|
| |
2011 Publications of the Week
|
|
December
25 - 31, 2011 |
|
|
Shift and Reset: Strategies
for Addressing Serious Issues in a Connected Society
by Brian Reich
From the publisher: In these challenging
economic times, it is more important than ever for nonprofits to focus on
shaping policy, building capacity, developing talent, improving their
marketing and promotion, fundraising, and developing
partnerships/collaboration for organizational success. Shift & Reset:
Strategies for Supporting Causes in a Connected Society teaches the
nonprofit/social change/philanthropy/cause community how to take advantage
of rapidly changing technologies and new communication ecosystem that exist
in our connected society.
 |
Addresses the most critical challenges
facing the nonprofit/social change/philanthropy/cause community
|
|
|
Re-envisions how we support causes and address serious issues in our
connected society |
|
|
Outlines how organizations must
operate—and what happens when they don't re-think their work
|
|
|
Features interviews with over twenty-five
leading thinkers/authors/organizational leaders |
Innovative and right on time, Shift & Reset
equips nonprofit professionals with a set of three core principles, a
five-step checklist of immediate action items, as well as a list of ten
"must-read" items.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
December 18 - 24, 2011 |
|
|
Boomer
Volunteer Engagement: Collaborate Today, Thrive Tomorrow
by Jill Friedman Fixler, Sandie Eichberg and Gail Lorenz
From the publisher: Boomer Volunteer
Engagement: Collaborate Today, Thrive Tomorrow is everything nonprofits need
to engage skilled Boomer volunteers. This innovative book provides a
step-by-step guide for engaging Boomers as volunteers to build
organizational capacity. The authors offer a new framework through which
nonprofits can capitalize on the vast skills and resources of the 78.2
million Baby Boomers. The guidebook includes a comprehensive,
easy-to-understand synthesis of the body of research on the Baby Boomer
generation, featuring information that is current and relevant to volunteer
engagement. The book also includes 14 downloadable interactive PDF
worksheets that focus effort on measurable results. With this inspiring and
practical guide for reengineering volunteer programs, nonprofits will not
only survive in a changing world, but also thrive in the future. Through
collaborative volunteer engagement with the Baby Boomer generation,
organizations will have the capacity to fulfill their missions and achieve
their dreams.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
December
11 - 17, 2011 |
|
|
Banding Together for a Cause:
Proven Strategies for Revenue and Awareness Generation
by Rachel Armbruster
From the publisher: Experience the yellow
wristband campaign from the beginning and learn how to position your
nonprofit for success Passionate and inspiring, Banding Together for a Cause
will help you identify ways to generate funds for your programs and missions
through valuable and meaningful partnerships. In it, author Rachel
Armbruster dissects the LIVESTRONG campaign, from timing and brand, to
partners and visionary thinking. Engaging and informative, this reliable
guide contains interviews and insights with key executives at both
LIVESTRONG and Nike. Along the way, this remarkable book takes you
behind-the-scenes of the spectacularly successful Lance Armstrong Foundation
campaign. It starts with a simple big idea, the yellow wristband, and
examines how you can find similar success within your own nonprofit.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
December
4 - 10, 2011 |
|
|
The Volunteer Management Handbook: Leadership Strategies for Success
by Tracy D. Connors (Editor)
From the publisher: Completely revised and
expanded, the ultimate guide to starting—and keeping—an active and effective
volunteer program. Drawing on the experience and expertise of recognized
authorities on nonprofit organizations, The Volunteer Management Handbook,
Second Edition is the only guide you need for establishing and maintaining
an active and effective volunteer program. Written by nonprofit leader Tracy
Connors, this handy reference offers practical guidance on such essential
issues as motivating people to volunteer their time and services,
recruitment, and more. Up-to-date and practical, this is the essential guide
to managing your nonprofit's most important resource: its volunteers. Now
covers volunteer demographics, volunteer program leaders and managers,
policy making and implementation, planning and staff analysis, recruiting,
interviewing and screening volunteers, orienting and training volunteers,
and much more.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
November
27 - December 3, 2011 |
|
|
The Nonprofit's Guide to Human
Resources: Managing Your Employees & Volunteers
by Jan Masaoka
From the publisher: The nonprofit workplace
has a culture of its own, shaped largely by the organization's mission and
the staff attracted to the mission, which can include large numbers of
volunteers. And with many of today's nonprofits operating on a slim budget,
chances are you're fulfilling more than one role in the organization and can
use some focused guidance! Geared to this unique culture, The Nonprofit's
Guide to Human Resources provides legal and "good practice" information for
anyone in charge of HR at small to medium sized organizations. Whatever your
title and experience level, you'll learn how to identify, face and resolve
daily legal issues related to:
|
|
Hiring, including screening, testing,
background checks and interviewing |
|
|
Salaries and benefits, including FMLA and
comp time |
|
|
Firings, layoffs and time reductions |
|
|
Determining suitable volunteer positions
and recruiting and training for them |
|
|
Employee communications and other
administrative tasks |
|
|
Managing a multi-racial, multicultural
and multi-generational workforce |
|
|
Handling an organization in crisis |
The Nonprofit's Guide to Human Resources
offers the sound legal information found in Nolo's other books for employers
while addressing specific nonprofit issues you're likely to encounter, such
as the board of directors' role in HR, and managing volunteers. Throughout
the book you'll find helpful tips and lessons learned (the hard way!) from
expert advisers in various areas of HR management, from hiring to unions.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
November
13 - 26, 2011 |
|
|
Nonprofit Sustainability:
Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability
by Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka and Steve Zimmerman
From the publisher: Co-authored by CompassPoint's
Jeanne Bell, Blue Avocado's Jan Masaoka and Spectrum's Steve Zimmerman, this
new book offers nonprofit executives and board members a simple yet powerful
framework for analyzing and adjusting their business models for greater
organizational sustainability. It introduces the Matrix Map, a practical
tool for determining the current impact and financial performance of core
programs and fundraising activities. It also provides guidance on how
leaders can make strategic business decisions on an as-needed basis, rather
than wait for episodic strategic planning.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
November
6 - 12, 2011 |
|
|
Everyone
Leads: Building Leadership from the Community Up
by Paul Schmitz
From the publisher: Paul Schmitz, CEO of
Public Allies, shares unique experiences and lessons his organization has
learned from two decades of identifying and developing thousands of diverse
young leaders across the country. With inspiring stories and practical
examples, the author shares what it means to lead today. He tells the story
about how the Public Allies model emerged (including Michelle Obama's
important role) and demonstrates the organization's approach through
illustrative stories of its graduates and of his own unusual leadership
journey. The author surveys America's democratic and civil rights history,
current trends, and leadership theory to demonstrate how collaboration among
citizens has always been core to social change. The book also delves into
five leadership values essential today: recognizing and mobilizing assets,
diversity and inclusion, teamwork and collaboration, continuous learning,
and integrity. Everyone Leads offers a hopeful path for citizens,
policymakers, and nonprofit organizations wanting to build and engage the
diverse leadership our communities and our democracy badly need.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
October
30 - November 5, 2011 |
|
|
Implementing and Sustaining Your Strategic Plan: A
Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
by John M. Bryson Sharon Roe Anderson and Farnum K. Alston
From the publisher: Based on John Bryson's acclaimed comprehensive
approach to strategic planning, the Implementing and Sustaining Your
Strategic Plan workbook provides a step-by-step process, tools, techniques,
and worksheets to help successfully implement, manage, and troubleshoot an
organization's strategy over the long haul. This new and immensely practical
workbook helps organizations work through the typical challenges of leading
implementation for sustained change. It spotlights the importance of
effective leadership for long-term successful strategic plan implementation.
The authors include a wealth of tools designed to help with goal and
objective setting, budgeting, stakeholder analysis, priority reconciliation,
strategies in practice, special leadership roles, cultural changes, and
more. The workbook's conceptual framework, step-by-step process, and
worksheets can be applied in a variety of ways. It can be used as a whole,
or selected parts can be used by board members, boards of directors, senior
management teams, implementation teams, and task forces on a regular basis
throughout the process of sustained implementation. The workbook's
individual worksheets, or combinations of worksheets, can be used as needed
to address a variety of implementation-related tasks.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
October
23 - 29, 2011 |
|
|
Driving Social Change: How to Solve the World's Toughest
Problems by Paul C.
Light
From the publisher: This important book
illustrates how to create the social breakthroughs needed to solve urgent
global threats such as poverty, disease, and hunger. It then turns to three
alternative, but complementary, paths to social breakthrough: social
protecting, social exploring, and social advocacy, providing a detailed map
of the journey from initial commitment to a world of justice and
opportunity. This publication:
|
|
Examines the current condition of the
social impact infrastructure |
|
|
Offers strategies for how to remedy the
steady weakening of our social-impact infrastructure |
|
|
Provides tactics to build strong social
organizations and networks |
|
|
Illustrates dynamic methods to respond to
constant economic and social change |
Author Paul Light believes we should be less
concerned about the tools of agitation (social entrepreneurship, social
protecting, social exploring, and social advocacy) and more concerned about
the disruption and replacement of the status quo. Timely in its urgency,
this book describes the revolutionary social impact cycle, which provides a
new approach for framing the debate about urgent threats.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
October
16 - 22, 2011 |
|
|
The Nonprofit Board Members Guide to Lobbying and
Advocacy by Marcia
Avner
From the publisher: The Nonprofit Board
Member's Guide to Lobbying and Advocacy shows board members how to use their
power and privilege to move their organization's work forward. The book
includes: Concepts, principles, and strategies specific to board members of
501 (c)(3) charities; An eight-step process that enables boards to plan for
advocacy to be proactive instead of reactive; First-person success stories
and from-the-field advice from board members across the U.S.; Three ways to
influence the executive branch of government; Four facts about lobbying with
foundation grant funds; Twenty frequently asked questions about lobbying;
Information about the laws that govern lobbying by nonprofits; Detailed
worksheets that lead readers through critical processes; An appendix of
lobbying tips and tactics; Encouragement to make advocacy and lobbying core
to a board's active leadership .Hands-on worksheets and resources guide you
Detailed worksheets lead you through critical processes from creating a
public policy readiness profile, selecting lobbying strategies, identifying
key decision makers, identifying resources, and drafting a public policy
work plan. An annotated list of helpful resources includes publications,
organizations, and web sites.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
October
9 - 15, 2011 |
|
|
Building Nonprofit Capacity: A Guide to Managing Change
Through Organizational Lifecycles
by John Brothers and Anne Sherman
From the publisher: This
important resource shows nonprofit leaders how to effectively shepherd a
change process within their organization. Based on research from TCC's
(formerly The Conservation Company) organizational effectiveness studies and
results from the core capacity assessment tool (CCAT, used with over 1000
organizations), the book provides an assessment's lifecycle score that
reflects the organization's current stage of development. Filled with case
studies, the book provides an outline of the trajectory of organizations
along the lifecycle and best practices of how to move successfully through
the lifecycle, including the use of templates and resources to assist their
movement.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
October
2 - 8, 2011 |
|
|
The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, 3rd Edition
by David O. Renz (Editor) and Robert D. Herman
From the publisher: The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and
Management brings together leading experts in the nonprofit and management
fields to describe effective practice in all the important functions,
processes, and strategies of nonprofit management. Based on the most current
research, theory, and experience, this comprehensive edition offers useful
advice for managing nonprofit organizations and addresses key aspects of
practice such as board development, strategic planning, lobbying, marketing,
fundraising, volunteer management, financial management, risk management,
and compensation and benefits. New chapters include information and
knowledge in areas that have developed and changed substantially since the
second edition was published, including: social entrepreneurship, financial
leadership and capital structure, demands for new levels of accountability
and transparency, and the changing political and legal climate and context.
David O. Renz is the Beth K. Smith/Missouri Chair in Nonprofit Leadership
and the Director of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership, a
leadership development and research center at the Henry W. Bloch School of
Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri, Kansas
City.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
September
25
- October 1, 2011 |
|
|
Twitter for Good: Change the World One Tweet at a Time
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz
From the publisher: As recent events in Japan, the Middle East, and Haiti
have shown, Twitter offers a unique platform to connect individuals and
influence change in ways that were unthinkable only a short time ago. In
Twitter for Good, Claire Diaz Ortiz, Twitter’s head of corporate social
innovation and philanthropy, shares the same strategies she offers to
organizations launching cause-based campaigns. Filled with dynamic examples
from initiatives around the world, this groundbreaking book offers practical
guidelines for harnessing individual activism via Twitter as a force for
social change.
|
|
Reveals why every organization needs a dedicated Twitter strategy
and explains how to set one |
|
|
Introduces the five-step model taught at trainings around the world:
T.W.E.E.T. (Target, Write, Engage, Explore, Track) |
Author @claired is the head of corporate social innovation and
philanthropy at Twitter, collaborating with organizations like Nike, Pepsi,
MTV, the American Red Cross, charity:water, Room to Read, the Gates
Foundation, the Skoll Foundation, the Case Foundation, National Wildlife
Federation, Kiva, the United Nations, Free the Children, Committee to
Protect Journalists, Partners in Health, FEMA, Ushahidi, The Acumen Fund.
With more than 200 million users worldwide, Twitter has established itself
as a dynamic force, one that every business and nonprofit must understand
how to use effectively.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
September 18 - 24, 2011 |
|
|
Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A
Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement, 3rd Edition
by John M. Bryson
From the publisher: When it was first published more than sixteen years ago,
John Bryson's Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
introduced a new and thoughtful strategic planning model. Since then it has
become the standard reference in the field. In this completely revised third
edition, Bryson updates his perennial bestseller to help today’s leaders enhance
organizational effectiveness. This completed updated 3rd edition:
|
|
Features the Strategy Change Cycle — a proven planning process used by
a large number of organizations |
|
|
Offers detailed guidance on implementing the planning process and
includes specific tools and techniques to make the process work in any
organization |
|
|
Introduces new material on creating public value, stakeholder
analysis, strategy mapping, balanced scorecards, collaboration, and more
|
|
|
Includes information about the organizational designs that will
encourage strategic thought and action throughout the entire
organization |
|
|
Contains a wealth of updated examples and cases |
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
September 11
- 17, 2011 |
|
|
The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox: A Complete Guide to
Program Effectiveness, Performance Measurement, and Results
by Robert M. Penna
From the publisher: The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox identifies stages in
the use of outcomes and shows you how to use specific facets of existing
outcome models to improve performance and achieve meaningful results. Going
beyond the familiar limits of the sector, this volume also illustrates how
tools and approaches long in use in the corporate sector can be of great
analytical and practical use to nonprofit, philanthropic, and governmental
organizations . An outstanding resource for organizational and program
leaders interested in improving performance, there is nothing else like this
work currently available.
|
|
Shows how to identify and set meaningful, sustainable outcomes |
|
|
Illustrates how to track and manage with outcomes
|
|
|
Offers guidance in assessing capacity, and using outcome-based
communications |
|
|
Features a companion Web site with the tools found in this book |
Providing the tools and explanations needed to achieve program success,
this book is a complete resource for the nonprofit, governmental, or
philanthropic professional striving for greater effectiveness in programs or
organizations.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
August
28 - September 10, 2011 |
|
|
Social Media for Social Good: A How-to Guide for
Nonprofits by Heather
Mansfield
From the publisher: Based on more than 15 years of experience in
nonprofit communications and 15,000+ hours spent utilizing social and mobile
media, Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits is a
comprehensive 256-page hardcover book packed with more than 100 best
practices covering Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 nonprofit communications
and fundraising. From building your e-newsletter list to finding your
"Twitter voice" to launching a mobile website and texting campaign on a
small budget, this guide presents a step-by-step strategic plan for
launching and maintaining successful social media and mobile marketing
campaigns.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
August
21 - 27, 2011 |
|
|
Finance Fundamentals for Nonprofits,
with Website:
Building Capacity and Sustainability
by Woods Bowman
From the publisher: A complete guide to the financial requirements a
nonprofit organization must follow to indefinitely maintain the volume and
quality of their services. An organization may have plenty of capacity in
the long run, but in the short run, donor restrictions and limited financing
options are constraining. Here-and-now liquid assets are the only resources
available. Finance Fundamentals for Nonprofits: Building Capacity and
Sustainability shows how to measure a nonprofit organization's financial
capacity in different time frames and how to measure its ability to sustain
capacity in each case.
|
|
Explains how nonprofits differ from businesses and how they promote
values-centered management |
|
|
Reveals how to improve financial capacity and sustainability
|
|
|
Written by a nonprofit scholar |
Filled with real-world case studies and actionable advice relating
financial health to financial capacity and sustainability, this book is
essential reading for every nonprofit professional.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
August
14 - 20, 2011 |
|
|
You and Your Nonprofit: Practical Advice and Tips from
the CharityChannel Professional Community
by Norman Olshansky and Linda Lysakowski
From the publisher: You And Your Nonprofit has been written for those who
want to learn more about the nonprofit sector or improve their knowledge and
skills related to nonprofit leadership, management and fundraising.
Peer-reviewed articles selected for inclusion in this book have been
contributed by nationally known experts within the nonprofit sector, all of
whom participate on CharityChannel.com as part of its distinguished
professional community. You And Your Nonprofit explores planning issues that
are often a challenge to nonprofit organizations; provides models for
improvement of management, governance and leadership; presents best
practices related to the science and art of fundraising; addresses many of
the day-to-day issues that confront nonprofit leaders and professionals; and
provides practical and replicable problem-solving suggestions. You And Your
Nonprofit is one in a series of IN THE TRENCHES books published by
CharityChannel Press. In his foreword to the book, Bob Carter, CFRE,
Chair-Elect of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, wrote, "This is
surely the book I wish I had decades ago."
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
August 7 - 13, 2011 |
|
|
Scaling Social Impact: New Thinking by Paul N. Bloom and
Edward Skloot
From the publisher: Scaling Social Impact could
not be released at a more opportune moment. When resources to support social
change seem more limited than ever, two of our field's most significant
thought leaders collaborate to bring us some of the best, most current and
engaging perspectives on a topic that to this point one might argue has been
more fad than strategy. By presenting us with writings from a host of
researchers and experienced field builders, Bloom and Skloot offer us not
only vision but informed, research-based insights into the concept and
complications of what it means to attain the highest potential of effective
social programs.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
July
31 - August 6, 2011 |
|
|
Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts,
Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your
Business by Ann
Handley, and C.C. Chapman
From the publisher: Blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other
publishing platforms are giving everyone a "voice," including organizations
and their customers. So how do you create the bold stories, videos, and blog
posts that cultivate fans, arouse passion for your products or services, and
ignite your business? Content Rules equips you for online success with a
one-stop source on the art and science of developing marketing content that
people care about. This coverage is interwoven with case studies of
companies successfully spreading their ideas online-and using them to
establish credibility and build a loyal customer base.
|
|
Learn the art of storytelling and the
science of journalism |
|
|
Find an authentic "voice" and craft bold
content that will resonate with prospects and buyers and encourage them
to share it with others |
|
|
Leverage social media and social tools to
get your content and ideas distributed as widely as possible
|
|
|
Boost your online presence and engage
with customers and prospects like never before with Content Rules |
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
July
24 - 30, 2011 |
|
|
Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes In an Era of
Scarcity by Mario
Morino
From the publisher: Leap of Reason is the product of decades of hard-won
insights from philanthropist Mario Morino, McKinsey & Company, and top
social-sector innovators. It is intended to spark the critically important
conversations that every nonprofit board and leadership team should have in
this new era of austerity. The authors make a convincing case that the
nation’s growing fiscal crisis will force all of us in the social sector to
be clearer about our aspirations, more intentional in defining our
approaches, more rigorous in gauging our progress, more willing to admit
mistakes, more capable of quickly adapting and improving—all with an
unrelenting focus on improving lives.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
July 17 - 23, 2011 |
|
|
Coaching Skills for Nonprofit Managers and Leaders: Developing People to
Achieve Your Mission by
Judith Wilson and Michelle Gislason
From the publisher: Coaching Skills for Nonprofit Leaders offers
practical steps for coaching leaders to greatness and complements the
academic and theoretical work in nonprofit leadership theory. The book can
be used by the coaching novice as a thorough topical overview or by those
more experienced with coaching as a quick reference or refresher. Based on
the Inquiry Based Coaching approach, Coaching Skills will strengthen and
expand the reader's ability to drive organization mission, while retaining
the intrinsic values of the nonprofit culture and working towards outcomes
that create a culture of discipline and accountability and empower others to
be even more responsible, accountable, and self-motivated. This book uses
accessible language, examples, case studies, key questions, and exercises to
help:
|
|
Promote better relationships
|
|
|
Know when to delegate, direct and coach |
|
|
Balance directive and supportive styles of leadership for productive
partnerships |
|
|
Overcome fears and deal head-on with difficult situations and
conflict |
|
|
Use coaching for performance improvement and on-the-job development |
|
|
Support independent thinking and personal reflection
|
|
|
Gain commitment and accountability from others and build teams |
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
July
10 - 16, 2011 |
|
|
Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical
Innovations by
Hayagreeva Rao
From the publisher: Rao, professor of organizational behavior and human
resources at Stanford University, explores the role of collective action in
promoting or hindering business innovation. Drawing heavily on theories of
social movements, the author posits a cycle of hot causes, unexpected events
or innovations, and cool mobilization, activities that channel emotional
responses into popular mass actions that anchor new identities embracing or
rejecting the hot cause. Rao presents several case studies in which activist
behavior either encouraged or impeded the creation and expansion of new
markets, technologies or new organizational structures. For example, early
20th-century automobile enthusiasts were able to placate fears about car
safety (the hot cause) by staging hundreds of reliability contests that
demonstrated the car's safety and practicality to a wide audience (the cool
mobilization). Though dryly written and repetitive, the case studies
themselves are fascinating and challenge traditional economic models that
privilege individual consumer choice while ignoring broader social
mobilizations. A final chapter offers advice and strategies for would-be
market rebels looking to harness collective action, making this book a
useful resource for both citizen activists and corporate leaders and
marketers seeking popular support for their products.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
July
3 - 9, 2011 |
|
|
Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your
Organization's Toughest Challenges
by Andrew McAfee
From the publisher: "Web 2.0" is the portion of the Internet that's
interactively produced by many people; it includes Wikipedia, Facebook,
Twitter, Delicious, and prediction markets. In just a few years, Web 2.0
communities have demonstrated astonishing levels of innovation, knowledge
accumulation, collaboration, and collective intelligence. Now, leading
organizations are bringing the Web's novel tools and philosophies inside,
creating Enterprise 2.0. In this book, Andrew McAfee shows how they're doing
this, and why it's benefiting them. Enterprise 2.0 makes clear that the new
technologies are good for much more than just socializing-when properly
applied, they help businesses solve pressing problems, capture dispersed and
fast-changing knowledge, highlight and leverage expertise, generate and
refine ideas, and harness the wisdom of crowds. Most organizations, however,
don't find it easy or natural to use these new tools initially. McAfee
brings together case studies and examples with key concepts from economics,
sociology, computer science, consumer psychology, and management studies and
presents them all in a clear, accessible, and entertaining style. Enterprise
2.0 is a must-have resource for all C-suite executives seeking to make
technology decisions that are simultaneously powerful, popular, and
pragmatic.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
June
26 - July 2, 2011 |
|
|
Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining
Networks at Work and in the World
by Patti Anklam
From the publisher: Patti Anklam provides a guide for leaders and
participants to work within and lead purposeful social networks "in the
world." Awareness of "networks" and "networked organizations" has reached
the mainstream of the business publishing world, as evidenced in the
increasing number of articles in such publications as the Harvard Business
Review and the Sloan Management Review. Formal networks include civic
organizations like Rotary International, alumni groups, and business and
professional groups. There is yet another class of network that is not yet
well defined, and for which the norms and governance models are
emerging--networks such as inter-company and intra-company learning and
collaboration networks; independent consultants who share common interests
and passions who want to remain independent but work collaboratively and
consistently with like-minded others. They can be geographically local
business networks; web-based virtual learning groups and communities; or
global action networks destined to make the world a better place. The
purpose of this book is to provide a taxonomy and guidebook to these
"emergent" networks, with a specific focus on helping leaders and
participants to create and sustain successful networks. It will address the
need for articulating a governance model and norms, selecting and using
appropriate tools, and expectations for how the network will grow and change
over time.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
June
19 - 25, 2011 |
|
|
Nonprofit Consulting Essentials: What Nonprofits and
Consultants Need to Know
by Penelope Cagney
From the publisher: Author Penelope Cagney is an active consultant and
principal of The Cagney Company. A recognized authority on nonprofit
consulting, she is a sought-after presenter for international conferences
and webinars, as well as a frequent contributor to publications worldwide.
Everyone seems to have a different idea of what it means to consult or be a
consultant, especially in the charitable sector. Finally, we have a book,
Nonprofit Consulting Essentials that really delves into the assumptions and
truths and the roles and responsibilities of consultants. This really is an
essential guide to nonprofit consulting and capacity building in the current
climate of dramatic and discontinuous change. Whether you are just entering
the sector or looking to refresh your skills, this book is a must-read.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
June
12 - 18, 2011 |
|
|
Fundraising
for Social Change, 6th Edition
by Kim Klein
From the publisher: New edition! This bestselling book is one of the most
widely used in the field by nonprofit organizations across the country. A
soup to nuts description of how to build, maintain and expand an individual
donor program, this book is often called "the Bible of grassroots
fundraising." Since it was first published in 1988, Fundraising for Social
Change has become one of the most widely used books on fundraising in the
United States. Fundraising practitioners and activists rely on it for
hands-on, specific, and accessible fundraising techniques, and it has become
a required text in dozens of college courses around the country. This new
edition offers the information that has made the book a classic: proven
know-how on asking for money, planning and conducting major gifts campaigns,
using direct mail effectively, and much more. The book has been
significantly changed to include new technology—e-mail, online giving, and
blogs—and contains expanded chapters on capital and endowment campaigns, how
to feel comfortable asking for money, how to recruit a team of people to
help with fundraising, and how to build meaningful relationships with
donors. In addition, this essential resource contains new information on
such timely topics as ethics, working across cultural lines, and how to
create opportunities for fundraising more systematically and strategically.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
June 5
- 11, 2011 |
|
|
The Search for Social
Entrepreneurship by
Paul Charles Light
From the publisher: Research on social
entrepreneurship is finally catching up to its rapidly growing potential. In
The Search for Social Entrepreneurship, Paul Light explores this surge of
interest to establish the state of knowledge on this growing phenomenon and
suggest directions for future research. Light begins by outlining the debate
on how to define social entrepreneurship, a concept often cited and lauded
but not necessarily understood. The subsequent section examines the four
main components of social entrepreneurship: ideas, opportunities,
organizations, and the entrepreneurs themselves. The copious information
available about each has yet to be mined for lessons on making social
entrepreneurship a success. The third section draws on Light s original
survey research on 131 high-performing nonprofits, exploring how they differ
across the four key components. The fourth and final section offers
recommendations for future action and research in this burgeoning field.
Paul C. Light is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New
York University.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
May
29 - June 4, 2011 |
|
|
Small Change: Why Business
Won't Save the World by
Michael Edwards
From the publisher: A new movement is afoot
that promises to save the world by applying the magic of the market to the
challenges of social change. Its supporters argue that using business
principles to solve global problems is far more effective than more
traditional approaches. What could be wrong with that? Almost everything,
argues former Ford Foundation director Michael Edwards. In this
hard-hitting, controversial exposé, he marshals a wealth of evidence to
reveal that in reality, a market approach hurts more than it helps. Real
change will come when business acts more like civil society, not the other
way around. Author Michael Edwards is an independent writer and activist who
is affiliated with the New York-based think-tank Demos, the Wagner School of
Public Service at New York University, and the Brooks World Poverty
Institute at Manchester University in the UK. From 1999 to 2008 he was
Director of the Ford Foundation’s Governance and Civil Society Program, and
previously worked for the World Bank, OxFam, and Save the Children.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
May
22 - 28, 2011 |
|
|
Nonprofit Management 101: A
Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals
by Darian Rodriguez Heyman
From the publisher: A comprehensive handbook
for leading a successful nonprofit. This handbook can educate and empower a
whole generation of nonprofit leaders and professionals by bringing together
top experts in the field to share their knowledge and wisdom gained through
experience. This book provides nonprofit professionals with the conceptual
frameworks, practical knowledge, and concise guidance needed to succeed in
the social sector. Designed as a handbook, the book is filled with sage
advice and insights from a variety of trusted experts that can help
nonprofit professionals prepare to achieve their organizational and personal
goals, develop a better understanding of what they need to do to lead,
support, and grow an effective organization.
 |
Addresses a wealth of topics including
fundraising, Managing Technology, Marketing, Finances, Advocacy, Working
with Boards |
|
|
Contributors are noted nonprofit experts
who define the core capabilities needed to manage a successful nonprofit |
|
|
Author is the former Executive Director of
Craigslist Foundation |
This important resource offers professionals
key insights that will have a direct impact on improving their daily work.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
May
15 - 21, 2011 |
|
|
Joining a Nonprofit Board:
What You Need to Know
by F. Warren McFarlan and Marc J. Epstein
From the publisher: Joining a Nonprofit Board offers an important guide
to the roles and responsibilities of a nonprofit board member. Marc J.
Epstein and F. Warren McFarlan provide a step-by-step guide to how board
members can work with a nonprofit organization to achieve the organization's
overarching mission, attain financial sustainability, and develop and
execute the systems needed to accomplish both. Based on more than 10 years
of research from Rice University and Harvard Business School and filled with
illustrative examples, Joining a Nonprofit Board explores the basic
structure of a nonprofit, explains how to build and monitor a nonprofit's
mission, and identifies how the board performs an effective assessment of a
nonprofit. The book also explores the challenges posed by the duality of
leadership between the unpaid volunteer non-executive chairman of the board
and the CEO. Joining a Nonprofit Board includes a helpful explanation of a
"board member's life cycle." The authors start with the decision to join a
board and explain how to prepare for the first meeting. The book explores
how to serve effectively the first two years and reveals what it takes to
develop your ongoing role as a trustee. Finally the book describes how to
transition off the board to other forms of service with the organization.
Joining a Nonprofit Board is a comprehensive resource for anyone who wants
to take their experience in the business world and serve a nonprofit with
passion and clarity.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
May
8 - 14, 2011 |
|
|
CauseWired:
Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World
by Tom Watson
From the publisher: For
today's super-wired, always-on, live-life-in-public young Americans, the
causes they support define who they are. Societal aspirations have so
permeated the "net native" population that causes have become like musical
tastes. CauseWired illustrates wired causes in action, bringing
real-world stories to readers.
|
|
Tracks the massive societal impact on causes of
online social networks-from blogs, to video, to the rise of social
networks
|
|
|
Reveals the extraordinary influence of online
social networks-in raising money for charity, in changing the political
climate and electing candidates, and in raising consciousness for causes |
From Facebook causes and campaigns on MySpace, to a
raft of new startups and innovative projects like Kiva, Change.org and
DonorsChoose, this immensely relevant book delivers actionable research and
recommendations to help readers launch their own successful wired social
campaigns.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
May
1 - 7, 2011 |
|
|
Brand Aid: Shopping Well to
Save the World by Lisa
Ann Richey and Stefano Ponte
From the publisher: “Has there ever been a better reason to shop?” asks
an ad for the Product RED American Express card, telling members who use the
card that buying “cappuccinos or cashmere” will help to fight AIDS in
Africa. Cofounded in 2006 by the rock star Bono, Product RED has been a
particularly successful example of a new trend in celebrity-driven
international aid and development, one explicitly linked to commerce, not
philanthropy. In Brand Aid, Lisa Ann Richey and Stefano Ponte offer a deeply
informed and stinging critique of “compassionate consumption.” Campaigns
like Product RED and its precursors, such as Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong
and the pink-ribbon project in support of breast cancer research, advance
the expansion of consumption far more than they meet the needs of the people
they ostensibly serve. At the same time, such campaigns sell both the
suffering of Africans with AIDS (in the case of Product RED) and the power
of the average consumer to ameliorate it through familiar and highly
effective media representations. Using Product RED as its focal point, this
book explores how corporations like American Express, Armani, Gap, and
Hallmark promote compassionate consumption to improve their ethical profile
and value without significantly altering their business model, protecting
themselves from the threat to their bottom lines posed by a genuinely
engaged consumer activism. Coupled with the phenomenon of celebrity activism
and expertise as embodied by Bono, Richey and Ponte argue that this
“causumerism” represents a deeply troubling shift in relief efforts,
effectively delinking the relationship between capitalist production and
global poverty.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
April
24 - 30, 2011 |
|
|
The Future of Nonprofits:
Innovate and Thrive in the Digital Age
by David J. Neff and Randal C. Moss
From the publisher: The Future of Nonprofits helps organizations
capitalize on internal innovation and predicting future trends to remake and
reshape their culture, structure, and staff. By applying the strategies laid
out in this book, nonprofit professionals of all levels can prepare their
organizations to take advantage of future trends and develop innovative
"internal entrepreneurs" that will grow revenue and drive their mission.
|
|
Provides nonprofits with a comprehensive playbook on how to create a
new, more flexible, innovative organization. |
|
|
Provides nonprofits a look at the future of fundraising and
communications trends into 2016. |
|
|
Case studies highlight successes and failures. |
|
|
Highlights the power and strength of Social Media. |
|
|
Highlights how to hire, train, manage and inspire "internal
entrepreneurial" employees. |
|
|
Features actionable advice on creating an organization that is
primed to grow and thrive in the immediate and long-term future. |
This game-changing book reveals how every nonprofit can put technology,
innovation and future trends to work to reach their mission and grow
revenue.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
April
17 - 23, 2011 |
|
|
The Big Shift: Navigating the
New Stage Beyond Midlife
by Marc Freedman
From the publisher: Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as “the
voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later
in life,” makes an impassioned call to accept the decades opening up between
midlife and anything approximating old age for what they really are – an
entirely new stage of life, which he dubs the encore years. In The Big
Shift, Freedman bemoans the fact that the discussion about longer lives in
America has been entirely about the staggering economic costs of a
dramatically aging society when, in reality, most of the nation’s 78 million
boomers are not getting old … at least not yet. The whole 60- to 80-year-old
period is simply new territory, he writes, and the people in this period
constitute a whole new phenomenon in the 21st century. The Big Shift is
animated by a simple premise: that the challenge of transitioning to and
making the most of this new stage—while deeply personal—is much more than an
individual problem; it’s an urgent social imperative, one affecting all
generations. By embracing this time as a unique period of life – and
providing guidance, training, education and support to the millions who are
in it – Freedman says that we can make a monument out of what so many think
of as the leftover years. The result could be a windfall of talent that will
carry us toward a new generation of solutions for growing problems in areas
like education, the environment, and health care. Marc Freedman is founder
and CEO of Civic Ventures. An award-winning social entrepreneur, frequent
commentator in the national media, and the author of Encore, Prime Time, and
The Kindness of Strangers, Freedman spearheaded the creation of Experience
Corps and The Purpose Prize.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
April
10 - 16, 2011 |
|
|
The End of Fundraising
by Jason Saul
From the publisher: Why does it cost nonprofits on average $20 to raise
$100, while it costs companies only $4? Simply put: Nonprofits have no
leverage. No one has to make a donation. And since most donors have no
direct stake in the organizations they support, they make donations out of
the goodness of their hearts. If donors feel like writing a check, they
will. If they don't, they won't. The End of Fundraising turns fundraising on
its head, teaching nonprofits how to stop begging for charity and start
selling impact. For the first time, nonprofits have economic power. We live
in a new era where consumers, businesses, investors, employees, and service
providers attach real economic value to social outcomes. An era where
yesterday's "feel good" issues—education, the environment, health care, the
arts, and animal rights—now have direct economic consequences and
opportunities. Nonprofits now have leverage. To use this leverage,
nonprofits must learn how to "sell" their impact to a new set of
stakeholders. Using his fifteen years of experience advising the world's
leading nonprofits, foundations, and corporations, Jason Saul reveals the
formula for how nonprofits transcend the paradigm of charitable fundraising
and reach true financial sustainability. Specifically, this groundbreaking
book offers nonprofit professionals a guide to:
|
|
Understand the role of social change in our economy |
|
|
Capture and communicate impact in simple, compelling terms |
|
|
Identify the new market stakeholders that value nonprofit outcomes |
|
|
Create powerful value propositions to increase leverage |
|
|
Improve the success of a nonprofit's pitches to funders |
The End of Fundraising includes the tools needed to effectively frame,
market, and sell a nonprofit organization's impact, and contains
step-by-step guidance for creating dynamic new opportunities with a variety
of funders.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
April
3 - 9, 2011 |
|
|
Nonprofits and Business
by Joseph J. Cordes
From the publisher: In an age of high-profile corporate foundations and
socially responsible companies, the barrier between the nonprofit and
business worlds is more permeable than ever. Nonprofits and Business
assembles a diverse group of researchers to examine nonprofits from
commercial, economic, and legal perspectives. Chapters on nonprofit-business
hybrids and performance measurement are also included. As both the
government and the public have come to demand efficiency from nonprofit
operations, they have looked to corporations to find creative ways to raise
money and demonstrate effectiveness. Nonprofits and Business is a unique
resource on this emerging trend.
Click to preview this booki on Amazon.com
|
|
March
27 - April 2, 2011 |
|
|
Results Now for Nonprofits: Strategic, Operating, and
Governance Planning by
Mark Light
From the publisher: Using a lightning-fast and inclusive process, Results
Now® puts purpose, strategy, operations, and governance into one
user-friendly, comprehensive plan that your board can pass in a single vote
and your organization can maintain as a regular part of its business
throughout the year. Results Now for Nonprofits relies on accountability and
performance measurement to increase the level of effective decision-making.
This "big picture first, details next" planning process helps you:
|
|
Use the Results Now master plan as a centerpiece of board meetings
and as a standard part of board meeting advance information
|
|
|
Foster a welcome climate for give-and-take strategic thinking |
|
|
Clarify the organization's story for the community and keep people
on point about what's important |
|
|
Develop team cohesion
|
|
|
Orient newer leadership members and recharge seasoned ones
|
|
|
Attract new funders who reward nonprofits who plan |
A must-have for all nonprofit executives and directors, members of boards
and trustees, and nonprofit managers, Results Now for Nonprofits is a
results-driven, practical tool that will help your organization achieve its
mission, values, and destiny.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
March
20 - 26, 2011 |
|
|
The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work
and Boost Your Bottom Line
by Joan Blades and Nanette Fondas
From the publisher: In this book, Blades and Fondas offer business
professionals an indispensable handbook for transforming the way we work and
breaking free from the old, inflexible, 40-hour workweek. The authors show
creative ways for individuals to fit work requirements with life
obligations, and persuade managers to adopt these custom-fit work strategies
to improve their bottom line. Readers will finish the book convinced of the
place of custom-fit work arrangements in today’s workplace—and of how
honoring employees’ lives outside of work is an effective and innovative
strategy for both managers and organizations. Featuring compelling stories
of companies like Jet Blue, Ernst & Young, and Best Buy, the book profiles
strategies that are gaining traction in workplaces across the country:
|
|
New twists on traditional flexible hours and part-time work
strategies |
|
|
Virtual workplaces |
|
|
Results-Only Work Environments (ROWEs) |
|
|
“Babies at Work” programs
|
|
|
“On ramp and off ramp” opportunities |
Practical and engaging, The Custom-Fit Workplace provides individuals and
employers the tools they need to be successful and happy both at work and in
life.
Click to preview this look on Amazon.com
|
|
March
13 - 19, 2011 |
|
|
Successful Marketing
Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations: Winning in the Age of the Elusive
Donor by Barry J.
McLeish
From the publisher: In Successful Marketing Strategies for Nonprofit
Organizations, Second Edition, nonprofit marketing guru Barry J. McLeish
shares everything he's learned during more than two decades managing and
consulting nonprofits of every shape and size. Skipping all the arcane
theory and the business school jargon, he gives you clear, step-by-step
advice and guidance and all the tools you need to develop and implement a
sophisticated marketing program tailored to your organization's needs and
goals.
|
|
New sections on the new media available to nonprofit marketers |
|
|
Techniques for analyzing your market and developing a comprehensive
marketing plan |
|
|
Marketing strategies that will support fund-raising, promote new
services, and enhance your organization's reputation and visibility |
|
|
Methods for developing a marketing program that reaches both the
consumers of your service and the donors who support your organization |
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
March
6 - 12, 2011 |
|
|
The Nonprofit Organizational
Culture Guide: Revealing The Hidden Truths That Impact Performance
by Paige Hull Teegarden, Denice Rothman Hinden and Paul Sturm
From the publishers: Part practical guide and part reference, the authors
draw upon contemporary research to thoroughly examine and define
organizational culture, then explore its implications for nonprofit
organizational management. The book guides readers through the process of
Revealing Organizational Culture (the ROC), an assessment which helps
leaders successfully apply the principles of culture to achieve their
organizational goals by analyzing organizational stories. This book is a
comprehensive guide for nonprofit managers and leaders, board members,
consultants, funders, and others who seek to help nonprofits improve their
organizations, service delivery, and ultimately performance in accomplishing
their missions.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
February 27 - March 5, 2011 |
|
|
Leading with Care: How Women
Around the World are Inspiring Businesses, Empowering Communities, and
Creating Opportunity by
Mary Cantando
From the publisher: In partnership with international relief agency CARE,
an inspiring look at how women around the world are developing businesses
and creating opportunity. In this ground-breaking business book, management
expert Mary Cantando examines the stories of women in the developing world
who, with help from the non-profit organization CARE, have capitalized on
personal and professional opportunities, contributed to their communities,
influenced their physical environment, and overcome discrimination on the
road to establishing self-sufficiency and building strong lives and strong
businesses Structured around these five principles CARE's mission statement,
Leading with Care expertly bridges inspiring stories of human endeavor with
straight-up business lessons that all of us can apply to our work and
organizations. Featuring interviews with top female executives at American
companies who devote their own time and resources to CARE, we see just how
much we can learn when it comes to growth, opportunity, and community. Each
section ends with a discussion and specific questions that will help you
integrate the lessons in your own life.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
February 20 - 26, 2011 |
|
|
The Nonprofit Development
Companion: A Workbook for Fundraising Success
by Brydon M. DeWitt
From the publisher: A comprehensive workbook covering all aspects of
successful nonprofit development. One of the most significant factors in the
success of any marketing and fundraising program is the ability and
willingness of the organization to take the time to develop an integrated
development plan with realistic budgets, timelines, and areas of
responsibility. The Nonprofit Development Companion examines all aspects of
successful development and includes useable templates and examples that can
be adapted for application within any nonprofit organization.
|
|
Covers a specific element in each chapter, including mission, strategic
planning, case for support, marketing/communications, use of volunteers,
fundraising program, recordkeeping system, CEO, governing board, and
development staffing |
|
|
Includes templates and samples to provide specific examples to use right
away |
|
|
Offers a new approach to nonprofit fundraising and marketing
|
Based on sound development principles, this book gives you the
step-by-step guidance you need to build and run a successful development
program. Click to preview this book on
Amazon.com.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
February 13 - 19, 2011 |
|
|
The Power Formula for Linkedin
Success: Kick-start Your Business, Brand, and Job Search
by Wayne Breitbarth
From the publisher: This simple, user-friendly guide explains how you can
access the full power of LinkedIn--including advice on making lasting
business connections, building a unique personal brand, and generating
significant business opportunities. Breitbarth demonstrates how you can take
advantage of all the features of this professional networking platform. He
shows you how to create a compelling profile, use keywords to improve your
ability to find and be found by others, build a solid base of connections,
solicit valuable recommendations, and much more. His 6-week, 2-hour-per-week
startup plan and weekly maintenance plan will motivate you to make the most
of your time on LinkedIn. Wayne Breitbarth's pragmatic teaching style and
engaging sense of humor are on display throughout The Power Formula for
LinkedIn Success, and he shares many specific examples, stories, and
illustrations that are the direct result of thirty years experience in
business consulting and business ownership. Whether you are an entry-level
professional, a CEO, or anywhere in between, you can benefit from this
practical introduction to a powerful networking tool.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
February 6 - 12, 2011 |
|
|
Hands-On Social Marketing
by Nedra Kline Weinreich
From the publisher: This book shows students and practitioners how to
develop social marketing programs through a simple, six-step process of
strategic planning and design. Nedra Kline Weinreich starts by introducing
the concept of social marketing and then walks the reader through each of
the six steps of the process: analysis, strategy development, program and
communication design, pretesting, implementation, and evaluation and
feedback.
The Second Edition incorporates developments in marketing practice over
the last 10 years and focuses on how to apply the design approach to
campaigns to effect behavior change. All organizations can do social
marketing, Weinreich insists, if they follow the steps and start to think
from a social marketing perspective.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
January 30 - February
5, 2011 |
|
|
Donor-Centered
Planned Gift Marketing
by Michael J. Rosen
From the publisher: Donor-Centered Planned Gift Marketing helps nonprofit
organizations move beyond traditional marketing techniques that have
historically yielded only modest results and reveals how putting the focus
on the donor can produce the best outcomes for all. Here, nonprofits new to
gift planning will learn to market effectively from the start while those
with established programs will discover ways to enhance their efforts. You
will learn about various donor-centered marketing channels and techniques,
as well as how to generate internal support for an improved planned gift
marketing effort.
|
|
Full of useful and proven tips you can implement for immediate
results |
|
|
Offers practical tools including forms and checklists |
|
|
Includes a worksheet to help organizations calculate their planned
giving potential |
Sharing the latest research findings, this book shows you how to identify
who your planned giving prospects are. You will learn how to effectively
focus on them through meaningful communication that ultimately inspires them
to give-and give more.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
January 23 - 29, 2011 |
|
|
Effective Fundraising for
Nonprofits: Real-World Strategies That Work
by Ilona Bray
From the publisher: Getting tax-exempt status
for your nonprofit organization is just the first step toward succeeding in
your mission -- ultimately, your nonprofit's effectiveness depends entirely
on your ability to raise money. Fortunately, Effective Fundraising for
Nonprofits will show you how. Featuring advice and stories from over 40
experienced fundraisers, foundation staffers, journalists, and more, the 3rd
edition of Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits offers strategies for
raising donations from individuals, companies, and institutions, and covers
the tools and staff you'll need to get the job done. The 3rd edition is
updated to include a new focus on fundraising in the down economy and
features input from development professionals across the U.S. And, you can
read up on latest studies on who gives the most and why and the latest tips
for "greening" your nonprofit's special events. Plus, you'll get the latest
tax figures, guidelines for the new IRS Form 990, and updated resource
recommendations and contact information.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
January 16 - 22, 2011 |
|
|
Leveraging Good Will:
Strengthening Nonprofits
by Engaging Businesses by Alice Korngold
From the publisher: Leveraging Good Will shows how nonprofit
organizations can access the extraordinary resources of businesses, and how
for-profits can benefit from partnering with nonprofits. Written by Alice
Korngold—an expert in matching business professionals with nonprofit
organizations—this important resource clearly demonstrates how nonprofits
can gain valuable experience, expertise, relationships, and funding that
will elevate and advance their organizations while businesses can build
stronger relationships with the community and develop the next generation of
leaders. Filled with illustrative examples and real-life success stories,
Leveraging Good Will is an insider’s guide to what it takes for nonprofits
to transform their organizations through partnerships with businesses. Step
by step, the book outlines how to create a solid plan based on
proven-in-practice techniques.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
January
9 - 15, 2011 |
|
|
Achieving Excellence in
Fundraising, 3rd Edition,
edited by Eugene R. Tempel , Timothy L.
Seiler and Eva E. Aldrich
From the publisher: The third edition of this acclaimed resource,
Achieving Excellence in Fundraising, explains the fundraising profession's
major principles, concepts, and techniques. With contributions from noted
experts in the field, and filled with illustrative examples, this book
demonstrates why fundraising is a strategic management discipline and
clearly defines each step in the fundraising cycle.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
January 2 - 8, 2011 |
|
|
Nonprofits and Government:
Collaboration and Conflict
by Elizabeth T. Boris and C. Eugene Steuerle
From the publisher: The past several decades have seen
unprecedented growth in the scope and complexity of relationships between
government and nonprofit organizations. These relationships have been more
fruitful than many critics had feared and more problematic than many
advocates had hoped. Nonprofits and Government is the first comprehensive,
multidisciplinary exploration of nonprofit government relations. The second
edition of this important book is fully updated and includes two new
chapters. The authors address a host of important issues, including
nonprofit advocacy, direct regulatory and tax policy, the conversion of
nonprofits to for-profits, clashes in government interaction with religion
and the arts, and international nonprofit government relationships.
Practitioners, researchers, and policymakers alike will benefit from the
authors wide-ranging discussion.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
December 19, 2010 -
January 1, 2011
|
|
|
The Influential Fundraiser:
Using the Psychology of Persuasion to Achieve Outstanding Results
by Bernard Ross and Clare Segal
From the publisher: With the
explosion of uninspired e-mail solicitations, dull fundraising dinners, and
cookie-cutter direct mail campaigns, donors are demanding a new,
personalized approach when being asked for money. Drawing on the authors'
practical experience and the most current psychological and neurological
research, The Influential Fundraiser offers a wealth of approaches that will
help fundraisers make significant and successful creative "asks" for money
from donors . . . in person. Written by Bernard Ross and Clare Segal—two
leading experts in the field of international nonprofit fundraising—the book
offers step-by-step guidance for gaining confidence and learning the
necessary skills and techniques fundraisers must have to build successful
relationships and raise substantial amounts of money. Written in an
accessible, engaging style, The Influential Fundraiser will help you to be
both highly effective and very flexible. The 5P model outlined in the
book—Passion, Proposal, Preparation, Persuasion, and Persistence—will help
fundraisers and volunteers learn invaluable skills needed for fundraising
success. The Influential Fundraiser is international in scope and includes
helpful suggestions for dealing with a wide range of cultural and diversity
issues.
Click to preview this book on Amazon.com
|
|
To view
2010 Publications of the Week, click here. To view
2009 Publications of the Week, click here. To view
2008 Publications of the Week, click here.
To view 2007 Publications of the Week, click here.
To view 2006 Publications of the Week, click here.
To view 2005 Publications of the
Week, click here. |
|
