Book description
This book is an essential tool to help you grow with your
nonprofit organization. Whether you are an executive director,
manager, board member, pastor, or key volunteer,
the details here will help you achieve so much more.
The four overarching areas of what the authors term a
“virtuous cycle in nonprofit organization success”—living
the mission, making good decisions, getting things done,
developing your team—emerged from literature searches,
focus groups, and surveys to discover objectively what
critical skills and knowledge are most useful to leaders of
nonprofit organizations.
Inside, experts contribute individual chapters in each of
these four areas. This book can be used as a reference for
specific skills and knowledge in any of these areas. It can
also be used as a text since it covers 16 specific chapters
within the four major sections and each chapter has a major
case study, assessment questions, and summaries of
key concepts.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Abstract
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Section 1: Living the Mission
- Chapter 2 Developing and Living Your Mission
- Chapter 3 Noses In, Fingers Out: The Board’s Role in Achieving Success
- Chapter 4 Walking the Talk: Serving Stakeholders with Ethics, Values, and Governance
- Chapter 5 Community Engagement
- Section 2: Making Good Decisions
- Chapter 6 Innovation: Creating New Products and Services
- Chapter 7 Making Good Decisions Using Data
- Chapter 8 Portfolio Management
- Chapter 9 Leveraging Information Technology
- Section 3: Getting Things Done
- Chapter 10 Financial Management
- Chapter 11 Change Management
- Chapter 12 Planning and Managing Projects More Effectively
- Chapter 13 Sponsoring Projects
- Section 4: Developing Your Team
- Chapter 14 Creating Value Through Human Resources
- Chapter 15 Total Quality: Integrating Customer, Employee, and Process Voices
- Chapter 16 A Strengths- - Based Approach for Managing Your People
- Chapter 17 Creating a Sense of Employee Ownership: Lessons From Worker-Owned Cooperatives
- Concluding Comments
- Appendix: Our Research Process
- Index
- Ad
Product information
- Title: Achieving Success in Nonprofit Organizations
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2014
- Publisher(s): Business Expert Press
- ISBN: 9781606497296
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