NPL 273 Introduction to Nonprofit Leadership

Greenhill Community Center

Welcome to the wonderful world of management!

You are about to enter the world of Leslie, executive director of Greenhill Community Center. She was hired to take over the center after its popular founder and executive director left. And she is going to learn why it is never easy to be the one who follows a popular founder of an organization.

You will form into groups of 3 (using the Discussion Board on D2L). Both the discussion subgroups and the case study will be found on D2L. You will meet in your subgroups to discuss the case and the questions I pose for analyzing the case. As a group, you will post your response to the questions to the entire class on the Discussion Board. This case has three parts, and the discussion will be spread over a three-week period.

The points for this project (a possible 5) will be earned by your entire subgroup. You will earn full points not only for the quality of your subgroup’s answers (I will be looking for how well you apply the concepts that you have been reading in the text to the facts as given in the case), but also for your group’s contribution to the rest of the class as we all explore our solutions to the problems presented by the case. In other words, coming up with the best solution in the class counts; but so does helping the rest of the class come up with an even better solution.

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