Enacting our field

This keynote address examines the pedagogical challenges facing the field of nonprofit management in American higher education. It interrogates four binary distinctions that are commonly used in scholarship and teaching about the social sector but that now show signs of eroding: for-profit versus nonprofit, funder versus grantee, local versus global, and secular versus faith based. Each distinction is examined with the aim of answering two questions: What are the implications for new theorizing about this field? What are the implications for teaching and action? In closing, the article explores innovations in structuring social sector management programs to educate cross-sector leaders capable of addressing critical societal problems.