Volume 1 | Issue 1
Letter from the CNM President PUBLISHER Susan King
Center for Nonprofit Management
ADVISORY TEAM Brad Gray
Center for Nonprofit Management
Keel Hunt
The Strategy Group
Rich Rhoda
Tennessee Higher Education Commission
Linda Schact
Nelson and Sue Andrews Institue on Civic Leadership at Lipscomb University
CONTRIBUTORS Murat Arik
Business and Economic Research Center, MTSU
Brad Gray
Center for Nonprofit Management
John Gonas
Jack C. Massey College ofBusiness, Belmont University
Center for Nonprofit Management
A
t the Center for Nonprofit Management, we create new knowledge every day.
It can happen during a workshop, in an exchange between a consultant and a nonprofit client, or through the recognition by community leaders that the nonprofit sector is vibrant and vital to our economy.
For nearly 27 years, CNM has been making a difference in Nashville and beyond our regional boundaries. Each year we host the largest and most successful nonprofit awards evening in the country. Our spring conference brings together speakers from around the country. And we conduct survey research for nonprofits in virtually every state. We have now decided it is time to formalize the creation of knowledge with a journal, and we proudly present this first issue. Publishing has changed dramatically in recent years, and we are in step with new technology. The Nashville Nonprofit Review is available in magazine format online. We hope you will find it enlightening and valuable. I would like to thank Susan King on our staff for shepherding this effort. It is her product, and we are grateful for her initiative. I am also indebted to our advisory team that has helped us from the inception of an idea: Rich Rhoda, executive director of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and our board vice-chair; Linda Schacht, executive director of the Nelson and Sue Andrews Institute on Civic Leadership at Lipscomb University; Keel Hunt, president of The Strategy Group; and Brad Gray, CNM consultant and nonprofit expert. Please give us your feedback and your requests for topics in future issues. And thank you for taking a look at our newest offering.
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Lewis Lavine President Center for Nonprofit Management
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