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The challenges of today and tomorrow demand new ways of leading organizations, building collaborations, and creating communities. Since its premiere issue, the award-winning journal Leader to Leader—published by The Drucker Foundation—has presented the best thinking from leaders for leaders. This recording collects some of the best contributions to the journal from the likes of management pioneer Peter F. Drucker, Southwest Airlines leader Herb Kelleher, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin.

The First Series previews what positive, inclusive, and sustained socioeconomic and environmental transformation entails and why genuine change is as needed now as it is painfully overdue. The author highlights the downsides of the current charitable fund-infatuated model (dubbed the “fundability syndrome”) and exposes the differences between many of today’s superficial light-stroke philanthropy and the posited transformative paradigm.

Do you want to start your own nonprofit organization? Are you unsure of the necessary steps needed to make this a success? If you answered yes to the above questions, you have come to the right place. Once you have finished this book, you will find it easier to start a nonprofit organization.

es mucho más que hacer dinero; tiene que ver con hacer dinero de una forma que difunda acciones, prosperidad y posibilidades a todos los involucrados. Cada transacción de bienes raíces involucra a muchas personas; Casas poderosas se centra en el valor creado para tratar a cada una de esas personas con integridad.

If you are considering getting involved with a nonprofit, whether as an employee, a volunteer, a member of the leadership team, or a board member, you do not want to miss the up-to-date, critical information provided in Generation Giving Back. In a clear, solution-oriented and fun listen, M.S. Mastel has brought 30 years of experience managing nonprofits with real examples and guides so that you can efficiently have meaningful impact on any mission that moves you.

Is entrepreneurship the path for everyone? No. But can anyone, no matter where they come from, become a successful entrepreneur if they choose to? According to Alexandre Mars, the answer is a resounding yes. Serial tech entrepreneur, millionaire and philanthropist Alexandre Mars gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to become an entrepreneur, and one who does good along the way, sharing tricks of the trade he learned over his career building companies (and selling them to the likes of Blackberry and Publicis) in the U.S. and Europe.

Maybe you feel called to lead your own congregation, or to meet a need of an area that’s devoid of access to a house of worship. My friend, you may be a “religious entrepreneur”! A religious entrepreneur is an individual who creates an organization that has a religious mission. Specifically, this book targets those seeking to start a brand-new or transitioning house of worship. Whether this religious organization and house of worship is a church, mosque, temple, synagogue, or any other religious structure, this book is for you.

It's the dawn of a new era. What we have always been told to "do" in order to be successful, valuable, and fulfilled is shifting. Many of us have been well-trained to follow the leader and do what the experts say. Yet, these same leaders and experts don't know any more than we do about what will work in this current time. We are being asked to learn how to be our own master and authority. Looking In provides compelling guidance for today's leader who wants to experience greater self-awareness and confidence to catalyze their true value, purpose, and potency.

You and more than a million charities are competing for a limited pool of funding. Without funding, your mission will flounder. You must raise money. Failure is not an option. That’s enough pressure to make anyone anxious about fundraising. Whatever your role and level of fundraising expertise, Cloudburst is a nonprofit best seller that gives you the tools you need and the mindset required to improve your skills to wisely and fearlessly ask for money in face-to-face settings.

In School Fundraising: So Much More than Cookie Dough, Sandra Pfau Englund, Esq. turns her 20+ years of experience working with nonprofit groups into a comprehensive, easy-to-listen, guide to the profits to be made—and the pitfalls to avoid—volunteering for your school's fundraising group. School Fundraising is a must-have book for school administrators who work with the fundraising groups, and for the volunteers who manage them.

Nonprofit folks, this is it—the last fundraising audiobook you'll ever need. Get That Money, Honey! offers a proven framework to convert conversations into copious dollars, regardless of your current budget. Here, Rhea Wong, a leading nonprofit consultant, reveals the exact methodology she used to transform Breakthrough New York from a meager $200,000 nonprofit into a multi-million-dollar organization. The secret is fairly simple: the right mindset, the right systems, and the right strategies. If you've struggled to raise money for your nonprofit, it's not your fault.

Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) is making a comeback and has made it to the top of the list of most adopted management tools among executives in leading global organizations. As we enter an unprecedented era of economic unpredictability, disruptive technologies, globalization, and fierce competition, companies are increasingly finding themselves in search of money to invest in new initiatives which have caused a resurgence in ZBB as a tool of choice among executives.

Author Beth Rashleigh’s Crisis Proof Leadership uncovers what the best leaders do during times of crises. Too often we think that only the strongest, toughest, most cutthroat leaders thrive in a crisis-filled environment. However, extensive research shows that highly empathetic, focused, values-driven leaders actually keep their teams engaged and thriving more effectively during times of crises.

In 2014, the world was shaken by millions of people undertaking the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on social media. It raised $115 million. In Wake Up Call: Lessons from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge for Nonprofit Social Media, Deb Finch uses the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge as a starting point to demonstrate how small nonprofits can leverage social media to increase donations, awareness, and volunteers. She also shares the poignant story of Melanie St. Croix from her life prior to her diagnosis of ALS through her incredible journey learning how to live with ALS.

Becky Margiotta’s Impact with Integrity: Repair the World Without Breaking Yourself is a call to action, but also an invitation to reclaim your agency and mobilize your creativity in order to enact meaningful, efficient, and effective social change. With authenticity, grit, and grace, Margiotta lays out a proven step-by-step framework for doing the inner work that is necessary for advancing social change.

'I had never seen a cement plant in my life. I had no idea about limestone deposits or the cement industry in Gujarat. And I had never negotiated an industrial agreement. Yet, in the next few weeks, I would need to be ready for a substantive meeting with Gujarat government officials.' The year...

Getting your not-for-profit organization incorporated is typically the first formal step in creating a nonprofit organization. To incorporate your nonprofit, you will need to first file your articles of incorporation with the appropriate state agency. You can achieve that by going to Secretary of State website.

This book defines not-for-profit organizations and how to set up and structure them for success.

The legacy methods of fundraising have either exhausted their efficacy or undergone total extinction. With a brave new economic landscape near at hand, nonprofits are faced with one last ultimatum; level up or evaporate forever! The prior landscape of fundraising has been razed by pandemic, political, and cultural shifts. As a result, nonprofits must adapt their approach to suit the modern paradigm so that they may flourish like never before. Demystifying Fundraising Funnels presents nonprofits with ideas, strategy, and, most importantly, hope.

With an in-depth analysis of how the great business personas of today reached the epitome of success, as well as a comprehensive guide to do it yourself, you can finally understand and master the mindsets that'll make you a great business leader. The road to success is never easy, but with a little persistence and motivation, there's close to nothing you won't be able to do. Leadership is indeed a lifestyle: Outstanding leadership in the workspace starts with making effective changes to your private life.