Preparing Leaders of Nonprofit Organizations

William A. Brown is Professor in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University and holds the Mary Julia and George Jordan Professorship. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Nonprofits & Philanthropy. His research focuses on nonprofit governance, strategy, and organizational effectiveness. He teaches Nonprofit Management, Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management and Capstone courses. His books include an edited volume Nonprofit Governance: Innovative Perspectives and Approaches (Routledge 2013) with Chris Cornforth and a textbook entitled Strategic Management in Nonprofit Organizations, published in March 2014. Matthew L. Hale is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Aff airs at Seton Hall University. His research focuses on the intersection of media and technology and the public and nonprofi t sectors. His articles have appeared in Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, The International Journal of Press Politics, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Mass Communication Society and the Stanford Law Policy Review. Hale recently served as president of the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council (NACC). In that capacity, he successfully led an effort to develop an international accreditation process for programs in Nonprofit Management. Hale is an elected official in his hometown of Highland Park, New Jersey and frequent media commentator on New Jersey politics and has appeared on NPR, CNN, Fox News, CNBC, the New York Times and Washington Post.