BOOK TITLE AND AUTHOR NAME

Engaging Your Board: It's Raining Yen
By: Kayte Connelly

The Ultimate 21st Century Guide for Building the Capacity of Your Board. Practical applications featuring step-by-step instructions with tips, best practices and exercises.

Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits
By: Crutchfield/McLeod Grant

An innovative guide to how great nonprofits achieve extraordinary social impact.

Grant Proposal Makeover: Transform Your Request from No to Yes
By: Cheryl A. Clarke and Susan P. Fox

Grant Proposal Makeover shows how to transform lackluster proposals into excellent ones–that have the potential to be funded.

Grant Writing DeMYSTiFied
By: Mary Ann Payne

Create the perfect proposal to win funding for your ideas and plans

Grant Writing for Dummies, 4th Edition (Paperback), 3rd Edition (Kindle)
By: Beverly Browning

An all-in-one guide to locating and securing available grants

How to Manage an Effective Nonprofit Organization: From Writing and Managing Grants to Fundraising, Board Development, and Strategic Planning
By: Michael A. Sand

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.

Making Critical Decisions: A Practical Guide for Nonprofit Organizations
By: Roberta M. Snow and Paul H. Phillips

Making Critical Decisions offers nonprofit leaders a proven model for making hard choices that minimize risks while maintaining progress toward the organization’s goals as well as a practical framework for understanding and implementing the decision-making process.

Managing the Nonprofit Organization
By: Peter Drucker

The nonprofit sector is growing rapidly, creating a major need for expert advice on how to manage these organizations effectively. Management legend Peter Drucker provides excellent examples and explanations of mission, leadership, resources, marketing, goals, and much more. Interviews with nine experts also address key issues in this booming sector.

Managing a Nonprofit Organization in the Twenty-First Century
By: Thomas Wolf and Barbara Carter

Since this classic work was originally published in 1984, there have been major shifts in the nonprofit world -- the growth of more profit-oriented ventures, the overhaul of accounting rules, new partnerships, and an emphasis on customer-oriented service and leadership. In easy-to-understand language, Thomas Wolf explains how to cope with these changes and deal with the traditional challenges of managing staff, trustees, and volunteers.

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.

Mapping the New World of American Philanthropy is your seminal guide to prepare for the coming intergenerational transfer of wealth that will affect your nonprofit and philanthropy in general.

Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy
By: Paul Brest and Hal Harvey

“An invaluable resource that distills the essence of strategic philanthropy for those seeking to achieve a greater social impact.”--Bill Gates, cochair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals
By: Darian Rodriguez Heyman

This handbook can educate and empower a whole generation of nonprofit leaders and professionals by bringing together top experts in the field to share their knowledge and wisdom gained through experience.

Nonprofit Management: Principles and Practice
By: Michael J. Worth

The only comprehensive textbook for the Nonprofit Management course, this book provides a broad overview of key topics, including the scope and structure of the nonprofit sector, leadership and managing, fundraising and financial management, lobbying and advocacy, managing internationally, and social entrepreneurship. The Second Edition examines the effects on the nonprofit sector of the economic recession and recent changes in law, and provides new data and cases.

Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability
By: Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka and Steve Zimmerman

"This is much more than a financial how-to book. It's a nonprofit's guide to empowerment. It demystifies mission impact and financial viability using The Matrix Map to provide strategic options for any organization. A must-read for every nonprofit CEO, CFO, and board member."
—Julia A. McClendon, chief executive officer, YWCA

The ABC's of Building Better Boards
By: Jean Block

How to build, strengthen and maintain an effective Board of Directors of a nonprofit organization.

The Charismatic Organization - 8 Ways to Grow a Nonprofit that Builds Buzz, Delights Donors, and Energizes Employees
By: Shiley Sagawa and Deborah Jospin

The authors offer a framework that allows organizations to go beyond quick fixes and fundraising strategies to a broader paradigm that encompasses community and organization building.

The Essential Nonprofit Fundraising Hanbook: Getting the Money You Need From Government Agencies, Businesses, Foundations, and Individuals
By: Michael A. Sand and Linda Lysakowski

This book is for individuals who are dedicated to helping their communities but who need useful recommendations on how to raise money.

The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization
By: Peter F. Drucker and Leader to Leader Institute

A tool for self-assessment and transformation, answering these five questions will fundamentally change the way you work, helping you lead your organization to an exceptional level of performance.

The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management
By: David Renz and Robert Herman

The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management brings together leading experts in the nonprofit and management fields to describe effective practice in all the important functions, processes, and strategies of nonprofit management. Based on the most current research, theory, and experience, this comprehensive edition offers useful advice for managing nonprofit organizations and addresses key aspects of practice such as board development, strategic planning, lobbying, marketing, fundraising, volunteer management, financial management, risk management, and compensation and benefits.

The Nonprofit Board Answer Book, 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide for Board Members and Chief Executives
By: Boardsource

The Nonprofit Board Answer Book aims to have with you in the pages that follow. It follows a question-and-answer format, enabling you to quickly find an answer to a burning question you have right now.

The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role
By: Terry L. Cooper

This new edition includes information on coping with new demands for accountability, as well as new cases and examples, an examination of current issues relevant to administrative ethics, and supplementary materials for professors.

Writing Grant Proposals That Win (4th Edition)
By: Deborah Ward

Writing Grant Proposals That Win, Fourth Edition, Offers Step-By-Step Instructions And Clear Examples Of How To Write Winning Grant Proposals.

You and Your Nonprofit: Practical Advice and Tips from the CharityChannel Professional Community
By: Norman Olshansky and Linda Lysakowski

YOU AND YOUR NONPROFIT has been written for those who want to learn more about the nonprofit sector or improve their knowledge and skills related to nonprofit leadership, management and fundraising.