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Select what to measure in order to obtain a clear picture of the organization s progress in achieving its mission, goals, and vision |
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Develop dashboards for internal reporting and learn how to analyze performance data to gain insights into the organization s strengths and identify opportunities for improvement |
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Create a culture of learning and continuous improvement that involves management, board, and staff in making strategic, data-driven decisions and ultimately accelerates the organization s progress toward enduring social impact |
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Develop report cards to communicate performance and impact to external stakeholders |
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Use data-based evidence to aid in building funder confidence and securing new and returning investments |
Building a Performance Measurement System draws on Root Cause s unique performance measurement methodology, which was developed through its work with social innovators throughout the United States, as well as a number of international organizations.
The Art of Giving: Where the
Soul Meets a Business Plan
by Charles Bronfman, Jeffrey R. SolomonFrom the publisher: From world-renowned philanthropists Charles Bronfman and Jeffrey Solomon of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies comes a comprehensive guide on how to be a canny, street-smart, effective philanthropist, regardless of your income level. It is also a perfect companion for nonprofit program and development executives who would like to introduce donors to their work and their organizations. Despite their critical importance to philanthropy, donors have few resources for solid information about making their gifts-deciding what type of gift to give, how to structure it, the tax implications, what level of follow-up and transparency they should ask for and expect, and countless other complexities. This book fills that vacuum and helps you gain a special understanding of philanthropy as a business undertaking as well as a deeply personal, reflective process. Drawing on decades of experience, the authors offer a fresh, enlivening approach to the nonprofit enterprise that, too often, is undervalued and thought of as the province of the burnt-out and the overwhelmed. Along with its many candid insights and memorable anecdotes, The Art of Giving also offers instruction on how to create a business plan for giving that works for you.
Mission-Based Management:
Leading Your Not-for-Profit in the 21st Century
by Peter C. BrinckerhoffFrom the publisher: As a nonprofit manager, you have to be more effective and more efficient than ever to win funding and support to ensure your organization pursues its mission, meets community needs, and maintains its budget, while juggling the demands of funders, clientele, boards, staff, and community. Written by a nationally recognized expert who has trained thousands of nonprofit managers in hundreds of seminars on the best practices in nonprofit management, this Third Edition of Mission-Based Management provides comprehensive, hands-on guidance, addressing:
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The unique concerns of today's managers in nonprofit organizations |
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A refreshed set of priorities for the mission-based manager |
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Revised characteristics of a successful mission-based organization |
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Updated predictions for the next ten years |
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A new chapter on ethics, accountability, and transparency addressing organizational transparency, the effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, new technologies, technology planning, and disaster planning |
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Updated discussion questions at the end of each chapter, allowing you to generate better conversations with your staff and board about which parts of the book most apply to your organization's unique needs |
Begging for Change: The
Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding
for All by Robert Egger
From the publisher: In Begging for Change, Robert Egger looks back on his experience and exposes the startling lack of logic, waste, and ineffectiveness he has encountered during his years in the nonprofit sector, and calls for reform of this $800 billion industry from the inside out. In his entertaining and inimitable way, he weaves stories from his days in music, when he encountered legends such as Sarah Vaughan, Mel Torme, and Iggy Pop, together with stories from his experiences in the hunger movement -- and more recently as volunteer interim director to help clean up the beleaguered United Way National Capital Area. He asks for nonprofits to be more innovative and results-driven, for corporate and nonprofit leaders to be more focused and responsible, and for citizens who contribute their time and money to be smarter and more demanding of nonprofits and what they provide in return. Robert's appeal to common sense will resonate with readers who are tired of hearing the same nonprofit fund-raising appeals and pity-based messages. Instead of asking the "who" and "what" of giving, he leads the way in asking the "how" and "why" in order to move beyond our 19th-century concept of charity, and usher in a 21st-century model of change and reform for nonprofits. Enlightening and provocative, engaging and moving, this book is essential reading for nonprofit managers, corporate leaders, and, most of all, any citizen who has ever cared enough to give of themselves to a worthy cause.
Embracing Cultural Competency:
A Roadmap for Nonprofit Capacity Builders
by Patricia St. Onge, Beth Applegate, Vicki Asakura, and Monika K. MossFrom the publisher: No “how-to” manual exists on cultural competency. And, compared to other topics in nonprofit management, little exists on the skills and strategies needed to address racism and inequity. Building cultural competency is an ongoing journey that nonprofit leaders choose to take because they know the end result will be a more inclusive, connected, and effective organization. Patricia St. Onge and her contributing authors help readers grapple with the urgent issues that can transform capacity builders into change agents in the nonprofit sector. Embracing Cultural Competency starts the dialogue on how organizations can start building capacity. Nonprofit capacity builders will:
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Discover a framework to help discuss issues related to cultural competency |
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Learn about methods, practices, and values that define cultural competency and culturally based work in nonprofit capacity building |
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Understand the complexities within ethnic communities |
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Gain insights into the nature of institutionalized racism |
Through a range of methods—literature review, personal
interviews, peer dialogue, insights of contributing authors—readers get a
mosaic of perspectives that surround cultural competency.
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7 Measures of Success: What
Remarkable Associations Do That Others Don't by Center for Association
Leadership by the Center
for Association Leadership From the publisher: A historic study focused on getting to the heart of what makes a remarkable nonprofit organization, 7 Measures of Success contains knowledge that will assist association executives in planning the future of their organizations. Based on 15 years of data and original, objective research tailored to the association community's needs 7 Measures of Success provides empirical data and seven success factors common among visionary nonprofits.
Community: The Structure of
Belonging by Peter
BlockFrom the publisher: Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our communities--businesses, schools, social service organizations, churches, government--do not work together. They exist in their own worlds. As do so many individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions lost. This disconnection and detachment makes it hard if not impossible to envision a common future and work towards it together. We know what healthy communities look like--there are many success stories out there, and they've been described in detail. What Block provides in this inspiring new book is an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation: How is community built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are involved? He explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen.
No Risk No Reward: Mergers of
Membership Associations and Nonprofits
by Louise C. DickmeyerFrom the publisher: No Risk - No Reward: Mergers of Membership Associations and Nonprofits is a straightforward discussion on the process of merging two nonprofits or membership associations. It provides a practical guide to merging nonprofit organizations a topic of interest to a growing number of nonprofit leaders as they seek to continue to provide services in an era of reduced resources. The book aims to provide general direction to staffs and board members involved in mergers to help prepare for the complexity of the process and avoid the inherent pitfalls. The book by Minnesota-based nonprofit consultant, Louise Dickmeyer, writes from personal experience. As president and chief executive officer of Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce, she learned first-hand the difficulties and complexities of merging nonprofits in 2001 when her organization merged with the Bloomington (Minn.) Chamber of Commerce. In the book, Dickmeyer uses the merger as a case study and shares insights gained through years of consulting to nonprofit and membership organizations. No Risk- No Reward: Mergers of Membership Associations and Nonprofits addresses the increasing need for mergers as a strategy for coping with shrinking financial and leadership resources. The book also provides helpful how-to information on key aspects of mergers, including finances, governance, legal considerations, the integration of cultures and the role of communications in merger success.
Reliable Fundraising: What
Good Causes Need to Know to Survive and Thrive
by Kim KleinFrom the publisher: Reliable Fundraising in Unreliable Times is the much anticipated follow-up to fundraising expert Kim Klein's bestselling Fundraising for Social Change. This important book offers social justice nonprofits a road map for meeting the challenges of fundraising in a climate of economic uncertainty. Klein outlines the steps an organization needs to take to create a disciplined, systematic fundraising program that is both flexible and durable in order to survive almost any challenge. Reliable Fundraising in Unreliable Times tackles the big issues head-on, including the fact that the current economic turmoil has no end in sight. Klein shows how to build fundraising programs that thrive on this kind of economic roller-coaster ride and reveals how to identify and make the most of opportunities as they come along. She explores fundraising from the point of view of organizational development and examines myriad issues such as working across generational lines and in multicultural communities, collaborating effectively with other nonprofits, and surviving scandals and crises. The book also examines challenging questions such as how boards can fulfill their fundraising responsibilities without feeling overly burdened, how organizations can adapt to generational leadership changes, how to practice good time-management habits, and how the sector—and the context for fundraising—will continue to change. Written in Kim Klein's conversational, reader-friendly style, Reliable Fundraising in Unreliable Times discusses the current fundraising landscape, provides an overview of the past, and offers hope for the future.
Billions of Drops in Millions
of Buckets: Why Philanthropy Doesn't Advance Social Progress
by Steven H. GoldbergFrom the publisher: In Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets, Steven Goldberg explores the debilitating financial constraints that prevent so many nonprofit organizations from producing substantially greater social impact, and sheds new light on how the nonprofit capital market should be structured to best allocate funds in support of high-performing organizations that deserve additional resources to achieve optimal scale. He presents sweeping historical evidence, rigorous economic analysis, and extensive case studies of social enterprises, venture philanthropies, independent researchers, and the emerging array of "prediction markets" to show that the time has come to develop new financial institutions and tools that can consolidate much larger sums of money with much less effort, time, and cost, and distribute it in ways that dramatically magnify its impact. Goldberg makes a compelling case for an intelligent capital allocation system—a virtual nonprofit stock market—based on the "wisdom of crowds" to help highly engaged social investors efficiently find and fund the best nonprofits, instead of forcing nonprofits to spend so much unproductive time looking for too little money with too many strings attached. His petition for financial intermediation challenges accepted orthodoxies of nonprofit fundraising and offers an informed pathway toward performance-driven philanthropy.
The Annual Campaign
by Erik J. DaubertFrom the publisher: The Annual Campaign reveals how to run a well-managed and well-coordinated annual campaign effort from the perspective of the large or small nonprofit organization. Centering on real-world campaigns and best practices in the 21st century for annual support, this book presents step-by-step guidance and practical tools including diagrams of annual campaign structures for use in local nonprofits, checklists for annual support campaigns, assessments for annual support campaign readiness, annual support campaign case statement examples, sample pledge cards, cultivation tips for obtaining larger gifts, and much more. The author Erik Daubert currently serves as Association Financial Development Consultant for the YMCA of the USA, assisting YMCA associations across the country with consulting for annual, capital, and endowment efforts.
Principles of Fundraising:
Theory and Practice by
Wesley E Lindahl PhDFrom the publisher: Principles of Fundraising: Theory and Practice provides readers with an overview of the theory and practice of fundraising for nonprofit organizations. It approaches fundraising from a marketing position, yet incorporates concepts from the law, economics, accounting, history, sociology, psychology, theology, and ethics. While many fundraising textbooks are heavily geared toward practice, this textbook balances the approach and provides a basis for further study in the field of fundraising. Some features include: Comprehensive overview of the theory and practice for fundraising; Extensive chapter on models of fundraising; Historical background on fundraising included to set the context for current practice; Highlights the religious motivations for giving that represent the largest category for giving in the USA; Entire chapter dealing with ethical issues in fundraising; Builds in recent and classic academic research on fundraising. Principles of Fundraising: Theory and Practice also features boxed articles, examples, summaries, and short case studies to enhance the reading.
The Truth About What Nonprofit
Boards Want: The Nine Little Things That Matter Most
by June J. BradhamFrom the publisher: The Truth About What Nonprofit Boards Want is a must read for every executive and fundraiser who wonders how to attract and retain passionate and generous board members. Find out what really makes nonprofit board members tick with the candid, groundbreaking interviews found in The Truth About What Nonprofit Boards Want. Here, fundraising veteran and author June Bradham shares her expertise, insights, and research to uncover the truth: giving or raising money is the last motivator for seasoned board members to join a board. Their motivation is surprisingly simpler. Interviewing elite board members from around the world, Bradham's qualitative data overwhelmingly proves that board members want an experience that is infused with work that is poignant, thought-provoking, and actionable. By sharing their stories, these successful board members dispel many commonly held myths regarding nonprofit boards to reveal the Nine Truths of the Board Experience. Among them:
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Current board makeup is the biggest motivator for a top-flight candidate to consider board service |
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Engaged boards have an inspired CEO who forms a partnership with board members and demonstrates a passion for the mission while keeping the ego in check |
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Board giving follows a great board experience |
Chief Executive Transitions:
How to Hire and Support a Nonprofit CEO
by Don TebbeFrom the publisher: When a nonprofit finds itself in need of a new chief executive, managing the transition effectively is crucial to the organization’s future impact and continued success. Properly handled, the process can be an opportunity to enhance the organization and add to its effectiveness. Chief Executive Transitions will not only help boards navigate the hiring process but also oversee a successful leadership transition. It includes checklists, key questions board members will need to answer as they go through the process, and practical real-life examples. The accompanying CD-ROM includes 13 helpful documents, including a resume scoring sheet, sample timeline, sample interview questions, and a sample 90-day entry plan to help ensure the success of the newly hired chief executive. This publication was awarded this year’s McAdam Book award by the Alliance for Nonprofit Management.
The Nonprofit Mergers Workbook
Part II: Unifying the Organization after a Merger
by La Piana AssociatesFrom the publisher: You've completed the merger agreement. Now, how do you make the merger work? Nonprofit Mergers Part II helps you create a comprehensive plan to achieve integration. It addresses large, strategic issues as well as small practical ones. Integration issues and how to handle them Section I: Going the Distance provides a broad view of integration, its challenges, and how to meet them. Topics include: The basic tenets of organizational change; What success looks like in a well-implemented merger; The purpose and content of an integration plan; How to address people issues through leadership and planning; The relationship between effective leadership, effective communication, and their combined contribution to integration success; How to create a useful integration plan Section II: Creating an Integration Plan takes you step-by-step through this essential process. You'll learn about: Integration of boards, cultures, management, staff and volunteers, programs, communications and marketing, and systems one by one, in detail; The steps needed to create each section of the plan; Common challenges, roadblocks, and crises that will arise, and how to respond when they do; Processes, procedures, and interventions likely to be most helpful and necessary; Software helps you create an organized plan Included with the book is a CD-ROM with a detailed integration plan template. Use it to keep your planning organized and on track. This useful guide also includes: Sample integration plans; Worksheets; Checklists; Tips and quotes from leaders of merged organizations; Nonprofit Mergers Part II is a must-read for anyone considering, embarking on, of just completing a merger!
Nonprofit Mergers Workbook
Part I: The Leaders Guide to Considering, Negotiating, and Executing a
Merger by David La
PianaFrom the publisher: From assessing reasons and readiness, to finding a partner, to negotiating the best path, to budgeting and implementation, author David La Piana guides you through the maze of options with a steady hand. Based on experience with more than sixty mergers, this handbook is the perfect starting point for any nonprofit exploring a possible merger—and a basic resource for all nonprofit managers. You'll find:
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How to decide what kind of structure—from collaboration to merger—meets your goals |
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How to know your own motivation and keep your mission forefront |
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What kind of merger best fits your goals, structure, and financial situation |
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How to seek merger partners and objectively assess the pros and cons of each |
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How to manage the board’s essential role in merger considerations |
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How to exercise due diligence and write the merger agreement |
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What you can do yourself, when to call in attorneys and consultants, and how to select them |
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Typical roadblocks and how to beat them |
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How to move past old history and build new traditions as you integrate staff, management, boards, systems, and corporate cultures |
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How to budget for and raise funds to implement the merger |
Managing Executive
Transitions: A Guide for Nonprofits
by Tim WolfredFrom the publisher: A leadership transition can be a time of high vulnerability for a nonprofit organization. On the other hand, an executive turnover offers unique opportunities for renewal and fresh thinking. Managing Executive Transitions shows how this state of transition can give board and staff members a chance to put things back together in new and creative ways to discard some old pieces and to bring in fresh elements. Nonprofit boards and executive directors will find practical advice on how to manage leadership turnovers in ways that can heighten mission impact while avoiding potential downsides. Author Tim Wolfred recommends a transformational process of three phases: Prepare, Pivot, and Thrive. Engaging case studies and hands-on tools such as planning agendas, timelines, sample letters, and communication tips will smooth the transition to new executive leadership. Tim Wolfred is a Senior Projects Director at CompassPoint Nonprofit Services. He inaugurated in 1998 CompassPoint's Executive Transitions program, which has now worked with over 300 nonprofit agencies. Tim is the author of Interim Executive Directors: The Power in the Middle, which is one in a series of monographs on best practices for executive transitions published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. He is also co-author of two seminal studies of executive director tenure and experience, Leadership Lost and Daring to Lead, which were published by CompassPoint.
Achieving Excellence in Fund
Raising by Eugene R.
TempelFrom the publisher: This thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic book in the field provides a conceptual foundation for the fund raising profession. Hank Rosso's Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising examines the profession's principles, strategies, and methods and is filled with practical examples. Guided by the enduring philosophy of fund raising master Henry A. Rosso, contributors explain the reasoning behind the planning and selection of strategies for all fund raising activities, including building your case for support, approaching donors, managing campaigns, and demonstrating stewardship.
Jump-Starting the Stalled
Fundraising Campaign by
Julia Ingraham WalkerFrom the publisher: Things have suddenly gotten a lot tougher in the fundraising business. Nonprofits have begun searching for new ways to make budgets stretch further, to do more with less, and to maximize their return on investment. Part of the AFP / Wiley Fund Development Series, Jump-Starting the Stalled Fundraising Campaign will help your nonprofit develop a strategic approach to fundraising in the weak economy, with advice on knowing if your campaign is in trouble, what short-term steps you can take to stem your losses, and how to avoid the Top 10 campaign mistakes. Concise and practical, Jump-Starting the Stalled Fundraising Campaign discusses:
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Fundraising in a challenging economic environment |
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Knowing how to identify opportunities |
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How to re-engage board, staff, and volunteers |
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Prospect identification, cultivation, and solicitation |
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Communicating more effectively to attract additional support |
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Building on opportunities for change across the organization |
Winning Grants Step by Step,
3rd Edition by Mim
Carlson, Tori O'Neal-McElrathFrom the publisher: In the highly competitive arena of grantseeking, fundraisers need resources in order to win grants and fulfill their organization’s mission. This new, thoroughly updated edition of the bestseller offers a guide that any organization can use to secure funding from private foundations or the government. Filled with updated examples, this guide directs the novice grantseeker and offers a refresher course for experienced grantwriters. Following the process presented will improve anyone’s ability to transform an idea that needs support into a proposal that demands funding. As part of the new Jossey-Bass Nonprofit Guidebook Series, Winning Grants has sold over 75,000 copies in its first two editions and has established itself as a leader in the grantseeking market.
Over Goal! What You Must Know
to Excel at Fundraising Today
by Kay Sprinkel GraceFrom the publisher: In its first incarnation, Over Goal! attained classic status. But now Grace has invigorated the first edition with 12 new chapters while updating trends and figures. The final product is arguably the most perceptive fundraising book since Harold Seymour’s Designs for Fund Raising. In 40 comprehensive chapters, Over Goal! ranges over the entire landscape of fundraising and board development. Virtually every subject (e.g. understanding the motivations of major donors, keeping your prospect pipeline full, the dynamics of a solicitation call, the new realities of capital campaigns) is explored, and every technique explained. And there are surprising topics, too, such as using the Internet for stewardship, soothing disgruntled donors, and what you should always communicate to your donors.
Boardroom
Realities: Building Leaders Across Your Board
Edited
by Jay A. Conger From the publisher: There is renewed interest in new boardroom practices that aim to strengthen the leadership role of directors. This book assembles the biggest names in the study of board governance as well as corporate board members themselves to address the critical questions that corporate boards face today. Contributors include Joseph Bower, Jay Lorsch, Sydney Finkelstein, Ed Lawler, Richard Leblanc, Charles Olsen, Dan Dalton, Michael Useem, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, and board consultants such as David Nadler, Elise Walton, and researchers such as Kathrina Pick. Written for board members, leaders, and executives, consultants, and students of corporate strategy and leadership. Jay A. Conger holds the Kravis Research Chair in Leadership Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He is the coauthor of Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top, Building Leaders, and The Practice of Leadership as well as eleven other books on leadership.
Governance as Leadership:
Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards
by Richard P. Chait, William P. Ryan, Barbara E. TaylorFrom the publisher: A new framework for helping nonprofit organizations maximize the effectiveness of their boards. Written by noted consultants and researchers attuned to the needs of practitioners, Governance as Leadership redefines nonprofit governance. It provides a powerful framework for a new covenant between trustees and executives: more macrogovernance in exchange for less micromanagement. Informed by theories that have transformed the practice of organizational leadership, this book sheds new light on the traditional fiduciary and strategic work of the board and introduces a critical third dimension of effective trusteeship: generative governance. It serves boards as both a resource of fresh approaches to familiar territory and a lucid guide to important new territory, and provides a road map that leads nonprofit trustees and executives to governance as leadership. Governance as Leadership was developed in collaboration with BoardSource, the premier resource for practical information, tools and best practices, training, and leadership development for board members of nonprofit organizations. Through its highly acclaimed programs and services, BoardSource enables organizations to fulfill their missions by helping build effective nonprofit boards and offering credible support in solving tough problems.
Building Evaluation Capacity:
72 Activities for Teaching and Training
by Hallie Preskill and Darlene Russ-EftBuilding Evaluation Capacity provides 72 activities for learning how to design and conduct evaluation studies. These activities address the entire evaluation process. Each activity includes an overview, instructional objectives, time estimates, materials needed, handouts, and procedures for effectively using the activity, whether there are a few participants or an unlimited number in small groups. To help the reader locate specific kinds of activities, the book includes a chart that names the activity, the time needed to implement the activity, and whether background information or knowledge is required prior to implementing the activity. The book also includes several strategies for forming groups and a glossary of instructional strategies.
Strategic Communications for
Nonprofit Organization: Seven Steps to Creating a Successful Plan, 2nd
Edition by Sally J.
Patterson and Janel M. RadtkeFrom the publisher: How a nonprofit s strategic communications department defines its issues and policies determines whether the public views it as an effective organization. Strategic Communications for Nonprofit Organizations, Second Edition supports nonprofits in using their resources most effectively. The Second Edition includes a dedicated web site, equipping professionals with the worksheets, forms, surveys, and self-assessment tools needed to create a total communications plan. Plus, the book s step-by-step instructions demonstrate nonprofit communications strategies that work. Practical and clear, this in-the-trenches book provides nonprofit CEOs with expert insights to achieve their mission.
The Change Handbook: The
Definitive Resource on Today's Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems
by Peggy Holman, Tom Devane and Steven CadyFrom the Publisher: Originators and practitioners of such change methods as Future Search, Real Time Strategic Change, Gemba Kaizen, and Open Space Technology outline the distinctive aspects of their approaches, detail roles and responsibilities, share stories illustrating their use, and answer frequently asked questions. This extensively updated new edition of the classic bestseller features profiles of sixty-one change methods by the originators and foremost practitioners of such high-leverage change methods as Appreciative Inquiry, the World Café, Six Sigma, Future Search, and Open Space Technology. Each author outlines distinctive aspects of their approach, answers frequently asked questions, and provides case studies and references to learn more. A one-stop comparative chart helps you determine which methods will work best for you, along with chapters on mixing and matching and sustaining results. This tremendously expanded second edition is the definitive resource in the exciting area of engaging "whole systems" of people to create their own future.
Human Resources Management for
Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Strategic Approach, 3rd Edition
by Joan E. PynesFrom the publisher: Public and nonprofit organizations face difficult challenges today that make the strategic management of human resources crucial. This book shows how to integrate HR practices with the mission of their organization. An accessible tool complete with an instructor s manual, this book provides an integrated approach to current HR concerns and is unique in its focus on both public and nonprofit agencies. Offering guidance and techniques for implementing effective human resource management strategies job analysis, performance evaluation, recruitment and selection, training and development, compensation and benefits, and collective bargaining Pynes demonstrates how strategic human resources management is essential to proactively managing change.
Stanford Social Innovation
ReviewFrom the publisher: Stanford Social Innovation Review is an award-winning magazine covering best strategies for nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses. The Stanford Graduate School of Business launched the Review in 2003, the first publication by a leading school of management to promote innovative solutions to social problems. Each issue advances strategy and leadership in nonprofit management, corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, and philanthropy.
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The Zone of Insolvency: How
Nonprofits Avoid Hidden Liabilities & Build Financial Strength
by Ron Mattocks From the Publisher: Would you know if your nonprofit is in the Zone of Insolvency and understand the related legal responsibilities and liabilities of operating in financial distress? Approximately one-third of nonprofits — more than 450,000 organizations — function perpetually in the Zone of Insolvency, i.e., in financial distress, and approximately seven percent are completely insolvent. What is the impact of hundreds of millions of dollars given to charitable organizations that operate in perpetual financial distress? Do board members have an inherent obligation to keep nonprofit organizations in operation regardless of their financial condition, or their mission effectiveness? Written by Ron Mattocks with the knowledge and authority that comes from many years of leadership and consulting in the nonprofit sector, Zone of Insolvency shines a bright and urgent light on the real issue of creating financial strength across the whole spectrum of nonprofit organizations. Required reading for nonprofit managers, board members, and volunteers, Zone of Insolvency takes an honest look at the fundamental obstacles facing the nonprofit sector through case studies of organizations.
Uncharitable: How Restraints
on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential
by Dan PallottaFrom the publisher: Pallotta TeamWorks was the for-profit brainchild behind several campaigns to raise funds for breast cancer and AIDS research and awareness, creating several nationwide, marathonlike events that raised millions. But its founder came under attack for violating the sacred premises of charitable organizations: low profile, low budget, and little or no profit. Pallotta turns on its head the assumption that charity and capitalism should be forever divided. Don’t charitable causes deserve the same kind of competitive forces that work to get results in the for-profit sector? Wouldn’t social causes be better served if charitable organizations were headed by the kind of bright, aggressive executives that work in the for-profit sector? Pallotta traces the history of nonprofit organizations to Puritan notions of charity and self-denial. He also offers a detailed case study of TeamWorks and other trends in the nonprofit sector that only tweak around the edges of a system that is sorely in need of change if it is to deliver on its mission to improve social inequities or cure diseases. A passionate, thought-provoking look at the nonprofit sector.
Managing Technology to Meet
Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders
by Holly Ross, Katrin Verclas and Alison LevineManaging Technology to Meet Your Mission is a practical resource that will help nonprofit professionals make smart, strategic decisions about technology. The book shows how to effectively manage technology and offers practical advice for decision makers and staff alike who often have little or no experience with technology. With contributions from the top experts in the nonprofit technology field, this must-have guide addresses technology planning and people. It includes the tools you need to get the work done, and the knowledge that will help you communicate better, evaluate technology investments, raise money, and more. Written in non-technical language the book covers a broad spectrum of topics including:
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Achieving IT Alignment with Your Mission by Steve Heye, YMCA of the USA |
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Managing Technology Change by Dahna Goldstein, PhilanTech |
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Measuring the Return on Investment of Technology by Beth Kanter, trainer, blogger and consultant |
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IT Planning and Prioritizing by Peter Campbell, Earthjustice |
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Budgeting For and Funding Technology by Scott McCallum and Keith R. Thode, Aidmatrix Foundation |
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Fundraising When Money Is
Tight: A Strategic and Practical Guide to Surviving Tough Times and Thriving
in the Future by Mal
WarwickFrom the publisher: Nobody can predict our economic future. But in tough times, whether driven by the economy or other factors, there are simple yet sometimes counterintuitive steps you can take to ensure that your organization will suffer the least possible damage in a down economy -- and emerge healthy and poised for renewed growth when the economic crisis has passed. This book will outline how the economy effects fundraising and then walk you through an effective strategy and practical steps you can take to survive and then thrive in the future. Topics include:
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What history teaches us |
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A proven way to anticipate the future |
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Three scenarios for economic recovery |
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Three possible fundraising strategies |
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Identify a winning strategy |
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Strengthen your case for giving |
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Cut costs with a scalpel, not an ax |
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Fish where the big fish are |
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Stay close and get personal with your donors |
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Step up your efforts online |
Nonprofit Law for Religious
Organizations: Essential Questions & Answers
by Bruce R. Hopkins and David MiddlebrookFrom the publisher: Nonprofit Law for Religious Organizations: Essential Questions & Answers is a hands-on guide to the most pertinent and critical legal issues facing those who lead and manage religious tax-exempt organizations with an emphasis on tax, employment, property and constitutional law. This timely book is a response to the need for guidance, direction, and clarification of legal and tax laws affecting churches and other religious organizations.
The Budget-Building Book for
Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide for Managers and Boards
by Murray DropkinFrom the publisher: This best-selling nuts-and-bolts workbook, now in its second edition, has become the gold standard for nonprofit managers and boards who must work through the budget cycle. The book offers practical tools and guidance for completing each step of the budgeting process. Designed to be comprehensive and easy to use, The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits provides everything budgeters and nonfinancial managers need to prepare, approve, and implement their own budgets. Includes new chapters on Zero-Based and Capital Budgeting as well as a CD with spreadsheets, worksheets and a new budget-building software, the CMS Nonprofit Budget Builder, designed to help you implement the concepts in the book. The software includes an expandable standard chart of accounts and will aid in building, organizing, tracking and planning budgets.
Business Planning for Enduring
Social Impact: A Social-Entrepreneurial Approach to Solving Social Problems
by Andrew Wolk and Kelley Kreitz From the publisher: Business Planning for Enduring Social Impact applies the strategic rigor and financial savvy of traditional private-sector business planning to social problem solving. This practical guide provides an introduction to business planning for enduring social impact and leads readers through a four-step process for creating an actionable business plan. Key features include a glossary of business planning terms, plus an outline, sample workplan, and sample business plan for enduring social impact. Business Planning for Enduring Social Impact draws on Root Cause's unique business planning methodology, developed through consulting engagements with dozens of organizations, and through the organization's experience with the Root Cause social enterprises that it has started and grown. The guide is the first in a series of Root Cause How-to Guides, which provide practical advice for organizations in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors dedicated to solving social problems.
Arts
Marketing Insights: The Dynamics of Building and Retaining Performing Arts
Audiences by Joanne
Scheff BernsteinFrom the publisher: Audience
behavior began to shift dramatically in the mid 1990s. Since then, people
have become more spontaneous in purchasing tickets and increasingly prefer
selecting specific programs to attend rather than buying a subscription
series. Arts patrons also expect more responsive customer service than ever
before. Because of these and other factors, many audience development
strategies that sustained nonprofit arts organizations in the past are no
longer dependable and performing arts marketers face many new challenges in
their efforts to build and retain their audiences. Arts organizations must
learn how to be relevant to the changing lifestyles, needs, interests, and
preferences of their current and potential audiences. Arts Marketing
Insights offers managers, board members, professors, and students of arts
management the ideas and information they need to market effectively and
efficiently to customers today and into the future. In this book, Joanne
Scheff Bernstein helps readers to understand performing arts audiences,
conduct research, and provide excellent customer service. She demonstrates
that arts organizations can benefit by expanding the meaning of "valuable
customer" to include single-ticket buyers. She offers guidance on long-range
marketing planning and helps readers understand how to leverage the Internet
and e-mail as powerful marketing channels. Bernstein presents vivid case
studies and examples that illustrate her strategic principles in action from
organizations large and small in the United States, Great Britain,
Australia, and other countries.
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The Board Member's Playbook:
Using Policy Governance to Solve Problems, Make Decisions, and Build a
Stronger Board by
Miriam Carver and Bill CharneyFrom the publisher: The Board Member's Playbook--written for board members who are either familiar with or new to John Carver's Policy Governance model--offers real-world scenarios that address the challenges that confront boards of all types of organizations. Step by step, the authors walk readers through a proven problem-solving sequence that allows them to find solutions consistent with the values and policies of their organizations. Designed to be flexible, the book's problem-solving methods are applicable to any challenge boards may face.
The New Form 990: Law, Policy,
and Preparation by
Bruce R. Hopkins et alFrom the publisher: The New Form 990 covers the law, policy, and preparation of the new IRS Form 990. It includes summaries of the law underlying each of the parts and questions in the return, so that the preparer can understand the background law in formulating answers on the return. In December 2007, the IRS released the newly redesigned Form 990. Recognizing that far too many nonprofit organizations are unprepared for what is coming their way, The New Form 990 provides tax-exempt organizations and tax return preparers with the help they need to properly, effectively, and accurately prepare the new return. Professionals working to prepare this new labyrinthine form are guaranteed to encounter many unexpected hurdles. Authors Hopkins, Anning, Gross, and Schenkelberg provide readers with guidance and a road map to help maneuver through the revised Form 990, including summaries of the law underlying each of the parts and questions in the return, so that tax-exempt organizations and their advisors can understand the background law when formulating answers to the questions. Deftly covering both pre-existing and newly created laws as well as discussions of policy and preparation, The New Form 990 brims with line-by-line analyses as well as numerous checklists of steps to take to be in the best possible position to prepare the return.
Effective Donor Relations
by Janet L. Hedrick From the publisher: Donors are the heartbeat of your nonprofit, partners in your organization's work, and supporters in its mission to change the world. Keeping them is essential to your nonprofit's survival; losing them means major losses for your organization's annual giving program, capital campaign efforts, and major and planned gifts. Part of the AFP/Wiley Fund Development Series, Nonprofit Essentials: Effective Donor Relations guides in creating and implementing each aspect of a donor relation plan, providing recommended solutions to frequently encountered dilemmas and including sample documents, checklists, and other tools to help shape an effective program. The book covers:
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Why being recognized is important to your donors |
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Making the most of the Internet for donor relations |
The Organization of the Future
2: Visions, Strategies, and Insights on Managing in a New Era
by Frances Hesselbein and
Marshall GoldsmithFrom the publisher: With 26 inspiring chapters, this book celebrates the wisdom of some of the most recognized thought leaders of our day: emerging and established experts who share their unique vision of what the organization of the future should look like and must do to survive in the turbulent 21st Century. A partial listing of chapters and authors includes:
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Organization Is Not Structure but Capability, Dave Ulrich & Norm Smallwood |
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The Leader’s Mandate: Create a Shared Sense of Destiny, James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner |
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The Values That Build a Strong Organization, Thomas J. Moran |
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Mobilizing Emotions for Performance: Making the Most of the Informal Organization, Jon R. Katzenbach & Zia Khan |
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Beyond Retirement: Mature Workers Are Essential Talent for Organizations of the Future, Richard J. Leider |
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Reframing Ethics, Spirit, and Soul, Lee G. Bolman &Terrence E. Deal |
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Dynamic Organizations for an Entrepreneurial, Christopher Gergen & Gregg Vanourek |
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Designing Organizations That Are Built to Change, Edward E. Lawler III & Christopher G. Worley |
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Refounding a Movement: Preparing a One-Hundred- Year-Old Organization for the Future, Kathy Cloninger |
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Three Challenges Facing Nonprofits of the Future: People, Funding, and Strategy, Roxanne Spillett |
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The Leader of the Future, William A. Cohen |
Storytelling for Grantseekers:
A Guide to Creative Nonprofit Fundraising, 2nd Edition
by Cheryl A. ClarkeFrom the publisher:
Grantwriters often have little or no training in the practical task of
grantseeking. Many feel intimidated by the act of writing, and some don't
enjoy writing. In Storytelling for Grantseekers, Second Edition, Cheryl
Clarke presents an organic approach to grantseeking, one that views the
process through the lens of the pleasures and rewards of crafting a good
story. Grantseekers who approach the process as one in which they are
connecting with an audience (grantmakers) and writing a narrative (complete
with settings, characters, antagonists and resolutions) find greater success
with funders. The writing process becomes a rewarding way to tell the
organization's tale, rather than a chore, and their passion and creativity
lead to winning proposals. This book walks readers through all the main
phases of the proposal, highlighting the creative elements that link
components to each other and unify the entire proposal. The book contains
resources on crafting an effective synopsis, overcoming grantwriter's block,
packaging the story, and the best ways to approach the "short stories"
(inquiry and cover letters) that support the larger proposal. Clarke also
stresses the need to see proposal-writing as part of a larger grantseeking
effort, one that emphasizes preparation, working with the entire development
staff, and maintaining good relations with funders. In Storytelling for
Grantseekers, new and experienced grantseekers alike will discover how to
write and support successful proposals with humor and passion.
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Designing Your Future: Key
Trends, Challenges, and Choices Facing Association and Nonprofit Leaders
by ASAE & The Center for Association LeadershipFrom the publisher: Some
organizations have a clear sense of how they will shape their future, but
many do not. Keeping abreast of current events is one thing; viewing trends
through the lens of implications and action plans for your organization is
another. That's where Designing Your Future can serve as a valuable
resource. Identifying and analyzing trends, issues, and events that are
likely to cause transformational change within the association and nonprofit
sector are critical undertakings if organizations are to pinpoint and
execute their options and opportunities for sustainability, growth, and
responsive strategies. Thinking through the implications of the environment
that is continually evolving around your organization is not a one-time
exercise. It is a continual process of reflection and action. Designing
Your Future began with the analysis of several hundred trends. Association
leaders and other experts and practitioners have winnowed the lengthy list
of impacts to the most critical trends ranging from social to economic to
political to environmental to technological impacts likely to affect
associations. Use Designing Your Future and subsequent resources to prepare
yourself, your board, and your staff to anticipate and plan for the
realities of the world in which we all work.
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Leading Up: Transformational
Leadership for Fundraisers
by Lilya WagnerFrom the publisher:
Fundraisers know that in order to be successful in their demanding
profession, they have to get things done. And to get things done, they need
to exercise leadership from whatever rank or position they hold--often from
the middle. This concept is called "leading up." Recognizing that all
fundraisers must be leaders, Leading Up teaches professionals the skills and
traits they need to be successful in their philanthropic roles. Leading Up
centers around author Lilya Wagner's unique model, which exemplifies the
concept of leading up. Here, fundraisers will discover: how to get things
done when they're not in charge; how to motivate others when they don't have
formal authority; how to convince or persuade their colleagues and superiors
about their need for action and involvement; and how to lead when they're
not recognized leaders by virtue of power or position. Focusing on
problem-solving concepts, Leading Up is packed with thought provoking
questions, exercises, and practical application steps that allow
professionals to practice and implement the principles they've just learned.
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Nonprofit Almanac 2008
by Kennard T. Wing, Thomas H. Pollak and Amy Blackwood From the publisher: America's nonprofit sector continues to grow faster than its business sector or the government. The Nonprofit Almanac 2008 presents data on these organizations place in the national economy and trends in wages, employment, private giving, volunteering, and finances. The tables and graphics will give scholars, practitioners, and policymakers the data they need at a glance, while the textual analysis will help them plan for the future.
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