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Ineffective branding and public relations have the potential to sink or sabotage any small business or mission-driven organization, but such organizations often think they simply can't afford PR. Jennifer R. Farmer shows that even cash-strapped organizations can build a robust PR apparatus on a shoestring budget-they just need to be credible, creative, responsive, and relentless (CCRR). Farmer's CCRR framework leverages tools everyone has access to,...
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The Battlefield Guide to Life is a self-improvement trip into the past, where you will witness decisions and events that parallel those in your own life. Historian James Turner offers up advice based on what he's learned during his years of traveling to some of the world's most interesting battlefields, and how those lessons can positively affect your life.
Hear the stories of Julius Caesar and his ability to adapt in Gaul, Bonnie Prince Charlie and...
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Creating real change needs a transformational fundraising strategy. Whether you have never fundraised before or you want to improve past results, The Fundraiser's Handbook is your guide to raising more money for your cause.
Are you a fundraising director or a member of the fundraising team? How will you create an effective fundraising strategy? How will you find more donors? How will you raise more money to change the world?
The Fundraiser's Handbook...
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Includes a new chapter reflecting on massive changes triggered by COVID-19 and other significant events.
Stories have been written, printed, blogged, shared, discussed, debated, and passed down through the generations. Why? Because people have an incredible appetite for stories. Stories trigger a physical response in the same way a delicious meal satisfies.
The global pandemic serves as one of the best examples of the need for storytelling in crisis...
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Today, social media offers an alternative broadcast and communication medium for nonprofit advocacy organizations. At the same time, social media ushers in a "noisy" information era that renders it more difficult for nonprofits to make their voices heard. This book seeks to unpack the prevalence, mechanisms, and ramifications of a new model for nonprofit advocacy in a social media age. The keyword for this new model is attention. Advocacy always starts...
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Nonprofit Hero is written by Valerie Jones, who has raised more than $175 million for nonprofits and coached thousands of people to authentically and successfully ask for the causes they care about. She's addressed more than 50 audiences from Baltimore to Beijing and is one of fewer than 10,000 Certified Fund-Raising Executives (CFREs) worldwide. In addition to running her boutique consulting firm, Valerie M. Jones Associates (VMJA), she's volunteered...
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A simple and comprehensive e-book, with examples and links, to easily create the ideal sustainable program for your community!Written by a program director with experience in building a community center program from scratch, to successfully supervising volunteers, and leading a comprehensive number of classes, activities, and events with many enthusiastic and returning participants. I have also acted as a program developer/ volunteer coordinator for...
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Most people fail to see the correlation between business and brains. For Yitzchok Saftlas, master of marketing, it seems readily transparent. During our challenging economic times, when people desperately seek to recharge themselves on various planes, Saftlas presents us with So, What's the Bottom Line? taken from his real-life experiences and knowledge from a two and a half decade career as founder and president of his own marketing consulting company,...
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The current business-for-profit model rewards short-term thinking, narrow self-interest, and a social-and-environmental-costs-be-damned attitude. Nonprofits, while more focused on the greater good, tend to be inherently resource-challenged and rely on increasingly scarce grants and donations to sustain their existence. Social enterprise is an exciting, blended model driven by the desire to create positive change through entrepreneurial activities....
191) Guide ASBL, AISBL et fondations: Comment créer, gérer et développer une association/fondation belge
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Créer, gérer et développer une ASBL, une AISBL ou une fondation en Belgique nécessite la connaissance de règles multiples.
L''ouvrage que vous tenez en main vous épaule dans la gestion quotidienne de votre ASBL, celle que vous conseillez ou celle dans laquelle vous travaillez.
Il vous sera particulièrement utile pour :
- rédiger ou améliorer vos statuts;
- préparer les assemblées générales et les conseils d'administration;
- intégrer...
192) Community Heroes: What a Year as an AmeriCorps VISTA Member Taught Me About Community Development
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You don't care about who I am, you only care about what I have to say. You want to know whether the content of this book will improve your life and be useful to you.
Hence, I have to persuade you that the content of this book will be useful to you and worth your money. Because that is obviously what I want you to do; follow the advice it gives you.
You probably care deeply about various issues in society—homelessness, inequality, climate change—but...
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Money is a medium for life - and when we begin to understand our emotional relationship with money, everything else in life suddenly starts to make sense too.
This guidebook is your VIP pass to the intriguing 'Money Types' emotional profiling system - never before has understanding yourself and other people been easier.
Or, more fun.
Packed with useful easy-to-apply and easy-to-remember wisdom, this compelling body of work not only reveals how...
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This is a different kind of corporate governance book. With its vivid stories and conversational tone, Boards That Excel is like sitting down with an astute and experienced friend, one who's passionate about what corporate and nonprofit boards can contribute to their organizations' success when they set high aspirations, are clear on purpose, and do the right things in the right way. B. Joseph White, an experienced corporate and nonprofit director...
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This book contributes to the growing literature on the social economy from the particular perspectives of Atlantic Canadians who have been part of the Social Economy and Sustainability Research Network. It illustrates the importance of the sector to the region's social, economic and public life while exploring its potential for positive change. Prefiguring an economy based on principles of human values and principles of solidarity, the social economy...
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THE TIME HAS COME
This book is for you if you know your job is getting harder because donor expectations have changed, the old orthodoxies and conventions don't work anymore, and competition for the charitable dollar is growing. Engagement Fundraising was developed from the perspective of a donor who discovered firsthand that the impersonal, spray-and-pray approaches of his beloved charity were not only offensive but also wasteful and ineffective.
With...
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Nonᐧprofᐧiᐧteer (noun): A person who loves being a champion for social impact organizations and their people.
Nonprofits are amazing. They deliver life-changing programs, research, and more to impact communities. Philanthropy supercharges nonprofits to go forward--but it's about more than money. It's about trust. It's about storytelling. It's about big relationships. It's about doing the right thing. It's about meaningful conversations. Servant-leadership...
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M. Gasby Brown, CEO and Philanthropy Consultant for her company, The Gasby Group, shows you how to fund your faith-based organization. From churches to schools to corporations, Business of a Spiritual Matter shows you how to "Lead with a Mission" including how to: plan giving and soulful fundraising, meet economic challenges, and work with consultants.
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Today's firms need a social effort that is serous and impactful to be relevant. It's not enough to make a commitment to reduce energy or have an ad hoc unbranded budget for grants and volunteering-the world needs their resources and agility to address existential threats in society, and their customers (and employees) demand it.
As an influential voice in branding and market connection, David Aaker examines how businesses can adapt their approaches...
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Pour la première fois, un collectif consacré aux associations de fait.
Retrouvez dans cet ouvrage les chapitres suivants :
- « Les associations de fait : quel poids économique ? » par Michel Marée et Sybille Mertens.
- « L'association de fait : notion, régime juridique et conséquences de l'absence de personnalité morale » par Michel Coipel.
- « Des raisons de fonctionner en association de fait » par Pierre Georis.
- « Le fonctionnement...