Becoming an Extraordinary Manager or Fundraising for Social Change

Becoming an Extraordinary Manager: The 5 Essentials for Success

Author: Len Sandler

Nearly all managers dream of being inspiring leaders who elicit the most from their people. But while they may understand the skills needed to manage their teams, very few know how to put their knowledge into practice. Now, any manager can get exceptional results and make an important contribution to the organization. Becoming an Extraordinary Manager focuses not just on "understanding" principles of good management, but on taking action. Readers will learn the basic attitude and skills outstanding managers must know, including:

• why it's critical to be interested in, rather than interesting to, their people • the best ways to motivate their team • effective interviewing techniques • conducting a performance review • time management • introducing change • delegation • thinking and acting about their people positively (the self-fulfilling prophecy) • building a high-performance team • retaining top talent • handling performance problems • listening

Lively in style and thorough in content, this is the book that gives every manager a complete guide to avoiding the ordinary and becoming the best.

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Fundraising for Social Change

Author: Kim Klein

Since it was first published in 1988, Fundraising for Social Change has become one of the most widely used books on fundraising in the United States. Fundraising practitioners and activists rely on it for hands-on, specific, and accessible fundraising techniques, and it has become a required text in dozens of college courses around the country. This fifth edition offers the information that has made the book a classic: proven know-how on asking for money, planning and conducting major gifts campaigns, using direct mail effectively, and much more. The book has been significantly changed to include new technology—e-mail, online giving, and blogs—and contains expanded chapters on capital and endowment campaigns, how to feel comfortable asking for money, how to recruit a team of people to help with fundraising, and how to build meaningful relationships with donors. In addition, this essential resource contains new information on such timely topics as ethics, working across cultural lines, and how to create opportunities for fundraising more systematically and strategically.

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This guide for fundraising practitioners and students presents strategies for grassroots organizations (those with budgets of less than $1 million) to establish, maintain, and expand a successful community-based fundraising program. Fundraising consultant Klein describes, for example, fundraising by telephone, planned giving, door-to-door canvassing, and developing a budget. The fourth edition includes new chapters on the relationship of the Development Director and Executive Director, using the Internet, and making a career of social change fundraising. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)