 | Why do we expect all of us passionate people to act in emotionally reasonable and neutral ways? Why do we get outraged or flummoxed when our partners become driven by something that doesn't make perfect sense? And why are we often blind to the more destructive effects of our own quirks? This selection of popular articles confronts these and other questions about personal behavior—good and bad—and its effects on an organization. (45 pages, download PDF at checkout) $14.95 |
| No reporter has a sharper nose and more penetrating eye than Rick Cohen. He is the consummate crusader for a clean and transparent sector, and this collection of articles demonstrate his objective research, solid documentation, and the courage to write what he finds, regardless of politics, party, or celebrity. $14.95 |
 | Although regulations, public policy and funding patterns have an enormous effect on the outcomes an organization can produce, many nonprofit managers and board members are unclear on how much advocacy they can do, what their particular advocacy agenda should be or how to organize themselves for it. This collection of articles from the Nonprofit Quarterly will walk the reader through these issues, and serves as an excellent primer for those just getting started. (41 pages, download PDF at checkout) $14.95 |
|  | As author Clara Miller notes, "Not only are nonprofit rules that govern money-and therefore business dynamics-different from those in the for-profit sector, they are largely unknown, even among nonprofits and their funders. Or at the very least, they remain unacknowledged and unspoken." This compendium of articles selected from the Nonprofit Quarterly explores the strangeness of nonprofit finance and provides best-practice approaches, so that the reader may become as skillful a strategist—as a manager or board member—as they should. (49 pages, download PDF at checkout) $14.95 |
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 | Governance is one of the most important topics a nonprofit can explore because existing governance systems seldom are built to fit each organization and situation as well as they could. Instead we often "borrow" governance structures, bylaws and all, from other organizations. This practice can cause all kinds of problems, including a misaligned capital structure, the stagnation of program offerings, and a lack of realized accountability to people who are being served. (48 pages, download PDF at checkout) $14.95 |
|  | A collection of columns from the Nonprofit Ethicist. The included articles were published during 2005-07. $14.95 |
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