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Financial Leadership for Nonprofit Executives: Guiding Your Organization to Long-term Success

1 review
Jeanne Peters, Elizabeth Schaffer

Fieldstone Alliance, 2005

Available directly from the publisher
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Creative Community Builder's Handbook: How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture

1 review
Tom Borrup

Fieldstone Alliance, 2006

This book is available directly from the publisher
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The Five Life Stages of Nonprofit Organizations: Where You Are, Where You're Going, and What to Expect When ...
Judith Sharken Simon, J. Terence Donovan

Fieldstone Alliance, 2001

Find out what's normal for your nonprofit The life stage model is a powerful tool for understandingobjectivelyyour organization's current status and preparing to move it ahead to the future. In this guide, organization development consultant Judith Sharken Simon, MA, helps you understand where your organization is in its life. You'll learn about the very real challenges and problems facing your nonprofit at any given stage. Directors, board ...

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.

Strategic Planning Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations, Revised and Updated

2 reviews
Bryan W. Barry

Fieldstone Alliance, 1997

Excellent, Easy-to-Use Workbook for Organizations Engaged in Strategic Planning Process
When our organization decided to engage in the strategic planning process, I reviewed a myriad of resources, and I believe that this workbook is the best. Not only does it explain the planning process well, but it offers a variety of paths through which to pursue planning, making it useful for any organization at any stage of growth. Plus, the worksheets are a great addition. Overall, the ...

Lobbying and Advocacy Handbook for Nonprofit Organizations: Shaping Public Policy at the State and Local Level

1 review
Marcia Avner

Fieldstone Alliance, 2002

Want to start lobbying but don't know wharere to start? This book is the answer
For all those non-profits leaders who are not sure how much lobbying they can do and what are the options. This book guides you step-by-step, easy to read and use.

Benchmarking for Nonprofits: How to Measure, Manage, and Improve Performance

2 reviews
Jason Saul

Fieldstone Alliance, 2004

Must-have for any nonprofit
This book is an essential for every nonprofit manager's bookshelf. The straighforward writing style of Jason Saul, coupled with practical tools, will help create an effective benchmarking and outcomes management system.

Community Building: What Makes It Work; A Review of Factors Influencing Successful Community Building

2 reviews
Paul Mattessich, Barbara Monsey

Fieldstone Alliance, 1997

Excellent resource
This book is an excellent compilation of (all?)the research on what actually works in community building. It is an absolute "must-read" for anyone or any organization who/which is interested in community building. Their organized listing of key elements which must be considered is very helpful and good checklists to the practitioner to determine if all bases are covered.

Bookkeeping Basics: What Every Nonprofit Bookkeeper Needs to Know

2 reviews
Debra L. Ruegg, Lisa M. Venkatrathnam

Fieldstone Alliance, 2003

Good resource for the basic concepts
Clear, practical and well-organized resource for new bookkeepers and accounting students without bookkeeping experience who want to better understand the accounting cycle. Very user-friendly.

Collaboration: What Makes It Work, 2nd Edition: A Review of Research Literature on Factors Influencing ...
Paul W. Mattessich, Marta Murray-Close, ...

Fieldstone Alliance, 2004

A new look at what makes collaborations successful. What makes the difference between your collaboration's failure or success? Collaboration: What Makes It Work, Second Edition answers this question with an up-to-date and in-depth review of collaboration research. What's new in the second edition: An important new success factor (there are twenty in all) related to the collaboration's pace of development and its evolution over time; Improved ...

The Nonprofit Mergers Workbook Part II: Unifying the Organization after a Merger

Fieldstone Alliance, 2004

You've completed the merger agreement. Now, how do you make the merger work? Nonprofit Mergers Part II helps you create a comprehensive plan to achieve integration. It addresses large, strategic issues as well as small practical ones. Integration issues and how to handle them Section I: Going the Distance provides a broad view of integration, its challenges, and how to meet them. Topics include: The basic tenets of organizational change; What ...

Nonprofit Stewardship: A Better Way to Lead Your Mission-Based Organization

1 review
Peter C. Brinckerhoff

Fieldstone Alliance, 2004

Brinckerhoff Does it Again
Peter Brinckerhoff's books are not a fast read. Every page is packed with thoughts and ideas. I find myself reading a paragraph and sitting for ten minutes absorbing the implications for the nonprofits I work with. If you are a nonprofit professional or a board member or volunteer, this is a "must read." No one has time or money to waste and everyone wants to do a good job. This book will help ...

Community Leadership Handbook: Framing Ideas, Building Relationships, and Mobilizing Resources

1 review
James F. Krile, Gordon Curphy, ...

Fieldstone Alliance, 2006

Award Winner, available from publisher
Hello, I work for the publisher, Fieldstone Alliance. Amazon does not currently sell this title directly. In the meantime, you may purchase it directly from us at www.FieldstoneAlliance.org where you will also have access to our free tools and articles. This book won the Honorable Mention Award in the 2005 Terry McAdams nonprofit book awards.

Venture Forth! The Essential Guide to Starting a Moneymaking Business in Your Nonprofit Organization
Rolfe Larson

Fieldstone Alliance, 2002

How to find, test, and launch a successful nonprofit venture Venture Forth! The Essential Guide to Starting a Moneymaking Business in Your Nonprofit Organization is the most complete step-by-step guide on the topic. Building on the experience of many organizations, this handbook gives you a time-tested approach for finding, testing, and launching a successful nonprofit business venture. Whether your organization is large or small, the book's ...

The Fieldstone Alliance Guide to Crafting Effective Mission and Vision Statements
Emil Angelica

Fieldstone Alliance, 2001

How to get the information you need to make smart decisions (without a lot of money or special expertise!) Successful nonprofit leaders don't guess about what their constituents think or needthey ask them. One of the most effective ways to ask is through focus groups.The Fieldstone Nonprofit Guide to Conducting Successful Focus Groups shows you how to collect valuable information without a lot of money or special expertise. Using this proven ...

Consulting with Nonprofits : A Practitioner's Guide

3 reviews
Carol Ann Lukas

Fieldstone Alliance, 1998

A wondeful book that should have been titled "Consulting to Nonprofits." 1 Thumb Up!
I loved this book. It was written for consultants who provide (or will provide) various kinds of help to nonprofits. More specifically, the help provided falls into two broad categories: help for nonprofit programs, and help with organizational issues like management structure, finances, fundraising, etc. And the help one can get from reading this book will definitely help strengthen the quality ...

Marketing Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations Volume 1: Develop the Plan, 2nd Edition

2 reviews
Gary J. Stern, Elana Centor

Fieldstone Alliance, 2001

Great tool to get started with marketing
I purchased this book because it was recommended reading for my Peace Corps service. I have a degree in Marketing and found this to be a good summary of what I have learned at the very basic level. if you have little to no business background then this is a good place to start. I have been reviewing it at site and think I can make even further use of it. I think if translated it could make ...

Nonprofit Strategy Revolution: Real-Time Strategic Planning in a Rapid-Response World
David LA Piana

Fieldstone Alliance, 2008

Manage opportunities and challenges quicklyand strategically The fact is, the world changes continuously and rapidly. Its foolhardy to believe that strategies should not do so as well. Nonprofit leaders already know this, but traditional strategic planning has locked them into a process thats divorced from todays reality. Thats why plans sit on the shelf and why smart executives are always seeking workarounds in between planning periods. The ...

Community Economic Development Handbook: Strategies and Tools to Revitalize Your Neighborhood
Mihailo Temali

Fieldstone Alliance, 2002

The step-by-step guide to turning any neighborhood around. A weak local economy can be strengthened. A run-down neighborhood of boarded-up storefronts, litter-strewn sidewalks, high unemployment, and poorly-maintained housing can be transformed. An entire community can be lifted up. Mihailo (Mike) Temali knows this first-hand. He has spent nearly twenty years working in community-based economic development, helping cities as diverse as St. Paul, ...

The Nonprofit Career Guide: How to Land a Job That Makes a Difference

4 reviews
Shelly Cryer

Fieldstone Alliance, 2008

Why I Hate All Career Guide Books
I do hate all career guide books. Except this one. Short. Focused. Keeping it real. And no worksheets. As an executive working for top Human Resources management in a Fortune 100 company, I have read many career guides. And I have been asked to recommend career guides by concerned friends, usually for their kids. And they are all padded, boring, time-wasting books. Especially the ones with ...

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