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Who volunteers? Why? What are you willing to do? This title presents the hilarious, heartwarming adventures of a volunteering cynic. Do the feel-good rewards commensurate with the time and effort involved? When Seb Hunter accidentally picks up the phone to a charity Fundraiser one day, he faces a moment of reckoning. It isn't so much that he lacks a social conscience; but he can no longer assuage it by buying the odd copy of the Big Issue and eating Fairtrade chocolate.

Pitman walks you through the how and why of social media. He gives you tips and an outline for starting a social media strategy and shows how to get your website up and running on a shoe-string budget. Then he shows you how email, blogging, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and other social media tools fit into your strategy. He even shows you how to learn all these new tools and still stay sane.

With today’s mass amount of information in books, blogs, social media, and videos, many people are calling leadership many things – and much of what they say about leadership is false. "Essential Leadership" is about clarifying what leadership is, what it is not, and what it takes to be a great leader. This book will help you lead well, whether you are an executive, a CEO, a manager, a small business owner, a boss, or even if you don’t have a position but just want to learn how to lead.

Beyond Energy: How to Lead with Vision, Strategy, and Legacy in Complex Environments” is a book about the courage of leadership in times of crisis, the tenacity required to sustain a vision, and the ability to turn uncertainty into transformation. Forget dry theory. This is an honest conversation about leadership in complex environments—the kind practiced on the ground, where preparation time disappears and one must move forward with conviction. From the challenges inherent in emerging markets to the volatility of global ones, the author—an influential figure in the Latin American ...

Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game. It is a game, however, which cannot be played successfully without the knowledge of spiritual law, and the Old and the New Testaments give the rules of the game with wonderful clearness. Jesus Christ taught that it was a great game of giving and receiving. "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." This means that whatever man sends out in word or deed, will return to him; what he gives, he will receive.

This book will help to level the playing field, so that you can compete with some of the bigger organizations out there in the nonprofit industry. You’ll discover science-backed ways to get more funding for your nonprofit. These are breakthrough marketing strategies that are easy to implement and just plain work. They are psychological tricks that you can use to raise more money from your existing donors (or new ones).

Wounded Charity offers valuable insights into how charities respond to crises based on information no one else has ever covered: documentation from the charity during and after the crisis, as well as candid discussions and interviews with some former members of the charity’s board, executive staff, beneficiaries, and even those who generated or published damaging information. On its primary, story-telling level, Wounded Charity investigates the effort to marginalize one of America’s most vital charities. Its broader level is about what it means for all charities. Wounded Warrior Project...

The Nonprofit Startup Guide will reduce the stress of submitting paperwork and enable you to do so without adding the expense of hiring a professional. You're just a few steps away from legally starting your nonprofit organization. Start now!

Accomplished feminist activist and executive Latanya Mapp Frett delivers a powerful and practical exploration of the factors that make a feminist social movement impactful in its place and time. In the book, you'll discover popular and not-so-popular social movements and the leaders, art, research, and narratives that drove them. The author explains what made these social movements so effective and explains the steps that organizations, nonprofits, and social impact professionals can take to replicate that success on the ground and in the present.

Bitcoin. You’ve heard of it, you’ve seen it in the news, but what is it? And how can this new technology help with fundraising? In this easy-to-understand guide, fundraisers and bitcoin experts Jason Shim and Anne Connelly will help you learn about what Bitcoin is, how it’s transforming non-profits, and give you a step by step plan to set up a cryptocurrency donation program at your organization and engage donors today!

Traditionally, an entrepreneur develops a detailed plan, finds money to fund it, and then pursues it to its conclusion. But conditions can change drastically at any point - you can end up locked into a process based on now-obsolete assumptions. The lean startup is all about agility and flexibility. Its mantra is "build, measure, learn": create small, experimental initiatives, get real-world feedback on them quickly, and use that data to identify what works and discard what doesn't. And then test some more.

Fundraising often focuses on making "the ask." But appreciative inquiry uses questions throughout the relationship to help the donor discover their own reasons for making a transformational donation. Professor James starts with the "why" from research, theory, and experience and then moves to the "how" of exactly what questions to ask, in what order, and for what purpose. You'll gain a deeper understanding of major gift decision processes and plenty of real-world "magic" questions to try out right away. 1 Socratic fundraising theory: How questions advance the donor’s story 2 Socratic ...

Whether it is medical volunteering, volunteering abroad, or volunteer work with children or animals – whatever kind of volunteers your organization needs, this book will help you to recruit them. If you are organizing a fundraising event, school fundraising or any kind of charity fundraising – this book will help you to raise money for charity by making it easy to get people to say YES. When you are creating a non-profit organization, the challenge is not the legal work required to set up your 501c3. The challenge is getting people to say YES. In this book, you will learn from an expert...

I have come to the conclusion that as skilled as we are at organizational leadership in the western context, we are woefully unprepared for this new collaborator economy. All day, every day, we "work together" with people between departments and in partnerships. But this audiobook is about the rare and ambiguous kind of collaboration that happens between organizations.

In The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Automated World, a team of dedicated nonprofit thought leaders delivers a discussion of the information and tools nonprofit staffers and board members need to effectively use artificial intelligence without alienating the human stakeholders and donors on whom they rely.

As fundraisers, we're often overlooked and quite misunderstood. "Just go raise the money," they say. "If you need a bigger team, raise more money so we can hire."Philanthropy is a tough gig. We're working with what we've got, and it is often beans. We make magic happen and operate as a conductor in the beautiful symphony that is community, impact and sustainability, and we're often sacrificing ourselves along the way. Throughout my career, I've broken the "philanthropy rules" and established my own.

The Power of Being All In provides Major General Robert Mixon, Jr.’s dynamic account of the transformative times we live in and clear-eyed strategies regarding ways to prepare for the unpredictable with enriched leadership capabilities. In the audiobook, best-selling author and leadership expert Robert Mixon weaves together recent history, his own extensive experience, and reports from the front lines of business into a riveting account of who we can become and what we can achieve when we commit to becoming Adaptive Leaders.

Nonprofits are coming under intense scrutiny following a rash of scandals in corporate America. In YOU'RE A NONPROFIT DIRECTOR...WHAT NOW? author Gerry Czarnecki shows you how to navigate the maze of complicated and often confusing legal requirements which impact modern nonprofits and charities. You and your board will be better able to thrive and successfully meet your organization’s goals by learning: * Who the best candidates are to become nonprofit directors * How much time is required to serve on a board * What legal and ethical responsibilities board members must fulfill * How to ...

Is poverty inevitable? No, says author Paul Godfrey. More than Money shows how organizations can win the fight against poverty and create prosperity for people at the base of the pyramid in the developing and developed world.

"Más Allá de la Energía: Cómo Liderar con Visión, Estrategia y Legado en Entornos Complejos" es un libro sobre el coraje del liderazgo en tiempos de crisis, la tenacidad para sostener la visión y la habilidad de convertir la incertidumbre en transformación. Olvídese de la teoría seca. Esta es una conversación honesta sobre el liderazgo en entornos complejos, el que se practica en el terreno, donde el tiempo para la preparación desaparece y debemos avanzar con convicción. Desde los desafíos propios de los mercados emergentes hasta la volatilidad de los mercados globales, el ...