Nonprofit Organizations Charities category: 797 books
The Essential Nonprofit Fundraising Handbook
Getting the Money You Need from Government Agencies, Businesses, Foundations, and Individuals
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Are you a staff member, a board member, or a volunteer of a faith-based, human service, arts, or other nonprofit organization that needs additional funds to accomplish its mission? Are there not enough hours in the day to raise the money your agency needs? Do your colleagues not have the expertise...
Lessons for Nonprofit and Start-Up Leaders
Tales from a Reluctant CEO
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Lessons for Non-Profit and Start-Up Leaders: Tales from a Reluctant CEOuses the experiences of a real company, Community Connections, to bring to life the practical dilemmas that an organization founded on a mission and guided by a set of ideals must confront and solve if it is to thrive. With no...
The Generosity Network
New Transformational Tools for Successful Fund-Raising
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
The Generosity Network is the essential guide to the art of activating resources of every kind behind any worthy cause.Philanthropist Jeff Walker and fund-raising expert Jennifer McCrea offer a fresh new perspective that can make the toughest challenges of nonprofit management and development less...
by Rupert Scofield
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Make the business of society your business
No one knows the business of social entrepreneurship better than Rupert Scofield. Cofounder and president of FINCA International—a nonprofit microfinancing institution with 7,000 employees serving 750,000 customers in 21 countries—Scofield has been a...
Reinventing Your Board
A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing Policy Governance
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
In the second edition of this best-selling Policy Governance operating manual, John Carver and Miriam Carver make this exciting approach to effective governance even more accessible and user-friendly, gleaning lessons learned in years of practice to help readers understand and use this invaluable...
The Nonprofit Secret
The Six Principles of Successful Board/CEO Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Nonprofit boards are often riddled with political and functional challenges that creep into the running of the organization, conflicting with operations and inhibiting effectiveness, despite everyone’s devotion to the same set of goals. In this groundbreaking book, Jonathan Schick shares the Six Principles...
Measuring and Improving Social Impacts
A Guide for Nonprofits, Companies, and Impact Investors
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The world is beset with enormous problems. And as a nonprofit, NGO, foundation, impact investor, or socially responsible company, your organization is on a mission to solve them. But what exactly should you do? And how will you know whether it’s working? Too many people assume that good intentions...
Money for the Cause
A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
There has never been a greater need for raising the funds necessary to promote the causes that will help build a sustainable future. In Money for the Cause: A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising, veteran nonprofit executive director Rudolph A. Rosen lays out field-tested approaches that have been...
Diversity and Philanthropy: Expanding the Circle of Giving
Expanding the Circle of Giving
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Diversity and Philanthropy: Expanding the Circle of Giving is a concise, accessible, and research-backed resource that explains the traditions of philanthropy—an invaluable tool given the proliferation of global nongovernmental organizations that affect every aspect of society in every country....
Understanding the Social Economy
A Canadian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2009
In Understanding the Social Economy, Jack Quarter, Laurie Mook, and Ann Armstrong integrate a wide array of organizations founded upon a social mission - social enterprises, nonprofits, co-operatives, credit unions, and community development associations - under the rubric of the 'social economy.'...
Finance Fundamentals for Nonprofits
Building Capacity and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
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....
How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation (National Edition)
A Step-by-Step Guide to Forming a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit in Any State
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
A practical, comprehensive, and easy-to-use guide for anyone who wants to form a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit in any state.
Boards That Make a Difference
A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and Public Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
In this revised and updated third edition, Carver continues to debunk the entrenched beliefs and habits that hobble boards and to replace them with his innovative approach to effective governance. This proven model offers an empowering and fundamental redesign of the board role and emphasizes values,...
Nonprofit Nonmarketing
A Guide to Branding Beliefs and Benefits
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Just because you are a nonprofit does not mean that you can ignore marketing. Marketing impacts every aspect of your organization from your fundraising and friend-raising to your community credibility and relevancy. This book provides you with the fuel to quick-start your marketing effortspublic relations,...