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Building the Knowledge Base of Nonprofit Management:
A Searchable Database
Management Successes and Struggles for AIDS Service Organizations
Abstract
AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) began 25 years ago
as alternative, community-based advocacy entities designed to address
institutional neglect. They evolved into hybrid agencies, both activist
and service-providing. As ASOs have changed, they now face management
challenges common in all alternative agencies in later stages and
challenges unique to the HIV field. Stigma, changing practice contexts,
volunteerism, partnership, cultural competence, financial health, professionalism,
service integration, job stress, and organizational cohesion
are presented as typical challenges and contexts, paired with strategies to
address them. Managers in the HIV field must balance many competing
forces as the pandemic increases while funding and attention decrease.
However, shifting contexts can create successes and struggles. ASOs remain
viable and necessary as part of the tapestry of human services provision.
Journal
(2007)
vol31
no3
pages5-28
Categories
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Nonprofit Service Sectors
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HIV
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Managing Different Types of NGOs
