Nonprofits Made Easy: The Social Networking Toolkit for Business

by David H. Bangs, The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, David H. Bangs Jr.

Book Overview

The main priority of a non-profit organization is the organization's philanthropic mission. Managers are extremely passionate about furthering the mission, yet they are not often trained in business... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932531734
• ISBN13: 9781932531732
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.6" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A much-needed guide from a for-profit perspective regarding the starting up of nonprofits!

This book is full of wonderful content. Each chapter is well-written and easy to read. What I liked the most about this book is how the author explains business plans and how to create a business plan for a not-for-profit organization. A nonprofit will function at its best if it has sound financial and organizational management. And this book certainly will help an organization's leadership achieve sound management. There are 10 chapters in this tome: 1. Before Startup 2. Starting a Nonprofit 3. Managing People 4. Managing People 5. Managing People 6. Financial Management for Nonprofits 101 7. Strategic Planning 8. Business Planning 9. Raising Money 10. Resources At no point during my reading of the book did I find any discussion about the need for an organization to incorporate if it wants to have tax-exempt status from an IRS standpoint. Thus, there was no discussion of how to go about incorporating. There was a sample corporate by-laws at the end of the book. They were nice to see. I thoroughly enjoyed Chapters 3-6 and 8-10. I would have liked the book better if Chapters 1, 2 and 8 had been consolidated into just two chapters and placed at the beginning of the book. It seemed to me that much of the material in Chapter 2 should have been included in Chapter 1. And Chapter 8 relates intimately to pre-startup days at an organization. I viewed the book as a start-up guide. As such I think Chapter 7 could have been omitted. But it would not hurt to leave it in as a tag-along chapter at the end of the book. All in all, this was a wonderful book that people in leadership roles at nonprofits should seriously consider reading. I highly recommend it. If it had been organized a little better it would have received 5 stars from me.