This book will guide your organization through a six-step process that results in a mission statement, vision statement, or both. The author explains how clarified mission and vision lead to more effective leadership, decisions, fundraising, and management. Tips are given on using the process alone or in conjunction with an in-depth strategic planning process. Includes sample mission and vision statements, step-by-step instructions, and worksheets.

Team work is rarely simple, easy, or natural. It's not enough to announce “we're a team” and expect results. This concise guide can help your team get going, deal with predictable problems, and improve teamwork at any stage of your team's development.

Alliances make good sense for nonprofits, much of the time. But success with alliances requires that they be used wisely, and with a good understanding of which kinds of alliances will result in the best outcomes given the conditions and need. This guide will help you understand and strategically form alliances that work at a lower level of intensity.

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Includes:
• Bookkeeping Basics
• Coping with Cutbacks
• Financial Leadership
• Nonprofit Stewardship

Financial Leadership for Nonprofit Executives gives the Executive Director the framework, specific language, and processes needed to lead with confidence and create an effective nonprofit business that strikes the balance between mission and money.

The life stage model is a powerful tool for understanding — objectively — your organization's current status and preparing it to move ahead to the future. This useful guide helps you understand where your organization is in its life and how to avoid unnecessary struggles and act on opportunities to boost your organization's development.

Use this assessment to discover what life stage your organization is in. Knowing this will help you plan for the future, make proactive decisions, anticipate bumps in the road, and decide on changes needed. (This tool is included in The Five Life Stages of Nonprofit Organizations. It may also be purchased separately.)

This guide distills the best of 15 years experience of one of the nation’s largest, most comprehensive programs for men who have perpetrated domestic violence. Social workers, group facilitators, domestic abuse treatment programs, probation officers, and counselors in allied fields will find this a complete guide to facilitating a domestic abuse group with time-proven success. Includes 29 activities, detailed guidelines for presenting the sessions, and a discussion of the psychological issues each session elicits. Also includes tips for intake and individual counseling, dealing with resistant clients, and much more.

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Includes:
• Community Visions, Community Solutions
• A Funder's Guide to Evaluation
• A Funder's Guide to Organizational Assessment
• Power in Policy
• Strengthening Nonprofit Performance

A Funder's Guide to Evaluation: Leveraging Evaluation to Improve Nonprofit Effectiveness shifts away from using evaluation to prove something to someone else, and toward improving what nonprofits do so they can achieve their mission and share how they succeeded with others.