Nonprofit Organizations Charities category: 797 books
Shake the World
It's Not About Finding a Job, It's About Creating a Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
James Marshall Reilly set out to capture the insights of today's brightest business and nonprofit leaders. He conducted in-depth interviews with Tony Hsieh (Zappos), Blake Mycoskie (TOMS), Shawn Fanning (Napster, Rupture, Path), and Jessica Jackley (Kiva, ProFounder), among many others. And he learned...
by Laurence Scot
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
A complete and easy to understand guide to the fundamentals of how not-for-profit organizations are formed and run, as well as their structure and the unique accounting and reporting issues they face.
Providing you with a comprehensive understanding of how to maintain the "books"...
The Idealist.org Handbook to Building a Better World
How to Turn Your Good Intentions into Actions that Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
From the world?s largest nonprofit networking website?a resource that gives readers the tools they need to make a difference.
Part career guide, part activist?s handbook, The Idealist.org Handbook to Building a Better World provides tools and inspiration for anyone who wants to make a difference...
Yours for the Asking
An Indispensable Guide to Fundraising and Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Praise for Yours for the Asking: An Indispensable Guide to Fundraising and Management
"Reynold Levy is a master at persuading people to give money—lots of money—to worthy causes. Now he shares his wisdom with us all—and at a bargain price!"
—Tom Brokaw
"Ren Levy...
Putting Wealth to Work
Philanthropy for Today or Investing for Tomorrow?
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
By 2025, Americans will likely be donating over half a trillion dollars annually to nonprofit organizations. Those philanthropic gifts will transform significant parts of America's civic sector landscape.
Philanthropy is entering an era of unprecedented growth and innovation. Established foundations...
by Henry D. (Hank) Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
This book is about the acquiring of donated gifts/contributions for nonprofit organizations. It is not about "fundraisers"-- ticket or product sales. The intent of this book is not to provide a “how to” for raising money, but to help you develop the mindset necessary to be successful at “legitimate” fundraising.
Building for the Arts
The Strategic Design of Cultural Facilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Over the past two decades, the arts in America have experienced an unprecedented building boom, with more than sixteen billion dollars directed to the building, expansion, and renovation of museums, theaters, symphony halls, opera houses, and centers for the visual and performing arts. Among the projects...
Do More Than Give
The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
How donors change the world through the six catalytic practices of high-impact philanthropy
Do More Than Give provides a blueprint for individuals, philanthropists, and foundation leaders to increase their impact. Based on Forces for Good, this groundbreaking book demonstrates how the six practices...
Social Purpose Enterprises
Case Studies for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Social Purpose Enterprises: Case Studies for Social Change presents case studies of twelve organizations that operate in a growing niche within the Canadian social economy: market-based entities supported by a nonprofit organization and operated for the benefit of a workforce who lives on the margins...
Cultural Policy
Management, Value and Modernity in the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Contemporary society is complex; governed and administered by a range of contradictory policies, practices and techniques. Nowhere are these contradictions more keenly felt than in cultural policy. This book uses insights from a range of disciplines to aid the reader in understanding contemporary...
Evaluation Practice for Collaborative Growth
A Guide to Program Evaluation with Stakeholders and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Evaluation Practice for Collaborative Growth highlights the approaches, tools, and techniques that are most useful for evaluating educational and social service programs. This book walks the reader through a process of creating answerable evaluations questions, designing evaluation studies to answer...
by Mr Rob Paton
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2003
`Its emphasis on performance measurement affords rare insights into some innovative techniques. Moreover, institutional and other theories are deployed to explore the reasons for innovation.... The book should be a prized resource for postgraduate students who seek a deeper understanding of social...
Benchmarking for Nonprofits
How to Measure, Manage, and Improve Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2004
The no-cost way to improve your organization on a daily basis Most nonprofits are already benchmarking informally. This unique book defines a formal way to benchmark. You'll learn how to prepare your organization, measure performance, and implement best practices as well as learning the five key steps...
The Art of Social Enterprise
Business as if People Mattered
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The current business-for-profit model rewards short-term thinking, narrow self-interest, and a social-and-environmental-costs-be-damned attitude. Nonprofits, while more focused on the greater good, tend to be inherently resource-challenged and rely on increasingly scarce grants and donations to sustain...