One Overarching Force That Has Driven the Nonprofit Management Revolution

question 18

Multiple Choice

One overarching force that has driven the nonprofit management revolution of recent decades has been:

• A) the introduction of competition resulting from changes in funding patterns, growth of the sector, and increasing demands for accountability.
• B) the need to hire formally trained managers.
• C) the invasion of for-profit business into philanthropy.
• D) the development of the MPA degree programs in universities, which differentiated the study of public management from the discipline of political science.

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Definitions:

Brings Together

Describes the act of gathering or assembling people, items, or ideas in one location or conceptual framework.

Supply Curve

A graphical representation showing the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity of the good that suppliers are willing to produce and sell, holding other factors constant.

Demand

The desire for a particular good or service combined with the ability and willingness to pay for it.

Emergent Property

A characteristic or phenomenon that arises from the interaction and organization of individual components in a system, not predictable from the properties of the individual parts.