This report presents rankings of major program areas and subareas of concern to African Americans based on responses to a questionnaire completed in February 1989 by local chapters of the National Urban League. The local chapters rank the areas according to needs in their community and priority for the Urban League Movement. This information is…

The principles and techniques governing successful capital campaigns are presented, with an emphasis on the similarities of the process for a wide range of nonprofit organizations, including arts-related, religious, educational, community, and health care organizations. The following chapters are provided: (1) "The Key Components of a Capital…

Systems concepts suggest that school administrators should not only carry out plans, but also act as managers who do planning, design strategies, and operate in terms of all systems, balancing and managing their interaction. (Author/WM)

The American elementary school principal is subjected to pressures from parents, organizations, bureaucrats, the education publishing industry, and universities. The steady, continuous growth of child centered, informal education in Britain, compared to the cyclical changes of American elementary education, indicates that there are powerful…

This anthology provides a survey of 114 human relations resources in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wherever possible entries contain a description of the programs and their goals, but since the information listed under each entry was supplied by the organization listed, the absence of an annotation indicates that the organization either did not…

This document details the proceedings of the second meeting of the Steering Committee for the SEAMES Regional Centre for Education in Science and Mathematics (RECSAM) held in Bandung, Indonesia, from October 16-19, 1967. This meeting examined and approved, after revision, a Draft Development Plan prepared by the Interim Project Office on the basis…

Originally intended for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, this literature survey can also serve the interests of public officials, participants in demonstration programs, and academics involved in delivering assistance to local officials. Reviewed is the literature relating to innovation, diffusion, organizational behavior, and…

Current knowledge about universities is such that approaches to their study should be both more frequently and more carefully made through organizational theory. While observers tend to agree about universities' general characteristics, important questions about their nature and viability are as yet unsettled. Michael Crozier's framework is…

This is one of a series of monographs on the application of management principles to educational organizations. This monograph is devoted to identifying that way of managing that opens up a system and frees the individuals therein to voluntarily, willingly, even enthusiastically, strive to achieve the goals of the organization. Emphasis is placed…

The document brings together key policy documents related to disability proposed by the bodies of the United Nations system and of major nongovernmental organizations. Statements from nine United Nations agencies are presented: General Assembly; Economic and Social Council; Development Programme; World Conference of Decade for Women; Economic and…

This resource book was prepared for delegates to the White House Conference on Families (WHCF) for use in formulating family policy recommendations. "Issue Priority Forms," completed by more than 100 national organizations involved in the WHCF process, are presented. Each form includes a topic to be discussed, a high priority issue…

Models of organizational structures developed through the study of commercial organizations are not necessarily applicable to educational organizations. Technical organizations such as factories act to regulate the flow of their processes and products and, thus, to buffer them from external forces. Institutional organizations such as schools or…

Despite the tendency of researchers to assume all schools share a common organizational form, analysis of thirteen elementary and secondary schools provides evidence that elementary schools exhibit characteristics of the rational bureaucracy, while high schools tend to be more loosely coupled. Over 600 classroom teachers and nonadministrative…

Because the New York Outdoor Education Association (NYSOEA) has made significant contributions to the establishment and expansion of outdoor education programs in the state and throughout the world, this guide is directed toward those who want to strengthen their own state or regional association or to create one. The paper provides an analysis of…

THE PROPOSAL CALLS FOR AN EXTENSIVE REORGANIZATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF AND THE PHYSICAL FACILITIES OF THE SCHOOL OF NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK, IN ORDER TO UP-DATE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF DE FACTO SEGREGATION BROUGHT ABOUT BY RESIDENTIAL HOUSING PATTERNS. A GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE EDUCATIONAL FUTURE OF NEW ROCHELLE IS…