Bell / Masaoka / Zimmerman Nonprofit Sustainability

Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-88695-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Praise for NONPROFIT SUSTAINABILITY
"This is much more than a financial how-to book. It's anonprofit's guide to empowerment. It demystifies mission impact andfinancial viability using The Matrix Map to provide strategicoptions for any organization. A must-read for every nonprofit CEO,CFO, and board member."
--Julia A. McClendon, chief executive officer, YWCAElgin, Illinois
"This book should stay within easy reaching distance and end upcompletely dog-eared because it walks the reader through apractical but sometimes revelatory process of choosing the rightmix of programs for mission impact and financial sustainability.Its use is a practice in which every nonprofit should engage itsboard once a year."
--Ruth McCambridge, editor in chief, The NonprofitQuarterly
"Up until a few years ago, funding and managing a nonprofit wasa bit like undertaking an ocean voyage. Now, it's akin towindsurfing--you must be nimble, prepared to maximize even theslightest breeze, and open to modifying your course at a moment'snotice. Innovative executive directors or bold board members whowant their organization to be able to ride the big waves of the newAmerican economy must read this book."
--Robert L. E. Egger, president, DC CentralKitchen/Campus Kitchens Project/V3 Campaign
"Most nonprofits struggle to find a long-term sustainablebusiness model that will enable them to deliver impact on theirmission. Thanks to Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka, and Steve Zimmermanhelp is now in sight. This book offers practical, concrete stepsyou can take to develop your own unique path to sustainabilitywithout compromising your mission."
--Heather McLeod Grant, consultant, Monitor Institute,and author, Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-ImpactNonprofits
"At last! An urgently needed framework to prepare leaders tomeet head-on the persistent twin challenges of impact andsustainability. This is a practical tool based on good businessprinciples that can bring boards and staff members together to leadtheir organizations to sustainable futures."
--Nora Silver, adjunct professor and director, Centerfor Nonprofit and Public Leadership, Haas School of Business,University of California, Berkeley
"Together, Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka, and Steve Zimmerman equalwisdom, experience, and know-how on sustainability and lots ofother things. Buy, read, and learn from this terrific book!"
--Clara Miller, president and CEO, Nonprofit FinanceFund
"Wisdom, experience, and know-how. Buy, read, and learn fromthis terrific book!"
--Clara Miller, president and CEO, Nonprofit FinanceFund

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bell, Jeanne

Masaoka, Jan

Zimmerman, Steve

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables, Figures, and Exhibits.
The Authors.
Part One Introduction to Key Concepts.
1 Who Will Find This Book Useful, and How?
2 Two Aspects of Sustainability.
Part Two Mapping Your Business Model: The Matrix Map.
3 Identifying Core Activities: Business Lines.
4 Determining Profi tability.
5 Determining Relative Impact.
6 Mapping the Matrix.
Part Three Making Choices to Adjust the BusinessModel.
7 The Strategic Imperatives.
8 Toward the New Business Model.
9 The Morphing Map.
Part Four The Business Logic of Nonprofit IncomeTypes.
10 A Look at the Business Logic of Types of Donations.
11 Earned-Income Business Lines.
Part Five Ongoing Decision Making and Leadership.
12 The Matrix Map and Strategic Planning.
13 Decision Making and Leadership.
Concluding Words.
Additional Resources.
Acknowledgments.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Masaoka (San Francisco, CA) is a leading nonprofitthinker, writer, and editor of Blue Avocado, a bimonthly onlinemagazine (50,000 subscribers) that features Jan's signature columnBoard Cafe (from which her book Best of the Board Café(Fieldstone, 2003, 2009) was compiled. As the former executivedirector of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, she was namedExecutive Director of the Year in 2002 by Nonprofit Times, andCalifornia Community Leader of the Year in 2005 by LeadershipCalifornia. She served on the Governance & FiduciaryResponsibility Committee of the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector,convened by Independent Sector to advise the U.S. Senate FinanceCommittee.
Steve Zimmerman, (Milwaukee, WI) M.B.A., C.P.A., isprincipal at Spectrum Nonprofit Services, a multi-serviceconsulting firm specializing in business planning, strategy andfinancial analysis for nonprofits and foundations. An MBA and CPA,Zimmerman's previous work includes Projects Director atCompassPoint Nonprofit Services, Associate Director for EarthIsland Institute, and CFO and Development Director for othercommunity-based nonprofit organizations. In addition to hisconsulting and training, he writes for Blue Avocado aswell as The Nonprofit Quarterly and BoardSource.
Jeanne Bell (San Francisco, CA) is CEO of CompassPointNonprofit Services, a leading consulting, research and trainingfirm for nonprofits. Based on her own CFO and COO experiences alongwith extensive consulting work, Jeanne coauthored FinanceLeadership for Nonprofits (Fieldstone, 2005), and her publishedresearch work includes numerous nonprofit-oriented studies. Theformer Advisory Board Chair for the Institute for NonprofitOrganization Management at USF, she serves on the Alliance forNonprofit Management board.