Nonprofit Organizations category: 797 books
The Mission-Driven Venture
Business Solutions to the World's Most Vexing Social Problems
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Practical guidance to maximize financial results while driving positive social change
The Mission-Driven Venture provides actionable guidance for leveraging the power of the marketplace to solve the world's most vexing social problems. Written by attorney and financial advisor Marc J. Lane,...
by Bruce R. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Now your foundation can be fully informed about the basic legal requirements affecting private foundations and avoid the perils lurking in nonprofit tax law traps. Private Foundation Law Made Easy clearly shows you how, with information on reaping the charitable and tax advantages of your private...
Northern Communities Working Together
The Social Economy of Canada's North
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
The unique historical, economic, and social features of the Canadian North pose special challenges for the social economy – a sector that includes nonprofits, co-operatives, social enterprises, and community economic development organizations. Northern Communities Working Together highlights the...
by Quentin Wodon
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Rotary International is a nonprofit service organization with 1.2 million members worldwide in more than 35,000 clubs. The organization was founded by Paul Harris in Chicago in 1905. While clubs exist today in most countries of the world, the United States has the largest number of Rotarians and clubs,...
Donor Cultivation and the Donor Lifecycle Map
A New Framework for Fundraising
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
A fresh look at fundraising that depends upon the donor lifecycle, resulting in increased financial resources over time and a more stable bottom line for nonprofits
A guide to better and more strategic fundraising, Donor Cultivation and the Donor Life Cycle Map presents the donor lifecycle...
The World We Want
New Dimensions in Philanthropy and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
In The World We Want, Peter Karoff presents a collective vision of an ideal world. By sharing his experiences and through conversations with more than forty social entrepreneurs, activists, nonprofit leaders, and philanthropists who are changing notions of 'the human condition' in Africa, Asia, Eastern...
Leading Congregations and Nonprofits in a Connected World
Platforms, People, and Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Leading Congregations and Nonprofits in a Connected World shares emerging practices for leading and organizing congregations and nonprofits in our increasingly networked lives. Drawing on studies of congregations across denominations, and nonprofits with historic ties to faith communities, Hayim Herring...
Design Thinking for the Greater Good
Innovation in the Social Sector
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Facing especially wicked problems, social sector organizations are searching for powerful new methods to understand and address them. Design Thinking for the Greater Good goes in depth on both the how of using new tools and the why. As a way to reframe problems, ideate solutions, and iterate toward...
Innovation and the Social Economy
The Quebec Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Social economy organizations such as cooperatives, non-profits, mutual benefit groups, foundations, and non-governmental organizations are uniquely positioned to respond not only to emerging social and economic needs, but also to new collective aspirations. In Québec, for instance, a pioneering social...
Curtains?
The Future of the Arts in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
In this clear-minded but sobering book, Michael M. Kaiser assesses the current state of arts institutions—orchestras; opera, ballet, modern dance, and theater companies; and even museums. According to Kaiser, new developments in the twenty-first century, including the Internet explosion, the death...
The Opportunity Equation
How Citizen Teachers Are Combating the Achievement Gap in America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Schwarz, founder of the groundbreaking Citizen Schools program, shares his vision for reducing inequality by pairing successful adults with low-income students.
Parental wealth now predicts adult success more than at any point in the last hundred years. And yet as debates about education rage...
Rethinking Public-Private Partnerships
Strategies for Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The global financial crisis hit the world in a remarkable way in late 2008. Many governments and private sector organizations, who had considered Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to be their future, were forced to rethink their strategy in the wake of the crisis, as a lot of the available private...
Generation Impact
How Next Gen Donors Are Revolutionizing Giving
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
An insider’s guide to the coming philanthropic revolution
Meet the next generation of big donors—the Gen X and Millennial philanthropists who will be the most significant donors ever and will shape our world in profound ways. Hear them describe their ambitious plans to revolutionize giving...
Scaling Global Change
A Social Entrepreneur's Guide to Surviving the Start-up Phase and Driving Impact
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Grow your start-up into a global influence with real-world impact
Scaling Global Change provides social entrepreneurs with the strong organizational foundation they need to change the world. Through the story of Room to Read, one of the fastest-growing nonprofits in the last 18 years, this...