Achieving Success in Nonprofit Organizations by Kloppenborg; Laning"This book is an essential tool to help you grow with your nonprofit organization. Whether you are an executive director, manager, board member, pastor, or key volunteer, the details here will help you achieve so much more. The four overarching areas of what the authors term a “virtuous cycle in nonprofit organization success”—living the mission, making good decisions, getting things done, developing your team—emerged from literature searches, focus groups, and surveys to discover objectively what critical skills and knowledge are most useful to leaders of nonprofit organizations. Inside, experts contribute individual chapters in each of these four areas. This book can be used as a reference for specific skills and knowledge in any of these areas. It can also be used as a text since it covers 16 specific chapters within the four major sections and each chapter has a major case study, assessment questions, and summaries of key concepts."
Developing nonprofit and human service leaders : essential knowledge and skills by Larry D. Watson; Richard A. Hoefer"Developing Nonprofit and Human Service Leaders comprehensively prepares students with the skills to successfully manage human service organizations. Authors Larry D. Watson and Richard Hoefer explore core managerial competencies tailored to the unique environment of these organizations, including administrative responsibilities, values and ethics, organizational theories, leadership, boards of directors, fundraising, supervision, research, cultural consideration, and more. This essential text offers hands-on practice for the skills that future administrators will need to make a substantial impact in their organizations and communities."
Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers, 4th by Thomas A. McLaughlin"This comprehensive guide provides effective, easy-to-use tips, tools, resources, and analyses. The light, humorous tone in Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers makes it an accessible resource for nonprofit executives, board members, students, and those new to the field."
The brand IDEA : managing nonprofit brands with integrity, democracy and affinity by Nathalie Laidler-Kylander; Julia Shepard Stenzel"Laidler-Kylander and Stenzel present a new framework for nonprofit brand management which they have termed the brand IDEA (Integrity, Democracy, and Affinity). The model eschews traditional, outdated brand tenets of control and competition in favor of a more strategic, sector-centric approach that is anchored in the mission, based on participatory processes, and promotes clarity and collaboration."
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Publication Date: 2013
Building Your Brand: a practical guide for nonprofit organizations by Michele Levy"This practical, user-friendly guide is specifically designed to help senior leaders and marketing staff build and maintain a strong, accurate brand. . .to have the ""right"" reputation with the people who matter most to your success. Starting at the very beginning (Why does a strong brand matter?), Michele Levy draws on her experience with scores of nonprofit (and for profit) organizations to help nonprofit leaders understand how to sort through all the information at their disposal and arrive at the most powerful expression of their own brand."
Start with the nonprofit's donor list, usually listed on its website.
Next, look at other nonprofits these organizations sponsor. Guidestar and the Foundation Center can help, but usually it's right on the public websites, and too often gets overlooked.
Do the same thing with any competitors you find through Idealist, United Way, etc.
If a nonprofit isn't getting funded by a foundation that funds a competitor, it's worth trying to find out why. This, too, is often overlooked.
This also works for funders: if a similar foundation is funding x, y, and z, and your community foundation is only funding x and y, it's worth investigating.
GuidestarThe descriptive information is derived from IRS Forms 990 and Forms 990EZ filed by the nonprofit organizations or their voluntary responses to a GuideStar questionnaire. Registration required.
BoardSource"Our mission is to inspire and support excellence in nonprofit governance and board and staff leadership."
Council on Foundations"An active philanthropic network, the Council on Foundations, founded in 1949, is a nonprofit leadership association of grantmaking foundations and corporations. It provides the opportunity, leadership, and tools needed by philanthropic organizations to expand, enhance and sustain their ability to advance the common good. The Council empowers professionals in philanthropy to meet today's toughest challenges and advances a culture of charitable giving in the U.S. and globally."
National Council of Nonprofits"The National Council of Nonprofits (Council of Nonprofits) is a trusted resource and proven advocate for America’s charitable nonprofits."
Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations (PANO)"PANO is the statewide membership organization serving and advancing the nonprofit sector through advocacy, collaboration, education and other services in order to improve the overall quality of life in Pennsylvania. PANO exists to support the incredible work of the nonprofit sector and highlight the critical role nonprofits serve. By coming together and recognizing our collective value, Pennsylvania communities and the power to do good will thrive."
Regional Foundation Center (Free Library of Philadelphia)The Regional Foundation Center was founded in 1974 to provide local nonprofit organizations with free access to information on management, grant seeking, fund development, and proposal writing. We offer the Philadelphia region's largest public information collection of print and electronics available on all aspects of fundraising, institutional advancement, and general philanthropy.
Statistics
National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS)The National Center for Charitable Statistics is the national clearinghouse of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States. NCCS is a program of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy (CNP) at the Urban Institute.
StatistaThis link opens in a new windowIncludes a broad range of statistics from national and international data sources, searchable by industries, markets, topics, and countries.
Look up a Nonprofit
GuidestarThe descriptive information is derived from IRS Forms 990 and Forms 990EZ filed by the nonprofit organizations or their voluntary responses to a GuideStar questionnaire. Registration required.
Melissa Nonprofit Organization Lookup"Use this Lookup to find information about nonprofit organizations in the United States. Get organization name, assets, income, and IRS subsection. Select an organization for contact name and address, type of foundation and organization, deductibility status, classification, Form 990 information, and more. There are over 1.4 million registered nonprofit organizations in the U.S."
ERI Nonprofit Organization searchData are retrieved from ERI Economic Research Institute's Library of nearly 7 million Form 990, 990PF, and 990EZ reports. Information, including reported compensation data, from these IRS returns is processed at the rate of 60,000 returns per month
Tax Exempt Organization Search (IRS)Tax Exempt Organization Search helps users find information about a tax-exempt organization’s federal tax status and filings
Writing Successful Grant Proposals by Ellen W. GorsevskiIn simple steps, Writing Successful Grant Proposals highlights key things savvy proposal writers do to attract and secure prospective funders. With clear, concise instructions, this book demystifies grant proposal writing, from the initial development phase, to the writing and submissions phase, to the grant award phase, to the final delivery of project results phase.