Mission-Based Management: Leading Your Not-for-Profit In the 21st CenturyThe only nonprofit management book you must have-in an exciting new edition As a nonprofit manager, you have to be more effective and more efficient than ever to win funding and support to ensure your organization pursues its mission, meets community needs, and maintains its budget, while juggling the demands of funders, clientele, boards, staff, and community. This Third Edition of Mission-Based Management provides comprehensive, hands-on guidance that addresses your unique concerns as a nonprofit manager and policy-maker
More than ever before, as a nonprofit manager, you want and need practical guidance on how to do your job and run your organization more effectively and efficiently. And more than ever before, Mission-Based Management, Third Edition provides the definitive answer. |
Contents
What the Next Ten Years Will Bring | |
Recap | |
Overview | |
Understanding and Accepting Risk | |
Business Ventures | |
The Steps of the Business Planning Process | |
How Much Return on Investment Do You Need? | |
Preparing Your Business Financials | |
The Ten Biggest Mistakes People Make on Their Financial Projections | |
Creating a Climate of New Ideas | |
Recap | |
What Is a MissionBased Manager? | |
Recap | |
Questions for Discussion Chapters 13 | |
Overview | |
The Mission Statement Is Your Legal Reason for Existence | |
Writing or Rewriting Your Mission Statement | |
The Forgotten Mission Statement | |
The Mystery Mission Statement | |
Getting More from an Underutilized Resource | |
The Mission That Is Everywhere | |
Putting Actions behind Your Words | |
Recap | |
Questions for Discussion | |
Overview | |
Start In and Work Out | |
Ethics in a Nonprofit | |
Accountability | |
Transparency | |
Recap | |
Questions for Discussion | |
Overview | |
Board Effectiveness | |
Barriers to Board Effectiveness | |
Board Members Responsibilities | |
Staff Responsibilities to the Board | |
Board Members Legal Liabilities | |
Avoiding Liability | |
Building a Better Board | |
Board Recruitment | |
Board Orientation and Education | |
Committees of the Board | |
Recap | |
Questions for Discussion | |
Overview | |
The Inverted Pyramid of Management | |
Styles of Supervision | |
Communications | |
Delegation | |
Evaluation | |
Changing the Way You Evaluate | |
Staff Recognition | |
Recap | |
Questions for Discussion | |
Overview | |
The AllOnline AlltheTime World We Live In | |
Uses of Technology for the MissionBased Organization | |
A Technology Checklist | |
Your Web Site | |
Keeping CurrentA Review and Renewal Process | |
Recap | |
Questions for Discussion | |
Overview | |
The Characteristics of the Social Entrepreneur | |
Questions for Discussion | |
Overview | |
Why Market? | |
Marketing Basics | |
Asking Does Make a Difference | |
Recap | |
Questions for Discussion | |
Overview | |
What Makes a Financially Empowered Nonprofit | |
Numbers That Mean Something and Those That Dont | |
Knowing What You Earn and Lose | |
Spending Less through BottomsUp Budgeting | |
Reporting Inside the Organization | |
Planning for Your Future Cash and Capital Needs | |
Keeping What You Earn | |
Does Your Board Prohibit Debt? | |
Working with Lenders | |
Finding the Right Bank | |
Creating an Endowment | |
Using Your Empowerment | |
Recap | |
Overview | |
The Phases of Planning | |
Planning Options | |
Types of Plans | |
Planning Definitions | |
Outcomes of Planning | |
The Planning Process | |
Using the Plan as a Tool | |
Sample Plan Formats | |
Recap | |
Questions for Discussion | |
Overview | |
The Control Development Process | |
Types of Controls | |
Bylaws | |
ConflictofInterest Policies | |
Financial Controls | |
Human Resources Policies | |
Media Policies | |
Volunteer Policies | |
Quality Assurance | |
Program Policies | |
Disaster Policies | |
Training and Enforcement | |
Questions for Discussion | |
Overview | |
Overall Philosophy Changes That Are Necessary | |
Nonprofit Does Not Equal No Profit | |
Specific Action Items | |
An Exhortation | |
Recap | |