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Building Nonprofit Capacity: A Guide to Managing Change Through Organizational Lifecycles
Learn how to anticipate and manage change in your organization for greater stability. Recognize the importance of identifying where your nonprofit lies within the organizational lifecycle framework and understand how you can weather each transition. Benefit from the authors’ blend of numerous lifecycle models and practices so you can prepare for your organization’s approaching challenges. […]
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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Decisive is the Heath brothers’ most powerful—and important—book yet, offering fresh strategies and practical tools enabling us to make better choices. Because the right decision, at the right moment, can make all the difference.
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Donor Cultivation and the Donor Lifecycle Map: A New Framework for Fundraising + Website
Donor Cultivation and the Donor Life Cycle Map seeks to change the perspective from transactional fundraising to recurring fundraising, beginning with the first donation and extending to the very last—an endowment that keeps on giving even after death.
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Fail Better: Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner
Whether you’re rolling out a new product from a city-view office or rolling up your sleeves to deliver a social service in the field, learning why and how to embrace failure can help you do better, faster. Smart leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents design their innovation projects with a key idea in mind: ensure that every failure is maximally useful.
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Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity
Leap of Reason is the product of decades of hard-won insights from philanthropist Mario Morino, McKinsey & Company, and top social-sector innovators. It is intended to spark the critically important conversations that every nonprofit board and leadership team should have in this new era of austerity.
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Let’s Stop Meeting Like This: Tools to Save Time and Get More Done
Ugh―meetings. They’re where productivity goes to die, right? There has to be a better way. According to leading consultants Dick and Emily Axelrod, there is.
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Level Best: How Small and Grassroots Nonprofits Can Tackle Evaluation and Talk Results
Level Best offers guidance that demystifies evaluation and takes into account the unique challenges and realities of grassroots nonprofit organizations. It provides a new framework for thinking about evaluation and tools for measuring and sharing results in ways that are practical, efficient, and meaningful.
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Major Gift Fundraising for Small Shops: How to Leverage Your Annual Fund in Only Five Hours per Week
Amy Eisenstein guides you, in only five hours a week, to safely and surely meet the challenges of getting your organization ready for major gift fundraising, all the way up to that all-important ask—and beyond.
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Nonprofit Strategic Positioning: Decide Where to Be, Plan What to Do
Nonprofit Strategic Positioning: Decide Where to Be, Plan What to Do is the first nonprofit-oriented book to describe strategic positioning as an alternative to traditional strategic planning.
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Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability
Find out why your nonprofit strategies for sustainability must encompass both financial and programmatic elements. Learn how to map your business model and identify profitability and relative impact. Make sound choices to adjust your business model and optimize your outcomes. Examine your mix of fundraising and/or earned income sources as they relate to organizational strengths.
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Savvy nonprofits use strategic management, marketing, technology, leadership to be competitive. With strapped budgets, many nonprofits cannot afford to pay for these resources. However, businesses are an often overlooked as an effective source of skilled professionals who can supply the needed skills.
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Repeatability: Build Enduring Businesses for a World of Constant Change
In Repeatability, Chris Zook and James Allen—leaders of Bain & Company’s influential Strategy practice—warn that complexity is a silent killer of profitable growth. Successful companies endure by maintaining simplicity at their core.
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The Nonprofit Business Plan: The Leader’s Guide to Creating a Successful Business Model
Nonprofits often use the terms “strategic planning” and “business planning” interchangeably, but a good business plan goes beyond the traditional strategic plan with its focus on mission and vision, goals and objectives.
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The Nonprofit Leadership Transition and Development Guide
In this dynamic resource, Tom Adams (an expert in succession planning who has worked with hundreds of organizations) shows how intentional leadership development and properly managed leadership transitions provide nonprofits with the rare opportunity to change direction, maintain momentum, and strengthen their capacity.
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The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution: Real-Time Strategic Planning in a Rapid-Response World
The world changes continuously and rapidly. It’s foolhardy to believe that strategies should not do so as well. Nonprofit leaders already know this, but traditional strategic planning has locked them into a process that’s divorced from today’s reality. That’s why plans sit on the shelf and why smart executives are always seeking workarounds in between planning periods.
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The Sustainability Mindset: Using the Matrix Map to Make Strategic Decision
Nonprofit sustainability lies at the intersection of exceptional impact and financial viability. The Sustainability Mindsetoffers nonprofit professionals and board members a step-by-step guide to move your organization towards this intersection.
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When People Care Enough to Act, 2nd Edition
Enriching each other, this book provides a clear exposition of ABCD (Asset Based Community Development) organizing principles & best practices for community partnership.
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The Great Nonprofit Evaluation Reboot: A New Approach Every Staff Member Can Understand
The Great Nonprofit Evaluation Reboot is about changing the conversation and the eliminating the collective sigh that exists around evaluation. Harman begins by addressing the field’s shortcomings and her own misgivings about practices that have shortchanged our ability to truly measure what counts: learning. This honest account of her own field is followed by straight talk about the essential steps to creating an evaluation that’s meaningful to you and your team.
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Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good
Lean Impact is a hands-on guide designed to exponentially increase the impact of our time and money. At the heart of the model is the scientific method that relies on hypothesis-driven experiments to reduce risk and increase the pace of learning. Chang’s approach accepts the reality that no solution is likely to be designed perfectly at the outset, thus the ability to rapidly adapt is essential. Lean Impact offers practical tools and strategies that are inspired by the customer-centered, fast iteration, and data-driven approaches popularized by The New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup.
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