Mission-Based Management: An Organizational Development Workbook (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series) - Softcover

Brinckerhoff, Peter C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471390143 ISBN 13: 9780471390145

Publisher: Wiley, 2001

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, 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 bringsyears of experience in the field to his work, as he is a formerboard member of local, state, and national not-for-profits and hasworked on the staff and as executive director of two regionalnot-for-profits. Since founding his consulting firm, CorporateAlternatives, in 1982, Mr. Brinckerhoff has helped thousands oforganizations become more mission-capable.

Peter is the author of the award-winning books Mission-BasedManagement and Financial Empowerment as well as Mission-BasedMarketing, Faith-Based Management, and Social Entrepreneurship, allpublished by Wiley. Peter's books are used as texts inundergraduate and graduate programs in not-for-profit management atover 60 colleges and universities.

A former VISTA volunteer, Peter received his bachelor of artsdegree from the University of Pennsylvania and his master's degreein public health administration from Tulane University. He lives inSpringfield, Illinois, with his wife and three children.

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, 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

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471390143
• ISBN 13: 9780471390145
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 176