Here's how to get the information and insights you need to plan and conduct an evaluation that will help identify your organization's successes, share information with key audiences, and improve services. The Manager's Guide to Program Evaluation describes the types of information to collect, spells out the four phases of evaluation and the steps in each phase, and offers advice on hiring and working with a professional evaluator.

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This book is a guide for managing leadership turnovers in ways that can heighten mission impact while avoiding potential downsides. Readers will learn about a transformational process that is organized into three phases: prepare, pivot, and thrive.

Since its first edition in 1990, the Marketing Workbook has helped thousands like you use marketing to reach the people you want to help—and attract the money and support your organization deserves. Now, this updated second edition:

• Offers an easy-to-follow five-step process to create an effective marketing plan
  
• Provides an expanded resources section including Internet examples
  
• Includes "web wisdom" to help you set reasonable web goals, build an online reputation, and learn about the possibilities and pitfalls of web promotion

Use this guide to put together a successful promotional campaign based on the most persuasive tool of all: personal contact! Whether your goal is raising funds, recruiting volunteers, or selling tickets, the old saying, “people buy from people,“ is as true as ever. Mobilize People for Marketing Success shows you how to mobilize your entire organization, its staff, volunteers, and supporters in a focused, one-to-one marketing campaign. This unique guide gives you complete instructions, real-life examples, and detailed worksheets to create an effective campaign.

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Today, being heard demands delivering information that resonates with your audience’s desires quickly, clearly, and continually. Message Matters gives you a simple framework for developing and using strategic messages so you can connect more successfully with your target audiences and compel them to action.

Click here to download the FREE Message Matrix interactive PDF

This participant’s journal is a series of stories and questions that coordinate with the sessions provided in the facilitator’s guide, Journey Beyond Abuse. The journal can be used in coordination with a women’s group or with guidance of a counselor in other forms of support for dealing with abuse issues. The stories—based on other women’s actual abuse and group experiences—help prompt the thoughts of women in your group and confirm their own reality. The open-ended questions provide gentle direction toward gaining insights that help affirm inner strength and heal the wounds of abuse.

Gain a better understanding of the refugee experience in the U.S. Refugee-serving organizations will find solid, practical advice for how to best help refugees through the acculturation and transition process of becoming a New American. Refugees will discover what to expect during five stages of development that they typically progress through as they adapt to their new home.

Working in collaboration is a must for many organizations. But, the process can be a pain in the neck. Meetings are often unproductive. Decisions are made over and over again. Tasks take forever to complete. The Nimble Collaboration shows collaborations how to become leaner, more responsive, more flexible, and ultimately, more productive.

Board members are uniquely positioned to be effective and influential lobbyists. This guide spells out how your board can use their power and privilege to move your nonprofit's work forward.

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Double Award Winner
Silver Medal, Independent Book Publishers Awards, Business/Career Category
Bronze Medal, Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Awards, Career Category

No matter what you’re interested in, if you dream of a career that makes a difference, there’s a job for you in the nonprofit sector. In the most up-to-date resource available, job seekers will get the competitive edge they need to land a great first job.