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"This essential guide to starting and running a nonprofit organization includes practical advice, legal information, tips, and step-by-step instructions. It explains how to develop a strategic plan and budget; recruit and manage board members, volunteers, and staff; market an organization to a target audience; raise money-including traditional methods and crowdfunding; build a website and use social media strategically; and adopt policies that are...
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"The success or failure of a nonprofit depends on its ability to solicit donations from individuals, companies, and institutions. This book offers advice and stories from over 50 experienced fundraisers, foundation staffers, journalists, and more. It explains how to make a fundraising plan, work with individual donors, solicit grants from foundations and corporations, and much more. This book also provides creative grassroots strategies and dozens...
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Now, in this revised fifth edition of this book, changes and developments in the not-for-profit sector are integrated into the time-tested grant-writing formula that has proven effective time and again. You’ll find an expanded discussion of the importance of relationship building, social media, and online resources to successful nonprofit funding. The text has also been revised to include guidance for nonprofit program budgets for both foundation...
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When Josh Hagarty is recruited by the charitable organization New Africa to manage a farming project in an underdeveloped African country, he signs on, figuring that he can put his newly acquired graduate degree in engineering to good use. However, when Josh gets situated in Africa, he finds that New Africa may not be the philanthropic charity it purports itself to be.
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A Bestseller Becomes Even More Pertinent.
First published in 2005, this collection of CompassPoint online newsletter articles became instantly popular with busy board members of nonprofits. Now updated with new essays that are short enough to read over a cup of coffee, readers will find essential insights on board responsibilities, executive directors, fundraising, finance, and more.
New topics include: eleven ways to get a new executive director...
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Kathleen Kelly Janus, a lecturer at the Stanford University Program on Social Entrepreneurship and the founder of the successful social enterprise Spark, set out to investigate what makes a startup succeed or fail. She surveyed more than 200 high-performing social entrepreneurs and interviewed dozens of founders. "Social Startup Success" shares her findings for the legions of entrepreneurs working for social good, revealing how the best organizations...
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More so now than in years past, a significant number of nonprofit organizations have experienced a major decrease in funding and contributions. Nonprofit Kit for Dummies, 4th Edition caters to these organizations and shows you how your nonprofit can thrive and survive even in the most unpredictable and uncertain economic climate. This new edition of Nonprofit Kit For Dummies offers tips and information on everything you need to navigate the process...
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The Wise Guide to Winning Grants provides complete instruction in the research and writing techniques that lead to winning grants from foundations, corporations, and government agencies, as well as major gifts from individuals. The process is described step-by-step with numerous real-life examples in an easy-to-read conversational style. You'll learn how to make your proposals stand out from the crowd and avoid common mistakes. Whether you work in...
13) Leaving Microsoft to change the world: an entrepreneur's odyssey to educate the world's children
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"He discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work - not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s - but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands of his job, he took a vacation trekking in Nepal because a friend had told him, "If you get high enough in the mountains, you...
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In a world we cannot recognize, how do we find a way forward? In this world we do not understand, how do we know what to do? When so little is comprehensible, what is meaningful work? What is genuine contribution?
Bestselling author Margaret Wheatley has summoned us to be courageous leaders who strengthen community and rely on fully engaged people since her 1992 classic book, Leadership and the New Science, and eight subsequent books. In response...
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The riveting story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life. Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But while traveling he met a young boy begging on the streets of India, who after being asked what he wanted most in the world, simply...
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"Many young people today are seeking something more--purpose, meaning, a cause. Compassionate Careers is filled with examples of people who have meaningful jobs in cause-focused organizations. These stories capture their spirit, intelligence, imagination, and heart. The book is an inspirational guide to finding purpose-driven work and offers advice to anyone who feels that sitting on the sidelines is just not enough. It includes: Stories from people...
17) Generous death
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Someone murdered two of the local art museum's most wealthy donors, and hinted that Jenny Cain, head of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, would be next.
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Ever since her husband was killed in a boating accident several years ago, Callie has immersed herself in work. She loves her boss, wealthy philanthropist Tom Bennett, and enjoys investigating the charities he funds. But one day she overhears a conversation that implicates Tom in her husband's death. When she questions Tom, he can't explain: it is classified NSA information. Now doubting all she has been told about the accident, Callie begins her...
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"Impact investment, the support of social and environmental projects with a financial return, has become a hot topic in the world's philanthropy and development circles, and is growing exponentially: in the next decade, it is poised to eclipse traditional aid by ten times. Yet for all the excitement, there is work to do to ensure it actually realizes its potential. Will impact investment empower millions of people worldwide, or will it just replicate...
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A straight shot to IRS approval in orderly steps with no guesswork including: step by step guidance, specific requirements for Tennessee, EXACT mandatory IRS language, line by line coverage of IRS Form 1023 and all schedules, interactive Form 1023 and NEW Form 1023-EZ, reinstatement after automatic revocation, free access to dozens of approved IRS packages and narratives, templates for Colorado Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws including mandatory...