Mission-Based Management: Leading Your Not-For-Profit in the 21st Century (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series) - Hardcover

Brinckerhoff, Peter C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471390135 ISBN 13: 9780471390138

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2000

Synopsis

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE "BEST NEW NONPROFIT BOOK"!-The Alliance for Nonprofit Management

This practical, comprehensive, and easy-to-use workbook provides key tools to help managers of nonprofits ensure that their organization pursues its mission, meets the changing needs of the community-and has enough money to make ends meet-while also satisfying the demands of funders, clientele, boards, staff, and bankers. Designed to equip nonprofit managers and other nonprofit workers with the guidance they need to do their jobs and run their organizations more effectively and efficiently, this workbook is also a hands-on tool to help implement the ideas in the author's highly regarded Mission-Based Management. Filled with indispensable checklists, worksheets, forms, displays, and hands-on suggestions, and including a companion CD-ROM, the Workbook will show you how to smoothly and successfully:
* Hone your organization's core competencies
* Focus your resources
* Improve overall mission capability
* Get the most out of group discussions
* Utilize self-assessment tools


... and much more to help you and all involved help your organization achieve its mission

About this title

About the Author

PETER C. BRINCKERHOFF is an internationally renowned trainer, author, and consultant to not-for-profit organizations. He brings years of experience in the field to his work, as he is a former board member of local, state, and national not-for-profits and has worked on the staff and as executive director of two regional not-for-profits. Since founding his consulting firm, Corporate Alternatives, in 1982, Mr. Brinckerhoff has helped thousands of organizations become more mission-capable.

From the Back Cover

The One Book Every Leader of a Not-for-Profit Organization Will Want to Have?in an Exciting New Edition

Praise for Mission-Based Management

Peter C. Brinckerhoff

"A terrific resource." ?Sue Suter, former Commissioner, Rehabilitation Services Commission, U.S. Department of Education; Board Member, World Institute of Disabilities and Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities

"Brinckerhoff demonstrates remarkable insight into the needs, functions, and output of not-for-profit agencies. He is uniquely practical and pointed with his recommendations based upon institutional missions. I find Brinckerhoff?s comments of immense help in achieving our mission here." ?Thomas A. Mackey, RNC, PhD, Clinical Director, University of Texas Nursing Services and Employee Health Services

"Mission-Based Management will serve as a reference and guide for not-for-profit administrators who do not have the luxury of consulting Peter on a daily basis to access his sage advice and keen insights. He has consistently found fresh, innovative, but logical resolutions for our seemingly insurmountable problems." ?W. Winfield McChord Jr., Executive Director, The American School for the Deaf

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From the Inside Flap

This significantly updated edition of the McAdams Award?winning classic expands on the invaluable hows and whys of not-for-profit empowerment covered in the original to offer highly effective new ideas and new criteria for success in today?s increasingly competitive nonprofit terrain.

In recent years, radical changes in information technology have occurred, making e-mail and the World Wide Web household words, while managed care has taken hold at the state and federal levels. To win funding and support, nonprofit managers have to be more aggressive and more efficient than ever before in ensuring their organization pursues its mission, meets community needs, and maintains its budget, while juggling the demands of funders, clientele, boards, staff, community, and bankers. This Second Edition of Mission-Based Management ushers nonprofits into the twenty-first century by providing comprehensive, hands-on guidance that addresses the unique concerns of today?s managers in nonprofit organizations.

• Includes an updated list of core characteristics of successful not-for-profits
• Includes a new chapter on how to use technology to improve mission outcomes
• Is written by a nationally recognized expert who has trained thousands of people in hundreds of seminars on the best practices in nonprofit management
• Can be used in tandem with the Mission-Based Management Workbook, further ensuring that nonprofit leaders build success into every initiative
• Includes in each chapter a recap and a list of questions for group discussion

More than ever before, nonprofit managers want and need practical guidance on how to do their jobs and run their organizations more effectively and efficiently. And more than ever before, Mission-Based Management provides the definitive answer.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471390135
• ISBN 13: 9780471390138
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 273