 | Ethical Fundraising: A Guide for Nonprofit Boards and Fundraisers by Janice Gow Pettey - Published: Jul 2008
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Find out why ethics in fundraising is crucial to your organization’s sustainability. |
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Learn the steps your organization can take to avoid the appearance of impropriety. |
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Take the "Ethics Quick Quiz" to test your staff and board members’ understanding of ethical issues. |
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Learn the questions to ask to clarify tainted-money issues. |
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 | The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution: Real-Time Strategic Planning in a Rapid-Response World by David La Piana - Published: May 2008
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Find out why traditional nonprofit strategic plans are flawed. |
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Learn the difference between following a specific process (the traditional strategic planning approach) and becoming a more powerful strategic thinker. |
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Discover why nonprofit strategy begins with organizational strategy—your mission, vision and market position. |
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Learn how to develop a Strategy Screen to determine whether or not a particular strategy is consistent with your organization’s identity. |
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 | Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age by Juana Bordas - Published: Mar 2008
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Learn how to integrate the practices of communities of color into an inclusive and democratic leadership model. |
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Find out why emphasizing multicultural leadership is a strategic advantage in today’s global environment. |
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Discover the eight principles of multicultural leadership and how they can be applied to your organization. |
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Learn the difference between hierarchical and egalitarian pluralism—and why it is necessary to change your organizational structure to make it more egalitarian. |
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 | Crucial Confrontations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler - Published: Apr 2008
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Find out how the inability to hold crucial confrontations affects employee morale and productivity. |
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Learn which problems to address and which to avoid with colleagues and volunteers. |
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Discover the skills needed to effectively confront a problem--before, during and after the confrontation. |
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Learn how to motivate others and improve your climate for teamwork. | ...
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 | Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team's Passion, Creativity and Productivity by Michael Lee Stallard with Carolyn Dewing-Hommes and Jason Pankau - Published: Feb 2008
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Find out why a sense of emotional connection is necessary for people and organizations to thrive. |
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Discover the three essential elements to creating a “connection culture” (a culture that increases connection among people). |
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Learn how to apply the elements of a connection culture to increase connection in your organization. |
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Find out how to develop the habits and character strengths that increase connection. | ...
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 | The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom - Published: Feb 2008
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Discover the principles of a starfish organization and how they can help your organization achieve greater success. |
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Find out how to use circles to empower your volunteers to do great things for your organization. |
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Learn how to find the “sweet spot” on the centralized-decentralized continuum to stay competitive. |
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Discover how the five legs of a starfish work together to make your organization more powerful. | ...
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 | Forces for Good by Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant - Published: Jan 2008
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Discover the six practices that enable nonprofits to have higher levels of impact. |
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Find out how to bridge the gap between service and advocacy—and become good at doing both. |
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Learn ways to work with markets and help business “do well while doing good.” |
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Discover the three critical elements to sustaining impact: people, capital and infrastructure. | ...
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 | Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath & Dan Heath - Published: Dec 2007
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Learn why some ideas thrive while others never catch on—and how to create those ideas that "stick." |
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Find out how to transform the way your organization communicates ideas by applying the "human scale principle," using the "Velcro Theory of Memory" and creating "curiosity gaps." |
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Discover the six principles of "sticky ideas" and learn how your organization can use them to create successful messages. |
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Learn why the Curse of Knowledge—or knowing too much—can interfere with your ability to create ideas using the six principles. |
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 | Charity On Trial: What You Need to Know Before You Give by Doug White - Published: Nov 2007
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Learn how nonprofits and charities have violated the public trust. |
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Find out ways donors can separate good nonprofits from the ineffective and inefficient ones—and then make your organization adhere to those standards. |
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Discover why sometimes it’s better to turn down a gift—even a major one. |
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Learn why making your organization’s operations transparent is more important than ever. |
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 | Citizen Marketers by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba - Published: Oct 2007
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Learn how “social media”—blogs, podcasts and social networks—are combining pop culture with traditional marketing—and changing the world of marketing in the process. |
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Find out how individual citizens with a broadband connection and access to several inexpensive or free tools are influencing the public’s perception of your organization. |
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Discover ways to work with these everyday people to enhance your marketing exposure. |
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Learn why citizen marketing is oftentimes more effective than what is produced within your marketing department. | ...
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 | Creating Change through Family Philanthropy: The Next Generation by Alison Goldberg, Karen Pittelman & Resource Generation - Published: Sep 2007
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Find out how institutional practices within family philanthropies actually hinder rather than support social change. |
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Learn why the grantmaking process is tailored to the needs of funders—and how you can transform this process to make it more balanced. |
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Discover how your foundation can link your investments with your mission. |
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Learn how to shift your funding process from one that perpetuates social inequality to one that empowers grantees to create powerful social change. |
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 | Nonprofit Strategic Positioning: Decide Where to Be, Plan What to Do by Thomas A. McLaughlin - Published: Jul 2007
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Find out why the classic SWOT analysis in traditional strategic planning doesn’t work. |
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Learn how to use six distinct steps to develop a strategic position for your organization. |
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Discover your organization’s strengths by using the principles of strength-based internal scanning. |
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Learn how to scan your organization’s future, including seven specific strategic factors that affect all nonprofits. |
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 | Married to the Brand by William J. McEwen - Published: Jul 2007
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Find out why consumers/donors "marry" brands and why nonprofits should care about brand relationships. |
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Learn how to measure and manage the three requirements for a brand promise-credibility, compelling and connecting. |
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Discover how your organization can harness "people power" to build a successful brand marriage with donors. |
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Learn how to assess brand relationships with an 11-item metric of consumer engagement. |
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 | World Cafe by Juanita Brown with David Isaacs and the World Café Community - Published: Jun 2007
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Discover how to access the collaborative intelligence and creativity of your staff and board members. |
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Learn how to use the seven core design principles of the World Café process to cultivate conversations that matter. |
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Find out why talk and action are not separate activities. |
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Learn how to foster constructive dialogue that creates actionable knowledge among staff and board members. |
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 | Mapping the New World of American Philanthropy: Causes and Consequences of the Transfer of Wealth by Susan U. Raymond, Ph.D. and Mary Beth Martin, Esq. - Published: May 2007
In the next several decades, the baby boomer generation will transfer approximately $41 trillion, a good portion of which will go to the nonprofit sector. The essays in this newly released collection explore every facet of this transfer of wealth: the expected trends, the potential impact on the nonprofit system and the impact on governmental policy, as well as the expanding role of family foundations, women and donor-advised funds. ...
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 | 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner and James K. Harter, PhD - Published: Apr 2007
This book is the follow up to the 1999 bestseller First, Break All the Rules, which identified the 12 most important elements that all great managers share. In 12, the authors once again draw from The Gallup Organization’s database—which now includes 10 million employee and manager interviews—to give real-life examples of how managers from around the world epitomize each of the 12 Elements. In addition to the Gallup data, the authors use the latest insights from brain-imaging studies, genetics, psychology, behavioral economics and other scientific disciplines to reveal what drives good managers....
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 | The Foundation: A great American secret; How private wealth is changing the world by Joel Fleishman - Published: Mar 2007
Although they are among our most powerful institutions, foundations are, conversely, the least accountable. Fleishman examines the roles foundations play in fueling the nonprofit sector, how they discharge their stewardship responsibilities, and the extent to which they produce significant measurable benefits to society. In the future, if foundations want to continue to enjoy the freedoms and flexibility they have in the past, they will have to be much more transparent about their decision making and operations.
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 | Smarter, Faster, Better. Strategies for Effective, Enduring, and Fulfilled Leadership by Karlin Sloan and Lindsey Pollak - Published: Feb 2007
Becoming a smarter, faster and better leader means embracing paradox. Author Karlin Sloan offers practical strategies to help leaders gain perspective and self-knowledge, so that they can focus on building their legacy and making an impact on both their organization and the world as a whole. Effective, enduring and fulfilled leadership means, ultimately, focusing on we instead of me....
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 | The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki - Published: Jan 2007
This book will make you rethink the way your organization makes decisions. Surowiecki’s argument that the group’s answer to a problem is better than any one expert’s contradicts the idea that the CEO, executive director or board are the sole decision makers in an organization. Instead, tapping into your organization’s rich source of information and knowledge—and then aggregating those opinions—will result in smarter decisions. ...
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 | The Cash Flow Solution: A Nonprofit Board Member’s Guide to Financial Success by Richard & Anna Linzer - Published: Dec 2006
Because board members are responsible for ensuring the long-term financial stability of the organization they serve, it is crucial that they understand the fiscal position of the organization. But board members are busy volunteers and don’t necessarily have the financial acumen it takes to interpret financial conditions and make financial policies. Fiscal management needs to be simple and easily understood by all board members, not just those on the finance committee. The cash flow approach outlined in this book gives board members the tools they need to both easily grasp the financial situation of the organization and help them use the organization’s operating dollars to fulfill its mission....
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 | Momentum by Allison Fine - Published: Nov 2006
To be successful in today’s Connected Age, a person doesn’t need to be tech savvy. Instead, a mindset of connected activism—where information is widely and freely distributed—is the key to success in today’s digital age. Author Allison Fine describes the core ingredients of connected activism—including self-determination and meaningful participation—and discusses how digital technology can enhance efforts to solve social problems. Momentum is a road map for executive directors, board members and funders who want to use the new digital tools to effectively and inexpensively strengthen relationships—which, in the end, is what being connected is all about. ...
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 | Cause Marketing for Nonprofits: Partner for Purpose, Passion, and Profits by Jocelyne Daw - Published: Oct 2006
Cause marketing is a growing model for collaboration between corporations and nonprofit causes. However, as with most new ideas, implementing a cause-marketing program brings challenges as well as benefits. The purpose of this book is to help nonprofits see the benefits and opportunities that cause-marketing relationships can bring, while reducing the number of potential challenges. Author Jocelyne Daw explores practical tools to successfully develop strategic cause programs--including program delivery, marketing and fundraising--to maximize the benefits....
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 | Exposing the Elephants by Pamela Wilcox - Published: Sep 2006
Anyone who works in a nonprofit is familiar with the five problem elephants presented in this book. The paradox, of course, is that no one wants to talk about them. Yet ignoring these elephants keep organizations from becoming great instead of good. This book gives readers a description of each disruptive pachyderm, as well as Live Lessons—real situations from actual nonprofits—that show the effect these elephants have on nonprofits on a day-to-day basis. Tools and techniques to tame these pesky pachyderms are also explored....
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 | Leveraging Good Will by Alice Korngold - Published: Jul 2006
The time is ripe for nonprofits to reinvent and re-examine their partnerships with businesses. Korngold gives nonprofits step-by-step guidelines on how to leverage the vast resources businesses can bring to their organizations to increase their effectiveness. The nonprofit sector has been rocked by scandals and controversies, particularly surrounding giving after 9/11, from which it has never fully recovered. The press and public sector have raised doubts about nonprofit accountability, which forces nonprofits to focus more on governance and to seek board members who are serious about how the nonprofit accomplishes its mission....
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