March 3, 2005 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Nonprofit Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Run Your Nonprofit Organization, Fourth Edition
by Gary M. Grobman
“It is difficult to foresee and anticipate all of the barriers that stand in the way of a nonprofit organization’s creation and survival,” writes Gary M. Grobman. In this book, Mr. Grobman’s ninth on managing nonprofit groups, he intends to help people interested in starting and operating a nonprofit group to anticipate and overcome legal, logistical, financial, and other barriers.
Mr. Grobman, the former director of the Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition, in Harrisburg, begins with advice on what one has to do to start a nonprofit group and outlines the advantages and disadvantages of nonprofit incorporation. He provides guidance on qualifying for legal status as a charity and discusses the kinds of paperwork that nonprofit managers will have to contend with.
The book also discusses topics that affect the management of nonprofit groups. Mr. Grobman’s tips are intended to help nonprofit leaders be good fiscal managers; draft appropriate personnel policies; negotiate the hiring, evaluation, and firing of employees; and oversee a nonprofit group in many other areas.
The book includes several chapters that are new for the fourth edition, including ones that discuss the future of the nonprofit world, conducting evaluations of nonprofit employees, and using the Internet for fund raising and other purposes.
Publisher: White Hat Communications, P.O. Box 5390, Harrisburg, Pa. 17110-0390; (717) 238-3787; fax (717) 238-2090; http://www.whitehatcommunications.com; 469 pages; $29.95; ISBN 1-929109-13-x.
