Sustainability Assessment and Reporting for Nonprofit Organizations

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

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• Connectivity is key

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• University foundations

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• NGO Accountability

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• Costs and Economies of Scale at Not-for-Profit Organizations

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• Impact of Non-Profit Organizations’ Accountability

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• The Drivers of Voluntary Transparency in Nonprofits

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• The effectiveness of rural versus urban nonprofit organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Non-Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organizational Effectiveness

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