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Effective Public Manager: Achieving Success Focused on helping real-world managers and managers-to-be meet the demands of their jobs head-on rather than working around the constraints of government, this book offers a fresh approach to implementing effective management tools in a dynamic political, organizational, economic, and technological context. |
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Engaging Your Board: It's Raining Yen 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. |
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Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits An innovative guide to how great nonprofits achieve extraordinary social impact. |
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Fundraising as a Career: What, Are You Crazy? Fundraising as a Career: What, Are you Crazy? will: --Introduce you to the nonprofit world --Walk you through your career options --Help you develop the qualities that will make you a great fundraiser --Provide hints on how to transition into development and how to get started on the right foot once you do --Show you how to advance within the fund development office or even into senior management of the organization --Provide nonprofit employers with an insider's view of the traits to look for when recruiting or promoting a development professional. |
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GrantsWire Email Publication Subscription Funding intelligence to stay on top of the grant-winning game! GrantsWire is the most comprehensive source of new funding opportunities and it’s e-mailed right to your computer! |
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Grantwriting Beyond the Basics (Book 2): Understanding Nonprofit Finances Concisely written in highly accessible language and loaded with hands-on examples, tables, figures, and forms. |
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Grantwriting Beyond the Basics (Book 3): Successful Program Evaluation Designed to inspire grantwriters to take their grant development strategies to the next level. |
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Guide to Federal Funding for Governments & Nonprofits - Subscription The Guide to Federal Funding for Government and Nonprofits offers fast, easy access to current, precise funding information on more than 750 federal grant-making programs — all grouped by function, not by agency. The one source that uncovers millions of federal grant dollars. |
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Local/State Funding Report ONLINE Subscription Local/State Funding Report is organized for busy grantseekers and grant managers like you. Every issue gives you critical perspectives, carefully checked facts and figures, and e-mail alerts on the latest grant headlines, including emergency and disaster aid... welfare reform... crime reduction... energy assistance... child and senior care... health care... housing and homeless assistance... community development and many more! |
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Management Accounting in Health Care Organizations, 2nd Edition This book provides students with a comprehensive understanding of accounting principles, concepts, and techniques that guide managerial decision-making in health care. |
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Mapping the New World of American Philanthropy: Causes and Consequences of the Transfer of Wealth 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. |
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Nonprofit Essentials: Recruiting and Training Fundraising Volunteers "Linda Lysakowski brings into focus the realities of enlisting volunteers to ensure success in a campaign. She clearly outlines logical steps that lead to inspiring passion in the volunteer, who is so essential to reaching a goal. I wish such a comprehensive treatise had been available to me forty years ago!" |
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Nonprofit Essentials: The Development Plan The Development Plan takes the reader through the development planning process and helps both novice development officers and seasoned professionals to create a plan that contributes to an organization's realization of its mission. |
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Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals 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. |
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Questions & Answers for the Grant Professional: Achieving Excellence Questions & Answers for the Grant Professional: Achieving Excellence is designed to address all questions that a grant professional, seeking to improve his professional competency and employability, will have. The book explains in detail each topic area grant professionals must understand, demonstrate, master and employ to succeed in their jobs. |
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Single Audit Information Service - Hardcopy Subscription The Single Audit Information Service is a comprehensive guide to all of the steps federal grantees and auditors must follow to ensure Single Audit Act compliance. From soliciting bids for audit services to preparing audit reports to resolving audit findings with federal officials, the Service provides detailed analyses of every aspect of single audit law and policy. It provides cost-effective and practical guidance on preparing for and performing single audits. |
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Single Audit Information Service - Online Subscription The Single Audit Information Service is a comprehensive guide to all of the steps federal grantees and auditors must follow to ensure Single Audit Act compliance. From soliciting bids for audit services to preparing audit reports to resolving audit findings with federal officials, the Service provides detailed analyses of every aspect of single audit law and policy. It provides cost-effective and practical guidance on preparing for and performing single audits. |
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Storytelling for Grantseekers: A Guide to Creative Nonprofit Fundraising - 2nd Edition This book walks readers through all the main phases of the proposal, highlighting the creative elements that link components to each other and unify the entire proposal. |
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The ABC's of Building Better Boards How to build, strengthen and maintain an effective Board of Directors of a nonprofit organization. |
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The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is filled with easy-to-understand rules, real-world examples, dozens of reproducible exercises, and pre- and post-tests. |
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The Charismatic Organization - 8 Ways to Grow a Nonprofit that Builds Buzz, Delights Donors, and Energizes Employees 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. |
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The Essential Nonprofit Fundraising Hanbook: Getting the Money You Need From Government Agencies, Businesses, Foundations, and Individuals This book is for individuals who are dedicated to helping their communities but who need useful recommendations on how to raise money. |
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The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization 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. |
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The Fundraising Feasibility Study: It's Not About the Money "The Fundraising Feasibility Study provides fundamental information on one of the most important, if little understood, elements of successful fundraising. Written by a cadre of the most experienced and knowledgeable professionals in the field, it offers insights and useful information that will be valuable to practitioners and scholars alike." |
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The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic & Mystery of Practical English In a world where we comminucate more and more through emails and text messages, how you use language matters--even in 140 characters. The Glamour of Grammar prepares readers to captivate with every word. |
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The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations (9th Edition) The Planning Guide is designed to be used in direct conjunction with The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Ninth Edition (April 2007), which summarizes the law of tax-exempt organizations as such (its purpose is not to provide planning guidance). |
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The Nonprofit Board Answer Book, 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide for Board Members and Chief Executives 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. |
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The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role 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. |
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Tough Choices or Tough Times: The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce Tough Choices or Tough Times, the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, shows how the dynamics of the global economy will lead to a steady decline in the American standard of living if this country does not undertake the first thorough overhaul of its education system in a century. |
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Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership The authors provide a range of ideas on how to approach generational shifts in leadership so that the contributions of long-time leaders are valued, new and younger leaders' talent is recognized, and groups are better prepared to work across generational divides. |
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Writing to Make a Difference: 25 Powerful Techniques to Boost Your Community Impact Engage your readers and boost your impact! Do you write--a little or a lot--for a socially responsible organization, business, or program? Wish you had an accessible writing coach to help you quickly craft potent pieces that move your readers to act? This feisty one-stop-shop of distilled wisdom will show you-step by step-how to turbocharge your marketing and fundraising documents. |
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Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer One of America's most influential writing teachers offers a toolbox from which writers of all kinds can draw practical inspiration. |
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You and Your Nonprofit: Practical Advice and Tips from the CharityChannel Professional Community 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. |
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