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Stimulate your thinking and get a fresh perspective on how best to manage your agency, your program and your career! You will find a wide variety of current literature on trends and conditions influencing the nonprofit sector, best practices in leadership and governance, links to key resources, and more.
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
The Art of Networking
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Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County
December 8, 2011
In the nonprofit world, organizations rarely engage in clear and succinct conversations about their long-term funding strategy. That is because the different types of funding that fuel nonprofits have never been clearly defined. The authors have identified 10 nonprofit models that are commonly used by the largest nonprofits in the USA. The authors' intent is not to prescribe a single approach for a given nonprofit to pursue. Instead, they hope to help nonprofit leaders articulate more clearly the models that they believe could support the growth of their organizations, and use that insight to examine the potential and constraints associated with those models.
Volunteer Application
This guidebook provides key concepts and elements of effective consulting relationships, the mechanics of contracts and requests for proposals (RFPs), and what working with consultants requires of the hiring organization, including:
-- Understanding the differences between a consultant and employee
-- Learning the reasons for and against retaining a consultant
-- Creating and posting a request for proposal
-- Contracting with a consultant
-- Working with the consultant during an engagement
-- Evaluating the project and process and implementing changes after an engagement
Includes a bibliography, additional resources, RFP instructions with sample text, a sample contract, and determining fair market value of consulting services.
Coaching is effective for executives who can say, "I want to get over there, but I'm not sure how to do it." Coaching works best when you know what you want to get done. Executives should seek coaching when they feel that a change in behavior -- either for themselves or their team members -- can make a significant difference in the long-term success of the organization.
What could be more important for managers than increasing their teams' productivity? Yet most managers labor under misconceptions about what motivates employees -- particularly knowledge workers -- to do their best work. On the basis of more than a decade of research, the authors clarify the matter once and for all: What motivates people on a day-to-day basis is the sense that they are making progress.
The execution of strategy is dependent upon executives and team members on the front line being clear about the organization's priorities and how they must act to achieve the stated objectives. To be successful leaders, executives need to be as diligent in guiding strategy execution as they are at setting and communicating strategic direction.
Today's most rewarding work is conceptual. Workers deal with novel situations on the fly. In a world of rapid change, learning can never stop. A worker cannot tackle new challenges, take advantage of new information or make judgment calls on novel situations without learning along the way. More than merely being embedded into work, learning has become integral to work.
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