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The Best of the Board Café: Hands-on Solutions for Nonprofit Boards. Jan Masaoka, Amherst Wilder Foundation and CompassPoint Boards That Love Fundraising: A How-To Guide for Your Board. Robert Zimmerman and Ann Lehman, Jossey-Bass. Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies, Michaela Hayes, Hayes Marketing & Communications
The CBO Center has taken a position that the traditional philanthropic relationship between nonprofit and for-profit companies no longer serves either sector. And yet, it’s really hard for business leaders from both sectors to visualize what for-profit companies could learn from nonprofits, beyond becoming acquainted with their services in case they or their employees ever need them. In this thoughtful and insightful article, Michaela Hayes writes compellingly about the role nonprofits can and should play in helping for-profit businesses shape their corporate social responsibility strategies. It’s worth reading, thinking about, and talking about with your corporate funders. Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards. Richard P. Chait, William P. Ryan and Barbara E. Taylor, Wiley. Making the Most of "Open to Public Inspection:" In search of value, and more donations, in your Form 990. Harmon Burstyn. (2008) Roberta’s Rules of Order: Sail Through Meetings with Stellar Results Without the Gavel. Alice Collier Cochran, Jossey-Bass. The Ultimate Board Member’s Book: A 1-Hour Guide to Understanding and Fulfilling Your Role and Responsibilities. Kay Sprinkel Grace; Emerson & Church. Local Authors 
Building Hope. John Bateson. Building Hope tells, from the trenches, what it's like to lead and manage a nonprofit agency. Filled with insights, tips, lessons learned, and poignant stories, this book will help nonprofit executives, board members, and volunteers alike leave work at the end of each day knowing they made a difference in the lives of others. With nearly twenty-seven years in the nonprofit sector, John Bateson, executive director of a busy crisis center, has seen it all. Eager to share his knowledge, he explains what it takes to lead employees and volunteers, as well as how to satisfy the other stakeholders: donors, government officials, board members and, of course, service recipients. As Bateson demonstrates so eloquently, the relationship between nonprofit organizations and all these stakeholders is built on trust, need, compassion, and--above all else--hope. 
The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution. David La Piana. The fact is, the world changes continuously and rapidly. It’s foolhardy to believe that strategies should not do so as well. Nonprofit leaders already know this, but traditional strategic planning has locked them into a process that’s divorced from today’s reality. That’s why plans sit on the shelf and why smart executives are always seeking workarounds in between planning periods. The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution offers a nimble and powerful alternative. In this ground-breaking book, strategy expert David La Piana introduces “Real-Time Strategic Planning,” a fluid, organic process that engages staff and board in a program of systematic readiness and continuous responsiveness. With it, your nonprofit will be able to identify, understand, and act on challenges and opportunities as they arise—not in six months when the “plan” is done. David La Piana. |