Dunham Tavern Museum Governance Project

The Center for Nonprofit Policy & Practice (CNP&P) was formally engaged by board leaders of the Dunham Tavern Museum in 2014 to assist the organization with forming and performing the work to strengthen board governance. Gradually, a project work plan was created to conduct “small p” planning (not traditional strategic planning) to advance the interests of the organization. The mutually agreed upon work products facilitated by the CNP&P include the following elements: Board development, training, and priorities planning of strategic issues; Assist board members develop a board governance committee; Create a mutually agreeable work plan for the committee; Provide staffing and support for the board governance committee, involving such matters as: Prepare meeting agendas Note-taking at meetings with written minutes Coordinating communications of board members Research as required Review and revise official Dunham Tavern bylaws; Other tasks as mutually agreed upon

Paths to Success: The Critical Role of Nonprofits in Developing Leadership in the African American Community of Cleveland, Ohio

Paths to success: The critical role of nonprofits in developing leadership in the African American community of Cleveland, Ohio. Presentation at the 37th Annual Conference Proceedings, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), November 2008

A Report to the Urban League of Greater Cleveland: An Assessment of Business Support Services Available to Existing and Start-up Small Businesses in the City of Cleveland

Developing small businesses is a way to concentrate wealth, employ city residents, improve neighborhood amenities, and provide entrepreneurial role models in urban neighborhood communities currently bereft of such. In a city where well over half of the resident population belong to groupings of people traditionally in the minority, and whose ranking is high in terms of concentrated poverty, nurturing existing and new small minority business enterprises makes good policy sense and offers a systematic intervention strategy to alleviate poverty. This report has been completed to help leadership organizations such as the Urban League of Greater Cleveland and policy-makers such as the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County look for ways to adapt their program initiatives to address the concentration of poverty in the city of Cleveland through small business development. A number of recommendations have been offered throughout this report that focus on providing support and technical assistance to small businesses, which comprise the overwhelming majority of enterprises in the region

Book Review: Buying Respectability: Philanthropy and Urban Society in Transnational Perspective, 1840s to 1930s

Book Review: Buying Respectability: Philanthropy and Urban Society in Transnational Perspective, 1840s to 1930s, by Thomas Adam 200

How Nonprofit Organizations Create Public Value

The scholarship on public value has emanated largely from the perspective of government and public management. As valuable as this conceptualization may be, we suggest that public value in the United States can be created by a combination of government, business and nonprofit actors. We argue that nonprofit organizations have been overlooked in the public value literature – an unfortunate reality that does not accurately reflect the nonprofit sector’s significant contributions. In many respects, creating public value is a primary raison d\u27etre for the American nonprofit sector. To elaborate and support this argument, we present an in-depth analysis of five case examples of public private partnerships (PPPs) involving nonprofit organizations in Cleveland, Ohio. The five PPP cases explored offer insights to public policy-makers, who might apply new, yet familiar strategies to make use of the nonprofit sector’s ability to create public valu

How Nonprofit Organizations Create Public Value

The scholarship on public value has emanated largely from the perspective of government and public management. As valuable as this conceptualization may be, we suggest that public value in the United States can be created by a combination of government, business and nonprofit actors. We argue that nonprofit organizations have been overlooked in the public value literature – an unfortunate reality that does not accurately reflect the nonprofit sector’s significant contributions. In many respects, creating public value is a primary raison d\u27etre for the American nonprofit sector. To elaborate and support this argument, we present an in-depth analysis of five case examples of public private partnerships (PPPs) involving nonprofit organizations in Cleveland, Ohio. The five PPP cases explored offer insights to public policy-makers, who might apply new, yet familiar strategies to make use of the nonprofit sector’s ability to create public valu

Paths to Success: The Critical Role of Nonprofits in Developing Leadership in the African American Community of Cleveland, Ohio

Paths to success: The critical role of nonprofits in developing leadership in the African American community of Cleveland, Ohio. Presentation at the 37th Annual Conference Proceedings, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), November 2008