The Fribourg Management Model for NPOs (FMM) is a standard reference work for the management of
associations and other private Nonprofit Organizations. It is the result of 40 years of
theoretical and empirical research at the Institute for Research on Management of Associations
Foundations and Cooperatives (VMI) of the University of Fribourg Switzerland. It is based on
the extensive experience of a group of leading academics in education and consultancy work and
is designed for practitioners in the Nonprofit Sector in German-speaking Europe (Switzerland
Germany and Austria). Given its unique and pioneering approach the model has been well
received by its target groups and has already been published in its eighth German edition. This
success has therefore called for an English translation. For this first English edition the
terminology has been adapted to better suit an English speaking audience while staying as true
to the original as possible. Furthermore the original cases and practical examples from the
German version were partly replaced by more generic examples. Given these adaptations we hope
this English version will be as well received as its original German.
