Executive Directors Guide
The Guide for Successful Nonprofit Management
By Deborah Linnell, Zora Radosevich and Jonathan Spack
Written for and by nonprofit leaders, the Executive Directors Guide includes:
- Step-by-step instructions
- Case studies
- Checklists
- Tips
- Resources
Nominated for the Terry McAdam Book Award
“A well-written, thoughtful, integrated road map and checklists to the functions that haunt executive director existence.” –Kim Fellner, book review, Grassroots Fundraising Journal
Advice and Insight on Nonprofit Management
The guide includes 13 chapters that can stand alone – and together provide a wealth of knowledge on every aspect of nonprofit executive leadership and management:
- Leadership
- Mission
- Program Development
- Evaluation
- Strategic Planning and Thinking
- Governance
- Fund Development
- Public Relations
- Community Development and Government Relations
- Human Resources
- Financial Management
- Technology Planning
- Managing Change
Each chapter explores in-depth an issue critical to nonprofit management and lays bares the essential principles and questions you need to consider. Plus, it offers practical tools like checklists, and case studies are included.
Sign up for a sample of Chapter 1 which examines Leadership and the topics of:
- The concept of leadership
- Various leadership competencies, styles and models
- Participatory, partnership-based leadership
- The role of self-reflection in effective leaders
- Maintaining a work-life balance that helps you lead successfully