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A Fundraising Guide for Nonprofit Board Members
Everything you need to know as a nonprofit board member to raise more money and help your organization succeed in meeting its goals.
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Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable…About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
In his latest page-turning work of business fiction, best-selling author Patrick Lencioni provides readers with another powerful and thought-provoking book, this one centered around a cure for the most painful yet underestimated problem of modern business: bad meetings. And what he suggests is both simple and revolutionary.
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Firing Lousy Board Members…And Helping the Others Succeed
Every organization deserves a good board and effective board members. And every board member deserves a chance to be an effective board member. But too often, things aren’t working. Board members aren’t effective – and staff aren’t helping them to be effective. Or, staff are doing all that is possible – but the board member is causing too many problems. This book tells you how to fix the situation.
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Fundraising and the Next Generation: Tools for Engaging the Next Generation of Philanthropists
Fundraising and the Next Generation brings readers up to date on cases, research, opportunities, and challenges regarding philanthropy's next generation. Readers will learn practical strategies for cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of Gen X and Y philanthropists using new technologies and traditional tools.
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Super Boards: How Inspired Governance Transforms Your Organization
In his follow-up to The Board Game, Dr. Mott sets forth a clear path to help forge organizational excellence for non-profit organizations, and avoid destructive behaviors that stifle and hurt the organization created to serve our communities.
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The Board Game: A Story of Hope and Inspiration for CEOs and Governing Boards
This is the compelling, fictional account of David Andrews - a man unprepared for the complexity of the relationship he has with his Board of Trustees. He discovers he is no match for some of the misguided and mean-spirited individuals he encounters.
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The Invisible Yellow Line: Clarifying Nonprofit Board and Staff Roles
The key to a healthy nonprofit organization is a harmonious board-staff relationship. Easier said than done! The Invisible Yellow Line: Clarifying Nonprofit Board and Staff Roles is a fun, upbeat, and down-to-earth manual that walks you through the process of clarifying the roles of the board and staff.
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The Nonprofit Leadership Team: Building the Board-Executive Director Partnership
The Nonprofit Leadership Team is written for nonprofit executive directors and CEOs, senior staff, board members and nonprofit consultants. It focuses on the key leadership team— the board and its chair and the executive director— and shows how the constituents can work in partnership to lead an effective, healthy organization.
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The Practitioner’s Guide to Governance as Leadership: Building High-Performing Nonprofit Boards
It has never been more critical than it is today for nonprofits to engage their boards in ways that capture the full talent, experience and resources of those who govern the work. Yet, too often, we see organizations facing a substantial board-engagement gap.
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World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter
The World Cafe is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. Based on living systems thinking, this innovative approach creates dynamic networks of conversation that can catalyze an organization or community's own collective intelligence around its most important questions.
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The Ultimate Board Member’s Book
The Ultimate Board Member's Book provides a solid command of what board members must do to help their organization succeed: how boards work, what the job entails, the time commitment, the role of staff, serving on committees and task forces, fundraising responsibilities, conflicts of interest, group decision-making, how to develop yourself, effective recruiting, de-enlisting board members, board self-evaluation, and more.
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The Wisdom of Crowds
In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant–better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
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Transformational Governance: How Boards Achieve Extraordinary Change
Transformational Governance provides membership associations and other nonprofit boards insight on how to implement effective governance change. Rather than focusing on the behaviors and qualities of the individuals who serve, light is shed on the processes board members and staff use to transform their boards. Armed with ASAE Foundation funded research, this title fills a void in governance literature by emphasizing diagnosis and problem solving. The book also offers illustrative examples and interesting case stories from a wide range of nonprofits.
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