Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27854 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 222 pages

Synopsis
Are you a staff or board member of a nonprofit organisation? Do you want your organisation to be excellent? Are you a busy person? If you answered yes to all three questions, How To Manage An Effective Nonprofit Organization is the one book you need, one with more than a thousand practical tips. It was inspired by hundreds of nonprofit agency professionals who have participated in workshops the author has led for more than twenty years. Each of the nine chapters includes numerous practical recommendations: Board members will learn how to run effective meetings and get and keep the best people on their team. Busy staff members will learn how to maximise opportunities to obtain grant funds while minimising the time spent. Grant writers will learn how to prepare better proposals and how to manage the funds once they get them. Agencies will learn how to establish an outstanding volunteer programme and how to form community coalitions that work. And everyone will learn effective strategies to help improve supervisory, personnel and general management skills. Is it easy to manage an excellent nonprofit organisation? The answer to that questions is easily, "no".

Agency professionals at every level will find themselves referring to How To Manage An Effective Nonprofit Organization anytime they have a problem and need helpful, practical and to-the-point advice from an acknowledged leader in the field.

Customer Reviews

A Nonprofit Corporation Is Still a Corporation
Author Michael A. Sand, a consultant to nonprofit organizations for more than 25 years, has condensed his experience and knowledge of not-for-profit agencies into an information-packed book. He thoroughly covers the ABCs of managing a community service agency - from forming and operating a governing board to writing better grant proposals to hiring and supervising a productive staff. This handy reference is straightforward and easy to follow. It tackles many of the problems nonprofit organizations face everyday. Each chapter is accessibly divided into an outline format with headlines and bullet points, making the information easy to find and digest. The author includes sound, basic management material that might apply to most small businesses, as well as nonprofits, but unfortunately does not include case studies, anecdotes or real life examples to support his suggested strategies. Still, if we ever offered a start-up or refresher course called Nonprofit Agency Management 101, this book would be required reading.