NGOs and Organizational Change

Alnoor Ebrahim is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. His research and teaching focus on the challenges of accountability, performance, and organizational learning facing nonprofit and civil society organizations. He is also affiliated with Harvard University's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.

• List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The making of NGOs: the relevance of Foucault and Bourdieu; 2. The NGOs and their global networks; 3. NGO behavior and development discourse; 4. Interdependence and power: tensions over money and reputation; 5. Information struggles: the role of information in the reproduction of NGO-funder relationships; 6. Learning in NGOs; 7. Challenges ahead: NGO-funder relations in a global future; Notes; References; Index.

'Alnoor Ebrahim has written a fine study of the multilayered and interdependent relationships between NGOs and their funders that sheds new light on this complex terrain. His book makes an important contribution to the NGO debate.' Michael Edwards, Director, Governance and Civil Society, The Ford Foundation