Professor Anthony, May 14, 1970 Digital

The audio recording documents one of Professor Anthony’s courses: Non-Profit Organization Management. The first part of the recording Anthony asks for questions about the procedure of the final exam and addresses a misconception. He states that students may believe he teaches this course so students write notes which he then takes to write a book which he profits off of. He explains the types of books he writes are scholarly and those tend to not make any money. On the contrary he is trying to develop a new subject area. The struggles of developing a new area of study are getting a good framework and developing generalizations within the framework. He notes some might disagree with establishing generalizations but argues they’re good because they give you a starting point to then analyze a problem. He then proceeds to talk about nonprofit organizations, and splits them into subgroups: organizations where you can measure the output versus organizations where you cannot. Anthony then discusses the chronological steps of nonprofits: programming, budgeting, operating and talks about his generalizations. During the majority of the rest of the lecture, Anthony asks the students questions and they ask him questions which lead to other discussions surrounding management, nonprofits and problems within nonprofits. Ultimately, Anthony concludes nonprofit organizations are not motivated toward good management practices and they should be. The lecture ends around 54:10, the rest of the recording documents various conversations.