The Complete Guide to Nonprofit Management (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series) - Hardcover

Smith, Bucklin & Associates, Inc.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471309559 ISBN 13: 9780471309550

Publisher: Wiley, 1994

Synopsis

A complete nuts-and-bolts guide to efficiently and effectively managing today’s leaner, more bottom-line oriented nonprofit organization Times are tough for nonprofit organization and now, more than ever, success depends on effective, 100% efficient business management techniques. No matter what type or size nonprofit you manage, whether it’s a museum, trade association, community health center, church, or think tank, this is your guide to thriving and surviving the challenges of the 1990s. Written by North America’s leading experts in nonprofit management, it offers "combat tested" strategies and techniques for managing virtually every aspect of a nonprofit organization, including: fund development: marketing, public, and government relations; office management and information services; financial management and accounting systems; strategic planning; human resources management; and much more.

• Covers the day-to-day responsibilities of successfully managing a nonprofit organization
• Focuses on hands-on, practical advice
• Packed with dozens of real-world examples and case studies
• Written by the experts at Smith, Bucklin—the #1 nonprofit management firm

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Just as for-profit businesses are developing new management styles to meet the challenges of a changing marketplace, today’s nonprofits are undergoing a transformation of their own.

• Growing competition for a shrinking pool of funds
• Ever more intense public scrutiny
• Greater involvement by boards of directors
• Stricter state and federal regulations
• Tighter budgets

These and a host of other new facts of life require that today’s nonprofit organizations, like their for-profit counterparts, be leaner, more bottom-line driven business organizations. Now this practical guide shows nonprofit managers how to run their organizations more efficiently and more effectively. From the collaborative effort of the experts at Smith, Bucklin & Associates, North America’s preeminent nonprofit management firm, comes a complete, nuts-and-bolts guide to managing nonprofits of every size. In business since 1949, Smith, Bucklin has developed a set of proven management strategies and techniques tailored to the unique financial, human resources, and management challenges and opportunities facing nonprofit organizations. With a strong emphasis on hands-on practical advice, and packed with dozens of real-world examples and case studies, The Complete Guide to Nonprofit Management tells you everything you need to know about:

• Fund development
• Marketing your nonprofit organization and its services
• Public (and government) relations
• Office management and information services
• Financial management and effective accounting systems
• Educational programs
• Finding and hiring consultants
• Strategic planning and organizational audits
• Human resources management of mixed volunteer and paid staffs
• The role of boards of directors in day-to-day operations
• And much more

Offering a wealth of "combat tested" tips on virtually every aspect of managing a nonprofit organization—from drafting a mission statement to running a fund-raising campaign—The Complete Guide to Nonprofit Management is an essential survival guide for today’s nonprofit manager.

From the Back Cover:

The Complete Nuts-and-Bolts Guide to Managing Today’s Bottom-Line Oriented Nonprofit Organizations

This significantly revised and expanded Second Edition of the highly popular how-to book identifies and addresses the unique concerns of nonprofit organizations. Cutting through the morass of mere theory, the experts at Smith, Bucklin & Associates, Inc., a leading nonprofit management firm, get right to actual practice with dozens of real-world examples and case studies, and up-to-date, vital, "combat-tested" strategies and techniques for dealing with virtually every nonprofit business management issue, including:

• The daily role of boards of directors
• Fund development and marketing
• Public and government relations
• Educational programs and certification
• Information services
• Human resources management
• Using the Internet

In addition, featured here is a refocused strategic planning chapter that presents an ongoing, organic form of planning, as well as updated discussions of the importance of mission statements, planning publicity campaigns and coordinating special conventions, developing and marketing education programs, and much more.

Get the bottom line from the "front office." Whether you are an executive or manager of a nonprofit organization, a volunteer, consultant, fund-raising professional, a member of a board of directors or a trustee, the information in this indispensable guide is more critical–and more effective–than ever before.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0471309559
• ISBN 13: 9780471309550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Wilbur Robert H., Finn Susan Kudla, Freeland Carolyn M.