Recommended Books - Capacity Building
Starting a Nonprofit Organization
Overall Capacity Building to Enhance an Established Nonprofit Organization
Starting a Nonprofit Organization
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Field Guide to Nonprofit Program Design, Marketing and Evaluation
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. The most important aspect of starting a new nonprofit is designing your first program -- the reason for your new nonprofit. Your new nonprofit is built around the success of your first program. Too many books completely separate the highly integrated activities of planning, marketing and evaluating programs. This book integrates all three into a comprehensive, straightforward approach that anyone can follow in order to provide high-quality programs with strong appeal to funders. Includes many online forms that can be downloaded.
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Field Guide to Developing, Operating and Restoring Your Nonprofit Board
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Provides step-by-step, highly practical guidelines to organize, operate and sustain high-quality nonprofit Boards -- and to fix a broken Board! Includes variety of Board models you can choose from, roles and responsibilities, how to get the best members, how to train and organize them, goals for standard committees, ensuring high-quality meetings, evaluating Boards, how to evaluate and/or replace the Executive Director, and much more! Includes many sample Board policies you can download! Written by the developer of the Free Management Library. Many materials in this Library's topic about Boards are adapted from this book. 30-day, money-back, guarantee!
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just click on the image of the book. Also, a convenient search window is included below the rows of boxes.
Overall Capacity Building to Enhance an Established Nonprofit Organization
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Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development With Nonprofits
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Provides complete, step-by-step guidelines to identify complex issues in nonprofit organizations and successfully resolve each of them. This book is also helpful to organizations that are doing fine now, but want to evolve to the next level of performance. This is one of the truly comprehensive, yet practical, books about this complex subject! Includes online forms that can be downloaded. Many materials in this Library's topic about guiding change are adapted from this comprehensive book.
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Venture Forth! The Essential Guide to Starting a Money-Making Business in Your Nonprofit Organization
- by Rolfe Larson, published by Fieldstone Alliance. Provide step-by-step guidelines to identify and implement the best ideas to generate more revenue to further your nonprofit mission. Ideas can come from current or new services -- many nonprofits are already providing critical services from which they could generate more revenue. The movement of social entrepreneurship, including earned-income generation, is becoming a must for every nonprofit to consider. Many funders greatly appreciate nonprofits generating more income -- this book shows you how!
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Coping with Cutbacks -- The Nonprofit Guide to Success When Times Are Tight
- by Emil Angelica and Vincent Hyman, published by Fieldstone Alliance. This treasure trove helps nonprofits to consider a very wide range of practical ideas for addressing financial shortfalls in their nonprofit organization. Every nonprofit, not just those in financial trouble, should be doing financial contingency planning -- planning for what they will do if they do not get the revenue that they expect from fees and fundraising. This book gives you plenty of ideas!
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Strengthening Nonprofit Performance -- A Funder's Guide to Capacity Building
- by Paul Connolly and Carol Lukas, published by Fieldstone Alliance. Provides step-by-step guidelines for funders to plan and develop highly effective capacity building services for nonprofits in their area. Many funders are finding that it's not enough just to write checks -- nonprofits need highly accessible, low-cost means of support and guidance to use the funder's resources to enhance organizational performance. This book explains common types of capacity building, key criteria for any successful capacity building program, and how to set up the best capacity building program.
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Field Guide to Nonprofit Strategic Planning and Facilitation
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Step-by-step guidelines to customize and facilitate planners to implement the best strategic planning process to suit the particular nature and needs of their nonprofit. This is one of the few books, if any, that explains how to actually facilitate planning. Includes many online forms that can be downloaded and used by planners.
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just click on the image of the book. Also, a convenient search window is included below the rows of boxes.