Nonprofit Organizations category: 797 books
by Quentin Wodon
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
How can membership and volunteer-based organizations such as service clubs grow? This short book aims to answer this question by documenting the experience of the Rotary Club of Capitol Hill in Washington, DC (USA). Over a period of six months in the second half of 2016, the club succeeded in doubling...
Implementing New Business Models in For-Profit and Non-Profit Organizations
Technologies and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
As technology continues to evolve, existing business models become limited with respect to complexity and speed. Accordingly, significant transformation has shaped the economy and business environments in recent decades. Implementing New Business Models in For-Profit and Non-Profit Organizations: Technologies...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2002
Governing boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and non-profit organizations are publicly accountable and perform well. Until now, there have been relatively few detailed empirical studies of what boards do in practice, but this book fills that gap by bringing together analyses based upon some of the best recent empirical studies.Using
by Luca Gnan, Alessandro Hinna, Fabio Monteduro
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
The first volume of the series aims to give an outline of the state of the art and the most recent research being done on public and non profit governance at the international level (with particular emphasis in Europe). The focus of the volume is mainly on the "organizational" governance...
Social Entrepreneurship
An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating Social Value
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Social entrepreneurship explained
Social entrepreneurship is a hot topic in public and non-profit management. Organizations everywhere are looking for innovative ways to respond to financial, social, and regulatory pressures. The next generation of transformative leaders will be risk takers...
by Quentin Wodon
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
If Rotary clubs, districts and the organization as a whole are to have a larger impact, they need to put together more projects that rely on partnerships, are innovative, and are evaluated properly. Not all Rotary projects need to include partnerships, innovation, and evaluation. But the organization...
Building Better Arts Facilities
Lessons from a U.S. National Study.
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
At the turn of the 21st century, a significant boom in the construction of cultural buildings took saw the creation of hundreds of performing arts centers, theaters, and museums. After these buildings were completed, however, many of these cultural organizations struggled to survive, or, alternatively,...
Managing Nongovernmental Organizations
Culture, Power and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The idea that international development aid needs to be better managed and coordinated gained currency in the early 1990s. The increasing emphasis on management has resulted in the present vogue of ‘managing for development results’ as one of the central tenets in the discourse on international...
Building Cultures and Climates for Effective Human Services
Understanding and Improving Organizational Social Contexts with the ARC Model
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
It is widely acknowledged that many healthcare, behavioral health, and social service organizations provide less-than-optimal services and that the challenge of improving services depends on successfully changing organizational culture and climate. However, there are almost no organizational-level...
The Quick Wise Guide to Fundraising Readiness
How to Prepare Your Nonprofit to Raise Funds
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
LEARN WHAT IT TAKES TO FUNDRAISE EFFECTIVELY
A Guide for Board Members and Staff of Nonprofits New to Fundraising
It would be great to receive contributions from more people, and it would be really nice to get a few big checks from foundations—if only you could figure out how to fundraise.
Does...
by Kenneth L. Terao, Francis K. O. Yuen, Anna Marie Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
A state-of-the-art guide for developing grants witha strong emphasis on using program outcome measurement to underscore need and accountability
Based on the authors' many years of experience in the public and nonprofit sectors, Effective Grant Writing and Program Evaluation for Human Service...
Storytelling for Grantseekers
A Guide to Creative Nonprofit Fundraising
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Grantwriters often have little or no training in the practical task of grantseeking. Many feel intimidated by the act of writing, and some don't enjoy writing. In Storytelling for Grantseekers, Second Edition, Cheryl Clarke presents an organic approach to grantseeking, one that views the process through...
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work not at business school or helping lead Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. He made the difficult decision to walk away from his lucrative career to create Room to Read,...
Fundraising with The Raiser's Edge
A Non-Technical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
A non-technical guide to The Raiser's Edge-the most widely-used fundraising database package on the market-for the fundraising professional
The first-ever guide to The Raiser's Edge database package for the fundraising professional, Fundraising with The Raiser's Edge: A Non-Technical Guide...