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SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL BOARDS: THE BEST OF THE NONPROFIT PRO'S
Edited By Carol Weisman Sitting in a board room are people with different points of view, different voices, and different styles, which is why Carol's colleages share their expertise, joys, and insights in this book. The purpose of this book is to give board member some tools and advice on how to do well. This book is not a book of best practices, but rather, like a board, the opinion of many different folks. Carol has two unique talents. The most unusual is her uncanny ability to get upgrades on airplanes. The other is recruiting marvelous people to get involved in exciting projects. This book will help you share your unique talents so as to achoeve the mission of a group you care about.
ISBN: 0966616812
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TRANSFORMATIONAL BOARDS: A Practical Guide to Engaging Your Board and Embracing Change
by Byron Tweeten
A fully developed discussion of how to set and review policy, recruit new board members, do performance evalution, monitor finances, and do long-range thinking and planning.
ISBN: 0787959138 |
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The Art of Trusteeship:
The Nonprofit Board Members Guide to Effective Governance
by Candace Widmer & Susan Houchin
The well-being of any nonprofit organization rests first with its volunteer board of directors. This book offers board members the guidance they need to successfully govern their organizations—no matter what type or size of nonprofit they may lead. It shows how to fulfill ten key trustee responsibilities and includes much-needed detail on defining a mission, strategic planning, executive selection and evaluation, fundraising, financial oversight, and board self-assessment. This hands-on guide is filled with illustrative case studies and real-life examples that clearly show how a variety of creative boards have tackled challenges and strengthened their organizations.
ISBN: 0787951331 |
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The Strategic Board: The Step-by-Step Guide to High-Impact Governance
By Mark Light
This book inspires readers to ask all of the right questions and outline personal goals with regards to strategic planning and high-impact governance for nonprofit boards. Presents a specific model of governance with a step-by-step plan for implementation. ISBN: 047140358X
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SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL FUND RAISING
By Carol Weisman
19 nonprofit gurus (including Peter Brinckerhoff) share their fundraising secrets. Chapters include: board involvement, feasibility studies, generating multiple revenue streams, hiring consultants, special events, direct mail, planned giving, grants, major gifts, cause related marketing, corporate giving, internet fundraising, social entrepreneurism, newsletters, accounting 101, strategic alliances, and donor recognition.
ISBN: 0966616820
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Losing Your Executive Director Without Losing Your Mind: A Nonprofit's Guide to Executive Turnover
By Carol Weisman and Richard Goldbaum
The key issues and hands-on ideas on how to address this important and highly stressful topic for any nonprofit board.
ISBN: 0787963712
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Boards That Make a Difference : A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and Public Organizations
by John Carver
John Carver's groundbreaking Policy Governance model has influenced the way public and nonprofit boards operate around the world. Now, as widespread experience with the model accumulates, Carver enriches his definitive exposition with updated policy samples, a new chapter on the process of policy development, and additional resources for various types of boards.
ISBN: 0787908118 |
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High Impact Philanthropy : How Donors, Boards, and Nonprofit Organizations Can Transform Communities
by Alan L. Wendroff & Kay Sprinkel Grace
A definitive text about transformational philanthropy in the 21st century. A guide for nonprofit organizations, their staff leaders, their board members, other volunteers, and the nonprofit donor-investor. Includes eight main ideas of philanthropy, including solid strategies for traditional major gifts programs to make them transformational.
ISBN: 0471369187
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Nonprofit Boards : Roles, Responsibilities, and Performance
by Diane J. Duca
This practical guide is dedicated to helping nonprofit board members, chairpersons, and executive directors develop and manage effective boards, empowered to respond to the special needs of their organizations. Diane J. Duca offers different ways to approach organizing and utilizing a board by presenting different board models. Using case studies and illustrations from real-life situations, she explores every aspect of board management, clarifies the roles of board members and executives, and discusses the board's legal and ethical obligations.
ISBN: 0471130206
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The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits : A Step-by-Step Guide for Managers and Boards
by Murray Dropkin & Bill LaTouche
A hands-on resource that shows nonprofits how to budget as a team. The book includes step-by-step instructions and terrific worksheets and forms for easy entry.
ISBN: 0787940364
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Building Effective Boards for Religious Organizations: A Handbook for Trustees, Presidents, and Church Leaders
by Thomas P. Holland
Holland offers an unprecedented look at the crucial role a board plays in a religious nonprofit, and addresses the complexity and depth a religious mission adds to all aspects of the board's work. This is a comprehensive, practical handbook for any religious organization which offers guidance and role definition to all members of the board, clergy and religious organization.
ISBN: 0787945633
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Nonprofit Boards That Work: The End of One-Size-Fits-All Governance
by Maureen K. Robinson
Offers non-profit organizations methods for turning their board into an asset and an effective governance body. Discusses the ways in which organizations can evaluate how best they can be served by their board, and how to use their specific requirements to tailor a set of governance strategies.
ISBN: 0471354325
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The High-Performance Board : Principles of Nonprofit Organization Governance
by Dennis D. Pointer & James D. Orlikoff
The authors provide sixty-four principles designed to help your board achieve peak performance. They describe every principle in detail and present best practices and practical applications for each one. Each section of the book concludes with a board check-up-a set of questions that can be used to assess your board in light of the principles. A quick read for busy board members, this book is the ultimate board "drivers' manual."
ISBN: 078795697X
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