How to Create Programs That Include Disabled Children and Youths
NEW BOOKS Paths to Inclusion: A Resource Guide for Fully Including Youth of All Abilities in Community Life, seeks to help nonprofit leaders modify their youth programs to ensure that disabled children can participate. The publication presents basic background information on what “inclusion” is,…
Guide Offers Tips on Talking With Donors
NEW BOOKS The 11 Questions Every Donor Asks and the Answers All Donors Crave: How You Can Inspire Someone to Give Generously, by Harvey McKinnon, offers advice on what potential benefactors are thinking. Each chapter focuses on a question — like “Will my gift make a difference?” or “How will you…
Creating and Communicating Ethical Guidelines for Nonprofit Groups
NEW BOOKS Ethical Fundraising: A Guide for Nonprofit Boards and Fundraisers
What to Do With Wealth Once It Is Amassed
NEW BOOKS Beyond Success: Building a Personal, Financial, and Philanthropic Legacy
Foundations Should Participate in Policy-Change Efforts
NEW BOOKS Foundations and Public Policy Grantmaking, by Julia Coffman, was written to help the James Irvine Foundation begin to work for policy change. Foundations should make grants to influence public policy, argues Ms. Coffman, an advocacy and policy-change consultant. Philanthropy is sometimes…
Guide Offers Step-by-Step Fund-Raising Help
NEW BOOKS Ask Without Fear: A Simple Guide to Connecting Donors With What Matters to Them Most, by Marc A. Pitman, helps board members, volunteer fund raisers, and charity staff members learn to enjoy asking for money. Mr. Pitman, founder of FundraisingCoach.com, which offers advice and other…
A Look at Why Philanthropy Exists
NEW BOOKS Understanding Philanthropy: Its Meaning and Mission
Link Values With Career and Lifestyle, Book Suggests
NEW BOOKS Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives
Drawing Leadership Advice From Different Cultures
NEW BOOKS Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age — New Approaches to Leadership From Latino, Black, and American Indian Communities, by Juana Bordas, offers advice for nonprofit and community leaders. Advising a shift from an individualistic, competitive model of leadership,…