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If you haven’t integrated customer expectations into your risk management program, you’re exposed, even if you’ve done nothing wrong. Quality risk management is an innovative approach to managing risk that combines elements of traditional risk management with quality management to reveal the full range of potential losses facing organizations today. No Complaints, No Lawsuits distills this approach into 11 guiding principles that can ensure that your risk management program is ready to meet today’s demands.

It began as a personal memoir for her son. Reflecting one day on her 10 years of post-9/11 military service, Marjorie K. Eastman wanted to capture the lessons and inspiration she'd learned serving beside men and women who represent the very best of what it means to be American: dedication to a job well done, selflessness, character, and a belief that one person can make a difference.

Unlock the key secrets of getting the media's attention to promote yourself or your product in this highly informative guide from Emmy-award winner and 20-year media veteran Katrina Cravy.

Goodloe and Martinez provide six key steps to help leaders and influencers tap into a new level of personal achievement with a life-changing H.A.B.I.T.S. acronym.

While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. David Callahan charts the rise of these new power players and the ways they are converting the fortunes of a second Gilded Age into influence. He shows how this elite works behind the scenes on education, the environment, science, LGBT rights, and many other issues - with deep impact on government policy.

Catalyzing Research, based on Rand Haley's nearly 20 years of experience partnering with research organization leadership and faculty, presents a guide for research leaders that focuses on the complex, challenging interface between faculty and the administration.

As an experienced Lean Six Sigma practitioner, I've seen the benefits these skills and thinking can bring to a company. They are also applicable outside of business settings to help address poverty, improve health care, improve education, and improve the environment. This is a condensed audiobook to motivate current Lean Six Sigma and continuous-improvement experts to help their company and community reduce their environmental impacts and help address social problems, both at a local and global level.

In 2007, fundraising professional Mary Valloni walked through the doors of another nonprofit organization, determined she was going to break the cycle of fundraising burnout and frustration. She wrote on the white board in her new office: "Work smarter, not harder." This is the eye-opening journey of a fundraiser who was looking for freedom and found it after years of successfully creating and implementing these seven steps.

Public-service executives, both elected and appointed within the public and nonprofit sectors, are retiring at record levels, and the number of Americans reaching age 65 annually will continue to rise over the next decade and is expected to surpass four million in 2020. Finding qualified, motivated leaders to fill vital public-service positions will challenge the public and nonprofit sectors. Unfortunately, recent studies show that few proactive steps are being taken by public-service organizations to plan for the next generation.

Jimmy LaRose's passion for people who give has inspired philanthropists around the world to change the way they invest in nonprofits. His belief that donors are uniquely positioned to give charities what they truly need, leadership more than money, is the basis for his work with individuals, governments, corporations and foundations, in the US, Europe, Asia, and Middle East. Jimmy, in his role as author, speaker, corporate CEO, and nonprofit CEO champions all of civil society's vital causes by facilitating acts of benevolence that bring healing to humanity.

During the next 20 years, more than $500 billion is expected to pour into the philanthropic sector. Some of it will come from retiring baby boomers, but even more will come from newly rich Silicon Valley billionaires. Since 2006, the idea of "giving while living" has grown in its appeal such that many philanthropic donors now expect not just to give money during their lifetimes, but to create organizations or ventures - some for profit, others not for profit - whose missions are expected to be completed within the lifetime of the donors.

This book details a path to launching a successful nonprofit organization. Many tips are included such as how to choose a structure, incorporated or unincorporated, whether to seek 501(c)(3) status or not and why, how to secure a documentary or reality television show, grant opportunities and grant-writing tips, and how to get media exposure as well as fundraising tips.

Success in business demands the effective management of people. James C. Morgan, who for nearly three decades led the high-tech powerhouse Applied Materials to both financial success and to the designation as one of America's most admired companies and best places to work, provides a simple, straightforward set of principles and tips that he says can help anyone be a better manager. Rich in stories and practical examples, it's a must-listen for those seeking a timeless and proven management manual.

Mission Driven: Moving from Profit to Purpose aims to help the jobseeker - whether a student, a mid-career professional or a retiring Baby Boomer - take advantage of the many career opportunities burgeoning in the non-profit sector by answering these questions and more: Is now the right time for me to transition into the nonprofit sector? Will my skills transfer to the nonprofit sector? How do I even begin to move from the corporate to nonprofit sector?

In How to Fundraise: 9 Steps to Asking for Support for Nonprofits, you'll learn the fundamentals of fundraising. This book covers a variety of topics including why fundraising is important, identifying your target demographic of givers, and building the right fundraising team to make your campaign successful. We'll learn many things such as how to set smart goals when fundraising, establishing financial budgets, and how to connect to influencers.

A toolkit of proven strategies and practices for building capacity and creating transformation. Recent years have seen a proliferation of information on how to make change in business, in social and environmental movements, and on a more personal scale. But, even with all this attention, two out of three change efforts fail to achieve their desired result. How can you make your own effort buck this trend?

After years of being told to emulate the corporate world, not-for-profit CEOs like Nancy Lublin now find the shoe on the other foot. Tough times have forced businesses to slash their headcount, marketing budgets, and other resources. Managers at small startups and Fortune 100 companies alike are now expected to do more with less - but how? No one is more qualified to answer that question than the leaders who always thrive on a shoestring.

Pitman walks you through the how and why of social media. He gives you tips and an outline for starting a social media strategy and shows how to get your website up and running on a shoe-string budget. Then he shows you how email, blogging, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and other social media tools fit into your strategy. He even shows you how to learn all these new tools and still stay sane.

The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive’s quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books What’s happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of 35, Wood quit a lucrative career to found the nonprofit Room to Read. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the Andrew Carnegie of the developing world", he strove to bring the lessons of the corporate world to the nonprofit sector - and succeeded spectacularly.

For small organizations, public relations may feel like a luxury to be indulged in at some point in the distant future. Author Jennifer Farmer argues you don't need a multi-million dollar budget to have a successful public relations program.