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Get your staff, board and development team on the right track with the following publications and references:
Maximizing Your Board's Effectiveness Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide and Workbook Winning Grants: Step by Step Click here for a full listing of publications for sale. Click here to print a publication order form. |
| Journal for Nonprofit Management |
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An invaluable source of thinking
and articles on the issues challenging nonprofit organizations today. Now for the first time, we’re offering our
Journal as a downloadable PDF! Volume 9, released October 2005,
focuses on nonprofit transitions. The
four articles in the issue cover a range of transition concerns: changing
executive directors, replacing a long-term executive director, rethinking an
organization’s relationship to its community, and working with organizational
culture during change efforts. Executive Director Transitions: An Organization Development Approach Over the next five years between sixty-two to seventy-eight percent of executive directors will be leaving their positions. Troy Chapman and John Vogelsang describe an approach to executive transitions that can help nonprofits utilize the time as a pivotal moment, enabling organizations to clarify their mission and vision, change direction, maintain momentum, build or rebuild their infrastructure, and correctly identify and put in place both the board and executive leadership they need to move the organization forward. Out with the Old, In with the New: A Case Study of a Successful Leadership Transition Organization Change Inside and Out: The Impact of an Appreciative Inquiry In making the transition from the founding leadership to a new executive director, a holistic learning center decided to use this opportunity to reconsider its relationships within the community. Sherry Rockey and Laverne Webb describe the Appreciative Inquiry process they used to engage the organization in an internal process to reflect on its values and successes, and an external process for defining and expanding its role in the community. Organizational Culture: The Path to Better Organizations Up to
eighty-five percent of organizational change interventions do not work because
the organization’s culture is not addressed first. Carolyn Curran explores the
cultural issues specific to nonprofit organizations that help or hinder change
and suggests ways of improving an organization’s culture. Click here for Volume 9: Transitions |
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Click on the title to read the full length article. Or, click here to browse through abstracts of all of these articles.
An Evaluation Myth: Evaluation is Too Expensive HTML PDF Effective Fund Raising for Human Service Organizations HTML PDF Executive Transitions: Nonprofit and Grantmaker Opportunities HTML PDF Fostering Sustainable Collaborative Relationships HTML PDF Futuring: A Complex Adaptive Systems Approach to Strategic Planning HTML PDF Making the Most of the Internal Interim Directorship HTML PDF Strengthening Boards of Nonprofit Organizations HTML PDF The Power and Promise of Foundations HTML PDF Values Based Organization Development HTML PDF |