Charity Management: Leadership, Evolution, and Change

Charities in the UK are paralysed and need to reinvent themselves to respond to the changing world. This book explores how charities operate and what holds them back from change,and presents a new ambition for them to break free of their history and shape the future. It is valuable for academics and professionals in the fields of charity and non-profit management.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 148 pages
Publication date: 29 July 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Britain faces challenges that were unimaginable thirty years ago, challenges that charities, rooted in community action and the public good, should ideally be suited to tackle. However, the charity sector seems paralyzed. Even after a decade of cuts and immense social and environmental disruption, charities are still fighting hard to maintain business as usual. To develop new responses to our changing world, the charity sector desperately needs to reinvent itself, radically re-engaging with communities and developing powerful and scalable responses to the challenges facing the UK in the coming decades.

What are the ties that bind charities, rendering them unable to re-invent themselves and re-imagine their services, even when they face existential crises?

This book explores how charities in the UK really operate, as seen through the eyes of people who work in and with charities, and investigates what holds charities back from change. It demonstrates what we can learn from entrepreneurship and market disruption in the private sector and points to ways in which the sector can re-imagine what it does and how it does it. It presents a new ambition for charities to break free of their history and imagine a new role for themselves in shaping the future for our society.

Presenting a new ambition for charities to imagine a new role for themselves in shaping the future for our society, this volume is especially valuable for academics and professionals in the fields of charity and non-profit management, organisational change, and strategic management.

Weight: 246g
Dimension: 152 x 227 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367687960