Starting & Building a Nonprofit: A Practical Guide: Peri Pakroo

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“Offers practical advice to allow nonprofits to set up their operations so that they run smoothly and efficiently…” (Deborah Brody Hamilton, Director, Member Services, Association of Small Foundations )
“Offers tons of practical advice and step-by-step instructions…” (Accounting Today )
“Takes readers through the nuts and bolts, [...]

Yours for the Asking: An Indispensable Guide to Fundraising and Management: Reynold Levy

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“Most fundraisers are uncomfortable asking for money, despite the fact that they are soliciting funds for worthy causes. However, author Reynold Levy makes the case that not only do individuals, corporations and foundations give money to organizations and causes they care about, they do so [...]

Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change: Alex Nicholls

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‘Social enterprise is an exciting movement which challenges both private and public sectors. To succeed in realising its potential it needs to be supported by evidence, analysis, and academic insight. The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship provides a hub for this thinking and Dr Alex [...]

The One Page Business Plan for Non-Profit Organizations: James T. Horan Jr.

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“I’ve never seen a better way to deploy an organization’s purpose and plans than with this brilliant, simple, straightforward approach to planning.” — Frank Tiedemann –Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland
“Our One Page Plan has helped turn some ’social justice good-hearted souls’ [...]

How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California: Anthony Mancuso

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A useful resource to help you get underway. — Entrepreneur magazine
If you’re thinking of forming a nonprofit corporation in California, you’ll find this handbook invaluable. — MacUser

Most organizations trying to gain legal nonprofit status don’t have the money to pay a lawyer thousands [...]

The Boss of You: Everything A Woman Needs to Know to Start, Run, and Maintain Her Own Business: Emira Mears, Lauren Bacon

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From Publishers Weekly
Female entrepreneurs start businesses at twice the rate of their male counterparts , and in this book they will find a practical compendium of everything there is to know about launching and sustaining a small business. Mears and Bacon emphasize building an individualized [...]

Mission, Inc.: The Practitioners Guide to Social Enterprise (Social Venture Network): Kevin Lynch, Julius Walls Jr

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In this groundbreaking guide, Kevin Lynch and Julius Walls, Jr. draw on their own hard-won experiences and those of twenty other social enterprise leaders. Exploring ten key paradoxes of social enterprises, they show how to navigate the extreme challenges and seize the tremendous opportunities these organizations present. Whether you’re looking [...]

The Relentlessly Practical Guide to Raising Serious Money: Proven Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations: David Lansdowne

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“Extremely functional and organized approach to fundraising.” — Boardsource (formerly National Center for Nonprofit Boards)
“In comprehensive fashion, the author addresses every relevant aspect: major gifts, leadership, personal solicitation, donor cultivation, and more.” — Fund Raising Management Magazine
“Step by step advice on getting major gifts … [...]

Winning Gifts: Make Your Donors Feel Like Winners (Afp Fund Development Series): Thomas D. Wilson

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The secret to getting gifts and making donors feel like winners.
Know the best approaches to people-centered fundraising. Understand the role of executive director, fundraisers, program managers, and volunteers in the win-win framework, the importance of listening, the case for a donor-centered approach, and the direct ways these [...]

Minding the Money: A Practical Guide for Volunteer Treasurers: Alden Todd

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“A most welcome practical guide and valuable day-to-day working tool, not only for volunteer treasurers, but for anyone wanting to start or join a not-for-profit organization. Whether for a charitable or religious group, an investment or social club of any sort, or a political committee or local union, MINDING THE MONEY [...]