Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement
Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement Shows leaders and managers of public and nonprofit organizations both how and why they should use strategic planning to improve the performance of their organizations. This expanded edition includes many examples to illustrate both successful and unsuccessful planning efforts, while [...]
A Maturity Model for Measuring Nonprofit Organizational Development
Product DescriptionNonprofit organizations providing social services face a growing concern for accountability and productivity on the part of funding sources. Methods for improving organizational functioning come and go, with one in vogue until the next one comes along. Organizational or management fads are usually offered as one-size-fits-all solutions to nonprofits in the form of training [...]
Managing for the Environment: Understanding the Legal, Organizational, and Policy Challenges
Product DescriptionNamed Best Book in Public and Nonprofit Management, 1999-2000 Academy of ManagementNamed Best Book in Environmental Management, 1999American Society for Public AdministrationLeaking landfills, oil contamination, illegal waste disposal, and pervasive air pollution . . . Today’s managers and policy makers face a multitude of environmental challenges, choices, and opportunities. Some work in the public [...]
Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development With Nonprofits: A Collaborative and Systems Approach to Performance, Change and Learning
Product DescriptionUNIQUE! This book is unique among books on consulting and leading in nonprofits! There are already many consulting books, mostly about how to market a consulting business — but marketing is no good to you if you have no specialty to market! What better specialty can there be than to help nonprofits improve their [...]
Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement, 3rd Edition
Product DescriptionWhen it was first published more than sixteen years ago, John Bryson’s Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations introduced a new and thoughtful strategic planning model. Since then it has become the standard reference in the field. In this completely revised third edition, Bryson updates his perennial bestseller to help today’s leaders enhance [...]