Nonprofit Organizations category: 797 books
Scaling Up (Escalando sua Empresa)
Como Algumas Empresas Conseguem Crescer... e Porque as Demais Não
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Faz mais de uma década desde que o livro best-seller de Verne Harnish, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, foi lançado pela primeira vez*.* Scaling Up: How a Few companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don’t (Scaling Up: Como Algumas Poucas Empresas Crescem... E Porque as Demais Não) é a maior revisão...
Strategic Communications for Nonprofits
A Step-by-Step Guide to Working with the Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
This is a new edition of Strategic Communications for Nonprofits, which was first published in 1999. It is an up-dated, nuts-and-bolts guide to helping nonprofits design and implement successful communications strategies. The book offers a unique combination of step-by-step guidance on effective media...
The Zen of Fundraising
89 Timeless Ideas to Strengthen and Develop Your Donor Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
If all that has ever been said and written about the art and science of fundraising could be distilled down to just what really matters—what fundraisers everywhere need to know—there would be only a small number of true gems deserving of the description, “nuggets of information.”
Leading...
Decolonizing Wealth
Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Decolonizing Wealth is a provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance. Award-winning philanthropy executive Edgar Villanueva draws from the traditions from the Native way to prescribe the medicine for restoring balance and healing our divides.
Though...
Tools for Grassroots Activists
Best Practices for Success in the Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
For over twenty years, Patagonia has organized a Tools Conference, where experts provide practical training to help make activists more effective. Now Patagonia has captured Tools’ best wisdom and advice into a book, creating a resource for any organization hoping to hone core skills like campaign...
Doing the Math of Mission
Fruits, Faithfulness, and Metrics
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Over the past ten years, the North American mission field has experienced dramatic changes, which in turn have required congregations, middle judicatories, and denominations to adapt. Among these adaptations is an expectation for clear goals and quantified progress towards those goals. Church leaders...
by Sara Wason
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Webster's New World Grant Writing Handbook walks readers through every step of the grant writing process-from defining the project and getting and interpreting a foundation's guidelines to submitting and following up on the grant application. With clear, concise explanations, thorough coverage, illustrative...
Block Party
How Minecraft is helping communities around the world build thriving public spaces, block by block.
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Dozens of schoolgirls in matching uniforms crowded into a computer room at the custard-colored North Thanglong Economic & Technical college on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam. Beyond intermittent ripples of laughter and excitement, the 15- and 16-year-olds stayed focused throughout the day...
Good and Plenty
The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible--and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts, or they believe that public arts funding should be dramatically...
by Devin Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Crowdfunding for Social Good is both practical and inspiring, featuring the stories of real people who have successfully raised big money using crowdfunding and practical advice to help you do the same.Crowdfunding is the newest way for nonprofits and social entrepreneurs to raise money for...
by Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
I am encouraged to see healthcare leaders looking beyond the ways they have always done things in the past to implementing innovative solutions such as Lean to curb the industry's skyrocketing costs, poor quality, nursing shortages and employee dissatisfaction; all symptoms of deeper problems inherent...
Leading Matters
Lessons from My Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
In Leading Matters, current Chairman of Alphabet (Google's parent company), former President of Stanford University, and "Godfather of Silicon Valley," John L. Hennessy shares the core elements of leadership that helped him become a successful tech entrepreneur, esteemed academic, and venerated...
Real Impact
The New Economics of Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A leading investment professional explains the world of impact investing--investing in businesses and projects with a social and financial return--and shows what it takes to make sustainable, transformative change.
Impact investment--the support of social and environmental projects with a financial...
Scaling Up
How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Winner of the International Book Awards for General Business
Winner of the Readers' Favorite International Book Award for Non-Fiction Business
It’s been over a decade since Verne Harnish’s best-selling book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits was first released. Scaling Up (Rockefeller...