Nonprofit Organizations Charities category: 797 books
Organizing Special Events and Conferences
A Practical Guide for Busy Volunteers and Staff
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Here is help for anyone who has to produce a public event — from a church social or school fundraiser to a national conference. This comprehensive and practical handbook is the first to reveal all the tricks and techniques of the professional event organizer. Packed with step-by-step instructions,...
Leadership in the Eye of the Storm
Putting Your People First in a Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Corporations need great leaders – particularly during times of distress and crisis. Shareholders, employees, and longtime customers all experience firsthand the disastrous effects poor leadership can have on the human side of the business equation.
Leadership in the Eye of the Storm is a...
Civil Society, the Third Sector and Social Enterprise
Governance and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
If the twentieth century was only focused on the complementarity and the opposition of market and state, the twenty-first century has now to deal with the prominence of the third sector, the emergence of social enterprises and other solidarity hybrid forms. The concept of civil society organisations...
Membership Essentials
Recruitment, Retention, Roles, Responsibilities, and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The updated and expanded ASAE guide to membership fundamentals
Membership Essentials is the American Society of Association Executives' flagship guide to all aspects of membership development, recruitment, and retention. One of the five core topics for CAE preparation, membership is a fundamental...
Knowledge Management in the Sharing Economy
Cross-Sectoral Insights into the Future of Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
This volume explores the challenge of engaging knowledge management in a sharing economy. In a hyper-competitive business environment, everything tends to be digital, virtual and highly networked, which raises the issue of how knowledge management can support the decision whether or not to share strategic...
Endangered Economies
How the Neglect of Nature Threatens Our Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
In the decades since Geoffrey Heal began his field-defining work in environmental economics, one central question has animated his research: "Can we save our environment and grow our economy?" This issue has become only more urgent in recent years with the threat of climate change, the accelerating...
The Can Do Workplace
A Strengths Based Model for Non-Profits
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
The Can Do Workplace shares with reader A can do workplace is where strategic change, inspired growth and a persistent attitude of gratitude are the expectation and the norm. Ms. Coridan's second book, The Can Do Workplace, presents the Can Do Model of Change & GrowthTM, focused on potential,...
The Professions, State and the Market
Medicine in Britain, the United States and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This unique book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state and the market – and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice. In so doing, the book adopts a neo-Weberian perspective, in which professions are seen as a form of exclusionary social...
Paradigm Found
Leading and Managing for Positive Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
A Practical Framework for Positive Social Change In 1987, Anne Firth Murray had the idea that funding should go to grassroots women's organizations around the globe and that the recipients themselves should decide how to use that money. From that idea, The Global Fund for Women was born. The organization...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
A new edition of one of the flagship books for CAE preparation
The ASAE Handbook of Professional Practices in Association Management covers the core functions of association management at a high but practical level, making it a go-to resource for professionals who are leading and managing membership...
by Gary Paul Green, Anna L. Haines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
***A comprehensive approach focused on sustainable change ** *
Asset Building and Community Development, Fourth Edition examines the promise and limits of community development by showing students and practitioners how asset-based developments can improve the sustainability and quality of...
Supervision Matters
100 Bite-Sized Ideas to Transform You and Your Team
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
• The number one reason people leave their jobs is because of their supervisors. (Gallup) • It costs 16%–20% of an employee’s annual salary to replace entry-level and mid-level positions when they leave, and replacing a high-level executive can cost up to 200% of their salary. (CBS Money Watch)...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age. It analyses existing models of leadership in various political...
Improving Think Tank Management
Practical Guidance for Think Tanks, Research Advocacy NGOs, and Their Funders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Improving Think Tank Management: Practical Guidance for Think Tanks, Research Advocacy NGOs, and Their Funders demonstrates better management is possible, cost-effective, and rewarding for leaders and funders of think tanks. The book contains contemporary and actionable best practices, case studies,...