Nonprofit Organizations Charities category: 797 books
by Kate Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
If you think you might like to open a thrift shop,this book will answer all the questions you (should) have. From what factors you need to consider in your decision-making to completing a Business Plan ... from how to choose the best location to how to handle donations ... from the layout of the store...
The Certified Lease & Finance Professionals' Handbook
Sixth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The Certified Lease & Finance Professional Program is presented to the commercial equipment leasing and finance industry as a service of the CLFP Foundation. The prestigious CLFP designation identifies you as a knowledgeable professional to your employer, clients and customers, as well as, your...
Summary of Team of Teams
by General Stanley McChrystal | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Summary of Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal | Includes Analysis Preview: Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal is an examination of the process he began of restructuring the Joint Special Operations Command management style, from a rigid command...
Systems Thinking For Social Change
A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed. Moreover, the answers they propose and fund often produce the...
The Blue Sweater
Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty and find powerful new ways of tackling it. It all started back home in Virginia, with the blue sweater, a gift that quickly became her prized possession—until...
Scaling Up (Escalando sua Empresa)
Como Algumas Empresas Conseguem Crescer... e Porque as Demais Não
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Faz mais de uma década desde que o livro best-seller de Verne Harnish, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, foi lançado pela primeira vez*.* Scaling Up: How a Few companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don’t (Scaling Up: Como Algumas Poucas Empresas Crescem... E Porque as Demais Não) é a maior revisão...
Strategic Communications for Nonprofits
A Step-by-Step Guide to Working with the Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
This is a new edition of Strategic Communications for Nonprofits, which was first published in 1999. It is an up-dated, nuts-and-bolts guide to helping nonprofits design and implement successful communications strategies. The book offers a unique combination of step-by-step guidance on effective media...
The Zen of Fundraising
89 Timeless Ideas to Strengthen and Develop Your Donor Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
If all that has ever been said and written about the art and science of fundraising could be distilled down to just what really matters—what fundraisers everywhere need to know—there would be only a small number of true gems deserving of the description, “nuggets of information.”
Leading...
Decolonizing Wealth
Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Decolonizing Wealth is a provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance. Award-winning philanthropy executive Edgar Villanueva draws from the traditions from the Native way to prescribe the medicine for restoring balance and healing our divides.
Though...
Tools for Grassroots Activists
Best Practices for Success in the Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
For over twenty years, Patagonia has organized a Tools Conference, where experts provide practical training to help make activists more effective. Now Patagonia has captured Tools’ best wisdom and advice into a book, creating a resource for any organization hoping to hone core skills like campaign...
Doing the Math of Mission
Fruits, Faithfulness, and Metrics
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Over the past ten years, the North American mission field has experienced dramatic changes, which in turn have required congregations, middle judicatories, and denominations to adapt. Among these adaptations is an expectation for clear goals and quantified progress towards those goals. Church leaders...
by Sara Wason
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Webster's New World Grant Writing Handbook walks readers through every step of the grant writing process-from defining the project and getting and interpreting a foundation's guidelines to submitting and following up on the grant application. With clear, concise explanations, thorough coverage, illustrative...
Block Party
How Minecraft is helping communities around the world build thriving public spaces, block by block.
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Dozens of schoolgirls in matching uniforms crowded into a computer room at the custard-colored North Thanglong Economic & Technical college on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam. Beyond intermittent ripples of laughter and excitement, the 15- and 16-year-olds stayed focused throughout the day...
Good and Plenty
The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible--and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts, or they believe that public arts funding should be dramatically...