How Centers Work [electronic resource] : Building and Sustaining Academic Nonprofit Centers / R. Sam Larson and Sonia Barnes-Moorhead.

This document presents findings about the development and sustainability of academic nonprofit centers. It describes how such centers, which focus on the management and development of the nonprofit sector, work. The findings are based on a literature review, 16 personal interviews with current or fo...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author: Larson, R. Sam
Corporate Author: W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Other Authors: Barnes-Moorhead, Sonia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2001.
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