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Catch up on research and best practices from the top scholars and professionals in the field. Find out more about the latest sector issues in Capacity Building (Vol. 5) Accountibility and Change (Vol.6) and Fostering Sustainability (Vol.7).

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Volume 8: Changing the Way Nonprofits Operate
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What's In a Name Branding Comes to the Nonprofit World
Going through a branding process can help nonprofits to both increase awareness among consumers and donors and boost internal morale. After making a case for the advantages of branding, David Vinjamuri outlines eight steps for branding a nonprofit organization.

Leading While Learning in a Time of Tumultuous Change
Richard A. Bobbe, Richard P. Dina, and Philip M. Mickulas describe the steps that led to a culture change from an organization with loose accountability to one that is results oriented and focused on continuous improvement.

A Framework for Analyzing Nonprofit Value Added: The Case of Junior Achievement of Rochester
Using a case study of Junior Achievement of Rochester, Laurie Mook, Betty Jane Richmond, and Jack Quarter show how to provide a fuller picture of the impact of an organization by including in accounting statements the value of the resources provided by an organization’s volunteer workforce.

A Diagnostic Model for Assessing Nonprofits And Their Organizational Effectiveness
Tim Lannan presents a diagnostic model for assessing the extent to which a nonprofit is positioned to successfully interact with and change its environment. He explores the importance of seven key elements that can be used to assess how well a nonprofit is using its critical resources effectively to advance its mission.

Creating Equity Equivalent Plans in Nonprofits
Providing employees with incentive pay can have a variety of benefits for nonprofits, both economically and substantively. Corey Rosen and Sam Shah describe the various incentive programs that have application in nonprofits and then show how they work in a case study of a mid-size organization.

The Consultant and Strategic Planning: When Inclusion Matters
Mike Burns presents a case study of a strategic planning process through the eyes of a consultant asked to serve a very large nonprofit that ranks inclusion of board, staff, members, and others as an important measure of the planning process’  success.

Book Review
Finally, Laurel Molloy reviews a new book about outcome measurement approaches that can help practioners develop more accountable programs.

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Volume 7: Fostering Sustainability
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Getting Down to the Details: Conceptualizing Organizational Sustainability in a Changing Economy
Marilyn Struthers, in her study of nonprofits in Canada, identifies practices and capacities that help sustain organizations. Besides having diverse strategies for resource development, key to an organization’s sustainability is whether the leadership develops a flexible organization with the capacity to both reflect on and change their practices and to move creatively toward opportunities without mission drift.

Playing for Keeps: Results of a Study on Retaining Volunteers over Time
Joy Turnheim Smith sought to discover what contributes to volunteer retention. Her survey results show that long-term volunteer commitment happens more often in organizations where there is a clear connection between activities and mission and where the volunteers are used for public relations and development work.

Financial Vulnerability of Charitable Organizations: Lessons from Research
Dwight V. Denison and Angela Beard offer a continuum of financial vulnerability. Using the continuum, nonprofit managers can identify and correct weaknesses before their organizations reach a crisis or failure.

More Eggs, More Baskets: A Process for Generating, Screening and Selecting New Revenue-generating Ideas for Nonprofit Organizations and Associations
Jim Thalhuber describes a process for effectively eliciting, evaluating, and selecting the most helpful ways to deal with economic challenges.

In Times of Shrinking Resources: Paucity Management Practices in Australian Nonprofit Human Service Organizations
Regine Wagner and Nigel Spence, in order to gain insight into how nonprofit human service organizations are dealing with the current economic situation, conducted five studies of paid staff in 166 organizations. The results led to the identification of what they call paucity management: strategies used by managers and workers to operate effectively and ethically under conditions of resource poverty.

Making the Most of the Internal Interim Directorship
Robert I. Goler surveyed interim directors to discover how organizations can make the most of an interim directorship and take advantage of the capacity building opportunity presented by an executive transition.

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