Doing Good Well

Why does a deserving charity struggle to make ends meet while another which squanders money, thrive? Because there is a structural disconnect between revenue and expenses in the nonprofit world.
Hardcover, 200 pages

Call these examples, ironies, paradoxes or simply insights into why the charity sector is what it is. Doing Good Well is a thinking man’s guide to the nonprofit world. It is replete with nonprofit paradigms. It provides a different twist to what one might regard as straightforward notions such as mission, staff compensation, governance and corporate social responsibility. And it surprises and challenges even as it seeks to explain charity-specific issues such as charitableness, bridging the rich/poor divide, informed giving and social entrepreneurship.

Designed For: Volunteers, business executives, nonprofit workers, governors or regulators who are interested in asking the questions that would help the charity sector itself change for the better.

Product Code: PMDGW

Category: Accounting

Vendor: John Wiley & Sons

About the Author: Willie Cheng is a former partner of Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing firm. Prior to his retirement in 2003, he was the country managing director for Singapore and the managing partner of its Communications and High Tech practice in Asia. Since his retirement, he has stayed involved with the business and the infocomm community. However, he spends the larger part of his time working with nonprofit organizations at the board and volunteer level. Among these, he is chairman of the Lien Center for Social Innovation and Caritas Singapore. He was formerly chairman of the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Center where he started applying his management consulting background to nonprofit work. He has written extensively on the nonprofit sector. This book, his first, is a distillation of these writings, updated for an international context. He lives in Singapore with his wife, Julie, and two sons, Ian and Ivan.

Format: Hardcover

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