Review: What’s the Big Idea?
The authors offer advice on how to spot and move on bright ideas.
Nonprofits - Articles
Innovative ideas to help leaders of nonprofits and NGOs be more effective (more)
Review: A Company of Citizens
The answers to a motivated workforce may lie in ancient Greece.
Review: Living, Leading, and the American Dream
Collection of essays by nonprofit leader John Gardner.
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Marketing Research
This straightforward book offers a primer in how to conduct effective and affordable market research that reveals valuable information about customers or clients.
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Going Global
The leaders of international humanitarian organizations, such as CARE and Oxfam talk candidly about management strategy, organizational goals, advocacy, accountability, and partnerships.
Growing Pains
New research suggests that the fate of start-up nonprofits is highly dependent on their acquisition of stable funding sources, particularly public funds
How Nonprofits Get Really Big
Since 1970, more than 200,000 nonprofits have opened in the U.S., but only 144 have reached $50 million in annual revenue. They got big by doing two things: They raised the bulk of their money from a single type of funder. And just as importantly, these nonprofits created professional organizations that were tailored to the needs of their primary funding sources.
Learn to Love Lobbying
Most nonprofits don’t know how to lobby and, worse, think that it entails cutting shady deals with sleazy characters. Yet lobbying is nothing more than educating legislators – a right that our democracy guarantees. To make change, nonprofits must learn to lobby. And who knows? They may even learn to love it.
Profiting From Failure
What nonprofits and donors can learn from the closing of a venture philanthropy firm.
Wallflowers Grow the Tallest
Enterprising orgs fare better on the fringes of nonprofit networks.