Nonprofit Management Quiz

Throughout history, management theorists argued that ______.

• businesses required more educated managers

• government organizations have the most need of managers with distinctive skills

• common management principles apply equally to all organizations

• nonprofit managers do not need professional development

There has been a shift in thinking about nonprofits that emphasize ______.

• increasing the salaries of managers to levels comparable to their business peers

• valuing the financial bottom line over achieving the nonprofit’s mission

• hiring managers with business administration degrees

• building the strength of organizations themselves

The nonprofit management literature is drawn from which three areas?

• Social science research, customer complaints, and reports prepared by practitioners

• Social science research, organizational theory, and community feedback

• Internal Revenue Service financial reports, organizational theory, and social science research

• Social science research, organizational theory, and practitioner reports

Which university was the first to offer a bachelor's degree in philanthropy?

• Harvard University

• University of Wisconsin

• Indiana University

• University of Maryland

Which authors suggest nonprofit organizations shift their focus from “telling time” to “building clocks?”

• Letts, Ryan, and Gross

• Shore and Letts

• Collins and Porras

• Herman and Anheier

One of the ways that nonprofit organizations differ from for-profit corporations is their type of stakeholders.

• True

• False

How much of the revenue for charitable nonprofits comes from government funds?

• one half

• one third

• two fourths

• three fourths

Whose 1889 essay, titled “The Gospel of Wealth,” remains a classic statement of the American tradition of philanthropy?

• Warren Buffet

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Theodore Roosevelt

In 2013, the nonprofit sector employed what percentage of the total U.S. workforce?

• 5%

• 10%

• 20%

• 30%

Salamon’s anatomy classifies nonprofit organizations by ______.

• the nature of their programs and activities

• their eligibility to receive tax-exempt gifts

• the amount of revenue received in a fiscal year

• who receives the principal benefit of their activities