Effective Nonprofit Management: Essential Lessons for Executive Directors,9780834220560

Effective Nonprofit Management: Essential Lessons for Executive Directors

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780834220560
ISBN10: 0834220563
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-06-01
Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett
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Summary

Robert L. Lewis is someone who shatters myths. Leading today's nonprofit organizations is rarely a sweet partnership between board and staff, Lewis says, but a tough process that requires strength, foresight, and mutual understanding. In his new book, Lewis presents simple, straightforward, and hard-hitting thoughts and suggestions that have been tested in the field. Effective Nonprofit Management helps you navigate today's rough leadership waters, explains how to take the reins of leadership, educate your board members, initiate long-range planning, and get the most out of your staff. Effective Nonprofit Management, Is part of Aspen's Nonprofit Management Series. Written in an engaging, conversational style, this book offers productive and informative ideas and advice.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Introduction xv
Getting Started on the Right Foot
1(22)
Don't Let the Board Mess Around with Mission
1(3)
If You're the First Executive Director of an Already Functioning Agency
4(7)
Trustees Are Not Volunteers, So Don't Treat Them as Such
11(6)
Exploit Your Board Chair
17(2)
Don't Blame the Trustees for Being Naive about Trusteeship
19(1)
You Are the Prime Educator to Your Board
20(3)
Remembering Roles
23(16)
The Board Owns the Agency
23(7)
Knowledge for You To Provide to Your Board
30(3)
Be Proud of the Nonprofit Tradition
33(3)
The Tradition Survives, in Strange Places
36(3)
The Nitty Gritty of the ED's Job
39(30)
Planning
39(6)
Let's Just Call It ``Money'' (or ``Resources'' if You're Squeamish)
45(5)
Working with Funders and Other Constituencies
50(2)
The Board Makes Policy for the Agency
52(4)
I'm the Board and You're the Staff
56(2)
The Comedy or Tragedy of Committees
58(3)
Boring Board Meetings Are Your Fault
61(8)
Board Relations
69(16)
Dammit! Why Don't We Run This Place Like a Business?
69(7)
Constituency Representation on a Board
76(2)
Damage Control: Truth or Consequences
78(7)
Vision and Leadership
85(16)
Vision
85(3)
Leadership as a Concept
88(2)
Leadership: The Usual Board/ED Kind
90(5)
There's a Clear Distinction between Governance and Management
95(6)
Looking Ahead
101(26)
The 20th Century
101(4)
Competition for Survival
105(2)
Now You're into Marketing and Program Delivery
107(2)
Hone Up on Your Public Relations
109(1)
Consumerism
110(3)
Diversity
113(1)
Stakeholders
114(2)
Assessment
116(1)
Assessment, Its Many Manifestations
117(10)
Working with Other Nonprofits
127(14)
Strategic Alliances
127(5)
How To Put Together a Near-Perfect Merger
132(4)
Not So Fast, My Friends
136(5)
Making Your Job Work Even Better
141(26)
Avoid an Advisory Board
141(3)
Should You Be a Voting Member of Your Board?
144(2)
Tell Your Board: It's Caring that Counts, Not Just Care
146(2)
My Life as a Consultant to Nonprofit Organizations
148(3)
Wanted: Toughness
151(3)
Still More on a Consultant's Life, but for Fun Only
154(7)
Time Out
161(6)
Inside the Life of the Nonprofit
167(34)
Governance Documents
167(7)
Motivating Your Board
174(3)
Getting Your Staff ``On Board''
177(2)
The Gung-Ho New Board Chair
179(4)
Your Agency Creates a Related Foundation
183(3)
The Board's Accountability for Management: a Contradiction in Terms?
186(3)
Your Accountability for Management
189(3)
Living with Risks
192(2)
``Humane, Compassionate, and Benevolent'' Revisited
194(7)
Appendix A---Ten Questions for Every Trustee 201(6)
Appendix B---Tax Compliance Issues: A Primer for Nonprofit Executive Directors 207(10)
Appendix C---Accounting Issues: A Primer for Nonprofit Executive Directors 217(10)
Appendix D---Budgeting Issues: A Primer for Nonprofit Executive Directors 227(6)
Index 233

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