POLS 6550 - Nonprofit Sectors and Organizations

Meets with POLS 5550. Graduate students should register for 6550. The scope, history, values, theories, and philosophies of the nonprofit sector; and the implications for governance of nonprofit organizations. Theories of the sector's existence, roles and functions, theories of philanthropy. Differences among organizations in the three sectors. The legal and ethical responsibility of trustees to act in the public interest.