Recently Released Books

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Losing Your Executive Director Without Losing Your Way: The Nonprofit’s Guide to Executive Turnover (2004)
Carol Weisman and Richard I. Goldbaum; Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (www.josseybass.com), 158 pages
The authors help guide the nonprofit board through the perils of replacing an executive director from start to finish, with their “Seven Components of Successful Transition Management.”

Getting Funded: The Complete Guide to Writing Grant Proposals (4th Edition) (2003)
Mary Hall and Susan Howlett; Continuing Education Press (www.cep.pdx.edu), 174 pages
The authors of this fourth edition of Getting Funded guide the reader through the proposal development, writing and submission process.

The Nonprofit Mergers Workbook Part II—Unifying the Organization after a Merger (2004)
La Piana Associates, Inc.; Amherst H. Wilder Foundation (www.wilder.org), 230 pages
This workbook, a sequel to The Nonprofit Mergers Workbook Part I—Considering, Negotiating, and Executing a Merger, helps answer the question of how to make mergers work.

The Nonprofit Board Member’s Guide to Lobbying and Advocacy (2004)
Marcia Avner; Amherst H. Wilder Foundation (www.wilder.org), 128 pages
Whether the organization is large or small, locally or nationally focused, struggling or prospering, this book aims to help the board in an effect to lobby and advocate for issues deemed important.

Community Visions, Community Solutions: Grantmaking for Comprehensive Impact (2003)
Joseph A. Connor and Stephanie Kadel-Taras; Amherst H. Wilder Foundation (www.wilder.org), 107 pages
The aim of this book is to help funders achieve community goals. The book presents many ways in which funders can spur action and attain results in communities.

The New Effective Voluntary Board of Directors: What It Is and How It Works (2003)
William R. Contrad, Jr.; Swallow Press (http://www.ohiou.edu/oupress/swallowbooks.HTM), 229 pages
This book presents a “how-to” for those working on, for, or with boards of directors in nonprofit organizations. Conrad takes the reader through the steps for a nonprofit board of directors to work effectively.

Benchmarking for Nonprofits: How to Measure, Manage, and Improve Performance (2004)
Jason Saul; Amherst H. Wilder Foundation (www.wilder.org), 112 pages
Benchmarking—the ongoing process of measuring an organization against leaders—can help stimulate innovation, increase impact, decrease costs, raise money, inspire staff, impress funders, engage the board, and sharpen the organization’s mission. The book provides a strategic, step-by-step approach to benchmarking.