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This book offers a bracing, insider's guide to the challenges faced by American nonprofits in recent years. Written by an award-winning nonprofit executive, it tells the story of how some organizations have lost their way during the culture wars. And it provides concrete strategies for navigating the generational divide, political polarization, and demands for racial justice.
The Nonprofit Crisis offers nonprofits, and those that care about them, a way forward in trying times.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: A World of Pain
- Introduction: Nonprofits Under Attack
- Chapter 1: Fault Lines
- Chapter 2: The Generational Divide
- Chapter 3: Polarization
- Chapter 4: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again?) of DEI
- Part II: A Way Through
- Chapter 5: Good Stewardship
- Chapter 6: Who Decides?
- Chapter 7: The Nonprofit Mentoring Crisis
- Chapter 8: Mission Creep
- Chapter 9: Leadership Transition
- Conclusion: The Challenge of Accountability
About the author
Greg Berman is the co-editor of Vital City and the distinguished fellow of practice at the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He previously served as the executive director of the Center for Court Innovation from 2002 to 2020. Part of the founding team responsible for creating the Center, he helped guide the organization from start-up to an annual budget of more than $77 million and more than 600 employees. Under his leadership, the Center for Court Innovation received the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation. He is the author of several books, including
Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age, which was named one of the best books of 2023 by
The Economist.
