Building nonprofit capacity : a guide to managing change through organizational lifecycles

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Building Nonprofit Capacity: A Guide to Managing Change Through Organizational Lifecycles; Contents; Acknowledgments; One: Setting the Stage: Change as a Defining Force in the Nonprofit Sector; Lifecycle: A Framework for Initiating, Anticipating, Managing, and Understanding Change; Our Perspective; What's in This Book?; Two: Back to Basics: ""What Is Core""; Defining the ""Core"" in Core Program; The Established Organization in Core Program: Characteristics and Telltale Signs; To Put a Stake in the Ground, You Need a Good Mission; An Organizational Vision as Your Guide to Success

Values MatterBe Sure Your Strategy Is . . . Strategic; Founder's Syndrome . . . Not Just for Founders Anymore; Taking It to the Next Level: The Importance of Trust; Three: Infrastructure/Adolescence; Planning for Organizational Growth; The Role of the Board; Organizational Culture; Four: Maturity/Impact Expansion (MIE); Importance of Resource Development in the MIE Phase; Making the Case; Building Board Accountability in the MIE Phase; Organizational Assessment: The CSE Tool; Impact Expansion and the Question of Scale; Five: Decline; Overview of Decline and the Lifecycle

High-Arc and Low-Arc: How Organizations in the Decline Phase Are AffectedThe Arc During Crisis; Six: Turnaround and Closing; Historical Look at Lifecycle Thought: Closing; The Downward Apex Point; Organizational Turnaround; Closing an Organization; The Mind-Set of Closing Organizations; Seven: Conclusion; Reflections on This Book; Where Do We Go from Here?; Appendix; Notes; The Authors; Index

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