Making Grants for Collaborative Problem Solving
Community Visions, Community Solutions: Grantmaking for Comprehensive Impact
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Tips for Planning a Board Retreat
Secrets of Successful Retreats: the Best from the Non-Profit Pros, edited by Carol Weisman, discusses the components of a successful retreat for nonprofit board members. Ms. Weisman, president of Board Builders, a consulting company in St. Louis, compiled this collection of tips from individuals…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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What Donors Should Look For in a Charity
How Effective Nonprofits Work: a Guide for Donors, Board Members, and Foundation Officers, by Marcia Festen and Marianne Philbin, is designed to help donors understand how charities operate and how to choose organizations to support. Ms. Festen, principal of a Chicago consulting company that bears…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Testing Direct-Mail Solicitations
Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3: Raise More Money With Direct Mail Tests
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Enlightened Risk Taking: a Guide to Strategic Risk Management for Nonprofits
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Nonprofit Organizations Can Increase Efficiency by Using Technology Plans
Wired for Good: Strategic Technology Planning for Nonprofits
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Trustees, CEO’s Share Success Stories About Organizational Transitions
Managing Change: Lessons Learned From Nonprofit Leadersoffers insights from board chairmen and directors of charities on how they have successfully adapted to organizational change. The guide discusses such challenges as moving from a founding committee to a governing board, working with a new…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Resources for Youth Organizers
Future 500, edited by Jee Kim, Mathilda de Dios, Pablo Caraballo, Manuela Arciniegas, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, and Kofi Taha, provides descriptions of youth groups engaged in organizing and activism. The profiles were compiled by the Active Element Foundation, a New York nonprofit organization that…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Keeping a Foundation True to its Mission
Donor Intent: Preserving the Mission of Charitable Foundations, by Lloyd H. Mayer, offers advice on how a donor can ensure that his or her foundation will never deviate from its mission. Mr. Mayer, a lawyer in the Washington office of Caplin & Drysdale, gives an overview of state laws that regulate…
By Jessica Kronstadt
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Reflecting Mission in Accounting Statements
What Counts: Social Accounting for Nonprofits and Cooperatives
By Jessica Kronstadt
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