We want to give charities and their leaders access to resources that can grow their organizational effectiveness. Below, you’ll find a few of our favorites.
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Measure What Matters
How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs.
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The Board and the CEO: Seven practices to protect your organization’s most important relationship
In this practical and concise book, David Weekley—chairman of David Weekley Homes and one of America’s most influential philanthropists—and Peter draw from their years of experience to equip other board members and organizational leaders to enter into an impactful, life-giving partnership.
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Rethinking Alumni Programs for Greater Impact
Five common weaknesses of alumni programs and what the organizations running them can do better.
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Big Enough. Simple Enough. Cheap Enough.
Daunting social problems need scalable solutions. Here’s how to know if you’ve got one.
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“From Success to Significance” (Risk Only Money)
Hotel magnate Jack DeBoer fills Risk Only Money with all of the lessons that he had to learn the hard way. The things he wishes someone had told him years ago. Conveyed in DeBoer s bold, straight-from-the-hip manner. DeBoer believes there are things we should never jeopardize: family, reputation, self-respect, friendships, health.
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Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization?
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Nonprofit Lifecycles: Stage-Based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity
Nonprofit Lifecycles: Stage-based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity weighs in with a developmental perspective on operational capacity and its relationship to increased organizational health. Offering practical insights and thought-provoking case illustrations, this book presents seven lifecycle stages and the predictable tasks, challenges, and inevitable growing pains that accompany each.