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Strategies Outside The Formal Classroom: Nonprofit Management Education In Transparency And Accountability, Susan Appe, Daniel Barragán
Strategies Outside The Formal Classroom: Nonprofit Management Education In Transparency And Accountability, Susan Appe, Daniel Barragán
Public Administration Faculty Scholarship
A demand for nonprofit management training and organizational capacity building exists in Latin America. However, few nonprofit management education (NME) programs in Latin America exist, and there is limited content related to ethics, transparency, and accountability. Using the case of Ecuador, we identify three strategies implemented by nonprofit leaders to cope with limited NME. We find that first, organizations engage in a process of collectivity that seeks to explore and give meaning to civil society in Ecuador. Second, this process leads to the production of knowledge about civil society in Ecuador. And third, based on both the process of collectivity …