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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Book 1 Bringing Your A-Game to Nonprofit Management -- Chapter 1 Journeying into the World of Nonprofit Organizations -- What Is a Nonprofit Organization? -- Comparing for-profits to nonprofits -- Introducing the coveted 501(c)(3) status for nonprofits -- Embracing and Sharing Your Inspiration -- Honing Your Mission Statement -- Keeping your mission statement short and sweet -- Stating your mission - the goal for services -- Specifying who will be served by the nonprofit -- Explaining how you'll accomplish your mission -- Incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into your mission statement -- Imagining Your Future with a Vision Statement -- Capturing your vision statement -- Asking "Where are we going?" and "Why?" -- Finding the Resources to Do the Job -- Who is giving to nonprofit organizations? -- Supporting your mission with fundraising -- Chapter 2 From the Top: Examining the Nonprofit Management Structure -- Managing a Nonprofit: A Bird's-Eye View -- Appreciating the Governing Board's Role and Responsibilities -- Understanding the board's management oversight duties -- Protecting your board from liability -- Redefining the Nonprofit Founder's Role -- Adding an Advisory Board -- Expanding to Take on an Executive Director -- Chapter 3 Strategic Planning: Embracing the Ongoing Process -- Understanding the Importance of Planning -- Making Your Organization's Strategic Plan -- Getting ready -- Working with your nonprofit's mission and vision statements -- Hearing from all your stakeholders -- Surveying the external situation -- Looking at the internal situation -- Calling in the SWOT team -- Putting the plan in writing
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Ensuring that your goals make sense -- Itemizing the parts that form your strategic plan -- Adjusting your strategic plan when necessary -- Putting Plans into Action -- Defining and setting goals, objectives, strategies, and outcomes -- Creating a work plan -- Planning for Programs -- Working as a team -- Assessing needs -- Determining the questions to be answered -- Researching the best solutions -- Brainstorming the resources needed to implement new programs -- Estimating the cost of programs -- Evaluating organizational and staff capability -- Remembering special requirements -- Fitting it into the mission -- Thinking long term -- Chapter 4 Evaluating Your Work: Are You Meeting Your Goals? -- Knowing the Importance of Evaluation -- Working Through the Evaluation Process -- Selecting the right kind of evaluation -- Planning for evaluation -- Crafting valuable questions -- Choosing evaluators: Inside or outside? -- Conducting Your Evaluation -- Analyzing Results and Putting Them to Work -- Interpreting results -- Using your evaluation to strengthen your work -- Telling the truth -- Sharing the evaluation results with your stakeholders -- Chapter 5 You Can Count on Me! Working with Volunteers -- Knowing Why People Volunteer -- Designing a Volunteer Program -- Considering a volunteer coordinator -- Determining your need for volunteers -- Writing volunteer job descriptions -- Organizing volunteers -- Searching for Volunteers -- Getting the word out -- Looking for volunteers at other organizations -- Finding volunteers with special skills -- Hiring interns -- Interviewing and Screening Volunteers -- Managing Your Volunteers -- Providing adequate training -- Keeping good records -- Insuring your volunteers -- Saying farewell to bad volunteers -- Showing Appreciation for Your Volunteers -- Chapter 6 Working with Paid Staff and Contractors
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Determining Your Staffing Needs -- Getting Your Nonprofit Ready for Paid Employees -- Developing your personnel policies -- Determining work time and off time -- Covering other important items -- Exploring payroll setup options -- Providing benefits and perquisites -- Preparing to Hire -- Composing a job description -- Considering necessary qualifications -- Establishing nonprofit salary levels -- Considering factors that affect salary -- Scoping out salaries of comparable positions -- Announcing the position -- Making the Hire -- Looking at résumés -- Interviewing candidates -- Digging deeper with references -- Making your decision -- Onboarding a New Hire -- Confirming employment terms in writing -- Getting your new hire started on the job -- Evaluating your new hire's progress -- Looking to the future: Creating a professional development plan -- Managing Employees -- Recognizing what a manager or supervisor does -- Clarifying the lines of communication -- Holding regular staff meetings -- Writing emails to staff -- Chatting around the water cooler -- Following the reprimand-and-dismissal process -- Working with Independent Contractors -- Differentiating an independent contractor from an employee -- Establishing the roles for independent contractors -- Finding a consultant: Ask around -- Interviewing consultants -- Developing and executing the contract -- Book 2 Fundraising for Your Good Cause -- Chapter 1 Developing Your Case Statement: Winning with Words -- Stating Your Case -- Understanding what the case statement is and how you use it -- Getting started with your case statement -- Making the Case Compelling -- Developing a Case Statement: A Step-by-Step Guide -- Step 1: Mission: Why are you here? -- Step 2: Goals: What do you want to accomplish? -- Step 3: SMART objectives: How will you reach your goals?
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Step 4: Programs: What exactly do you provide? -- Step 5: Governance: What's the anatomy of your board? -- Step 6: Staff: Who are the people behind your services? -- Step 7: Location: Where do you live and work? -- Step 8: Finances: Is your organization financially responsible? -- Step 9: Development: What will you do in the future? -- Step 10: History: What successes are you building on? -- Giving Life to an Outdated Case Statement -- Sharing Your Case Statement -- Formatting your case -- Putting the case statement to work: From paper to online posts -- Chapter 2 Creating a Fundraising Plan -- Drafting the Perfect Fundraising Plan -- Starting with the case statement -- Identifying your goals -- Building a needs statement -- Assessing your existing resources -- Determining what you need -- Setting your financial targets -- Putting the all-powerful giving pyramid to work -- Getting started with the right methods -- Understanding the different fundraising methods -- Creating a method comparison worksheet -- Discovering fundraising markets -- Avoiding Plan-Busters like the Plague -- Budgeting Your Fundraising Efforts -- Making sure you include everything in your budget . . . but don't overbudget -- Figuring out the cost of raising money -- Using Affordable and Functional Fundraising Software -- Chapter 3 Mining for Donors -- Finding Your Stakeholders -- Recognizing Your Bread and Butter: Individual Donors -- Understanding donor levels -- Identifying potential donors -- Doing Business with Corporate Donors -- Finding Foundations That Care -- Asking Your Board All the Right Questions -- Where did you forget to expand your donor base? -- Whom did you forget to ask? -- Checking Out Potential Donors -- Pursuing promising prospects -- Finding the silver lining with unlikely prospects -- Researching on the Internet
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Keeping Track of Your Organization's Donors and Their Contributions -- Creating an effective donor information form -- Keeping good donor records -- Maintaining Confidence: The Issues and Ethics of Handling Personal Data -- Chapter 4 Meeting Your Donor with Grace and Grit -- Evaluating the Importance of a Visit -- Preparing to Meet Potential Donors -- Examining the Giving Relationship between the Donor and the Organization -- Showing potential donors the value of their gifts -- Getting more than money from your donors -- Checking out what motivates giving consistency -- Considering Your Donor's Context -- Engaging potential donors with limited means (for now) -- Connecting with affluent donors -- Meeting reluctant retirees on their level -- Cultivating the Initial Donor-Organization Relationship -- Chapter 5 Cultivating Major Givers -- Seeking a Major Gift Today for Tomorrow -- Finding the Holy Grail of Fundraising: The Major Gift -- Planning your way to major gifts -- Reviving your pool of current donors -- Targeting your major gifts -- Cultivating new and existing donors who have a lot to give -- Cultivating major donors in seven steps -- Building a giving club -- Recognizing Major Donors for Their Contributions -- Meeting your donors' expectations -- Providing donor recognition -- Chapter 6 Making the Major Gift Ask -- Pushing through the Fear by Focusing on the Greater Goal -- Accepting that you have to talk about money -- Understanding that "no" doesn't equal failure -- Remembering that you're a donor, too -- Choosing the Right People to Make the Ask -- Teaming up for dollars -- Flying solo -- Developing the Mechanics of Asking -- Recognizing the equitable exchange -- Using the tools of the trade -- Knowing the donor -- Checking out each step of "the Ask" -- Moving Beyond "No" -- Rating Your Yes-Ability -- Following Up after "the Ask"
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Book 3 Applying for and Winning Grants
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Browning, Beverly A. Nonprofit Management All-In-One for Dummies Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2023 ISBN 9781394172436
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