The Complete Guide to Nonprofit Management - Hardcover

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SMITH, BUCKLIN & ASSOCIATES, INC., is North America's largest association management firm. With offices in Chicago, Washington, and St. Louis, it employs more than 650 people serving 180 nonprofits with annual budgets ranging from $500,000 to more than $20 million. In addition to providing complete day-to-day administrative management of nonprofits, the firm provides specialized services, including strategic planning; organization and financial management; trade show, meeting, and convention management; marketing; communications; Web development; and government relations services.

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As nonprofit organizations face tough times, efficient and effective business management is essential for their survival. Now in a significantly revised and expanded Second Edition, this popular how-to book identifies and addresses the key areas of business for nonprofit organizations, from public relations and strategic planning to office management and the effective use of information technology.

In addition to practical, step-by-step guidance on such integral issues as board/staff relations, strategic communications, financial controls, and the all-important use of the Internet in communications and marketing, this updated edition features a refocused strategic planning chapter that presents an ongoing, organic form of planning and critical topics such as:

• Strategic planning retreats
• The board of directors’ role in daily operations
• Developing new sources of revenue
• Planning a publicity campaign and coordinating special conventions
• Basic office management and information services
• International marketing and membership promotion

Written by a team of experts from a management and consulting firm that uniquely focuses on nonprofit organizations, this invaluable book contains a wealth of hands-on advice and real-world examples that executives and managers of nonprofit organizations, volunteers, consultants, fund-raising professionals, boards of directors, and trustees can apply directly and immediately to their own organizations.

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The Complete Nuts-and-Bolts Guide to Managing Today’s Bottom-Line Oriented Nonprofit Organizations

This significantly revised and expanded Second Edition of the highly popular how-to book identifies and addresses the unique concerns of nonprofit organizations. Cutting through the morass of mere theory, the experts at Smith, Bucklin & Associates, Inc., a leading nonprofit management firm, get right to actual practice with dozens of real-world examples and case studies, and up-to-date, vital, "combat-tested" strategies and techniques for dealing with virtually every nonprofit business management issue, including:

• The daily role of boards of directors
• Fund development and marketing
• Public and government relations
• Educational programs and certification
• Information services
• Human resources management
• Using the Internet

In addition, featured here is a refocused strategic planning chapter that presents an ongoing, organic form of planning, as well as updated discussions of the importance of mission statements, planning publicity campaigns and coordinating special conventions, developing and marketing education programs, and much more.

Get the bottom line from the "front office." Whether you are an executive or manager of a nonprofit organization, a volunteer, consultant, fund-raising professional, a member of a board of directors or a trustee, the information in this indispensable guide is more critical–and more effective–than ever before.