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A Publication of the National Center for Nonprofit Boards
A concise yet comprehensive resource for the entire fund raising process. Shows why board members must take the lead in fund raising efforts, and show how this role can be personally satisfying.
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This book explores key policy issues for the non-profit sector against a background of increasing competition, new public management and ever decreasing budgets. Key questions raised include: br Is the nonprofit sector in crisis? br What policy models are being discussed, and what are their implications? br How can nonprofit organisations negotiate a course between commercialization and tighter government regulation?
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The growth of the non-profit, voluntary or third sector has been widely recognized throughout the world. This text seeks to provide a definition and a common classification of the non-profit sector, while recognizing the great diversity of voluntarism internationally. The remainder of the text is devoted to country-by-country definitions of the sector in 13 representative states from the developed, developing and post-socialist worlds. Among the countries covered are: USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan, India, Brazil, Egypt and Hungary. The study demonstrates that the division of societies into public and private is too simplistic, and that a third sector with its own characteristic features and dynamics has already emerged as a powerful force in the global economy.
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Guiding MBAs into the Nonprofit Sector
As interest in nonprofit sector careers grows among MBA students and MBAs further along in their careers, the number of interesting opportunities and the need for MBA skills in this sector also continues to spiral upward. Yet MBA students and alums have experienced frustration with the job search process in this field. The Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in the Nonprofit Sector is a great resource for newly minted MBAs and alums interested in entering the nonprofit sector - whether as full-time managers, board members, or volunteers.
Tapping the career histories of thirty-four Harvard Business School alums who have carved out successful and personally rewarding lives in the nonprofit sector, Stephanie Lowell has created a resource that is both inspirational and practical. Topics covered include:
nonprofit subsector overviews with descriptions of key roles and positions for MBAs the pros and cons of a nonprofit career managing expectations salary expectations cultural differences the job search process as it applies to nonprofits an extensive bibliography of resources Reflecting the depth and breadth of the nonprofit sector, the HBS Guide covers management careers in arts and culture, community economic development, education, environment, foundations, government, health care, international aid and economic development, social services, social purpose businesses, and socially responsible business/corporate community relations.
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Work for nonprofits.......2000-03-12
I've just finished reading Stephanie Lowell's Careers in the Nonprofit Sector. I recommend it highly. Almost every page contains a profile about someone working with nonprofits. Lowell supports these profiles with thorough discussions of how to find work in nonprofits, why work for nonprofits, and what nonprofits are like.
About half of the book categorizes the nonprofits. I found these the most useful sections. They subdivide each sector, list the hot topics, discuss the roles for MBAs, present profiles, and provide addresses and web sites.
There is two recurring themes: the rewards of working for nonprofits and the importance of volunteering. Everyone working for a nonprofit or wanting to work for a nonprofit should read this book.
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The Voluntary and Non-Profit Sector in Japan (Nissan Institute/Routledgecurzon Japanese Studies Series)
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The voluntary and non-profit sector is an important and emerging feature of Japanese society. It is a response both to the changing nature of this society and to political and social trends that have encouraged the Japanese government to see this sector as a potential provider of public services. It is also part of the emergence of 'civil society' in Japan. This book explores the roots of the societal challenges that voluntary and non-profit organisations face in Japan and evaluates their future impact on Japanese society. It is an essential text for any student of Japanese studies or the international non-profit sector.
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Written for both novice and experienced grantwriters, the workbook is filled with practical advice and illustrative examples, including
- Important information such as determining whether your program or idea is fundable
- Clear examples that make it easier to create a well-written letter of intent
- How to do the necessary research to find the right funder to approach
- Targeting your proposal to meet the priorities of the funder
- What happens to your proposal once it reaches the funder
- How to adapt this program- and project-specific funding approach to assist in general funding
Once the workbook exercises are completed, your organization will have a fully developed grant proposal.
Customer Reviews:
great condition.......2007-09-22
Thank you, the book arrived before the required date, which is always a bonus. the book was also in great condition. Again, I thank you!
Very useful book.......2007-03-08
I have been reading lots of books on how to write grants, being new to the field. They are all good, this one is concise and well laid out, the information is clear and the samples are good. I would recommend it. We will see how successful I am...that will be the real test of how well the book worked.
Pragmatic worksheets.......2004-04-09
If you come in to our nonprofit management support organization and ask for a book on grant proposal writing, there are two we'll pull out right away: Grassroots Grants and Winning Grants Step by Step. We're often asked which to choose. Of all the books we see, these are the two we most often recommend, but they do have different approaches.
Winning Grants Step by Step takes a pragmatic tone. It accepts the rules of the game and offers to show you how to win within them. "Most funders prefer to give grants for new and expanding programs or in support of special projects and new ideas rather than for the general operating expenses of an organization or the ongoing costs of established programs," it explains. "Because funders have these preferences, this workbook uses the idea of creating a new program as the basis for developing a proposal." (The book does also give examples of core operating support proposals, and does start with a planning guide to help you see which programs fit your priorities).
In the introduction to Grassroots Grants, on the other hand, the publisher shares her qualms about publishing a book about grants at all, preferring that the reader focus first on developing more renewable and less restricted gifts from individual donors. "This book is about two things: money and power," says Grassroots Grants, and calmly analyzes the dynamics of both in the grant proposal process. This big-picture view is in the end more pragmatic - it encourages you to take control of the grantseeking process by searching out those funders and pitching those programs that really best fit with what you are trying to do.
Both books have excellent project planning guidelines. As Winning Grants Step by Step observes, "Generally, organizations will spend approximately 80 percent of their time planning a project and only 20 percent of their time writing and packaging a proposal," so this section is obviously very important. Both books ask questions such as "What is unique about your organization's project?" "Is anyone else working on a similar project?" "What members of your community support each project?"
Both also contain useful information about finding appropriate funders, which is key to the process - much more important than your writing skills is finding the right funder who cares about projects like yours. Although Winning Grants Step by Step puts this information at the end in an appendix, you should really read it first, particularly the excellent section on corporate giving programs. Grassroots Grants contains very helpful guidelines about what to consider when deciding whether a funder is really a good fit for your organization, and detailed information about ways to develop good relationships with potential funders.
The books have different approaches to how they help you with your own writing. Winning Grants Step by Step has a workbook format, with questionnaires you fill out as you go, so that by the time you have completed them you will have addressed most of the subjects covered in a typical proposal, and it will be easy to cut and paste the appropriate bits into the funder's preferred format. It comes with all the worksheets on a CD-ROM so you can fill them out electronically and reuse them. If you like project planning, but get nervous about the writing process, this format may help walk you through. Grassroots Grants has questionnaires throughout the text, and it has more examples of proposals, query letters, and other documents with notes on how they were developed. If you like to write by reading examples to inspire you to your own purposes, this book will suit you.
Ultimately, these books complement one another. Even if you prefer the workbook format of Winning Grants Step by Step, the "big picture" you get from reading Grassroots Grants will help you answer all those questions. Likewise, if you prefer the style of Grassroots Grants, you can still benefit from the excellent sections on overhead costs and planning for sustainability in Winning Grants Step by Step.
good, basic overview but don't use alone.......2003-09-25
I am a consultant, grantwriter, and trainer who specializes in technical assistance and training for HIV/AIDS services. I provide a copy of this workbook to participants in my grantwriting ("Bringing Home the Money!) workshops, because it's a good, basic overview of many of the different parts of the request for funding proposal.
What's most useful about Carlson's book is that it provides a summary for participants and another way of explaining some of the things I teach. There are also good worksheets included in Carlson's book, designed to help first-time grantwriters grapple with the different proposal elements. Carlson also includes a CD-ROM with different forms that can also be helpful.
However, there are important limits to Carlson's book, thus the caveat in my review title that you NOT use this book alone.
1. Carlson's book is very general. For certain funders or funding areas (such as in HIV/AIDS), grantwriters need to include and be very familiar with things like public health data and certain standardized evaluation methods. You will not get that kind of information or guidance in Carlson's book.
2. Some of the sections lack sufficient details that can help first-time grantwriters better understand the concepts. For example, the budget and budget justification section are weak. She does not provide any explanation for "priority/target populations," a concept important to HIV/AIDS and other public health programs.
3. Carlson starts off with a good premise: Helping grantwriters understand the writing of a good proposal by having funders--the people who would actually read and decide on your proposal--speak about what makes good and bad proposals. It's a great idea and one that is the backbone to my own workshop. However, it is a thread that Carlson quickly drops and doesn't bother to integrate into the entire workbook.
4. Finally, the different elements are presented in such a way that they remain disintegrated, separate, fragmented from each other. In reality, a good proposal (i.e., one that is most likely to be funded) includes all the required elements (abstract, description of need, work plan, goals and objectives, evaluation, etc.) that are written well, are strong in content, and all work together in an integrated way.
To Carlson's credit on my last point, I should note that very few writers of grantwriting books and guides have succeeded in showing the latter, although I think it's one of the best signs of a well-written, strong, viable program.
In summary, then, this is a good first place to start if you're new to grantwriting or need a refresher. But definitely use it in conjunction with a great workshop and/or other grantwriting resources that are available.
Good for foundation grants, not so good for gov't grants.......2003-05-15
The information contained in this book primarily applies to non-governmental entities soliciting grants from non-profit foundations. Organizations like the NSF, NIH, etc., have fairly strict guidelines and don't permit the "excesses" encouraged in this book.
As the review title states, this would probably be a very useful book for a charitable organization looking to obtain funds from corporate foundations. However, if you're looking for research money from a government organization like Nat'l Science Foundation or Dep't of Education, this book is virtually useless.
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While there are many textbooks in personnel management, to date there have been none devoted to the nonprofit sector. Further, no book has addressed the use of strategic human resources management--the integration of human resources management with the strategic mission of the organization--in both public and nonprofit agencies. This groundbreaking work is the first to do both.
Joan E. Pynes, a respected authority in public administration, demonstrates how strategic human resources management is essential to proactively managing change in an environment of tighter budgets, competition from private organizations, the need to maintain and train a more diverse workforce, and job obsolescence brought about by shifts in technology. She offers students and practitioners the guidance and techniques necessary to implement effective human resources management strategies in public and nonprofit organizations -- from job analysis to performance evaluation, from recruitment and selection to training and development, from compensation and benefits to collective bargaining. Pynes also covers important but neglected topics such as recruiting and managing volunteers, working with a board of directors, and federal and state labor relations. Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations is an important resource for all involved in shaping, implementing, or studying human resources policies.
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Good book.......2007-05-15
I like the book because it is simple in its explaination and illustrations, written in simple english where everyone that reads it will comprehend which is the most thing i love in the book.
the sequence of the chapters is done in such an way that it takes you into the next one with an ideal on what you are going to expect.
A good survey text.......2002-10-01
This is a good general overview of Strategic Human Resources Management (SHRM) theory and techniques as applied to public sector and non-profit organizations. Although it is essentially a textbook aimed at graduate-level students in Public Policy or Public Administration, Pynes' survey approach, pointing the reader to empirical studies and other more in-depth sources, should serve as both a refresher and a source of new ideas, even to long-term practitioners in the field. The book is a series of chapters grouped around three basic themes: changing context, methods and challenges.
Part one puts human resource management (HRM) into a strategic context, starting with an overview of the shortcomings of traditional "after-the-fact" HR strategy. It is filled with real-life examples of challenges, successes and failures. Here, Pynes lays out the central thesis of the book, arguing that vertical integration of HR processes into overall strategic planning is essential for success and sustainability, especially in today's ever-changing organizational milieu. For example, Pynes argues that organizations can benefit by mirroring societal diversity in the workplace (however, I think that the case can be more compellingly presented). She ties up the section with a good overview of the relevant US federal legal and regulatory framework, with a number of examples from labor case law.
Part two provides the "meat" of SHRM practice. Pynes covers the fundamental theories and techniques of job analysis, recruitment and performance evaluation (including a good discussion of how performance appraisals might be reconciled with Total Quality Management's team-based concepts). She reviews methods for determining compensation and benefit levels, including coverage of equity and comparable worth. In these methodology sections, Pynes takes care to include additional consideration of executive level positions, given the often-different concerns that can come into play here. She touches on evolving compensation issues such as gainsharing and alternative benefits. The section closes with a chapter addressing collective bargaining.
The final section looks at today's challenges and emerging issues. Pynes brings the reader along for a look at contracting out, workplace violence, technological change and alternative dispute resolution (it seems to me that there are a number of additional issues not covered, such as the expanding definition of employer liability). Overall, the public and non-profit sectors are demanding increased professionalism from their workers. To meet the dual challenge presented by rising demand for services within increasingly constrained resources, many organizations, even those in the formal public sector, are relying more heavily on volunteers. It is refreshing to see a discussion of volunteer management within the context of an HR text. After all, volunteers constitute the unpaid labor force. The arguments presented here certainly reinforce the book's central message.
What did I like most about the book? It is well laid-out, with a good introduction to each section setting the road map. Throughout, Pynes illustrates with concrete and practical examples and models. There are headings for each new topic and a concise summary at the end of each chapter. Both the table of contents and the index are excellent guides. An extensive and broad-based bibliography points the curious reader to additional sources.
From my point of view, the book has a few shortcomings. First, the extensive examples, legislation and case law are all US-based. I think that a non-American would find some of this minutia of limited benefit. In addition, the survey-course nature of the text (the impressively-detailed methodology sections on job analysis and performance appraisals are a notable exception) may leave some readers feeling wanting. Finally, I would like to see more parallels drawn with for-profit HR issues.
Overall, I would recommend this book as a general reference text, an introduction or a refresher for anyone wanting inspiration and direction about new ways of looking at HR in a strategic context. I especially like Pyne's insistence that an organization's staff and volunteers are crucially important in fulfilling its mission. It is a message worth repeating.
Good Public Administration Reading.......2001-05-21
Pynes presents an overview of the multiple roles of human resource managers in the strategic planning process. She has a knack for presenting technical information in a format for novices in public administration. The case studies presented enhance the understanding of relevant issues that human resource managers face. More importantly, the author emphasizes that the collaboration between the organizations' stakeholders will enhance the strategic human resources management process.
Graduate Student Resource.......2001-05-21
I consider this book to be very relevant to human resources practice. The author set forth traditional human resoures functions such as recruitment and selection, performance evaluation, and compensation and benefits, with the human resources perspective of the 21st century: changing, empowering, strategic management, and team-building.
I also find this book to be relevant to theory. the author's discussion of traditional human resources theories served to refresh my knowledge of the issues and functions of human resources management.
The text was not difficult to read, but covered the topics comprehensively and provided ample case study examples. I recommend this book to graduate students.
Human resources management.......2001-05-21
"Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organization" by Joan E. Pynes is a textbook for practitioners, policymakers, and graduate students. This book addresses Human Resources Management (HRM) issues in public and nonprofit organizations. The economical, cultural, legal, and technological environments surrounding public and nonprofit organizations are rapidly changing; organizations must intergrate their human resources management needs with their long-term strategic plans. This book provides the techniques and methods of HRM in regards to strategic planning.
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This is the first comprehensive overview of the scope, size, composition and financing of the nonprofit, or civil society, sector in the developing as well as the developed world.
It challenges many conventional beliefs about the civil society sector. It shows, for example, that this sector engages a much larger labor force than ever before imagined, even in the developing world. It shows that gifts of time are far more important to the economic and social impact of this set of institutions than are contributions of money. It also underlines the critical role that government plays in the financing of nonprofit institutions.
This book will be a crucial source of information on the nonprofit sector, and essential reading for nonprofit and foundation leaders, international development agency officials, and public policy makers. It will also be a key reference tool for libraries. The data is presented in an easily accessible style, with numerous charts and tables.
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