PUBLICATIONS

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Research

• Building a Healthy Community Through Nonprofit Service: A Snapshot of the Kansas City Nonprofit Community (PDFs) 2011; 2010; 2009; 2008; 2007; 2006; 2005; 2004; 2002

• Kansas City Nonprofit Sector at a Glance (PDFs) 2009; 2008: 2007; 2006; 2005; 2004; 2003; 2002

• Comprehensive Abstracted Bibliography of Papers and Journal Articles on Nonprofit Boards and Governance (1992 - 2007)

• Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness: Practical Implications of Research on an Elusive Concept (PDF)

Edward A. Smith Distinguished Lecture Series and Day of Learning

• Summary Report: 2004 Edward A. Smith Distinguished Lecture Series and Awards Program Giving Voice to Your Mission: The Secrets of Building Will and Shaping Public Policy - David Cohen (The Advocacy Institute) (PDF)

• Transcript: 2003 Day of Learning Transcript - Paul Light (Brookings Institution and the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University) (PDF)

• Summary Report: 2001 Day of Learning Nonprofit Dilemmas: The Struggle Over Values, Capacity and Identity - William P. Ryan (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) (PDF)

Past Conferences

• Creating a New Normal: Advancing Governance Theory and Practice (April 14-15, 2011)

• Boards in Uncertain Times: Exploring the Implications of Financial, Technological and Generational Change for Nonprofit Governance (April 23-24, 2009)

• Networks, Stakeholders and Nonprofit Organization Governance: Whither (Wither?) Boards (April 26-27, 2007)

• Boards and Beyond: Understanding the Changing Realities of Nonprofit Organization Governance (March 31- April 1, 2005)

• Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness and Performance: Challenges and Advances in Theory and Practice (April 19-20, 2002) (PDF)

The Forum for Early Childhood Organization and Leadership Development

• Report from the Midwest Regional Convocation on Financing, Funding and Compensation in Early Education and Care

• 1999 National and Regional Advisory Council Summaries

• Advocacy and the Legislative Process

• The Fair Labor Standards Act: How it Applies to Early Childhood Education and Care

• Funding Trends, Issues and Opportunities

• A Summary of the Proceedings of the Third Annual Regional Leadership Conference (June 16-17, 2000) (PDF)

• A Summary of the Proceedings of the Second Annual Regional Leadership Conference (June 18-19, 1999) (PDF)

• A Summary of the Proceedings of the First Annual Regional Leadership Conference (1998) (PDF)

• Welfare Reform: Shaping Public Policy in 1997 and 1998