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Making The News: A Guide For Nonprofits And Activists

7 reviews
Jason Salzman

Basic Books, 1998

So impressed I hired the guy
Gearing up a new issues education/activist organization, I read this invaluable tome. Then I called its author (Jason Salzman) to find proteges of his whom I might hire on the East Coast. After talking with him over a couple weeks, I hired him and have tremendously benefitted from his experience, wisdom and creativity. Not often we can hire the guy "who wrote the book." If you can't hire ...

The Insider's Guide to Grantmaking

4 reviews
Joel J. Orosz

Jossey-Bass, 2000

I learned more than I already knew about my own job!
I've been a grantmaker for approximately five years now. During the course of my on-the-job training, I've heard certain maxims over and over again until they've become ingrained in my mind and in my responses to applicants for grant funds -- now, after reading this book, I actually understand the philosophies behind them. Every grantseeker who bemoans the fact that foundations don't want to fund ...

Prepare Now for the Temple

5 reviews
Brittany Mangus

Cedar Fort, 2007

Excellent book!
I love this book. Very well written and informative. Definitely a book I wish I'd had when I was preparing to go to the temple for the first time. I love how she encourages young women to study the gospel for themselves. She gives just enough information to wet your appetite to make you want to learn more, then points you in the right direction by giving a list of recommended readings. This ...

House of Glory: Finding Personal Meaning in the Temple

3 reviews
S. Michael Wilcox

Shadow Mountain, 1995

Wonderful Insight and Answers
I'm not sure how long I've had this book. I'm not even sure how it came to be in my possession. But it is the most meaningful book I have on the purposes of the temple and how to gain more from temple ordinances. Brother Wilcox has assembled a thorough collection of quotes and personal anecdotes that bring his points home in such an understandable and motivating way. Particularly interesting ...

Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats, Revised Edition

3 reviews
Joseph Cirincione, Jon B. Wolfsthal, ...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005

Excellent Proliferation Resource
The latest in the line of Carnegie proliferation surveys, Deadly Arsenals is an essential resource for all concerned with WMD proliferation issues. Students of nonproliferation will appreciate the up-to-date analysis of the regime and its hard cases, including timely information on North Korea, Iran, and the most recent "success" story, Libya. This is one of the few books I keep on my desk--my ...

Nonprofit Essentials: Endowment Building

6 reviews
Diana S. Newman

Wiley, 2005

At last - endowments for the "every charity"
Diana Newman has written a wonderful book on endowment, appropriate for the thousands of non-profit organizations who deserve to live in perpetuity, and yet don't have large fund development programs. I ordered it March 2005, and have since included it in curriculum for educating my nonprofit clients. Their feedback? The book is easy to comprehend, and full of useful information. Ms. Newman's ...

Foundation and Endowment Investing: Philosophies and Strategies of Top Investors and Institutions

4 reviews

Wiley, 2008

Thorough and Informative
Starting with the thorough introduction, this book taught me volumes about foundation investing. I sit on a foundation board, and I feel much more comfortable with investment policy discussions now! I recommend this book and have loaned my copy out to our executive director.

The Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World

5 reviews

PublicAffairs, 2007

Deserves serious reading from people who want to make a difference.
Joel Fleishman's book lays an excellent bedrock of history underneath its discussion of philanthropy as a great element of American tradition. We live in days of some staggering examples - from Warren Buffet's living bequest of billions, to the fine work of Bill and Melinda Gates - and many others. But rather than see this as some product of the new millennium - Fleishman shows how the new ...

Government censorshop of the arts: The controversy over Robert Mapplethorpe and reauthorization of the ...

3 reviews
Vivian Drew Koch, 1991

Useful and thought-provoking history
A concise overview of Afro-American participation and attitudes towards military service, both volunteer and by forced conscription, in two-centuries of U.S. wars. I didnýt know a lot of the specific facts, especially about early wars from the 1776 American Revolution on, until I read this book.. Mullen starts from the reality of Afro-Americans in U.S. society, from slavery to Jim Crow ...

Message Matters: Succeeding at the Crossroads of Mission and Market

3 reviews
Rebecca K. Leet

Fieldstone Alliance, 2007

Simple, elegant, useful...
You have to know WHAT you want do to before you can TELL others in a way that can help them do what YOU WANT them do to. Message Matters delivers a simple roadmap for how a business or a nonprofit can figure out what they do and explain it in a way that moves their audiences to take action. The examples really drive home the effectiveness of a good message.

Annual Register of Grant Support 1999: A Directory of Funding Sources (Annual Register of Grant Support)

1 review
Bowker

R. R. Bowker, 1998

Annual Register of Grant Support by Bowker
This register lists organizations, programs and sources of financial support for individuals and organizations. The book is comprehensive in that it contains approximately 1400+ pages of grant support listings. This book would be an excellent reference for fund raising purposes. For instance, there are extensive research activities funded by the Arthritis Foundation at 1330 Peachtree St. NW ...

Gracious goodness, Charleston!

2 reviews
Bishop England High School, Angela R. Basha, ...

Bishop England High School Endowment Fund, 1991

YUMMY
I borrowed this book from a friend and after trying a variety of the recipies I knew I had to have it. They were easy to follow relatively quick to make and were raved about by the family. Problem was I had to return the book and did not think I could still get it. Thank you Amazon.com! Pick up the book and be sure to try the Fruit Cobbler (fantastic) and Husbands Delight. Neither recipe ...

The Foundation Center's Guide to Grantseeking on the Web (Foundation Center's Guide to Grantseeking on the ...

2 reviews
Foundation Center Staff

Center, 2000

A thoroughly accessible guidebook
Compiled and edited by Kief Schladweiler, The Foundation Center's Guide To Grantseeking On The Web 2003 Edition is a massively extensive, 852-page resource of 3,00 grantmaker websites, and offers up a wealth of information concerning corporate grantmaking, searchable databases, government funding sources, online journals and newsletters, guidance for seeking individual donors online, and so much ...

Publicity for Nonprofits: Generating Media Exposure That Leads to Awareness, Growth, and Contributions

2 reviews
Sandra Beckwith

Kaplan Business, 2006

A much needed simple but solid book on publicity for nonprofit directors!
What a wonderful book. It was pretty to look at, and easy to read. If you are starting a nonprofit or want to improve on your existing nonprofit, then this book will probably help you in either project. It will help your organization generate media exposure that usually leads to awareness, growth, and contributions for your organization. And all at minimal cost. Use this book to create or improve ...

The Analysis of Portfolio Management Performance: An Insitutional Guide to Assessing and Analyzing Pension ...

2 reviews
G. Timothy Haight, Stephen O. Morrell

McGraw-Hill Companies, 1997

Great for learning the components of investment return
The book is very well written and strikes the right balance between portfolio math and a discussion of the various ideas in investment performance. I specialize in automating financial reports and this book explained what many of these reports were trying to do (but which, I now see, could do better). I spent ($$$) for this book (...) and it was well worth it. This book isn't about beating the ...

The Foundation Directory 1998 (20th ed)

2 reviews

Foundation Center, 1998

A good reference
This is an invaluable reference work for anyone looking for information on the philanthropic world. However, there is 1 glaring omission: My brother, David G. Jacobs, is the Editor of this book, and is credited as such on the inside front cover. I don't know who this Jeffrey Falkenstein is, or why he is listed as "compiler". I felt I had to set the record straight on this item.

Foundation Grants to Individuals

2 reviews

Found Center, 2003

Comprehensive!
This book is thorough and comprehensive in scope. It tells you exactly what you need to know to apply for a grant from the many organizations it lists. A good measure of its worth is that it's in its 11th update.

Alms and Vagabonds: Buddhist Temples and Popular Patronage in Medieval Japan

1 review
Janet R. Goodwin

University of Hawaii Press, 1994

Layman, Can You Spare a Dime?
Gradually our mental image of Kamakura Buddhism is becoming much richer and more complex, and this excellent book makes a major contribution to that process. "Alms and Vagabonds" is indeed full of a great many intriguing insights on the development of Buddhism during this time, insights from a wide variety of perspectives, all of which Goodwin elucidates quite naturally in a study of what would ...

Jose Marti Thoughts

2 reviews
Carlos Ripoll

Endowment for Cuban Amer Studies, 1994

Thoughts to live by, a bilingual anthology.
Jose Marti, Cuban apostle for the Cuban War of Independence from Spain in the late XIX Century, left a legacy of timeless thoughts. His teaching is rich. He analyzed American society with clarity and insight. He identified good with truth. He strove to reduce abstract thought to concrete formulae of conduct, and, his ability to do so was singular. How to achieve a functional accommodation of ...

Axis Rule In Occupied Europe

1 review
Raphael Lemkin

Carnegie Endowment For International Peace/ Division of International Law, 1944

Genocide Coined and Elaborated, and Poles are Included as Victims
Raphael (Rafal, Rafael) Lemkin, a Polish Jew, is well known for coining the term genocide. This classic book, published in 1944, describes genocide in a manner that departs considerably from contemporary thinking. Instead of Jewish suffering selectively repeated and elevated above that of everyone else's, and only Jews (and possibly also Gypsies) recognized as WWII victims of genocide, one almost ...

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