The Nonprofit Bookstore
We are pleased to offer you these incredibly useful, skill-building titles published by CharityChannel Press!
Use coupon code npocc for a 15% discount!
Use coupon code npocc for a 15% discount!
Leadership and Governance
The Seven Deadly Sayings of Nonprofit Leaders…And How to Avoid Them $34.95
Reid Zimmerman shows how to address each of the errant leadership practices and management tactics revealed by the utterance of the seven deadly sayings. He expertly shows you how to prevent these oft-fatal mistakes and how to lessen the negative impact to your organization when they occur. Read more!
Reid Zimmerman shows how to address each of the errant leadership practices and management tactics revealed by the utterance of the seven deadly sayings. He expertly shows you how to prevent these oft-fatal mistakes and how to lessen the negative impact to your organization when they occur. Read more!
The Invisible Yellow Line: Clarifying Nonprofit Board and Staff Roles $29.95
The Invisible Yellow Line: Clarifying Nonprofit Board and Staff Roles is a fun, upbeat, and down-to-earth manual that walks you through the process of clarifying the roles of the board and staff.
If you’ve ever watched a football game on TV you be familiar with the yellow line that’s visible to viewers, but invisible to the players on the field. Using the “invisible yellow line” metaphor, Jean Block guides you through clarifying roles in governance, management, finance, planning, human resources, resource development, and recruitment. Read more!
The Invisible Yellow Line: Clarifying Nonprofit Board and Staff Roles is a fun, upbeat, and down-to-earth manual that walks you through the process of clarifying the roles of the board and staff.
If you’ve ever watched a football game on TV you be familiar with the yellow line that’s visible to viewers, but invisible to the players on the field. Using the “invisible yellow line” metaphor, Jean Block guides you through clarifying roles in governance, management, finance, planning, human resources, resource development, and recruitment. Read more!
The Green Nonprofit: The First 52 Weeks of Your Green Journey $34.95
The Green Nonprofit: The First 52 Weeks of Your Green Journey is for nonprofit leaders who want to:
The Green Nonprofit: The First 52 Weeks of Your Green Journey is for nonprofit leaders who want to:
- Reduce environmental impact and save money;
- Quickly implement basic energy- and water-saving strategies;
- Create a green team to help generate and implement green ideas; and
- Outline a sustainability plan that matches your strategic goals.
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Moving Up to Executive Director: Lessons Learned from My First 365 Days $24.95
Moving Up to Executive Director will help you:
Moving Up to Executive Director will help you:
- Understand the complex nature of nonprofit executive leadership
- Identify the skills and characteristics of successful executive directors
- Gain insight into the unique obligations nonprofit executive directors face
- Manage multiple priorities
- Prepare for the transition to your role as executive leader
- Anticipate challenges inherent in your first year as executive director
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YOU and Your Nonprofit Board: Advice and Practical Tips from the Field’s Top Practitioners, Researchers, and Provocateurs $39.95
In YOU and Your Nonprofit Board: Advice and Practical Tips from the Field’s Top Practitioners, Researchers, and Provocateurs, Terrie Temkin guides a star-studded cast of collaborators in creating a board volume that delivers the wisdom of the nonprofit world’s leading practitioners, researchers, and provocateurs. Read more!
In YOU and Your Nonprofit Board: Advice and Practical Tips from the Field’s Top Practitioners, Researchers, and Provocateurs, Terrie Temkin guides a star-studded cast of collaborators in creating a board volume that delivers the wisdom of the nonprofit world’s leading practitioners, researchers, and provocateurs. Read more!
Firing Lousy Board Members: And Helping the Others Succeed $24.95
Every organization deserves a good board and effective board members. And every board member deserves a chance to be an effective board member. But too often, things aren’t working. Board members aren’t effective – and staff aren’t helping them to be effective. Or, staff are doing all that is possible – but the board member is causing too many problems. This book tells you how to fix the situation. Read more!
Every organization deserves a good board and effective board members. And every board member deserves a chance to be an effective board member. But too often, things aren’t working. Board members aren’t effective – and staff aren’t helping them to be effective. Or, staff are doing all that is possible – but the board member is causing too many problems. This book tells you how to fix the situation. Read more!
Fundraising
Fundraising for the GENIUS, Second Edition $24.95
Whether you are a “newbie” to fundraising or an experienced fundraiser concerned about shrinking funding sources, Fundraising for the GENIUS will guide you every step of the way toward fundraising success. Read more!
Whether you are a “newbie” to fundraising or an experienced fundraiser concerned about shrinking funding sources, Fundraising for the GENIUS will guide you every step of the way toward fundraising success. Read more!
Major Gift Fundraising for Small Shops $29.95
In Major Gift Fundraising for Small Shops: How to Leverage Your Annual Fund in Only Five Hours per Week, Amy Eisenstein guides you, in only five hours a week, to safely and surely meet the challenges of getting your organization ready for major gift fundraising, all the way up to that all-important ask--and beyond. Read more!
In Major Gift Fundraising for Small Shops: How to Leverage Your Annual Fund in Only Five Hours per Week, Amy Eisenstein guides you, in only five hours a week, to safely and surely meet the challenges of getting your organization ready for major gift fundraising, all the way up to that all-important ask--and beyond. Read more!
The Nonprofit Guide to Social Enterprise: Show Me The (Unrestricted) Money! $29.95
The Nonprofit Guide to Social Enterprise is an essential guide to starting a social enterprise within your nonprofit organization. The step-by-step process in this comprehensive manual offers a tested approach to launching a successful nonprofit social enterprise that builds your organization’s capacity and reduces reliance on traditional but dwindling funding sources. Read more!
The Nonprofit Guide to Social Enterprise is an essential guide to starting a social enterprise within your nonprofit organization. The step-by-step process in this comprehensive manual offers a tested approach to launching a successful nonprofit social enterprise that builds your organization’s capacity and reduces reliance on traditional but dwindling funding sources. Read more!
Confessions of a Successful Grants Writer: A Complete Guide to Discovering and Obtaining Funding $24.95
Confessions of a Successful Grants Writer: A Complete Guide to Discovering and Obtaining Funding is a down-to-earth guide to understanding funders and submitting successful proposals. It will help you:
Confessions of a Successful Grants Writer: A Complete Guide to Discovering and Obtaining Funding is a down-to-earth guide to understanding funders and submitting successful proposals. It will help you:
- Better position your proposals among the many that funders receive
- Find out where to find what they tell you they want to know and then what they don’t tell you about what you should know
- Understand the concept of organizational branding and its importance in getting your proposal funded.
- Learn the questions they ask, the answers they’re looking for and how to speak language they’ll understand
- Develop success, both at the organizational and interpersonal levels
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Help! They Want Me to Fundraise! A Nonprofit Fundraising Manual for Beginners $29.95
Help! They Want Me to Fundraise! A Nonprofit Fundraising Manual for Beginners is for anyone new to fundraising. Perhaps you serve as a board member or other volunteer of a nonprofit that needs to raise money. Or maybe you’re employed as the new development director or even as the executive director. It’s even possible that you worked with another organization in the past that raised money but you weren’t the one in charge. Now someone has asked you to step up to the plate and you’re not sure what this is going to require—or even if your organization is ready. Read more!
Help! They Want Me to Fundraise! A Nonprofit Fundraising Manual for Beginners is for anyone new to fundraising. Perhaps you serve as a board member or other volunteer of a nonprofit that needs to raise money. Or maybe you’re employed as the new development director or even as the executive director. It’s even possible that you worked with another organization in the past that raised money but you weren’t the one in charge. Now someone has asked you to step up to the plate and you’re not sure what this is going to require—or even if your organization is ready. Read more!