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7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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Average: 4.9 (22 votes)
By Stephen R. Covey
Another example of how business principles can effectively be applied in the nonprofit world.

Publisher's Description:

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People is a comprehensive program based on developing an awareness of how perceptions and assumptions hinder success—in business as well as personal relationships. Here's an approach that will help broaden your way of thinking and lead to greater opportunities and effective problem solving.  Read more



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A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference

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Average: 3 (1 vote)
By Nancy Austin and Tom Peters
Bring excellence to life in your nonprofit with Tom Peters guide.

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A Passion For Excellence is the single most existing, inspiring, career-transforming book ever published for people who want to get ahead. It takes you behind, the scenes in some of the most successful organizations and analyzes what makes them distinctive. Here are real people, real companies, real numbers. Here is what you need to know about the crucial elements of success: constant innovation, staying in touch with customers, encouraging the contributions of everyone in the company, and maintaining the integrity that is basic to leadership. Here are the secrets of building excellence.  Read more



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Ask, The: How to Ask Anyone for Any Amount for Any Purpose

4
Average: 4 (1 vote)
By Laura Fredricks
Fredericks is one of today's top major gift fundraisers, always worth a read.
 
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The Ask is a complete resource for teaching anyone—experienced in fundraising or not—how to ask individuals, in person, for a contribution to for a local nonprofit or a special event or community project, an enhanced annual gift, a major or planned gift, or a challenging capital campaign gift. Written by fundraising expert Laura Fredricks, The Ask shows what it takes to prepare yourself and others to make an effective ask and includes over one hundred sample dialogues you can use and adapt. Step by step, the book reveals how to listen, what to say, and how to follow up on each and every ask until you receive a solid and definitive answer.  Read more



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Beyond Fundraising: New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation and Investment

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Average: 3 (3 votes)
By Kay Sprinkel Grace
Kay Grace leads readers through the process of fundraising, development and philanthropy and guides them to the next level of thinking.

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Do you or your volunteers fear rejection or feel like a beggar when fundraising? Do you worry about soliciting donors too often? Are you tired of the relentless cycle of fundraising activities necessary to generate revenues for your programs?  Read more



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Boardroom Verities

5
Average: 5 (1 vote)
By Jerry Panas
Every board member must read this book — skip refreshments at your board meeting: give them a chapter of this book a month to chew on!

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This book presents eighty time-tested truths that govern board membership. They appear in a series of brief chapters, based on interviews with over 100 men and women who are trustees. Some of these Directors are famous names you will quickly recognize. Others are average men and women, much like the fifteen million across the country who serve on the boards of organizations just like yours.  Read more



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Born to Raise: What Makes a Great Fundraiser; What Makes a Fundraiser Great

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Average: 4 (1 vote)
By Jerry Panas
Ever wonder if you were really cut out to be a fundraiser? Panas tells you if you are in the right career.

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You will agree with us that no one knows fundraising like Jerry Panas does. In this spirited book he identifies and interviews fifty fundraisers he describes as being great—the best in the business.

These fundraisers give Panas inside information on what it takes to be the best. The very best. What they have to say may surprise you.  Read more



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Building an Effective Board of Directors

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By Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE
One of the Top Ten Bestsellers at the AFP Bookstore!
Publisher's Description:

Building an Effective Board of Directors will help you identify and recruit board members and offers numerous ways to solve the age-old question: how do I get my board involved in fundraising? As with all of the ready reference booklets, readers will find quick, bulleted, easy-to-read copy and lots of tools such as sample forms and checklists to make your job easier.  Read more



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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

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By Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
Solid business concepts every nonprofit manager can and should apply to their nonprofit.
 
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"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies." So write Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in this groundbreaking book that shatters myths, provides new insights, and gives practical guidance to those who would like to build landmark companies that stand the test of time.  Read more



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Capital Campaigns: Everything You Need to Know! (eBook)

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Average: 4 (3 votes)
By Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE
A comprehensive guide and workbook; the first ebook in the CAPITAL VENTURE Executive Fundraising Series.
 
Publisher's Description:
 

Planning a Capital Campaign? Already in a campaign? Thinking about one? Then CAPITAL VENTURE's latest eBook in the Executive Fundraising Series, Capital Campaigns: Everything You Need to Know! is for you. More than a book, this is a workbook with step-by-step instructions and many customizable tools to help you create and implement a successful campaign.  Read more



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Care and Feeding of a Non-Profit Board: So You "Wanna" Be a Board Member!

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By Willi Baer
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If you have ever served on a non-profit board of directors or would like to do so, this book is for you. The author takes you through the recruitment and board development process, orientation, training, hiring, stewardship and evaluation of the Executive Director, termination (when necessary), setting policy, strategic planning, and self-evaluation as well as dealing with the difficult board member. Knowing when to step down is equally important and is also addressed here. Do yourself and your colleagues a favor and don't put it down until you've finished.  Read more