This book is an essential tool to help you grow with yournonprofit organization. Whether you are an executive director,manager, board member, pastor, or key volunteer,the details here will help you achieve so much more.The four overarching areas of what the authors term a“virtuous cycle in nonprofit organization success”—livingthe mission, making good decisions, getting things done,developing your team—emerged from literature searches,focus groups, and surveys to discover objectively whatcritical skills and knowledge are most useful to leaders ofnonprofit organizations.Inside, experts contribute individual chapters in each ofthese four areas. This book can be used as a reference forspecific skills and knowledge in any of these areas. It canalso be used as a text since it covers 16 specific chapterswithin the four major sections and each chapter has a majorcase study, assessment questions, and summaries ofkey concepts.
