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How Consultants Shape Nonprofits
Shared Values, Unintended Consequences
By: Leah Margareta Gazzo, Ph.D. Reisman
Hardcover | 5 January 2024
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The nonprofit sector leans heavily on consultants to guide strategic planning, advise on fundraising strategy, gather data on program effectiveness and more. Despite suspicion from some quarters about the quality and impact of consultants' work for nonprofits, Dr. Leah Reisman's extensive research demonstrates that most consultants work diligently to customize solutions for their clients and intervene, in both pressing and perennial issues facing the nonprofit sector. However there are overlooked costs. How Consultants Shape Nonprofits explores how consultants reinforce status-quo practices and ideas while prioritizing the opinions of people in power (nonprofit funders, leaders, etc.) over those of lower-level staff and communities. In doing so, consultants inadvertently reinforce problematic power dynamics and hierarchies, and leave some of the most pernicious problems in the nonprofit sector unaddressed. The book's important conclusions about the foundational, problematic role of consultants in supporting the nonprofit world are based on more than a year of ethnographic research and nearly 200 interviews with practitioners. Dr. Reisman offers guidance on how consultants, nonprofit leaders, and donors can better collaborate, and overcome traditional "blind spots" in the nonprofit-consultant relationship.
Industry Reviews
"What makes Leah Reisman's advice invaluable is that it is based directly on her discerning observations of actual consultant organizations. Reisman puts actionable social science research to work, revealing the extent to which too many current nonprofit consultants inadvertently reinforce traditional behaviors instead of facilitating innovation."-Stanley N. Katz, Lecturer with rank of Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
"In her compelling account of consulting organizations at work with nonprofit institutions, Reisman raises all the right questions. Essential reading for nonprofits in every field, for consultants who advise them, and for any readers interested in strengthening the business arrangements we make and live by."-Alberta Arthurs, Consultant
"Leah Reisman provides a deep and critical dive into the nonprofit consulting industry, where money is exchanged for expert advice. This book brilliantly illuminates how management decisions are shaped not just by nonprofit leaders, but by consultants who move behind the scenes to shape the sector for better and for worse."-Peter Frumkin, Gradel Institute of Charity, New College, University of Oxford
"As the ranks of nonprofit consultants grow, How Consultants Shape Nonprofits is a timely examination of the field. We need to consider the power and influence of consultants and how nonprofits, consultants, and funders navigate those dynamics. If you're interested in a more just, responsive, and thoughtful approach to nonprofit consulting practice, this book will help you along that path."-Keith Timko, Executive Director, Support Center
ISBN: 9781503635364
ISBN-10: 1503635368
Series: Stanford Social Innovation Review Books
Published: 5th January 2024
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 246
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2
Weight (kg): 0.5
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