Nonprofit Development Library
Below is a complete list of our NPI library titles that are available to all current and startup nonprofit organizations. Although books are not currently available to check-out, you may use any of the books, audio tapes or video tapes during our office hours at no charge. If possible, please contact our office by phone at 262.595.2636 or email at nonprofit.institute@uwp.edu before visiting to make sure an NPI representative will be available to assist you during your planned time. We are always adding helpful titles to our collection. If there is a certain book or a topic of interest that we do not have, please let us know and we will consider purchasing it. All title descriptions were provided by Barnes and Noble.
Advisory Committee
By Nancy R. Axelrod
Assessment of the Chief Executive
By Jane Pierson and Joshua Mintz
Audit Committee: A Key to Financial Accountability in Nonprofit Organizations
By Sandra L. Johnson
Beyond Strategic Planning: How to Involve Nonprofit Boards in Growth and Change
By Douglas C. Eadie
NonProfit Board Answer Book: Practical Guide for Board Members and Chief Executives
By Robert C. Andringa, Ted W. Engstrom, and Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
Nonprofit Board Answer Book 2: Beyond the Basics
By Robert C. Andringa with Outi Flynn and Sandra R. Sabo
The Board Building Cycle: Nine Steps to Finding, Recruiting, and Engaging Nonprofit Board Members
By Sandra R. Hughes, Berit M. Lakey and Marla J. Bobowick
The Board Chair Handbook
By William Dietel and Linda R. Dietel
Board Development Planner: A Calendar of NonProfit Board Initiatives
By The National Center for Nonprofit Boards
Boards
That Make a Difference: A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and Public
Organizations
By John Carver
From the Publisher
John Carver's groundbreaking Policy Governance model has influenced the way public and nonprofit boards operate around the world. Now, as widespread experience with the model accumulates, Carver enriches his definitive exposition with updated policy samples, a new chapter on the process of policy development, and additional resources for various types of boards. Carver debunks the entrenched beliefs about board roles and functions that hamper dedicated board members. With creative insight and commonsense practicality, he presents a bold new approach to board job design, board-staff relationships, the chief executive role, performance monitoring, and virtually every aspect of the board-management relationship. In their stead, he offers a board model designed to produce policies that make a difference, missions that are clearly articulated, standards that are ethical and prudent, meetings, officers, and committees that work, and leadership that supports the fulfillment of long-term goals.
Building Boards That Work: A Video Workshop (Video)
The Business Professional's Guide to Nonprofit Board Service
By Charles F. Dambach, Oliver Tessier, and Carol E. Weisman
Chief Executive Compensation: A Guide for NonProfit Boards
By The National Center for Nonprofit Boards
Development Committee: Fund Raising Begins with the Board
By Eugene R. Tempel
Executive Committee: Making It Work for Your Organization, Vol. 59
By Robert Andringe
Financial Responsibilities of the Nonprofit Board
By Andrew S. Lang
Hiring the Chief Executive
By Sheila Albert
How to Help Your Board Govern More and Manage Less
By Richard P. Chait
Legal Obligations of NonProfit Boards: A Guidebook for Board Members, Vol. 39
By Jacqueline C. Leifer, Michael B. Glomb
Mastering
the Art of Creative Collaboration
By Robert Hargrove
From the Publisher
In this ground breaking work on human behavior, Robert Hargrove, takes a bold stance in forging not just a new concept in management, but a new phase of human development that propels the human spirit into action and creates limitless new possibilities. Reaching beyond the notion of traditional cooperation and teamwork, creative collaboration maximizes the talents and diversity of the group. Rather than sacrificing individuality, creative collaboration mingles each individual spirit and perspective with that of others to reach shared goals, solve complex problems, and generate creative breakthroughs. While Hargrove's broad view of creative collaboration requires a profound shift in the way people think and interact, he also offers a simple but powerful recipe to introduce creative collaboration into any group environment.
Measuring Board Effectiveness: A Tool for Strengthening Your Board
By Thomas P. Holland and Myra Blackmon
Meeting the Challenge: An Orientation to Nonprofit Board Service (Video)
Nonprofit Organizations play a vital role in today's social fabric, and boards of directors have the ultimate responsibility for making sure that organizations are being run effectively and that they are carrying out their missions. Meeting the Challenge, hosted by Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and former board member for the Chicago Council of Boy Scouts, highlights four basic principles of board responsibility - determining mission and program, providing resources, ensuring effective oversight, and participating in community outreach.
Meet Smarter: A Guide to Better NonProfit Board Meetings
By Outi Flynn
Nominating Committee: Laying a Foundation for Your Organization's Future
By Ellen Cochran Hirzy
Perspectives on NonProfit Board Diversity
By Judith Miller, Kathleen Fletcher, Rikki Abzug
The Policy Book: A Resource for Nonprofit Boards
By Kathleen Fletcher
Professional Development: Providing Leadership for Staff Development and In service Education
By The NCSIE (National Council States on In service Education)
Programming
for Staff Development: Fanning the Flame
Editors: Peter Burke, Robert Heideman, and Carroll Heideman
Secrets
of Successful Boards: Boards That Make A Difference
Compiled and Edited By Carol Weisman
Secrets
of Successful Retreats
Compiled and Edited By Carol Weisman
Self-Assessment for Foundation Boards: User's Guide and Questionnaire
By Joshua Mintz, Jane Pierson, Jane Cavanaugh
Staff Development/Organization Development
Prepared by the ASDC 1981 Yearbook Committee
The
Staff Development Manager: A Guide to Professional Growth
By Marjorie K Bradley, Bena O Kallick, and Helen B Regan
Ten Basic Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards
By Richard T. Ingram
To Go Forward, Retreat!: The Board Retreat Handbook
By Sandra R. Hughes
Troublesome Board Member, Vol. 137
By Mark Bailey
Understanding Nonprofit Financial Statements
By Steven H. Berger
The
Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits
By Murray Dropmkin and Bill LaTouche
Creating and Using Investment Policies: A Guide for NonProfit Boards, Vol. 145
By Robert P. Fry,Jr.
Economics
for NonProfit Managers
By Dennis R Young and Richard Steinberg
From the Publisher
Treating micro-economic analysis as an indispensable skill for nonprofit stewards, authors Dennis Young and Richard Steinberg introduce and explain concepts such as opportunity cost, analysis at the margin, market equilibrium, market failure, and cost-benefit analysis. The volume also focuses on issues of particular concern to nonprofits: the economics of fundraising; regulatory environments; the special impact of competition on nonprofit performance; interactions among sources of revenue; and much more. Ideal for nonprofit executives and courses in nonprofit management.
The Finance Committee: The Fiscal Conscience of the NonProfit Board, Vol. 119
By Norah Holmgren
Minding the Money: An Investment Guide for NonProfit Board Members
By Robert P. Fry
* Includes CD-ROM
Understanding
Nonprofit Financial Statements, 2nd Edition (2 copies)
By Steven Berger, CPA
Funding Effectiveness: Lessons in Building Nonprofit Capacity
By Barbara D Kibbe
From the Publisher
Funding Effectiveness is a guide to best practices in capacity-building for grant makers that provides nonprofits and funders alike a much-needed resource for building stronger, more effective nonprofit organizations. The book contains essays written by highly regarded practitioners who share the lessons they have learned in their years of organizational effectiveness work. These leaders share their personal experiences as well as the experiences of their organizations.
SYNOPSIS
Essays by contributors leading such foundations as the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund, and the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation offer leaders of both grant making and nonprofit organizations advice on practices in organizational effectiveness and capacity building. Emphasizing the need to set clear goals and expectations and the importance of creating a culture of measurement, they relate lessons learned from their own experiences in relationship building, research, evaluation, and flexibility. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland , OR
From Grant makers for Effective Organizations (GEO)--a community of grant makers dedicated to building strong organizations- comes a guide to promising practices in capacity building. Written for leaders of both grant making and nonprofit organizations who are dedicated to improving the sector's effectiveness, Funding Effectiveness offers a compelling collection of essays from many of the most highly regarded practitioners in the field. Throughout the book these experts share their personal and their organizations' lessons learned in the area of organizational effectiveness, and they offer practical suggestions and action steps for implementation.
Pathways to NonProfit Excellence: Achieving and Sustaining High Performing Organizations in the NonProfit Sector
By Paul C Light
From the Publisher
"Under increasing competition from private firms and faith-based organizations, the nonprofit sector's 1.23 million organizations and 11 million employees are facing unprecedented pressure to improve performance. While the sector is awash in ideas for management reform, no one knows which reforms are working and why. As a result, reforms come and go like waves at the seashore, rarely leaving a lasting imprint." "Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence provides data on the impact of recent reform efforts from professionals who have observed them firsthand. Based on interviews with 250 leading thinkers from the worlds of philanthropy, scholarship, and consulting, as well as 250 executive directors of some of the nation's most effective nonprofits, the book illuminates the characteristics of effective organizations." The research reveals that there is no one best way to achieve and sustain strong performance. The professionals interviewed caution nonprofits against pretending to be private firms, governments, or faith-based organizations - even if they behave like them from time to time. In fact, nonprofits must become more nonprofit-like if they are to choose their future.
Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding And Mobilizing a Community's Assets
By John P Kretzmann and John McKnight
From the Publisher
This guide summarizes lessons learned by studying successful community-building initiatives in hundreds of neighborhoods across the U.S. It outlines what local communities can do to start their own journeys down the path of asset-based development.
Communicating with Strangers
By William B Gudykunst and Young Yun Kim
From the Publisher
This successful intercultural communication text provides a comprehensive overview of important theory and research in intercultural communication. Communicating with Strangers looks at the basic processes of intercultural communication and ties those processes to the practical task of creating understanding between people of different cultures, backgrounds and communication patterns.
Getting
to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, 2nd Edition
By Roger Fisher and William Ury, and (2nd edition only) Bruce Patton
of the Harvard Negotiation Project
From the Publisher
Getting to Yes offers a concise, step-by-step, proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict-- whether it involves parents and children, neighbors, bosses and employees, customers or corporations, tenants or diplomats. Based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals continually with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution from domestic to business to international, Getting to Yes tells you how to: Separate the people from the problem; Focus on interests, not positions; Work together to create options that will satisfy both parties; and Negotiate successfully with people who are more powerful, refuse to play by the rules, or resort to "dirty tricks."
The Jossey-Bass Guide to Strategic Communications for Nonprofits
By Kathy Bonk, Henry Griggs, Emily Tynes, Communications Consortium Media Center , and the Communications Consortium Media Center Staff
From the Publisher
This nuts-and-bolts workbook is a tool kit for organizations that want to create successful communications strategies. No matter their size or planning experience, nonprofits can use this guide to enhance their profiles in the media, increase name recognition, boost fundraising, recruit membership, and advance changes in public policy. With a clear mission and the right communications skills, even small volunteer organizations can succeed in designing, planning, and implementing strategic public interest campaigns. The authors draw from more than fifty years of combined experience in communications and media relations to provide step-by-step guidance on all aspects of campaign development, including detailed checklists, illustrative charts, and sample forms.
Fearless Fund-Raising for NonProfit Boards, Vol. 142
By G. Worth George
Fearless Fund-Raising (Video)
One of the toughest task for any nonprofit leader is fund-raising. Few people relish the thought of asking for money, however worthy the cause. Nevertheless, for most nonprofit organizations, the only way to garner the resources needed to provide programs and services is to raise funds - systematically, steadily, and with conviction. This video workshop explores the board's role in the fund-raising process. It is a complicated role for most boards and for most board members. It requires planning, practice, and an effective partnership with staff and other volunteers.
List as nonprofit leaders and fund-raising experts discuss:
- why fund-raising is a board responsibility
- how the board and staff differentiate their roles in the process
- strategies for helping board members become effective fund-raisers
The video workshop also highlights the experience of the board and staff leaders of a small nonprofit organization as they talk about:
- how to engage board and staff in the fund-raising process
- how to prepare the board to be successful in fund-raising
- when to involve outside consultants in the fund-raising process
Fundraising for Social Change, 4th Edition, Revised and Expanded
By Kim Klein
From the Publisher
Fundraising for Social Change is one of the most widely used books on fundraising in the United States . Fundraising practitioners 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 fourth edition takes Fundraising for Social Change to new levels of usefulness, with added chapters on the relationship of the Development Director and Executive Director, using the Internet, and making a career of social change fundraising. There are also expanded chapters on the topics that have made this book a classic: asking for money, planning and conducting major gifts campaigns, using direct mail effectively, conducting capital and endowment campaigns for small groups, and much, much more.
The
Fundraising Handbook
By Robert L Krit
Grantseeker's
Toolkit: A Comprehensive Guide to Finding Funding
By Cheryl Carter New and James Aaron Quick
From the Publisher
Grants are a key source of support for most nonprofit organizations, particularly new organizations or those starting new programs. This guide, developed out of a series of seminars, helps grantseekers develop a strategic plan for finding funds for their programs. It outlines how to develop a program that will receive funding and provides the best methods for writing a grant proposal.
The Grassroots Fundraising Series: Part 1 (Video)
The Grassroots Fundraising Series: Part 2 (Video)
By Mary Louise Louise Mussoline, PF Staff
From the Publisher
As advocates for the poor, builders of community, and guardians of the environment, small organizations are big players in the work of the not-for-profit world. This volume of New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising was written to help people within these small organizations approach fundraising in the same way they approach their programs-with pride, determination, and passion.
Planned Giving: A Board Member's Perspective
Board Source
Secrets of Successful Fundraising
Compiled and Edited By Carol Weisman
Small
Nonprofits: Strategies for Fundraising Success
Editor Mary Louise Mussoline
Speaking of Money: A Guide to Fund Raising for Nonprofit Board Members (Video)
Volunteer board members play a central role in helping America's nonprofit organizations obtain philanthropic support. Veteran broadcaster Hugh Downs, who is also chairman of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF, lead a thoughtful examination of the board's role in the development process. Eight board members, who represent a diverse group of nonprofits, discuss how they raise money for the organizations they serve by making contacts, cultivating prospects, and asking for gifts.
By Mim Carlson: The Alliance for Nonprofit Management
From the Publisher
Winning Grants Step by Step is the definitive guide to writing persuasive and successful proposals. In easy-to-understand terms, Mim Carlson leads you through creating a proposal -- from start to finish -- that fulfills the three most important criteria grantmakers demand from a competitive proposal: a clearly stated purpose describing what your organization is trying to achieve, compelling evidence that demonstrates the importance of this goal, and a well-reasoned plan that outlines how your organization will meet the goal in a cost-effective manner. Once you have completed the workbook exercises, you will have a fully developed grant proposal for your organization. This revised and updated edition includes new examples and sample budgets that reflect the reality of today's nonprofit funding environment. It also offers guidance on using the Internet to research funders, current information on preparing and submitting proposals, and advice on building relationships with funders. The companion CD-ROM contains winning sample proposals from real organizations as well as blank worksheets that guide you though the proposal-writing process.
The Executive Director's Survival Guide: Thriving as a Nonprofit Leader
By Mim Carlson, and Margaret Donohoe
From the Publisher
The Executive Director's Survival Guide offers you, the Executive Director, the help you need to survive and thrive in this tough but fulfilling job. Written by Mim Carlson and Margaret Donohoe - experts on the topic of nonprofit leadership - this book is filled with practical guidance and wise advice. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, it helps the busy Executive Director comprehend the complexities of the position and discover new ways to be successful. For all Executive Directors, this resource offers a first-aid kit for coping with day-to-day challenges. The authors - who have extensive experience as Executive Directors - answer questions that are of most concern to you and cover a wide range of timely topics, such as understanding organizational culture, following on the heels of a founder, and leading organizational change. The Executive Director's Survival Guide also contains a wealth of invaluable resources on where to go if you need more guidance.
Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards
By Richard P. Chait, William P. Ryan, and Barbara E. Taylor
From the Publisher
"Governance as Leadership offers trustees and executives a new and practical framework to govern nonprofit organizations more effectively. The book provides ideas, tactics, and examples that enrich the work of trustees and enhance a board's value to the organization it governs." Written by noted researchers and consultants, Governance as Leadership introduces a fresh way to think about governance with sensible guidance to turn these ideas into concrete actions. It will be particularly valuable to trustees and senior staff of professionally managed nonprofit organizations, as well as many others, including foundation officers, donors, consultants, and students of nonprofit organizations who are interested in improving nonprofit governance.
Leader
to Leader
By The Drucker Foundation Edited by Frances Hesselbein and Paul M Cohen
The Leader of the Future
By The Drucker Foundation
Monday
Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can’t Afford to Miss
By David Cottrell
Real
Change Leaders: How You Can Create Growth and High Performance at Your Company
By Jon Katzenbach
From the Publisher
For a change effort to be successful, people throughout the organization need to learn new skills and behaviors. Real Change Leaders tells the story of how this is taking place through the eyes of the people who are making it happen - middle managers on the front lines, responsible for doing things like increasing revenues, developing new products, changing the ways customers are served, and improving financial performance. This is a book of immense value for both senior executives and middle managers. For senior managers it shows how companies are tapping this new source of leadership capability and how these lessons can be implemented by their own company. For middle managers, Real Change Leaders shows how to assume a new role, one that will enable them to produce at higher levels and enhance as well as keep their jobs.
Reframing
Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership
By Lee G Bolman an Terrence E Deal
Bolman and Deal consolidate key learnings from organization theory into four practical, easy-to-understand perspectives or "frames": structural, human resource, political, and symbolic. These frames provide a complete portrait of an organization and allow managers to clarify issues and create a flexible, dynamic, "big picture" management strategy. Using numerous examples from business, education, health care, and the public sector, the authors demonstrate how to integrate these four frames into a powerful and coherent strategy that can be applied to any organization. Drawing on a wealth of new material, fresh insights, and current examples, this more concise second edition of Reframing Organizations provides a sharp perspective on the rapidly changing business and political climate of the late 1990s.
The Spirit of Leadership: Liberating the Leader in Each of Us
By Harrison Owen
From the Publisher
The success of an organization depends on its spirit -- the inner force that inspires and motivates its workers. This unique guide shows managers how to let this spirit blossom by adopting the informal leadership strategies women have used for ages -- vision, storytelling, structure, comfort, and renewal.
By Bob Nelson, Stephen Schudlich (Illustrator), Foreword by Kenneth H. Blanchard
From the Publisher
The vice president of a leading management-training and consulting company has delved extensively into the issue of employee rewards and put together an idea-filled reference to making the person/achievement/reward equation work.
Whether you manage a department, oversee a division, lead a company -- or run a family business with just one employee -- there's an essential principle to follow that's too often overlooked: What most motivates the people who work for you is recognition.
A chock-full guide to rewards of every conceivable type for every conceivable situation, 1001 Ways to Reward Employees polls the whole of the American business community, finding innovative ideas in every corner. From the spontaneous gesture of praise to formal company-wide programs, it presents hundreds of ways to say thank you to the people who truly deserve it.
Benchmarking for Nonprofits: How to Measure, Manage, and Improve Performance
By Jason Saul
Complete
Guide to NonProfit Management
By Smith,
Bucklin and Associates
From the Publisher
Just as for-profit businesses are developing new management styles to meet the challenges of a changing marketplace, today's nonprofits are undergoing a transformation of their own. Growing competition for a shrinking pool of funds, ever more intense public scrutiny, greater involvement by boards of directors, stricter state and federal regulations, tighter budgets - these and a host of other new facts of life require that today's nonprofit organizations, like their for-profit counterparts, be leaner, more bottom-line driven business organizations. Now this practical guide shows nonprofit managers how to run their organizations more efficiently and more effectively. From the collaborative effort of the experts at Smith, Bucklin & Associates, North America 's preeminent nonprofit management firm, comes a complete, nuts-and-bolts guide to managing nonprofits of every size. In business since 1949, Smith, Bucklin has developed a set of proven management strategies and techniques tailored to the unique financial, human resources, and management challenges and opportunities facing nonprofit organizations.
The
Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning
Organization
By Art Kleiner, Peter Senge, Richard Ross, Bryan Smith, and Charlotte
Roberts
From the Publisher
Peter Senge's national bestseller, The Fifth Discipline, revolutionized the practice of management by introducing the theory of learning organizations. Now Dr. Senge moves from the philosophical to the practical by answering the first question all lovers of the learning organization ask: What do they do on Monday morning?
The Fieldbook is an intensely pragmatic guide. It shows how to create an organization of learners where memories are brought to life, where collaboration is the lifeblood of every endeavor, and where the tough questions are fearlessly asked. The stories here show that companies, businesses, schools, agencies, and even communities can undo their "learning disabilities" and achieve superior performance. If ever a work gave meaning to the phrase hands-on, this is it. Senge and his four co-authors cover it all including:
- Reinventing relationships
- Being loyal to the truth
- Building a shared vision
- Organizations as communities
- Designing an organization's governing ideas
The Fieldbook is designed to have you creating a learning organization right from the very beginning! Listen to it anywhere: in meetings, planning sessions, during reflections, or anytime a conflict or challenge arises. Listen to The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, take notes, and watch your own guide to mastering the disciplines of organizational learning evolve.
Goal
Driven Management: Getting Back to the Basics
By Glenn H Varney
Help! I-Don't-Have-Enough-Time Guide to Volunteer Management
By Katherine Noyes Campbell and Susan J. Ellis
From the Publisher
Presents a step-by-step framework for creating a team approach to volunteer management. With this realistic, no-nonsense book, you'll learn how to map the boundaries of your job and clarify expectations; find administrative volunteers and put them to work in vital ways; and share ownership--and the work of the volunteer program with everyone in your organization.
High Performance Nonprofit Organizations
By Christine W. Letts and Allen Grossman
From the Publisher
Drawing on management techniques used by successful managers in both businesses and nonprofits, High Performance Nonprofit Organizations outlines approaches that nonprofits can use to build their capacity for learning, innovating, ensuring quality, and motivating staff. Illustrated with case studies and examples, the book outlines processes for achieving these goals. High Performance Nonprofit Organizations goes further, laying out an agenda for changing the nonprofit environment, making it more supportive of its managers and more aware of the potential of organizational capacity. For the nonprofit manager trying to build an organization that is truly responsive to its clients and community, High Performance Nonprofit Organizations is an essential review of best practices. For the board member, foundation program officer, or nonprofit leader trying to create sustained impact, it is a provocative challenge to deal with the sector's unfinished business with a new approach.
Making Nonprofits Work: A Report on the Tides of Nonprofit Management Reform
By Paul C. Light
From the Publisher
In Making Nonprofits Work, Paul C. Light charts the current trends of management reform in the nonprofit sector and assesses the climate for reform at the local and national levels. LIght examines the four popular philosophies or "tides," being advocated--scientific management, liberation management, war on waste and watchful eye--offereing examples and caveats from a portfolio of recent experience.
Managing
the Non Profit Organization
By Peter F Drucker
From the Publisher
The service, or non-profit, sector of our society is growing rapidly (with more than 8 million employees and more than 80 million volunteers), creating a major need for guidelines and expert advice on how to manage these organizations effectively. Drucker gives examples and explanations of mission, leadership, resources, marketing, goals, people development, decision making, and much more. Included are interviews with nine experts that address key issues in the non-profit sector.
Nonprofit Governance: Steering Your Organization with Authority and Accountability
By Berit M. Lakey
NonProfit
Organization Operating Manual: Planning for Survival and Growth
By Arnold J Olenick and Phillip R Olenick
From the Publisher
Arnold J. Olenick and Philip R. Olenick, a CPA/MBA Attorney team, pool their nonprofit expertise in this all-inclusive, clearly written desk manual for nonprofit executives. No other work combines the broad scope and in-depth coverage of A Nonprofit Organization Operating Manual. The book covers all aspects of starting and managing a nonprofit: legal problems; obtaining tax exemption; organizational planning and development; board relations; operational, proposal, cash, and capital budgeting; marketing; grant proposals, fundraising, and for-profit ventures; accounting; computerization; tax planning and compliance.
The
Possibilities of Organization
By Barry Oshry
Twenty-First
Century NonProfit: Remaking the Organization in the Post-Government Era
By Paul B Firstenberg
From the Publisher
Paul Firstenberg utilizes his extensive experience in the for-profit nonprofit sectors to develop a systematic plan for organizational governance. The 21st Century Nonprofit draws on the latest management techniques to help nonprofits become more vital social and cultural forces. It encourages managers to: adopt the strategies developed by the for-profit sector in recent years; expand their revenue base by diversifying grant sources and exploiting profit-generating initiatives; develop human resources by attracting and retaining talented people; and explore the nature of leadership through short profiles of three nonprofit CEOs.
Why Nonprofits Fail: Overcoming Founder's Syndrome, Fundphobia and Other Obstacles to Success
By Stephen R. Block
From the Publisher
In an era of increased demands for accountability and effectiveness, executive directors and managers of nonprofit organizations often find themselves struggling with problems they are unable to resolve. Why is it that intelligent, well-meaning individuals can manage and guide their organizations into a dysfunctional and chaotic mess and not find their way out? In Why Nonprofits Fail, author and nonprofit expert Stephen Block explains that many well-intentioned leaders hold on to views of their nonprofit organizations that perpetuate problems rather than help fix them. According to Block, the first step to success is to challenge one's own personal paradigms and ideas and be open to unique and alternative approaches to solving problems. This much-needed book helps nonprofits get back on track and offers advice about the seven most common stumbling blocks. Block includes illustrative case examples for each of the seven key obstacles and shows how to prevent and diagnose these obstacles. The book also contains straightforward analysis of what works and what doesn't and practical advice for guiding leaders to developing a framework that will help them effectively manage and move their organizations from good intentions to real results.
Marketing
Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations Volume II: Mobilize People for Marketing
Success
By Gary J Stern
Becoming a Cutting Edge Nonprofit Organization
This is a workbook from a presentation sponsored by Career Industries, Inc.; Curative Workshop of Racine; Kenosha Achievment Center ; Burlington Area Chamber of Commerce; and Bank of Elmwood. The presenter was Peter Brinckerhoff.
Building Partnerships: Educating Health Professionals for the Communities They Serve
Edited by Ronald W Richards
From the Publisher
Since it was founded in 1930, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has helped to develop health initiatives based on the premise that if given the tools, individuals, institutions, and communities will make changes for the better. As a reflection of that philosophy, the Kellogg Foundation funded the Community Partnerships with Health Professions Education initiative to seek new approaches to educating primary care practitioners by linking universities and communities. Building Partnerships is the first book to report on this five-year initiative. Written in accessible language, the book is filled with real-life stories and situations that suggest the scope and variety of the partnerships and the diversity of the people who are creating them. By illuminating the Community Partnerships model, Building Partnerships suggests ways community members, academe, and policy makers at multiple levels can lead educational reform in health professions education.
Consulting
with Nonprofits: A Practitioner’s Guide
By Carol A Lukas
Corporate Employee's Guide to NonProfit Board Service, Vol. 132
By Carol E. Weisman
Dance
Lessons: 6 Steps to Great Partnerships in Business and Life
By Chip R Bell and Heather Shea
From the Publisher
Organizations today are lean, agile, and focused, which means that partnerships are more crucial than ever to success. From outsourcing to strategic alliances, businesses depend on partners to help them meet marketplace challenges and achieve financial goals. But what does a good partnership depend on? There are many books that explain the organizational dynamics. But until now, no book has focused on the single most important component: the human factor. In Dance Lessons, two veteran business consultants show businesspeople how to manage the personal side of partnerships and choreograph the results they want. Successful partnering, the authors argue, is like dancing. You have to know the steps, choose your partner well, and know how to cope when you get a charley horse or new shoes. Using the authors' six easy steps, managers will learn how to put the "why" before the "how;" keep the trying out of tryouts; work with cues and roles; realize that partnership is a two-way street; combat their own stumbles; and end the dance when the music stops, among many other lessons. Whether a manager needs to cement an alliance with a key supplier of enhance the synergy between marketing and operations, knowing how to control the irrational, emotional side of the relationship is critical. And this book explains how to do it.
End
of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market
Era
By Jeremy Rifkin Forward by Robert L Heilbroner
From the Publisher
America is experiencing its sharpest rise in productivity in fifty years, the stock market is on its way to recovery, and the economy is growing -- but jobs still keep disappearing at an alarming rate, leaving everyone perplexed. The global economy, says Jeremy Rifkin, is undergoing a fundamental transformation in the nature of work that will reshape civilization in the twenty-first century. In this compelling and disturbing, yet ultimately hopeful book, Rifkin argues that we are entering a new phase in history -- one characterized by the steady and inevitable decline of jobs. Sophisticated computers, robotics, telecommunications, and other Information Age technologies are fast replacing human beings in virtually every sector and industry. Near-workerless factories and virtual companies loom on the horizon. While the emerging "knowledge sector" and new markets abroad will create some new jobs, they will be too few to absorb the vast numbers of workers displaced by the new technologies. Every nation will have to grapple with the question of what to do with the millions of people whose labor is needed increasingly less, or not at all, in an ever more automated global economy. Rethinking the very nature of work is likely to be the single most pressing concern facing society in the decades to come. Rifkin warns that the end of work could mean the demise of civilization as we have come to know it, or signal the beginning of a great social transformation and a rebirth of the human spirit.
Enterprising Nonprofits: A Toolkit for Social Entrepreneurs
By J. Gregory Dees, Peter Economy, Jed Emerson
From the Publisher
A hands-on toolbox shows nonprofits how to adopt entrepreneurial behaviors and techniques
The most comprehensive work of its kind and an indispensable resource for nonprofit organizations everywhere, Enterprising Nonprofits helps nonprofits embrace the methods of social enterprise-the adoption of entrepreneurial behaviors and techniques by nonprofit, community-oriented organizations. This accessible, hands-on toolbox for all levels of employees working in all kinds of socially oriented organizations features some of the best and the brightest thinkers and practitioners in the field, including: Rob Johnston, Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management; Bruce Hopkins, Polsinelli, White, Vardeman & Shalton; and Tom McLaughlin, BDO Seidman.
The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Nonprofit Organization
By Peter F. Drucker
From The Publisher
This Workbook embodies the stimulating process Drucker uses in face-to-face consultations with nonprofit organizations. Following his method, participants ask and answer five key questions that focus on essential aspects of their organization, from the central values contained in its mission statement to the strategic vision of its long-term plan. The Self-Assessment Tool package contains a User Guide , which provides guidelines for facilitators as well as helpful resources to promote effective group discussions. This Participant's Workbook guides participants through the five key questions.
Governance of National Federated Organizations
By Candace Widmer, Susan Houchin
History Matters: Lessons from the New York Historical Society's Board Room, Vol. 147
By Kevin Guthrie
How to Form a NonProfit Corporation
By Anthony Mancuso
From the Publisher
Most organizations that want legal nonprofit status don't have the money to pay a lawyer thousands of dollars for help. Fortunately, they don't have to.
The definitive guide for arts groups, social service agencies, environmentalists and anyone who wants to start a nonprofit organization, this book shows you how to form and operate a tax-exempt corporation in your state. It includes complete instructions for obtaining 501 (c)(3) tax exemption and for qualifying for public charity status with the IRS.
The 7th edition is completely updated to provide the latest federal and state rules. It also provides the latest forms you need, including the new IRS Form 1023, Application for Recognition of Exemption Under Section 501 (c)(3). * Includes CD-ROM
Learning from Experience: A Collection of Service-Learning Projects Linking Academic Standards to Curriculum
Compiled by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
(We have 2 copies)
Making
Outreach Visible: A Guide to Documenting Professional Service and Outreach
By Amy Driscoll and Ernest A Lynton
NonProfit Board's Guide to Bylaws
By D. Benson Tesdahl
The NonProfit Handbook (2 copies available)
By Gary M. M. Grobman, Foreword by Joe Geiger, Gary M. Grobman (Introduction)
The Nonprofit Legal Landscape
Board Source
Nonprofit Nation: A New Look at Third America
By Michael O'Neill
From the Publisher
"With the introduction of the first edition of his landmark book The Third America, Michael O'Neill created a much-needed resource for analyzing and understanding the "invisible sector" - the thousands of nonprofit organizations that have a significant impact on society, but have less than significant visibility." "The nonprofit sector is no longer invisible. It is a high-profile, high-impact community that affects the lives of people throughout the country and the world. Understanding the nonprofit sector is essential - both to the professionals and volunteers within the sector and to concerned citizens and community leaders who work with the nonprofits that influence our society." In Nonprofit Nation, the new edition of his classic work, O'Neill takes a fresh look at the nonprofit sector and the power it has to use its growing visibility and strength. Like the first edition, this new book is an up-to-date, comprehensive guide to understanding the nonprofit sector. Identifying and examining the major nonprofit subsectors - health care, arts, social service, and religious organizations, for example - and detailing their particular concerns and impact enable O'Neill to explore their influence on business, government, and society.
Synopsis
O'Neill (nonprofit management, U. of San Francisco ) describes the recent growth and current extent of the nonprofit sector in the US , its impact on society, key challenges facing nonprofits, and possible future directions. This account differs from his 1989 The Third America by focusing on the years 1950-2000, and including more extensive statistics. His expected readers are students of nonprofits and philanthropy, managers and other participants in nonprofits, and historians. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland , OR
Responsive
University: Restructuring for High Performance
Editor: William G Tierney
From the Publisher
In THE RESPONSIVE UNIVERSITY, William G. Tierney brings together a distinguished group of practitioners and scholars to describe how colleges and universities might respond more effectively to changing social, demographic, and political forces. Changes contributors propose are far-reaching throughout the entire academy, but, at the same time, practical for achieving high performance.
Tides of NonProfit Reform: A Report on the NonProfit Public Service
By Paul Charles Light, Paul C. Light
We Must Take Charge: Our Schools and Our Future
By Chester E. Finn, Jr.
From the Publisher
In We Must Take Charge, Chester E. Finn, Jr., exhorts Americans from all walks of like to take control of our degenerating public education system. Finn notes that the system continues to lack accountability and quality control and proposes radical changes, saying "We cannot wait for new 'experts' to save our schools and our children".
What You Should Know About Nonprofits
By National Center for Nonprofit Boards
You
Need to be a Little Crazy
By Barry Moltz
Blueprint for Success: A Guide to Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Board Members (Video)
Strategic planning can help a nonprofit organization involve key stakeholders, increase its effectiveness at meeting
community needs, and create a vision for the future. While methods and plans vary, one component is essential to
creating a successful strategic plan: the commitment and participation of the board. NBC News broadcast journalist Maria Shriver, a board member of Special Olympics International, guides an exploration of how two nonprofit organizations, the Mid-American Chapter of the American Red Cross and the Levine School of Music, carry out strategic planning. Board and staff leaders from each organization explain why planning is important, why the board must be involved, and the benefits and challenges of the strategic planning process.
By Judy Kaye, Michael Allison, The Support Center for Nonprofit Management
From the Publisher
This comprehensive book/disk set shows you how to create and implement an effective strategic plan using a simple, seven-phase process that covers everything from defining your mission and setting your course to initiating, monitoring, and streamlining your plan. The workbook is designed for nonprofits of all shapes, sizes, and budgets, and can be easily adapted to fit any time frame. The package comes with field-tested worksheets, checklists, and tables in both print and disk formats, plus a sample case study that demonstrates strategic planning in action from start to finish.
All Hands on Board: The Board of Directors in an All-Volunteer Organization
By Jan Masaoka
Help! I-Don't-Have-Enough-Time Guide to Volunteer Management
By Katherine Noyes Campbell and Susan J. Ellis
From the Publisher
Presents a step-by-step framework for creating a team approach to volunteer management. With this realistic, no-nonsense book, you'll learn how to map the boundaries of your job and clarify expectations; find administrative volunteers and put them to work in vital ways; and share ownership--and the work of the volunteer program with everyone in your organization.
Please click on the above link to download the Volunteer Handbook
