Nonprofit Organizations Charities category: 797 books
by Sue Knaup
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Sue Knaup believed she had landed her dream job as director of the Thunderhead Alliance, a national bicycle nonprofit. Though she had escaped abuse as a child, her ambition obscured her descent into workplace abuse. Her Bike Hunts, searching for then giving away used bikes, became her lifeline back...
The Business of Changing the World
How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Aid Industry
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The new world of results-driven aid that could put an end to extreme poverty
Drawing on 2 decades covering global development as editor in chief of Devex, Raj Kumar explores how nontraditional models of philanthropy and aid are empowering the world’s poorest people to make progress. Old aid...
by Michael Rushton
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
With roughly half of all income for non-profit arts organizations in the United States coming from earned revenue rather than donations and state funding, the issue of pricing is paramount to success in the arts industry, yet pricing is not covered in any existing textbooks. How should prices differ...
Fundraising
Professionelle Mittelbeschaffung für gemeinwohlorientierte Organisationen
Language: German
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Dieses Buch stellt Ihnen das aktuell verfügbare Wissen über professionelles Fundraising und sein systematisches Management zur Verfügung. Dabei profitieren Sie sowohl von den neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen zu Nonprofit-Management und Fundraising als auch von der mehr als 25-jährigen...
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Social Innovation [Open Access]
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Social Innovation: Comparative Perspectives investigates socio-economic impact. Since it is hard to establish causality and to measure social properties when investigating impact, especially at the level of society, the book narrows down impact to one priority aspect: social innovation – understood...
Zilch
How Businesses and Not-for-Profits Can Get More Bang with Less Buck
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
A leading not-for-profit CEO on smart ways companies can cut costs while improving results
As CEO of the youth volunteering organization Do Something, Nancy Lublin has overseen its dramatic growth since 2003. She helped it evolve from a debt-ridden, stodgy not-for-profit to a fast-moving, buzz-driven...
Leadership is Half the Story
A Fresh Look at Followership, Leadership, and Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Can you imagine a choreographer only training one dancer to lead while his or her partner sits in the lobby staring at the wall? Yet we do this all the time in organizations. Half the partnership is missing.
Leadership is Half the Story introduces the first model to seamlessly integrate leadership,...
Brandraising
How Nonprofits Raise Visibility and Money Through Smart Communications
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
In the current economic climate, nonprofits need to focus on ways to stand out from the crowd, win charitable dollars, and survive the downturn. Effective, mission-focused communications can help organizations build strong identities, heightened reputations, and increased fundraising capability. Brandraising...
by Mark Gerencser, Reginald Van Lee, Fernando Napolitano
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
A hurricane strikes a city; terrorists attack a nation; global warming threatens the environment--such problems are too large for any one authority to solve alone. Our increasingly globalized and interconnected world calls for a new type of tri-sector leadership in which business, government and nonprofits...
by Quentin Wodon
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
This book is the second installment in a set of two volumes on Rotary foundations and grants. The first volume provides an introduction for grant applicants and Rotarians to Rotary foundations based in the United States. These foundations include the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International as well...
You’re It!
Shared Wisdom for Successfully Leading Organizations from Both a Seasoned and a First-Time CEO
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
When is the right time to take on a leadership role? Will you ever feel ready?
When Franca Gucciardi accepted her first CEO position at the Loran Scholars Foundation, she quickly realized the immense task ahead of her and contacted her mentor, Alan Broadbent. What followed was a series of...
Network Theory in the Public Sector
Building New Theoretical Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Networks have been described in terms of metaphors, governance arrangements and structural or institutional arrangements. These different perspectives of networks come out of a variety of disciplines, including political science, public administration, urban affairs, social welfare, public management...
Blessed Unrest
How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change
Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes,...
Driving Social Change
How to Solve the World's Toughest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Strategies for long-term social impact
This important new book illustrates how to create the social breakthroughs needed to solve urgent global threats such as poverty, disease, and hunger. It then turns to three alternative, but complementary, paths to social breakthrough: social protecting,...