Understanding Your Social Agency

About Armand Lauffer

Armand Lauffers books are widely read. Since Community Organizers and Social Planners appeared in 1972 he has authored 20 books and edited two anthologies on organizations community practice training fundraising continuing education and staff development and management in nonprofit organizations. Understanding Your Social Agency has been continuously in print since 1977. The current edition is much expanded. It draws on both classic and contemporary practice and theory to provide users with hands-on tools for understanding their social agencies and improving their performance. A series editor for SAGE since 1977 his books have been published by a number of firms among them: SAGE John Wiley McGraw-Hill Prentice Hall and the Free Press. A co-founder of ACOSA (the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration) Lauffer pioneered the establishment of a number of professional associations and academic units both at the University of Michigan from which he retired in 2001 and abroad. His consultative work on nonprofit management community organizing and fundraising has taken him across North America Israel Europe and the Former Soviet Union. He currently makes his home in Jerusalem.