Bookkeeping for Nonprofits: A Step-By-Step
Guide to Nonprofit Accounting (2005)
Murray Dropkin and James Halpin; Jossey-Bass
(www.josseybass.com), 256 pages
Bookkeeping for Nonprofits is an introductory
guide for those of us who are not CPAs. The
complexity of nonprofit bookkeeping is greater
than that of for-profit organizations, so
an easy-to-follow guide like this one is
particularly useful. This guide will help
management and staff set up an accounting
system (with or without a computer system)
to make sure the records are meeting the
organizational needs.
Beyond
Fundraising: New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation
and
Investment (2nd Edition) (2005)
Kay Sprinkel Grace; John Wiley & Sons
(www.wiley.com), 264 pages
The book is written for volunteers
and staff of nonprofits, assisting
them in their fundraising
duties to: believe and understand
the practices that make up development,
understand the
deliberate steps that make up development,
and finally rid themselves of the
idea that development and fundraising
are synonymous.
Leadership
in Nonprofit Organizations (2005)
Barry Dym and Harry Hutson;
Sage Publications (www.sagepublications.com),
248 pages
Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations examines leadership in for-profit,
government, and
nonprofit organizations.
The authors attempt to tease
out what the nature of
leadership
is, regardless of the context.
They feel that leadership
of the for-profit sector
commonly overshadows nonprofit
leadership.
They have found exemplary
leadership in the nonprofit
sector—and highlight it in
the book.
Play
to Win: The Nonprofit Guide to Competitive Strategy
(2004)
David La Piana with Michaela
Hayes; Jossey-Bass
(www.josseybass.com), 240 pages
The authors’ intention is to help nonprofit
leaders develop a
strategy through the use of practical tools to enhance overall competitiveness
of the organization.
For organizations that
are already familiar
with nonprofit competition, this book provides a framework for what
they
already do. For those
new to competition, it will serve as a primer to the subject.
Effective
Fundraising
for Nonprofits:
Real-World Strategies That
Work (2005)
Ilona Bray,
J.D.; Nolo (www.nolo.com), 275 pages
This book
attempts
to cover everything from working one-on-one
with
donors to
starting
a low-risk
side business
to support the core mission of
the organization.
The book also
looks at
dealing with
the media, developing a web presence,
and
how to navigate
the IRS
rules for
donations.
Nonprofit
Law
Made Easy (2005)
Bruce R.
Hopkins;
John Wiley & Sons,
Inc.
( www.wiley.com), 275 pages
To
help
nonprofit practitioners, this
book
serves as a companion to another book
published
by Wiley entitled Not-for-Profit
Accounting
Made
Easy. Nonprofit Law Made Easy provides
the fundamentals of U.S. federal
nonprofit
law.
Bruce Hopkins offers a brief
history
of nonprofit law
and
the types of organizations that
typically
qualify
for
nonprofit tax
status.
He delves further into the
structures
of nonprofit organization, key
personnel,
and
other
important details
of
organizational development.
The
Ask: How to Ask Anyone for Any Amount
for Any
Purpose (2006)
Laura
Fredricks; Jossey-Bass (www.josseybass.com),
288 pages
This “ask,” according to Laura
Fredricks in her new book The Ask, is perhaps the most critical component
of fundraising,
and is often the most daunting. Fredricks, a 12-year nonprofit business
management veteran,
addresses every step in the process of fundraising from the pre-planning
stages to the follow-through
in her new book.
Social
Marketing in the 21st Century
(2005)
Alan
R. Andreasen; Sage Publications
(www.sagepublications.com),
264 pages
In
this book, Alan Andreasen’s goal
is to “reposition social marketing
as an approach to social change that reaches both upstream and downstream” (p.
viii). With this expanded approach, Andreasen hopes
that government agencies, foundations, and nonprofits will be able
to expand the reach
and applications of social marketing.
Fiscal
Sponsorship: 6 Ways to Do
It Right (Second Edition) (2005)
Gregory
L. Colvin; Study Center Press
(www.studycenter.org), 282
pages
This
book provides a valuable
guide
for anyone needing
a nonprofit fiscal sponsor,
or for those acting
as the sponsoring nonprofit.
The book
provides straightforward
examples of
different types of sponsorship
and how to
deal with them. These
six models for setting up
a
fiscal sponsorship
are IRS-approved.
Worker
Centers: Organizing Communities
at the Edge
of the Dream (2006)
Janice
Fine; Cornell University
Press
(www.cornellpress.cornell.edu),
316 pages
Community-based
worker centers have
started
to provide
immigrants with
social services
as well as advocacy
for
civil
and
human rights, and
pay and education issues.
The book identifies
137
of
these community-based
workers centers
in 31
states, and in more
than
80
cities, suburbs,
and rural areas. These
centers
are
proving to be not only
organizational laboratories
but also focal points
in these
newcomers’ civic
life.
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