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Help Wanted: Effective Leaders
By: Brian Walsh, 03/19/04
Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations, by Ronald E. Riggio and Sarah Smith Orr, Kravis Leadership Institute, Hardcover - 320 pages, November 2003, Jossey-Bass.
As readers of this newsletter no doubt already know, nonprofits no longer have the luxury of being supplementary. As governments face budget cutbacks and nonprofits expand both in number and in reach, their impact on society is becoming more and more significant. Nonprofits are becoming equal partners with both government and the private commercial sector in helping to solve society's most pressing issues. They are no longer home to mere charity work, but are now increasingly more responsible for providing society with essential services. As society depends more and more on the nonprofit sector, it becomes increasingly important for nonprofits to be effective and properly run. This requires strong leadership.
In "Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations", editors Ronald E. Riggio and Sarah Smith Orr assemble an impressive collection of articles by prominent academics, nonprofit professionals, and experts on leadership. The book is the product of a two-day event, the twelfth annual Kravis-de Roulet Leadership Conference, held in 2002 at Claremont McKenna College. The conference brought together leadership scholars, experts in nonprofit issues, and practitioners and leaders of nonprofit organizations to discuss and explore various issues associated with nonprofit leadership.
A great leader can mean the difference between a successful nonprofit organization with enormous social impact and one that may have an important mission but ultimately fails. There are many important issues that today's nonprofits must consider, from mission articulation to program assessment to infrastructure capacity building. However, the development of effective leadership should not be overlooked because the right leadership is crucial to any other nonprofit endeavor.
As this book proves, effective leadership is just as important in the nonprofit sector as it is in the corporate and governmental sectors. Nonprofit organizations are facing significant challenges. As Frances Hesselbein puts it, "The greatest challenge of this nonprofit century is to provide the leadership, the competence, and the management that will determine the quality and the performance of the twenty-first-century society. This is the big picture of our work and our challenge today and the significance of the social sector organization."
"Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations" is not meant to be a step-by-step manual or handbook for leaders. Rather, it serves as a guidebook to help the reader explore a wide range of issues facing the nonprofit sector. Since the book is a collaboration of many different contributors, it does not have to be read chronologically from cover to cover. Instead, the reader can determine which chapters and articles are most relevant for them. The book covers a variety of topics, from board leadership development to increasing the organizational capacity of organizations. With a mixture of theory and real-world examples, this book should be a useful tool for people in all segments of the nonprofit sector - heads of organizations, board members, volunteers, and scholars.
As the book makes clear, society must take seriously the importance of capable leadership for nonprofits. Just as effective leadership is fundamental in the corporate and political worlds, the nonprofit sector needs to increase its capacity to recruit, develop and support leaders who are able to combine practical management expertise, passion for a cause, and a coherent vision for their organization.
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"Although nonprofits have adopted a team approach in program delivery and even management, many nonprofits have not used this same successful approach in fundraising. This friendly guide argues for creating a fundraising team that involves board members, executive staff, line staff, and volunteers and gives examples of how such teams can operate effectively. Along the way, the author makes fundraising seem less mysterious and intimidating, and lead the reader to feel confident and enthusiastic about creating a successful fundraising team--no small achievement."--Jan Masaoka, executive director, CompassPoint Services
Many nonprofits rely on a lone staff member or volunteer to raise the money they need to sustain or grow their programs. In this insightful resource, leading fundraiser Mim Carlson presents a practical approach to involving the entire organization in fundraising. In doing so, she helps board members, executive directors, and development directors turn their staff and volunteers into a cohesive team with clearly defined goals, specific roles, joint accountability, diverse talents and skills, and strong leadership.
In Team-Based Fundraising Step by Step, Carlson draws on popular team-building theory and successful techniques--as well as on her years of fundraising experience--to offer a fresh framework for helping teams become more unified in their fund development activities. She argues that individuals who act alone cannot make the most of fundraising strategies and instead advises readers to include the board of directors, the executive director, staff, and other volunteers in strategic planning and development.
This practical, step-by-step guide shows readers how to develop and implement a whole-organization approach. Providing both a rationale for this novel approach and illustrations of how it has produced successful results, Carlson offers important tools for effective collaboration:
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At last, nonprofit managers, board members, development professionals, and fundraisers at all levels of experience have a dynamic guide to making the most of fundraising opportunities through effective collaboration.
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Elgar in Manuscript
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Mark it with a Stone
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He stayed alive while his family perished, working as a slave laborer,and surviving torture at Auchwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
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The book that made me think...........2004-03-05
This great book about a Jewish man named Joseph Horn who grew up as the Holocaust was happening, is most defiantly a must read book. Since he is only a child when the Holocaust first starts, he witnesses horrible deaths of almost more than six thousand Jewish people by the German Nazis. He is one of the few Jewish people who survived through the whole Holocaust. Throughout the book he loses his family, friends and dearest companions to the Holocaust. Determined to see his family again he fights to survive the Holocaust. Joseph also operates and explains how the Jews were treated and what they had to do in the holding camps and ghettos to survive.
Throughout the book Joseph goes into great detail about how he feels and the abuse he goes through. What he describes really makes stop and think about what is being told. Very emotional feeling is put into the story and it can draw you into it so much that you can picture what has happened. The moments of happiness he received while he was in the Holocaust would be dreadful for anyone now. Have a piece of bread and a bowl of terrible soup to eat once a day. Still in the end he fights through it and survives.
Really the only problem any reader might come by is the German language and explanations. Some German words are explained as other are not. Same as the names of the camps, some named are explained why they are named a cretin word and some are not. Understanding the words that are explained is not difficult but can be hard to remember or relate to. The words or actions not explained can become confusing but not totally frustrating. Overall this is only a small problem in the book.
I think this book is a very good book for most readers. I would not recommend it to younger ones but the ones who would understand the reading. At first it may start out slow but once you get into it, you begin to wonder if you want to go on. Since the book draws you in so much you want to go on, you can't help it. Well that's what happened to me. Being a small book is also a good thing for me since it goes quickly and keeps me active into the book. Mark It With A Stone is one of the few books that made me think, feel and question a lot of emotional and mental thoughts.
Mark it With a Star.......2000-11-09
Joseph Horn's memoir, Mark it with a Stone, is a sharply etched portrayal of the Holocaust as seen for seven years from inside a series of boxcars and concentration camp factories where workers who broke down were systematically broken down. Rich in irony, Horn's visual imagery of what is was like to be a Holocaust victim makes the whole terrible processing of humans seem almost normal despite his vivid accounts of near-starvation, random murders, beatings, and human callousness beyond beliefs. Horn survived several years as a slave of the Nazis, he believes, so he could tell the world what happened as he saw it. Mark it with a Stone accomplishes that goal using visual descriptions that are absolutely convincing and avoiding the lurid hyperbole that turn up in the average Holocaust story. It's all like a description of a day at school punctuated by chronic overwork, wretched food, and occasional murder. The reader, emotionally attached to the hardships of each and every Jewish person, not only feels he or she is actually there but also emerges as a survivor of the book. Because "Mark it with a Stone" presents itself in such an emotionally attaching and vivid manor, high school or advanced middle school students would find it accessible while adults would read it in a single sitting.
No Doubt about it,Mark this book with a Stone and Five Stars.......2000-02-17
After reading the powerful first hand account,Mark It with A Stone, by Joseph Horn, think of how lucky you are to have a family, food, and a roof over your head. This autobiography takes you along Joseph Horn's journey through Europe and many different concentration camps. He faced death several times and there were times when he'd rather have been dead than alive and suffering. When all the Jews were liberated, he moved to the States. He had to learn how to start over and make a living with few friends and no direct family living. I can assure you that you will not forget such an experience like this one and will learn to teach others of this unfortunate disaster. Knowledge was one concept Horn kept, and hopefully we can all gain more knowledge and use it wisely just like Joseph did, not too long ago! Horn's most interesting aspect was definitely his courage. When you're facing danger, it's hard to act quickly and maturely. Yet, Joseph Horn did this without a problem. Courage is a characterisitic that does not come easily to most people, but Horn demonstrates this several times. To go through the death defying situations that Horn went through, it is evident that courage is needed. Horn was very lucky and benefited from having this important quality that he took with him through life. I highly recommend this book to all young adults and their parents. It's a great book that should be shared with people all around the country. It is very powerful and can be very graphic, so if you're not good at handling these details, then maybe it's not such a good idea. But, we could all learn a lot from Joseph Horn and his story. Regardless of religion, race, or ethnic background, this book should be read by all. If there were only more people with Joseph's courage, strength, wisdom, and compassion, the world would be a better place.
No Doubt about it,Mark this book with a Stone and Five Stars.......2000-02-17
After reading the powerful first hand account,Mark It with A Stone, by Joseph Horn, think of how lucky you are to have a family, food, and a roof over your head. This autobiography takes you along Joseph Horn's journey through Europe and many different concentration camps. He faced death several times and there were times when he'd rather have been dead than alive and suffering. When all the Jews were liberated, he moved to the States. He had to learn how to start over and make a living with few friends and no direct family living. I can assure you that you will not forget such an experience like this one and will learn to teach others of this unfortunate disaster. Knowledge was one concept Horn kept, and hopefully we can all gain more knowledge and use it wisely just like Joseph did, not too long ago! Horn's most interesting aspect was definitely his courage. When you're facing danger, it's hard to act quickly and maturely. Yet, Joseph Horn did this without a problem. Courage is a characterisitic that does not come easily to most people, but Horn demonstrates this several times. To go through the death defying situations that Horn went through, it is evident that courage is needed. Horn was very lucky and benefited from having this important quality that he took with him through life. I highly recommend this book to all young adults and their parents. It's a great book that should be shared with people all around the country. It is very powerful and can be very graphic, so if you're not good at handling these details, then maybe it's not such a good idea. But, we could all learn a lot from Joseph Horn and his story. Regardless of religion, race, or ethnic background, this book should be read by all. If there were only more people with Joseph's courage, strength, wisdom, and compassion, the world would be a better place.
A very moving account of the Holocaust!.......1999-02-08
It is just unbelievable how many times the author survived death. This is an excellent book for everyone interested in the truth about the Holocaust. Joseph Horn tells everything straightout, nothing but the truth. After reading it, you'll be left thinking about it for a very long time, and wondering how he, or anybody, could survive such an ordeal. An extraordinary book.
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Circle With Stone: Exeter's City Walls, 1485-1660
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Circled with Stone is the most comprehensive study to date of the fortifications of an early modern English city. The culmination of some twenty years of archaeological and documentary research, it provides a richly detailed portrait of the ancient system of walls, towers and gates which ringed the city of Exeter during the Tudor and early Stuart periods. The book traces the development of the fortifications over time, explores the many purposes which they served, and shows how they were defended against a series of major attacks: most notably during the Prayer Book rebellion of 1549 and the English Civil War. The text is accompanied by a series of extensive transcripts from Exeter's matchless civic archives, inlcuding two newly-discovered documents relating to the Prayer Book rebellion. The book includes a wealth of illustrations and brings together, for the very first time, colour reproductions of all the early maps of Exeter, as well as a series of specially commissioned photographs of the city walls today. Designed to be accessible to the general reader, as well as to the specialist, Circled with Stone paints a uniquely vivid picture of the role which urban fortifications played in everyday life in one of early modern England's greatest cities.
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Conversing with Stones
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Mark It With a Stone
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