Governance of Nonprofit Leisure Organizations

This paper presents an overview of nonprofit governance models and illustrates how these models could be adapted for the context of nonprofit leisure organizations. Governance models examined include Houle’s traditional model, Carver’s policy governance model and an Executive led model. To ensure the most appropriate governance frameworks are in place to enhance the effectiveness of nonprofit leisure organizations, this paper explores the contingency issues of categorizing nonprofit leisure organizations on the basis of inclusion of executive and volunteer involvement and the continuum of organizations from public benefit to member benefit.