Charity Management: Leadership, Evolution, and Change (Charity and Non-Profit Studies)

Britain faces challenges that weren’t imaginable thirty years ago, challenges which charities, rooted as they are in community action and the public good, should be ideally suited to tackle.But the charity sector seems paralysed. Even after a decade of cuts and immense social and environmental disruption charities are still fighting hard to maintain business as usual.To develop new responses to our changing world the charity sector desperately needs to reinvent itself, radically re-engaging with communities and developing powerful and scalable responses to the challenges facing the UK in the coming decades.What are the ties that bind charities, rendering them unable to re-invent themselves and to re-imagine their services, even when they face existential crises?This book explores how charities in the UK really operate, as seen through the eyes of people who work in and with charities, and investigates what holds charities back from change.It demonstrates what we can learn from entrepre