Complete with real-life stories and anecdotes, forms and checklists, agendas and group facilitation techniques, this easy-to-use book, written by a non-profit executive, aims to answer the question of how to build a great board with a quick and simple framework. This text should unmask and demystify how to build a great board. It provides a practical, how-to model that connects the board's work about where to go tomorrow with the work that is done today.
angewendete Filter: intersectorial
To most companies, efficiency means profits and growth. But what if your efficient companythe one with the reduced headcount and the stretch goalsis actually slowing down and losing money? What if your employees are burning out doing the work of two or more people, leaving them no time for planning, prioritizing, or even lunch? What if youre losing employees faster than you can hire them? What if your superefficient company is suddenly falling behind?
Tom DeMarco, a leading management consultant to both Fortune 500 and up-and-coming companies, has discovered a counterintuitive principle that explains why efficiency improvement can sometimes make a company slow. If your real organizational goal is to become fast (responsive and agile), then he proposes that what you need is not more efficiency, but more slack.
What is slack? Slack is the degree of freedom in a company that allows it to change. It could be something as simple as adding an assistant to a department, letting high-priced talent spend less time at the photo copier and more time making key decisions. Slack could also appear in the way a company treats employees: instead of loading them up with overwork, a company designed with slack allows its people room to breathe, increase effectiveness, and reinvent themselves.
In thirtythree short chapters filled with creative learning tools and charts, you and your company can learn how to:
make sense of the EfficiencyFlexibility quandary
run directly toward risk instead of away from it
strengthen the creative role of middle management
make change and growth work together for even greater profits
A innovative approach that works for new- and old-economy companies alike, this revolutionary handbook will debunk commonly held assumptions about real-world management, and give you and your company a brand-new model for achieving and maintaining true effectivenessand a healthier bottom line.
Tom DeMarco, a leading management consultant to both Fortune 500 and up-and-coming companies, has discovered a counterintuitive principle that explains why efficiency improvement can sometimes make a company slow. If your real organizational goal is to become fast (responsive and agile), then he proposes that what you need is not more efficiency, but more slack.
What is slack? Slack is the degree of freedom in a company that allows it to change. It could be something as simple as adding an assistant to a department, letting high-priced talent spend less time at the photo copier and more time making key decisions. Slack could also appear in the way a company treats employees: instead of loading them up with overwork, a company designed with slack allows its people room to breathe, increase effectiveness, and reinvent themselves.
In thirtythree short chapters filled with creative learning tools and charts, you and your company can learn how to:
make sense of the EfficiencyFlexibility quandary
run directly toward risk instead of away from it
strengthen the creative role of middle management
make change and growth work together for even greater profits
A innovative approach that works for new- and old-economy companies alike, this revolutionary handbook will debunk commonly held assumptions about real-world management, and give you and your company a brand-new model for achieving and maintaining true effectivenessand a healthier bottom line.
The report traces the history, theoretical underpinnings, values, and methods of community cultural development practice, emphasizing its effectiveness as a response to the social and economic forces that weaken cultural ties, and offer is recommendations to strengthen and support the field.
The Creativity & Culture theme at The Rockefeller Foundation has endeavored to maintain and build on the Foundation's tradition in the arts and humanities of an "assertive humanism," responsive to contemporary social conditions. As globalization accelerates, community cultural development practice is more and more widely recognized as a powerful means of awakening and mobilizing alternatives to imposed cultural values. It is our hope that this report will help to further develop both the theory and practice of community cultural development.
About the authors
Since 1978, Adams and Goldbard have consulted with a wide variety of public and private agencies, most of them involved in cultural policy, artistic production and distribution, and cultural development planning and evaluation. The authors are happy to receive your responses to this publication directly. You may contact them by e-mailing goldbard@oz.net or by writing them at: Adams & Goldbard, PO Box 30061, Seattle, WA 98103-2061.
PARTNERSHIPS AFFIRMING COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION (PACT): PACT is an annual competitive program that supports community cultural development projects - projects undertaken by artists and other cultural professionals in collaboration with other community members to express identity, concerns, and aspirations through the arts and media, building cultural capacity and contributing to social change.
For printed copies of the report, please write to:
Rockefeller Foundation
Job #3186 "Creative Community"
P.O. Box 545
Mahwah, N.J. 07430
The Creativity & Culture theme at The Rockefeller Foundation has endeavored to maintain and build on the Foundation's tradition in the arts and humanities of an "assertive humanism," responsive to contemporary social conditions. As globalization accelerates, community cultural development practice is more and more widely recognized as a powerful means of awakening and mobilizing alternatives to imposed cultural values. It is our hope that this report will help to further develop both the theory and practice of community cultural development.
About the authors
Since 1978, Adams and Goldbard have consulted with a wide variety of public and private agencies, most of them involved in cultural policy, artistic production and distribution, and cultural development planning and evaluation. The authors are happy to receive your responses to this publication directly. You may contact them by e-mailing goldbard@oz.net or by writing them at: Adams & Goldbard, PO Box 30061, Seattle, WA 98103-2061.
PARTNERSHIPS AFFIRMING COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION (PACT): PACT is an annual competitive program that supports community cultural development projects - projects undertaken by artists and other cultural professionals in collaboration with other community members to express identity, concerns, and aspirations through the arts and media, building cultural capacity and contributing to social change.
For printed copies of the report, please write to:
Rockefeller Foundation
Job #3186 "Creative Community"
P.O. Box 545
Mahwah, N.J. 07430
Self Promotion Online: Marketing Your Creative Services Using Web Sites, E-Mail and Digital Portfoli
Like it or not, your success is determined as much by how well you promote your work as by the quality of your work. Thankfully, online promotion has opened up a whole new channel for you to generate opportunities for both you and your firm to get the word out. Yet you should not stray into this brave new world uninformed or without a strategy for using the speed and reach of the Web to your advantage.
In Self-Promotion Online: Marketing Your Creative Services Using Web Sites, Email and Digital Portfolios, (North Light Books) Ilise Benun shows you how to boost your bottom line by developing a Web site and an online marketing plan that will increase your exposure worldwide and provide both current and prospective clients with "anytime access" to you and your work. You'll make it easy for them to find you in their moment of need and ensure that they choose you over the competition.
Why wait? Plug in and extend your marketing efforts with the power and scope of the latest technology. You'll experience greater credibility, attract more business, influence more people and broadcast your talents and services with the click of a button.
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: North Light Books (1 Mar 2001)
In Self-Promotion Online: Marketing Your Creative Services Using Web Sites, Email and Digital Portfolios, (North Light Books) Ilise Benun shows you how to boost your bottom line by developing a Web site and an online marketing plan that will increase your exposure worldwide and provide both current and prospective clients with "anytime access" to you and your work. You'll make it easy for them to find you in their moment of need and ensure that they choose you over the competition.
Why wait? Plug in and extend your marketing efforts with the power and scope of the latest technology. You'll experience greater credibility, attract more business, influence more people and broadcast your talents and services with the click of a button.
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: North Light Books (1 Mar 2001)
What happens when the old elite distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow no longer apply? When artists show at K-Mart, museums are filled with TV screens and thebrand name on a shirt is worth more than its cut? Welcome to the world of Nobrow.
John Seabrook, The New Yorker's "Buzz Studies" writer, deftly conveys the hubbub of modern pop culture, the blending of highbrow and lowbrow tastes, into a new sensibility he dubs "Nobrow." In Nobrowland, nobody can sell out, because art and commerce have fused like colliding electrons. America used to be split between "stark intellectuality and the plane of stark business," but now, as Puff Daddy observes, "It's all about the Benjamins [$100 bills]." It's not just that an Oxford-bred guy like Seabrook is a connoisseur of Biggie Smalls, it's that everyone, high and low, wants to feel part of the Buzz, to soak up the power of celebrity success. Puffy's rap hit constitutes "merchandising, advertising, salary-boasting, and art all at once," says Seabrook. Nowadays, "commercial culture has to do the work that both high and folk culture used to do--not only enlighten and teach but bond families and communities."
Nobrow is itself a work of Nobrow art, shape-shifting like a Beck tune: it's art appreciation, memoir, social history, high-altitude academic theory, and shoe-leather reporting all at once. Seabrook captures world-historical figures in action: George Lucas, MTV's Judy McGrath, music exec Danny "Nirvana" Goldberg, and kabillionaire David Geffen, who helped bring you Tom Cruise and DreamWorks. The big book on Geffen may be The Operator, but Seabrook can nail him in a phrase: "The boredom in his eyes, which seemed on the verge of spilling over into other parts of his face, was held in check by his lively eyebrows." And no one has outdone Seabrook's jaunty account of his elite magazine's Nobrowification by Tina Brown, who established "a hierarchy of hotness."
Seabrook doesn't score on every shot, but it's fun to watch him play. He's like a kid brother to his cult idol, George W.S. Trow, author of the prescient 1978 classic Within the Context of No Context. If Eustace Tilley, The New Yorker's famous monocled snob icon, got zonked on "chronic bubonic" pot and gangsta rap, he might have written this dizzy yet erudite book. Indeed, one might not be altogether amiss in calling it "da bomb." --Tim Appelo, Amazon
...Seabrook is at his best in dryly sending up the artificiality and arbitrariness of life in the culture ministries. --- The New York Times Book Review, Alexander Star
Geheimtipp! Der Untertitel erklärt es: "The culture of marketing - the marketing of culture". John Seabrock, Reporter beim "New Yorker", analysiert, wie die Kulturlandschaft sich verändert: Aus highbrow wird nobrow. --- Tagesspiegel (Berlin)
Welcome to nobrow, the new culture zone in America. High brow and low brow are gone along with high culture and low culture.
Nobrow is a megamall, megabucks emporium where everything is hot, fresh and new. And nothing lasts. Culture is marketing, marketing is culture and youth culture rules.
Nobrow is Elton John singing "Candle in the Wind" at Princess Di's funeral and making a hit record out of it later.
Nobrow is the MTV awards at the Metropolitan Opera. It's a BMW commercial set to hip hop.
Nobrow is the New Yorker magazine guest edited by Roseanne Barr.
Las Vegas is the capital of "Nobrow Nation" and Times Square is its Eiffel tower. What's different in Nobrow Nation is that the old arbiters of taste and style are gone and with them the only real class distinctions America ever had.
The culture wars now are the fights over market share. Nobrow - in the first hour of the Connection. --- The Connection
About the author
John Seabrook is a staff technology writer for The New Yorker whose books include "Deeper; My Two Year Odyssey in Cyberspace," and "Deeper: My Adventures on the Net." His articles have appeared in Vanity Fair, Harper's, and The Nation. He lives in New York City.
Nobrow is itself a work of Nobrow art, shape-shifting like a Beck tune: it's art appreciation, memoir, social history, high-altitude academic theory, and shoe-leather reporting all at once. Seabrook captures world-historical figures in action: George Lucas, MTV's Judy McGrath, music exec Danny "Nirvana" Goldberg, and kabillionaire David Geffen, who helped bring you Tom Cruise and DreamWorks. The big book on Geffen may be The Operator, but Seabrook can nail him in a phrase: "The boredom in his eyes, which seemed on the verge of spilling over into other parts of his face, was held in check by his lively eyebrows." And no one has outdone Seabrook's jaunty account of his elite magazine's Nobrowification by Tina Brown, who established "a hierarchy of hotness."
Seabrook doesn't score on every shot, but it's fun to watch him play. He's like a kid brother to his cult idol, George W.S. Trow, author of the prescient 1978 classic Within the Context of No Context. If Eustace Tilley, The New Yorker's famous monocled snob icon, got zonked on "chronic bubonic" pot and gangsta rap, he might have written this dizzy yet erudite book. Indeed, one might not be altogether amiss in calling it "da bomb." --Tim Appelo, Amazon
...Seabrook is at his best in dryly sending up the artificiality and arbitrariness of life in the culture ministries. --- The New York Times Book Review, Alexander Star
Geheimtipp! Der Untertitel erklärt es: "The culture of marketing - the marketing of culture". John Seabrock, Reporter beim "New Yorker", analysiert, wie die Kulturlandschaft sich verändert: Aus highbrow wird nobrow. --- Tagesspiegel (Berlin)
Welcome to nobrow, the new culture zone in America. High brow and low brow are gone along with high culture and low culture.
Nobrow is a megamall, megabucks emporium where everything is hot, fresh and new. And nothing lasts. Culture is marketing, marketing is culture and youth culture rules.
Nobrow is Elton John singing "Candle in the Wind" at Princess Di's funeral and making a hit record out of it later.
Nobrow is the MTV awards at the Metropolitan Opera. It's a BMW commercial set to hip hop.
Nobrow is the New Yorker magazine guest edited by Roseanne Barr.
Las Vegas is the capital of "Nobrow Nation" and Times Square is its Eiffel tower. What's different in Nobrow Nation is that the old arbiters of taste and style are gone and with them the only real class distinctions America ever had.
The culture wars now are the fights over market share. Nobrow - in the first hour of the Connection. --- The Connection
About the author
John Seabrook is a staff technology writer for The New Yorker whose books include "Deeper; My Two Year Odyssey in Cyberspace," and "Deeper: My Adventures on the Net." His articles have appeared in Vanity Fair, Harper's, and The Nation. He lives in New York City.
'Arts, Entertainment and Tourism' is a pioneering text that, by focusing on the consumer, investigates the relationship between these 3 industries and how this relationship can be developed to its best competitive advantage.
Issue-led, this text draws on appropriate disciplines rather than using one single approach, to examine issues in arts and entertainment within the framework of cultural tourism.
Written to meet the needs of students studying on management courses in the arts, tourism and leisure, 'Arts, Entertainment and Tourism':
Describes the general arts and tourism background
Identifies a framework for analysis that acknowledges differing levels of interest in the arts and entertainment
Discusses the arts and entertainment that feature (past and present) in tourism
Examines the reasons why the arts, entertainment and tourism have an interest in each other and how they go about developing the relationship
Examines the relationship: are there tourists in audiences and do the arts and entertainment attract tourists to a destination?
Evaluates the wider effects (good and bad) on both the arts and tourism
Discusses the direction of future developments by arts and tourism organizations and for future research
International text with case studies from around the world
Managerial relevance but based on Academic disciplines
Includes Entertainment as well as the 'high' arts
Paperback: 244 pages
Butterworth-Heinemann, January 2001
Issue-led, this text draws on appropriate disciplines rather than using one single approach, to examine issues in arts and entertainment within the framework of cultural tourism.
Written to meet the needs of students studying on management courses in the arts, tourism and leisure, 'Arts, Entertainment and Tourism':
Describes the general arts and tourism background
Identifies a framework for analysis that acknowledges differing levels of interest in the arts and entertainment
Discusses the arts and entertainment that feature (past and present) in tourism
Examines the reasons why the arts, entertainment and tourism have an interest in each other and how they go about developing the relationship
Examines the relationship: are there tourists in audiences and do the arts and entertainment attract tourists to a destination?
Evaluates the wider effects (good and bad) on both the arts and tourism
Discusses the direction of future developments by arts and tourism organizations and for future research
International text with case studies from around the world
Managerial relevance but based on Academic disciplines
Includes Entertainment as well as the 'high' arts
Paperback: 244 pages
Butterworth-Heinemann, January 2001
In his latest book "CPR for Nonprofits: Creating Strategies for Successful Fundraising, Marketing, Communications and Management", Alvin Reiss, one of the elder masters in the American arts management scene and editor of the printing newsletter "Arts Management", has collected again a huge amount of best practise examples. It is remarkably, that he not only covers examples from big enterprises, which have enough man-power and money to run new strategies. He also introduce smaller non-profit-organizations as a proof, that it is also possible to have success in those invironments. In seven chapters you can find examples for better public relations, successfully running events, how the communication with the board can be improved, or how a good fundraising strategy can raise your income.
At first, Reiss explains the specific problems and backgrounds, and after this he introduces successful strategies, beginnings, and concepts.
It is not a "how-to" book with final or direct solutions. But with the concepts and strategies the reader will get good reference points to solve specific problems.
At the end of each example, the author makes a summary of the most important points, brings comments for the strategy solutions, ask good questions with a relation to the reader's problems, and generate a core message.
CPR for Nonprofits, in fact, is a well-done book, which delivers interesting ideas to the reader. (Review by Dirk Schütz, Arts Management Network)
At first, Reiss explains the specific problems and backgrounds, and after this he introduces successful strategies, beginnings, and concepts.
It is not a "how-to" book with final or direct solutions. But with the concepts and strategies the reader will get good reference points to solve specific problems.
At the end of each example, the author makes a summary of the most important points, brings comments for the strategy solutions, ask good questions with a relation to the reader's problems, and generate a core message.
CPR for Nonprofits, in fact, is a well-done book, which delivers interesting ideas to the reader. (Review by Dirk Schütz, Arts Management Network)
A practical how-to-run-your-business book for nonprofits. As nonprofit organizations face tough times, efficient and effective business management is essential for their survival. Now in an updated Second Edition, this popular how-to book addresses such vital issues as the importance of mission statements, the boards of directors' role in daily operations, planning a publicity campaign, coordinating special conventions, basic office management and information services, and much more. Brimming with step-by-step guidance and practical advice, this updated edition features: a refocused strategic planning chapter that presents an ongoing, organic form of planning and covers new topics such as mergers and alliances, strategic communications, international issues, and the use of the Internet.
Smith, Bucklin & Associates, Inc. is North America's largest association management firm. With offices in Chicago, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and Brussels, it employs more than 600 people serving 180 nonprofits with annual budgets ranging from $100,000 to more than $5 million. In addition to providing complete day-to-day administration of nonprofits, the firm provides specialized services including financial management, strategic management, international market promotion, and database management.
Smith, Bucklin & Associates, Inc. is North America's largest association management firm. With offices in Chicago, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and Brussels, it employs more than 600 people serving 180 nonprofits with annual budgets ranging from $100,000 to more than $5 million. In addition to providing complete day-to-day administration of nonprofits, the firm provides specialized services including financial management, strategic management, international market promotion, and database management.
Duboffs Art Law in a Nutshell overviews art as an investment, from copyrights to trademarks, and examines issues involving museums and collecting. Subjects covered include the customs definition, international art movement, and the victim of war. Explores auctions; authentication; insurance; and tax problems for collectors, dealers, and artists. Also addresses the working artist, aid to the arts, moral and economic rights, and freedom of expression.
Using the economic point of view for an analysis of phenomena related to artistic activities, Arts & Economics not only challenges widely held popular views, but also offers an alternative perspective to sociological or art historic approaches. The wide range of subjects presented are of current interest and, above all, relevant for cultural policy. The issues discussed include: institutions from festivals to "superstar" museums, different means of supporting the arts, including the question whether artistic creativity is undermined by public intervention, an investigation into art as an investment, the various approaches applied when valuing our cultural properties, or why, in a comparative perspective, direct voter participation in cultural policy is not antagonistic to artistic values.
Frey is author of more than a dozen books (all available in English and German, and including a number of translations into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese) and more than 250 articles in professional academic journals (most of them in economics and a few in political science, sociology and psychology) including the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Oxford Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Kyklos, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Public Choice, Review of Income and Wealth, European Journal of Political Research, International Organization, Public Interest, Rationality and Society, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Economic History, etc.
Homepage: http://www.iew.unizh.ch/grp/frey/
Frey is author of more than a dozen books (all available in English and German, and including a number of translations into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese) and more than 250 articles in professional academic journals (most of them in economics and a few in political science, sociology and psychology) including the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Oxford Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Kyklos, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Public Choice, Review of Income and Wealth, European Journal of Political Research, International Organization, Public Interest, Rationality and Society, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Economic History, etc.
Homepage: http://www.iew.unizh.ch/grp/frey/
Cities have always been the crucible of culture and civilization and the hubs of wealth creation. But today they face enormous challenges. Over half the world's population already lives in cities and the proportion is set to grow rapidly. Compounded by infrastructural, economic and social problems, dramatic changes are taking place. If cities are to flourish, there has to be a paradigm shift in the way they are managed, to draw fully on the talents and creativity of their own residents - businesses, city authorities and the citizens themselves. This text is a call for imaginative action in the development and running of urban life and a clear and detailed toolkit of methods by which our cities can be revived and revitalized. Presenting case studies and examples of urban innovation and regeneration from around the world, it analyzes teh crucial steps and disciplines involved. It shows how to think, plan and act creatively in addressing urban issues, and how to apply the methods described in any city.
Art and entertainment constitute America's second-largest export. Most Americans-96 percent, to be exact- are somehow involved in the arts, whether as audience participants, hobbyists, or via broadcast recording, video, or the Internet. The contribution of the arts to the U.S. economy is stunning: the nonprofit arts industry alone contributes over 857 billion dollars per year, and American artists enjoy world-class status.
Despite its size, quality, and economic impact, the arts community is not articulate about how to serve the public interest, and few citizens have an appreciation of the many public policies that influence American arts and culture. The contributors to this volume argue that U.S. policy does and should continue to support the arts; as they sere a broad, not merely an elite, public. Support for the arts and culture is good economic and trade policy and contributes to the quality of life and community, while it sustains the creativity of American artists and organizations.
Despite its size, quality, and economic impact, the arts community is not articulate about how to serve the public interest, and few citizens have an appreciation of the many public policies that influence American arts and culture. The contributors to this volume argue that U.S. policy does and should continue to support the arts; as they sere a broad, not merely an elite, public. Support for the arts and culture is good economic and trade policy and contributes to the quality of life and community, while it sustains the creativity of American artists and organizations.
In this provocative new guide for managers, chairman Bill Pollard explains the reason behind the enormous growth and success of ServiceMaster: its commitment to the development of its people. This is no new management fad, no highly touted process improvement. The secret they have discovered is the "soul of the firm."
Paperback 180 pages (April 1, 2000)
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House
Paperback 180 pages (April 1, 2000)
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House
Cash In! is a lively, one-of-its-kind compendium of the most imaginative new concepts, tested ideas and case histories of programs and promotions that make money and win audiences for cultural organizations and projects of every kind. In this way the author explains the relationsship between Fundraising and Arts Marketing and, more important, tells us the secrets to get money for the arts. It is an excellent resource that provides a wealth of ideas for arts entrepreneurs seeking innovative fundraising techniques
Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Backinprint.com (April 2000)
Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Backinprint.com (April 2000)
Tricia Snell, Stanley Kunitz, Alliance of Artists' Communities, Allance of Artists Communites, Allia
Updated and expanded, this widely praised directory lists nearly eighty residencies available to visual and performing artists, composers, and writers. Each listing includes complete contact information, the art disciplines served, facilities, housing, meals, season and length of residency, number of artists in residence, deadlines and fees, stipends and expenses, duties, programs, history and mission, and well-known artists who have been in residence.
Already this year, in Common Interest, Common Good: Creating Value through Business and Social Sector Partnerships, Shirley Sagawa and Eli Segal outlined the benefits of partnerships between businesses and nonprofit organizations. There they profiled seven successful examples of such relationships. Now Austin, author of numerous books on business and management in developing countries and a business professor at Harvard, makes his own similar case in this Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management Leaderbook. He identifies major alliances and examines how they function, looking at the various stages through which they must pass. He explains the role of top leadership and emphasizes the importance of a strategic "fit" between the two partners. Austin suggests different areas within organizations for alignment as well as ways for partners to analyze the value of their collaboration. He then considers ongoing practical management issues and concludes with guidelines for collaborations and questions that must be addressed. David Rouse
A renowned Harvard Business School professor shows how businesses can strengthen their bottom line by partnering with nonprofit causes -- and how nonprofits can use such partnerships to grow and prosper.
As we enter the 21st century, collaboration continues to be an imperative for the survival of many nonprofit organizations. As nonprofits seeks ways to find new resources in an increasingly competitive world, businesses are also finding that partnership with nonprofits can strengthen employee...
A renowned Harvard Business School professor shows how businesses can strengthen their bottom line by partnering with nonprofit causes -- and how nonprofits can use such partnerships to grow and prosper.
As we enter the 21st century, collaboration continues to be an imperative for the survival of many nonprofit organizations. As nonprofits seeks ways to find new resources in an increasingly competitive world, businesses are also finding that partnership with nonprofits can strengthen employee...
Now in its third edition, this volume provides an encyclopaedic account of all the key financial, legal, and managerial issues facing nonprofit executives. Organised into 20 detailed chapters, this comprehensive reference provides a firm grounding in the five fundamental pillars of effective nonprofit management: mission, money, marketing, management, and membership. It then shows managers and trustees how to strengthen operations in each of these vital areas ethically, legally, and efficiently.
The author about his book
The book is designed to be a comprehensive reference for those who want success as managers or trustees of any nonprofit entity no matter how sophisticated.
The back cover carries the evaluation of five prominent professors in nonprofit management at Harvard, Stanford, Chicago and Columbia universities. One sees the book as "...elegant, helpful, accessible, and most of all pragmatic."
One states that successful leadership in the nonprofit sector is "...no longer the domain for amateur idealists..." Another states that: "A sound knowledge of the rules of the game is increasingly important for nonprofit leaders in making strategic choices." Another advises: "This is a must for the bookshelf."
A conservative estimate is that at least 50 percent of this the 3rd edition is either completely new or significantly revised material.
This edition is also designed to be a quality textbook or training book. One of the five prominent academics says, "Bryce's fine and comprehensive book has become an indispensable resource for teachers and managers concerned with ensuring the effectiveness of nonprofit organizaions." Another says that: "It should also serve as a useful text for graduate courses in nonprofit management."
This book will work in a single or a multiple-course program. Where there is one course, the professor has the option of selecting any combination of the 19 chapters--giving vitality, breadth and currency to the course. It can also serve a capstone course. It can serve several different courses, classes or training workshops that can be carved out of the variety of self-contained chapters. In any event, the student will have a reference that will serve them as practitioners and the trainer will have flexibility.
As a reader, your comments will be highly valued.
About the author
Permanent Faculty of the School of Business Administration at the College of William and Mary (Williamsburg/Virginia); Ph.D., Syracuse University; B.A., Mankato State University, CLU & ChFC American College; Areas of Interest / Expertise: Corporate Finance, Cost and Risk Management, Non-profit Finance and Strategic Management, Urban Investment and Public Finance, Personal Finance
The author about his book
The book is designed to be a comprehensive reference for those who want success as managers or trustees of any nonprofit entity no matter how sophisticated.
The back cover carries the evaluation of five prominent professors in nonprofit management at Harvard, Stanford, Chicago and Columbia universities. One sees the book as "...elegant, helpful, accessible, and most of all pragmatic."
One states that successful leadership in the nonprofit sector is "...no longer the domain for amateur idealists..." Another states that: "A sound knowledge of the rules of the game is increasingly important for nonprofit leaders in making strategic choices." Another advises: "This is a must for the bookshelf."
A conservative estimate is that at least 50 percent of this the 3rd edition is either completely new or significantly revised material.
This edition is also designed to be a quality textbook or training book. One of the five prominent academics says, "Bryce's fine and comprehensive book has become an indispensable resource for teachers and managers concerned with ensuring the effectiveness of nonprofit organizaions." Another says that: "It should also serve as a useful text for graduate courses in nonprofit management."
This book will work in a single or a multiple-course program. Where there is one course, the professor has the option of selecting any combination of the 19 chapters--giving vitality, breadth and currency to the course. It can also serve a capstone course. It can serve several different courses, classes or training workshops that can be carved out of the variety of self-contained chapters. In any event, the student will have a reference that will serve them as practitioners and the trainer will have flexibility.
As a reader, your comments will be highly valued.
About the author
Permanent Faculty of the School of Business Administration at the College of William and Mary (Williamsburg/Virginia); Ph.D., Syracuse University; B.A., Mankato State University, CLU & ChFC American College; Areas of Interest / Expertise: Corporate Finance, Cost and Risk Management, Non-profit Finance and Strategic Management, Urban Investment and Public Finance, Personal Finance
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.
This is a how-to guide to getting funding by speaking to organizations in corporate language -- using the right tools to open the money box. It also ensures the sponsor gets value return for their investment. The two savvy authors walk you through every step of the process and provide checklists and templates for planning, proposals, and presentations, backed up by the diskett that comes with the book. The beauty of this book is that strategies for obtaining sponsorship by providing competitive benefits have been built into the instructions for structuring, negotiating, and managing a sponsorship proposal. Whether you represent a small local group or a large non-profit organization, this toolkit will equip you to achieve your funding goals. (Vive Magazine, Spring 1999)