ABSTRACT
Managing As Mission: Nonprofit Managing for Sustainable Change has been written for nonprofit managers, leaders, boards, and people who may someday be in one or more of these positions. Its core premise is to demonstrate that by linking the following three things–the organizational mission; the process by which people get to the mission; and the way they manage their staffs and themselves–they can create systems, interactions, and ways of thinking within our organizations, which are models for the world they want to see outside the organization. If people want to change the way the world looks, if people want to ensure greater equality, they may have to reimagine vision and mission within the context of the process–the means part of means and ends, the how they get to the goal–and then determine what managing looks like when mission and process are rolled together.
