Mission-Based Management: Leading Your Not-for-Profit In the 21st Century (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series)

The only nonprofit management book you must have-in an exciting new edition As a nonprofit manager, you have to be more effective and more efficient than ever to win funding and support to ensure your organization pursues its mission, meets community needs, and maintains its budget, while juggling the demands of funders, clientele, boards, staff, and community. This Third Edition of Mission-Based Management provides comprehensive, hands-on guidance that addresses your unique concerns as a nonprofit manager and policy-maker Addresses the effects of SOX, organizational transparency, new technologies, technology planning, and marketing in today's environment Is written by a nationally recognized expert who has trained thousands of nonprofit managers in hundreds of seminars on the best practices in nonprofit management Includes in each chapter a recap and a list of questions for group discussion More than ever before, as a nonprofit manager, you want and need practical guidance on how to do your job and run your organization more effectively and efficiently. And more than ever before, Mission-Based Management, Third Edition provides the definitive answer.

It is a fascinating and exciting time to be in the nonprofit world. There are more challenges, more opportunities, and more ways to respond to the increasing community needs that are at your door. As a nation and as a planet, nonprofits are necessary more than ever. You want to take your mission to a new level and Mission-Based Management, Third Edition will help you, your board, and your staff get there.

This significantly updated edition of this classic expands on the invaluable hows and whys of not-for-profit empowerment covered in the Second Edition to offer highly effective new ideas and new criteria for success in today's increasingly competitive nonprofit terrain.

This Third Edition of Mission-Based Management provides comprehensive, hands-on guidance, addressing:

• The unique concerns of today's managers in nonprofit organizations

• A refreshed set of priorities for the mission-based manager

• Revised characteristics of a successful mission-based organization

• Updated predictions for the next ten years

• A new chapter on ethics, accountability, and transparency addressing organizational transparency, the effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, new technologies, technology planning, and disaster planning

• Updated discussion questions at the end of each chapter, allowing you to generate better conversations with your staff and board about which parts of the book most apply to your organization's unique needs

As a leader of a twenty-first century nonprofit, you have to concern yourself with many differing and conflicting needs and demands, those of your funders, the people you serve, your board, staff, community, and peers. Mission-Based Management, Third Edition reveals how top-quality not-for-profits really run and how to ensure that your organization is one of the ones that works, both this year and throughout the twenty-first century.

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Offers ideas for managing a not-for-profit organization in such areas as the mission statement, staff, the board of directors, marketing, financial empowerment, and the planning process. The second edition adds a chapter on using computers, the Internet, and wireless communications within the organization. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Introduction Where we were, where we are, where we're going What works : the characteristics of a successful not-for-profit The mission is the reason Ethical, accountable and transparent A businesslike board of directors Leading your people Embracing technology for mission Creating a social entrepreneur Developing a bias for marketing. This volume offers managers of non-profit organizations guidance on how to do their jobs efficiently and run their organisations more effectively. It shows how managers can change from charity administrator to mission-based manager Much has changed since the second edition came out in 2000. Nonprofits are much more competitive, managed care has taken hold at the state and federal level, and radical changes in information technology have occurred.