Strengthening Nonprofit Performance: A Funders Guide to Capacity Building
Product DescriptionGet the most out of your grantmaking Authors Paul Connolly, Vice President, Conservation Company, and Carol Lukas, President, Fieldstone Alliance, synthesize the most recent capacity-building practice and research into a collection of strategies, steps, and examples that funders can use to get started on or improve their funding to strengthen nonprofits. Who this book [...]
Sustaining Nonprofit Performance: The Case for Capacity Building and the Evidence to Support It
Product DescriptionAmerica’s nonprofit organizations are facing an uncertain future. Many are operating with leaner budgets and face a wave of budget cuts as the federal deficit grows. At the same time, public confidence in nonprofits is at a contemporary low. Congress seems poised to enact new and stringent rules for nonprofit spending. Many state attorneys [...]
Using Performance Measurement to Improve Public and Nonprofit Programs: New Directions for Evaluation
Product DescriptionPerformance measurement is a very timely topic in the public and nonprofit sectors of the United States and in many countries around the world. Executive and legislative initiatives have required public managers to identify performance measures, set performance targets, and report on their progress toward meeting performance goals. Funders have similarly asked nonprofits to [...]
7 Tips to Improve the Performance of Your Not-for-profit
When it comes to innovation and management practices, most of the business press and news center on for-profit companies. Yet, non-profits constitute a huge segment of our economy. According to the Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics, just the public charity portion alone accounts for over $1 trillion in aggregate revenue. There are [...]
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 [...]