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Table of Contents for Financial Empowerment

1. Introduction

A look at the basis for the book, and an overview of the contents.

2. The Characteristics of Empowerment

The eight characteristics your organization needs to be empowered and a board/staff strategy to proceed.

3. The Outcomes of Empowerment

The results of empowerment and some choices organizations have. Using your empowerment. The long-term benefits of empowerment.

4. How Much Money Will You Need?

How to estimate cash needs for growth expansion. Ways to plan your cash flow.

5. Working With Traditional Funders

An assessment of traditional funders. New ways to think of your funders, and the ways they think of you. Ways to improve relations with your funders, and how to know their rules and regulations. Getting more from vendors.

6. New Sources of Funding: Business Development

The steps of the business planning process and some key components of feasibility studies and business plans.

7. Communicating Your Numbers-In and Out of The Organization

How to get more out of your financial statements. Providing the numbers people need when they need them. Who should see what numbers and when. An example of different displays of the same numbers.

8. Financing Your Empowerment

A review of the different financing options open to your organization and some rules for borrowing. How to work with lenders.

9. Budgeting from the "bottom" up.

How to do bottom-up budgeting to save money and empower staff.

10. Pricing

How pricing should work and how you are mis-trained. Pricing for services, products, mixtures of both. How to do break-even analysis and the impact the market has on price.

11. Corporate Structures

A guide to this essential, focussed, and too often overused tool. Not-for-profit subsidiaries, for-profit subsidiaries, umbrella corporations and cooperatives.

12. Financial Empowerment For the CEO

The roles of the CEO in the financially empowered organization. What the CEO should see. Actions only the CEO can take to financially empower the organization.

13. Financial Empowerment For Boards

The roles of the board in the financially empowered organization. What information different board members should see. The roles that the board should and should not take. Actions that the board must take to empower the organization and ways to reduce organizational liability.

14. Mobilizing For Empowerment

Specific steps to take to actualize each characteristic of empowerment. A sequence of actions. A sample empowerment plan.

15. Putting It All Together

A recap of the key ideas in the book with some suggestions to make the path to empowerment easier. How to not spend every dime you save. How to keep what you earn.

APPENDICES

SELF-ASSESSMENT, FINANCIAL GLOSSARY and a READING LIST

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