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Publisher
Nolo
Language
English
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Description
"This essential guide to starting and running a nonprofit organization includes practical advice, legal information, tips, and step-by-step instructions. It explains how to develop a strategic plan and budget; recruit and manage board members, volunteers, and staff; market an organization to a target audience; raise money-including traditional methods and crowdfunding; build a website and use social media strategically; and adopt policies that are...
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Language
English
Description
"The success or failure of a nonprofit depends on its ability to solicit donations from individuals, companies, and institutions. This book offers advice and stories from over 50 experienced fundraisers, foundation staffers, journalists, and more. It explains how to make a fundraising plan, work with individual donors, solicit grants from foundations and corporations, and much more. This book also provides creative grassroots strategies and dozens...
Author
Publisher
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A Bestseller Becomes Even More Pertinent.
First published in 2005, this collection of CompassPoint online newsletter articles became instantly popular with busy board members of nonprofits. Now updated with new essays that are short enough to read over a cup of coffee, readers will find essential insights on board responsibilities, executive directors, fundraising, finance, and more.
New topics include: eleven ways to get a new executive director...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Lifelong
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Kathleen Kelly Janus, a lecturer at the Stanford University Program on Social Entrepreneurship and the founder of the successful social enterprise Spark, set out to investigate what makes a startup succeed or fail. She surveyed more than 200 high-performing social entrepreneurs and interviewed dozens of founders. "Social Startup Success" shares her findings for the legions of entrepreneurs working for social good, revealing how the best organizations...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
Let's be honest. Most books about financial management are densely written, heavy on jargon, and light on practicality. Expert financial consultant and author Tom McLaughlin takes a different approach with his fourth edition of Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers. This comprehensive guide provides effective, easy-to-use tips, tools, resources, and analyses.
The light, humorous tone in Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers...
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Series
Language
English
Description
More so now than in years past, a significant number of nonprofit organizations have experienced a major decrease in funding and contributions. Nonprofit Kit for Dummies, 4th Edition caters to these organizations and shows you how your nonprofit can thrive and survive even in the most unpredictable and uncertain economic climate. This new edition of Nonprofit Kit For Dummies offers tips and information on everything you need to navigate the process...
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Series
Publisher
Stitch-in-Time Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Wise Guide to Winning Grants provides complete instruction in the research and writing techniques that lead to winning grants from foundations, corporations, and government agencies, as well as major gifts from individuals. The process is described step-by-step with numerous real-life examples in an easy-to-read conversational style. You'll learn how to make your proposals stand out from the crowd and avoid common mistakes. Whether you work in...
13) Financial management for nonprofits: the complete guide to maximizing resources and managing assets
Author
Publisher
Irwin Professional Pub
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
16) Executive leadership in nonprofit organizations: new strategies for shaping executive-board dynamics
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Series
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Entrepreneur Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Provides proven strategies for cash-flow management so your nonprofit doesn't have to operate hand-to-mouth. Enhances fundraising efforts and provides the hard numbers and measured outcomes your donors want to see. Minimizes overhead and maximizes funds for your primary mission. Extensive checklists, forms and work sheets make the business side a breeze so you can improve your organization and fulfill your mission.
Author
Publisher
CyberEdge Information Services
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
There are more than a million nonprofit organizations in the United States and every one of them needs to tell its story, find clients, solicit donations, sell services, and encourage its volunteers. Yet few have a marketing department, and many have serious challenges in meeting their communications and marketing goals.Addressed to the MarCom manager in small to medium sized nonprofits, this book assumes that the reader has little formal knowledge...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Offers "tips and tools, as well as ... advice and insights from a variety of ... industry experts, ... addressing all areas [in which] a nonprofit can utilize mobile technology. [The book] ... addresses how to use mobile to build and retain audiences, manage and promote content, recruit and utilize volunteers, fundraise more efficiently and effectively, and monitor organizations' goals and key performance indicators, as well as offers specific mobile...