Nonprofit Kit for Dummies - Softcover

Hutton, Stan; Phillips, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764599097 ISBN 13: 9780764599095

Verlag: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S., 2005

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Starting a nonprofit is one of the most exciting and gratifying adventures that you’ll ever partake in, especially when you seal the deal on your first grant. But like all adventures, running a nonprofit organization is a real challenge.

Nonprofit Kit for Dummies, Second Edition shows you the fun-and-easy way to get your nonprofit up-and-running. It contains savvy advice from the experts on everything from incorporating and managing your nonprofit to unbeatable tactics for raising money and managing public relations. This hands-on, no-nonsense guide is packed with tons of useful information that will give you everything you need to:

• Plan your nonprofit for the community
• Write a buy-in guaranteed mission statement
• Incorporate and apply tax exemption
• Build your board of directors with the right people
• Design a volunteer program
• Have a paid staff run your nonprofit
• Create budgets and financial reports
• Craft the perfect fundraising plan
• Write a great grant proposal
• Raise money from individuals

Included in this must-have resource is a bonus CD-ROM that contains sample grant proposals, over a dozen budget and cash flow projections, multiple fundraising plans to choose from, and a list of indispensable Web resources to keep your nonprofit on track. Nonprofit Kit for Dummies, Second Edition is the ultimate nuts-and-bolts guide to getting your nonprofit off the ground and giving back to your community!

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Stan Hutton became involved in the nonprofit world after co-founding a nonprofit organization in San Francisco. Since that time, he has worked as nonprofit manager, fundraiser, consultant, and writer. He served as executive director of the Easter Seal Society of San Francisco and a fundraiser for Cogswell College. For five years, he wrote for and managed a Web site about nonprofits for About.com. He has worked at the San Francisco Study Center and the Executive Service Corps of San Francisco. He currently is a program officer at the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation.

Frances Phillips is a senior program officer at the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, where she also directs The Creative Work Fund. She also teaches grant writing and creative writing at San Francisco State University. Previously, Frances worked as executive director of Intersection for the Arts and of the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University; and as a partner in the public relations and fundraising firm Horne, McClatchy and Associates. Frances serves on the boards of the California Alliance for Art Education and Grantmakers in the Arts; and she is co-editor of the Grantmakers in the Arts Reader.

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Raise funds, manage your organization ? and change the world!

The fun and easy way® to get your nonprofit up and running!

If you're starting or running a nonprofit, help is here! Nonprofit Kit For Dummies, 2nd Edition gives you the practical tools you need to succeed. It includes savvy advice on everything from incorporating and managing your nonprofit to unbeatable tactics for raising money and managing public relations. This indispensable book-and-CD kit walks you through the processes that allow your nonprofit to make a difference.

Discover how to

• Obtain ? and retain ? nonprofit status
• Choose a great facility
• Recruit paid and volunteer staff
• Budget effectively
• Raise money and visibility
• Write tax reports

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0764599097
• ISBN 13: 9780764599095
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 358
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: WROX; https://www.wiley.com/en-us; ; 111 River Street; Hoboken; NJ; 7030; USA
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar