Sustainability Assessment and Reporting for Nonprofit Organizations

Accountability “for the Public Good”

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12249183
AutoresKevin R Jones (autor de correspondencia), Lauren Mucha
Año2013
Volumen25
Número6
Páginas1465-1482
Fecha de publicación2013-08-08
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVoluntas Revista Internacional de Filosofia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2179-3786 • E-ISSN: 1573-7888
EditorialSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s11266-013-9399-9
OpenAlexW1971874594
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas15

Nonprofit organizations serve the public good by offering services that benefit communities and the individuals who live in them. While many large for-profit companies and a few international nonprofits have begun voluntarily assessing and reporting their environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability performance in response to growing public awareness of sustainability issues, nonprofit organizations have generally been slow to adopt the practice. This paper makes the case that nonprofits have an obligation to assess and report sustainability performance to account for their positive and negative environmental, cultural, economic, and social impacts in the communities they serve precisely because of their promise to serve the public good; and that sustainability assessment and reporting are not only possible, but that they can actually offer several practical advantages for organizations that integrate the practice into their missions and models. Several sustainability reporting frameworks are reviewed. Two case examples are presented to illustrate the utility of sustainability assessments and reports for different types and sizes of nonprofit organizations. Challenges to the process of adoption and implementation of sustainability programs in the nonprofit sector are discussed

Accountability · Best practice · Business · Corporate social responsibility · Economics · Management · Obligation · Political science · Public relations · Public sector · Social sustainability · Sustainability · Sustainability organizations · Sustainability reporting · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting · Environmental Sustainability in Business · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering