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High Performance Nonprofit Organizations: Managing Upstream for Greater Impact by Christine Letts, Allan Grossman & William Ryan Drawing on management techniques used by successful managers in both businesses and nonprofits, High Performance Nonprofit Organizations outlines approaches that nonprofits can use to build their capacity for learning, innovating, ensuring quality, and motivating staff. Illustrated with case studies and examples, the book outlines processes for achieving these goals. ISBN: 0471174572
Managing A Nonprofit Organization in the Twenty- First Century , 3rd edition by Thomas Wolf & Barbara Carter Since this classic work was originally published in 1984, there have been major shifts in the nonprofit world -- the growth of more profit-oriented ventures, the overhaul of accounting rules, new partnerships, and an emphasis on customer-oriented service and leadership. In easy-to-understand language, Thomas Wolf explains how to cope with these changes and deal with the traditional challenges of managing staff, trustees, and volunteers. ISBN: 0684849909
Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization : A Legal Guide By Bruce R. Hopins Whether you’re a nonprofit novice or the director of an established organization, this must-have guide to nonprofit law contains all the information you need to succeed, thrive, and protect your nonprofit’s tax-exempt status. Written by Bruce Hopkins, one of the country’s leading legal authorities in the field, this Third Edition of Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization: A Legal Guide covers virtually every legal aspect of starting and operating a nonprofit organization, and has been revised and expanded to include updated information on changes in laws, rules, and regulations governing the nonprofit sector. ISBN: 047139727X
Wired for Good: Strategic Technology Planning for Nonprofits by Joni Podolsky This hands-on resource will help nonprofits develop and implement a strategic, cost-effective approach to the use of technology in their organization. Wired for Good offers a blueprint for technology planning, incorporating the best practices and lessons-learned, as well as guidance from nonprofits that have had successful experience with the technology planning process. Written with nonprofit professionals, the book focuses on organization effectiveness in mission-driven institutions. ISBN: 0787962791
The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, 8th Edition By Bruce R. Hopins This is THE bible for not-for-profit legal issues. With over 1,000 pages of information, regularly supplemented, it is the #1 resource for the legal profession in regards to all things nonprofit. Make sure your attorney has a copy on hand. ISBN: 0471268208
Trade Secrets for Every Nonprofit Manager by Thomas A. McLaughlin From the nonprofit world’s most beloved columnist come easy lessons on how to become a better, and happier, manager. This book weaves together many of the most important ideas found in Thomas McLaughlin’s hugely popular Nonprofit Times columns into a highly entertaining, motivating, and educational guide for nonprofit managers. McLaughlin’s affable but always dead-on treatment of the realities of the nonprofit world provides managers with a bold new perspective on their industry and their roles in it. The book shows how essential it is to managers’ well-being to keep in mind that they are more than the sum of their individual tasks, and it offers the support that so often eludes them. ISBN: 0471389528
The Wilder Nonprofit Field Guide to Crafting Effective Mission and Vision Statements by Emil Angelica This 88 page hands-on book will help your organization create (or revise) mission and vision statements that bring focus and direction to your work. An easy to follow step-by-step guide ISBN: 094006927X
Starting and Running a Nonprofit Organization by Joan M. Hummel Containing handy checklists, worksheets, and lists of resources, a valuable handbook that describes, step-by-step, all of the phases of creating and operating a new nonprofit agency, including obtaining tax-exempt status and creating a strategic plan. ISBN: 0816627770
How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation (5th Edition) by Anthony Mancuso This clearly written book contains step-by-step instructions on how to form a non-profit corporation in any state ISBN: 0873378067
Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations: A Practical Guide and Workbook by Michael Allison and Jude Kay This very accessible resource from a team of experts in the nonprofit sector adapts basic business concepts to the unique structure and goals of nonprofit organizations. Breaking the planning process into six steps, the book covers it all--from getting ready and articulating the mission to monitoring and adjusting the finished plan. Sample worksheets, checklists, and tables are included in the book--and on a PC-compatible CD. ISBN: 0471178322
MANAGING THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION by Peter Drucker Drucker gives examples and explanations of mission, leadership, resources, marketing, goals, people development, decision making, and much more. Included are interviews with nine experts that address key issues in the non-profit sector. ISBN: 0887306012
Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results by Paul R. Niven This book explains how an organization can measure and manage performance with the Balanced Scorecard methodology. It provides extensive background on performance management and the Balanced Scorecard, and focuses on guiding a team through the step-by-step development and ongoing implementation of a Balanced Scorecard system. Corporations, public sector agencies, and not for profit organizations have all reaped success from the Balanced Scorecard. This book supplies detailed implementation advice that is readily applied to any and all of these organization types. Additionally, it will benefit organizations at any stage of Balanced Scorecard development. ISBN: 0471078727
The Complete Guide to Nonprofit Management Edited By Ink, Bucklin, Smith This significantly revised and expanded Second Edition of the highly popular how-to book identifies and addresses the unique concerns of nonprofit organizations. Cutting through the morass of mere theory, the experts at Smith, Bucklin & Associates, Inc., a leading nonprofit management firm, get right to actual practice with dozens of real-world examples and case studies, and up-to-date, vital, "combat-tested" strategies and techniques for dealing with virtually every nonprofit business management issue. ISBN: 0471380628
Nonprofit Kit for Dummies (With CD-ROM) by Stan Hutton & Frances Phillips Your nuts-and-bolts guide to running a successful nonprofit Nonprofit novices, loosen up! Let two seasoned pros help you fulfill your dreams of starting and running a successful nonprofit. From savvy advice on incorporating and managing your nonprofit to nifty tips on raising money and getting great P.R., this essential guide will soon become your best friend. Grab it and have fun! ISBN: 076455347X
Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan : A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations by John Bryson & Farnum K. Alston A comprehensive, step-y-step guide to strategic planning in nonprofit organizations from the author of the best books on this important subject. ISBN: 0787901423
Nonprofit Mergers and Alliances : A Strategic Planning Guide by Thomas McGlaughlin This McAdam award-winning book is a clear, practical, step-by-step guide to the merger process--from preliminary considerations to actual implementation for nonprofit organizations. WIth more and more nonprofits considering merger, this is one book you need to have on your bookshelf ready for the day a merger or alliance opportunity presents itself. ISBN: 0471180882
Focus on Volunteering: Ready-To-Print Resources for Volunteer Organizations by Susan J. Ellis Camera-ready pages about volunteering, how to work with volunteers, the history of volunteering, and today's trends--for use as training handouts, bulletin board posters, newsletter inserts. Susan J. Ellis is founder and president of Energize, Inc., an international training, consulting and publishing firm specializing in volunteerism. She is a noted expert in the field and has written numerous books and articles on volunteerism. ISBN: 094057621X

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