual reports submitted by more than 20 centers and programs financed in the past 10 years by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Publisher: W.K. Kellogg Foundation, 1 Michigan Avenue East, Battle Creek, Mich. 49017-4058; (616) 968-1611; fax (616) 968-0413; http://www.wkkf.org; 20 pages; free.
