Joan Garry's Guide to Nonprofit Leadership: Because the World Is Counting on You

ISBN-13: 9781119730484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str.

Joan Garry

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Preface to the Second Edition ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction xix Chapter 1 The Superpowers of Nonprofit Leadership 1 A Quiz 3 You're Not on Top of Anything 7 What Do I Do with All This? 11 What Was This Quiz Really About? 16 The Five Key Superpowers 17 The Real Power of Leadership 22 Chapter 2 You've Got to Get Me at Hello 23 Tell Me About Your Organization 27 In the Lobby -- The Mission Statement 27 In the Elevator -- the Pitch 29 Step Off the Elevator and Work the Room 31 Two Universal Challenges 31 A Compelling Story 35 Two More Examples for Emphasis 38 Practice, Kid, Practice 40 Chapter 3 Copilots in a Twin-Engine Plane 43 The Ideal Board Chair Profile 46 Recruiting the Ideal Board Chair 47 The Five-Star Board Chair Checklist 50 The Telltale Signs of Wrong 52 Playing the Hand You're Dealt 53 Get It Right From the Start 54 Who Decides? 58 Chapter 4 Why Boards Matter 65 The Real Problem with Boards 66 The Big Why 67 We've Got the "Why"; Now on to the "What" 68 The Ten Basic Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards 68 How a Typical Board Operates 69 The Four Deadly Sins of Dysfunctional Boards 72 How Did We Get Here? 75 Get It Right from the Start 77 Transforming the Board You Have 80 Igniting Your Board 84 Put It All Together and What Do You Get? 92 Chapter 5 The Key Is Not in the Answers. It's in the Questions 93 The Power of Deleting a Word 93 The Power of Inquiry 95 We're All in This Together 97 Start at the Very Beginning 99 A Mission Sniff Test 101 What Success Looks Like 103 Big Dreams, Big Challenges, and Small Budgets 110 10 Final Words of Advice to Keep Handy 112 Chapter 6 You Can Do This 115 I Just Can't 118 Yes, You Can 120 Yes, You Will Screw It Up 123 Case Study: Girl Scouts and Those Damned Thin Mints 126 The Board Can Take the Lead on Fundraising 132 Building a Culture of Fundraising in Your Organization 135 Saving the Most Important Lesson for Last 138 Chapter 7 Managing the Paid and the Unpaid 145 Managing in 3D 148 Having a Voice: Decision-Making 150 Having a Voice: Ownership 154 The Missing Piece: Clearly Defined Roles and Goals 157 What About the Unpaids? 159 The Clash of the Type A's 162 Group, Team, or Family? 165 Retreats Are Nonnegotiable 169 My Retreat Recipe 169 Keeping the Keepers On the Bus 173 Supervising and Evaluating the Executive Director 175 Two Things Everyone in Your Organization Wants 177 Chapter 8 The Small and the Mighty 179 What I Bet You Don't Know 180 Not All the Same Rules Apply 182 Nonprofit Founders 183 The Superpowers of the Small Nonprofits 186 The Kryptonite of the Small Nonprofits 189 Getting Unstuck and Scaling Up 190 Three Big Moves (Not Priorities) 193 Imagine 201 Chapter 9 When It Hits the Fan 203 How Are We Defining Crisis? 207 When The Light At The End of the Tunnel is An Oncoming Train 208 Building A Crisis Management Plan 209 Now You Are Set For When It Hits The Fan, Right? 213 The Dognapping That Wasn't 215 Is A Crisis Preventable? 217 What Crisis Management Should Look Like 218 Financial Crises And Layoffs 220 The Main Thing 226 Chapter 10 Hello, I Must Be Going 229 Are These Folks Good at Their Jobs? 232 Board Chair Red Flags and Accountability 236 When the Staff Leader Isn't Leading 241 The Five-Star Staff Leader Calls It Quits 249 Making a Great Hire 252 The On-Deck Circle 255 Setting a New Executive Director Up to Succeed 256 What Leaders Do During Vulnerable Times 260 Chapter 11 You Are the Champions 263 Bibliography 269 Index 275

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JOAN GARRY is a "rock star" in nonprofit leadership- a strategic advisor and coach sought out by multi-million dollar nonprofits and the founder of the Nonprofit Leadership Lab, an online membership site offering thousands of leaders of small nonprofits the tools and support they need to succeed. From her role on the management team that launched MTV to her leadership of GLAAD, one of the largest LGBT organizations in the country, Joan offers insights on leadership and management and is a fierce advocate and champion for every staff and board leader working to affect change in the world. She is recognized as one of the top experts on nonprofit leadership in the world.