Experts review the issues of NGO performance and accountability, providing guidance through the process of NGO assessment.
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David Hulme is Professor of Development Studies and Founder-Director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre and the Brooks World Poverty Institute, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester.
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Michael Edwards is widely recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on civil society, philanthropy, and social change. For the past thirty years, he has worked to strengthen the contributions of ordinary citizens to their communities as a grant giver, writer, advocate, organizer, and activist across five continents, and has lived and worked in Zambia, Malawi, Colombia, India, the UK, and the United States. Michael graduated from Oxford University with a "congratulatory" first-class honors degree in geography, and was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of London for his work on housing the urban poor in Latin America. Dissatisfied with academic research, he entered the world of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in 1982 and spent the next fifteen years as a senior manager in international relief and development NGOs, including Oxfam GB, Save the Children UK, the Prasad Foundation, and Voluntary Service Overseas. During this time, Michael became known for his innovative thinking about NGOs and development, and in 1998 he was invited to join the World Bank in Washington, D.C., as a senior adviser on civil society, where he led a program to improve the agency's engagement with a wide range of nongovernmental groups. Two years later, he was appointed as director of the Ford Foundation's Governance and Civil Society Program in New York, overseeing grants totaling more than $900 million between 1999 and 2008, when he left to become a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos, a Network for Ideas and Action, in New York; a senior visiting scholar at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service; and a senior visiting fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute at Manchester University in the UK. Michael also cofounded the Seasons Fund for Social Transformation, which makes grants to voluntary organizations that combine their work for social justice with spiritual principles. Michael is the author of thirteen books and hundreds of articles and op-ed pieces, and his writings have changed the way we think about voluntary action and the transformation of society. He writes regularly for openDemocracy, the Financial Times, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and many other newspapers and magazines, and is a featured speaker at literary festivals and other events around the world. He lives with his wife, Cora, a nonprofit-fund-raising consultant who also teaches at New York University, in Swan Lake, a small community in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains of New York, where they have painstakingly rebuilt and renovated one of the first houses built by settlers who arrived in the 1830s to establish a tanning industry in Sullivan County. You can visit Michael's Web site at http://www.futurepositive.org.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Key book on an important topic,
By Tim Wallace (Washington DC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Beyond the Magic Bullet: NGO Performance and Accountability in the Post-Cold War World (Paperback)
I use Beyond the Magic Bullet all the time in my work with NGOs and students studying the NGO sector. Since this book was published in 1996 some of the case studies seem a bit dated, but the overall message is still fresh and the conceptual frameworks among the best available. Unusually in books about NGOs, this one is clearly written, rigorous and balanced, with no axe to grind either way and a genuine desire to help NGOs understand and deal with the problems of accountability and performance evaluation they face. For an update I would recommend some of Edwards' more recent work, especially Global Citizen Action (edited with John Gaventa) and NGO Rights and Responsibilities (which I bought from Amazon-UK).
12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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If you read ONE book on voluntary organisations, this is IT!,
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This review is from: Beyond the Magic Bullet: NGO Performance and Accountability in the Post-Cold War World (Kumarian Press Books on International Development) (Hardcover)
For anyone wanting a comprehensive review of the lastest developments in the global voluntary sector with plenty of interesting case studies.
Starts with a great introduction and ends with a brilliant conclusion, which saved me reading what would have taken hundreds of hours research.
This book should be available to any student, practioner or academic because it applies to all
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non-profit evaluation,
By DeeBro (Rochester, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Beyond the Magic Bullet: NGO Performance and Accountability in the Post-Cold War World (Paperback)
I used this book in a graduate course. I found it tremendously helpful in evaluating various considerations for non-profit effectiveness.
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