The executive director's guide to thriving as a nonprofit leader

This new edition will both extend and expand on the content in the previous one, offering nonprofit leaders sound guidance on how to lead their organizations and manage their core responsibilities but this book will also offer more practical advice on how to be more effective at daily tasks and processes. Executive Director's will understand how to better balance and delegate duties, allowing them to focus more on the essential priorities that must be achieved for an organization to thrive. This book will help nonprofit executive directorsunderstand not only how to be successful but how to work smarter instead of more or faster, learning how to develop a more sustainable and rewarding careerthat also benefits society. This new edition will include new coverage and updates on: Time and Work/Life Management Priority Setting and Avoiding Burnout Developing Concrete Management Skills (Fundraising, Finance, Tech) Models of Shared or Delegated Responsibility Leadership Development, HR Management and Leadership versus Management Strategy or Strategic Thinking Measuring Impact andEffectiveness Leadership Transition and Succession Mentoring and Coaching Successors Managing Fundraising Duties and Pressures Developing External Connections and Professional Networks Professional Development and Executive EducationCompensation, Benefits and Retirement Planning Ethics and Accountability Cultural Competency New Cases and Stories From the Field will also be added with newPractical Tip sidebars to complement the current ‘Wisdom’ and ‘Warning’ ones.Mim Carlson is the executive director of the Berkeley Humane Society. With over 25 years of experience in managing and grantwriting, she has trained and consulted nationally and is a former faculty member at the University of San Francisco and California State University, Hayward, in courses on proposal writing and fundraising. Her first 2 editions of Winning Grants sold over 75,000 netcopies. She lives in Kensington, CA. Margaret Donohoe has focused her experience, insight, and energy on helping a new generation of nonprofit leaders navigate the many opportunities and challenges of this career choice. Her insight is not just academic or theoretical; it comes from her own 25 years of experience in the sector as an executive director, interim director for organizationsin transition, community board member and now consultant. Margaret is a frequent trainer for management support organizations, nonprofits, and professionaldevelopment groups on the topics of sustaining nonprofit leaders, executive transitions, board-executive director partnerships, leadership planning, and founder transitions. Active on a variety of nonprofit boards and task forces. She has an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University and is involved with Center for Excellence in Nonprofits (speaker and member), Charity Channel (speaker and member of the nonprofit book review panel), Alliance for Nonprofit Management (speaker and co-lead of the National Executive Leadership Transition Affinity Group)

• ISBN: 978-0-470-40749-3
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 05/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés