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National Library Week, 4/7 - 4/13

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Nonprofit opens free bookstore. Why not put such facilities in libraries (" Nonprofit Reading Ready Pittsburgh opens free bookstore in Homestead ," WESA/NPR). The Drumbrae Library in Scotland includes a day care facility (" Work begins on Drumbrae's new library, day care centre and youth cafe ," Guardian, 2011).

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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

For the next several months I’ll be concentrating on writing the fifth edition of Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations. The current edition came out in 2011.). Only through that kind of deliberation can a virtuous sense of purpose emerge – one worthy of the high callings of most public and nonprofit organizations.

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October 2016 | Studying Networks Over Time, By H. Brinton Milward

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

2010), the typical network paper sent to JPART is a study of one or a small number of public and nonprofit networks over a short span of time–typically the length of time it took the researcher to conduct the network survey. How can we study the life-cycle of a network? Carpenter, D.P. Princeton University Press. Isett, K.R.,

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