Start Your Own Nonprofit Organization: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success (StartUp Series)
Cheryl Kimball
Language: English
Pages: 170
ISBN: 159918527X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This indispensable guide helps you determine if your business idea is nonprofit or for-profit, understand and identify their business mission and vision, staff and run a lean operation, select and manage a board of directors, manage finances to the satisfaction of the IRS, find a location and set up shop, master fundraising, use social media and other cost-effective outreach, and manage sustainability and growth. All startup steps are supported by insider knowledge from successful entrepreneurs, dollar-stretching tips, missteps to avoid, resources, and more.
organization wants to purchase a donor database, what is the best way to fund such a purchase and what kind of purchase arrangement is best for the organization? Secretary A key role of the secretary position is to take notes at meetings and produce minutes. It is helpful to offer the secretary some training in minutes-taking. You want to avoid word-for-word transcription of meetings, but the secretary needs to know to capture the key discussions and decisions of the meeting. It may be
was founded by Komen’s sister, Nancy G. Brinker, who promised her sister she would do everything she could to find a cure for the breast cancer that ultimately took Susan’s life. (The Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization experienced some negative publicity that will be discussed later in this book as an example of how to—or how not to—deal with bad press resulting from decisions or statements made by an organization.) Smaller medical nonprofits are also common. In Colorado, the Roundup
behind-the-scenes search for that huge donor that will be given “naming rights.” The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, The Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico, Rockefeller University in New York, are a few from the endless list of departments and entire schools named after the person who put up the funds to found a school or was a key donor to a specific academic department. Smart Tip When a nonprofit dissolves, remaining assets must be
are many who would argue that the arts are essential to existence, but you get the drift here!) “The arts” encompasses music, fine art, performance art, and literature. Communities of any size often have an abundance of small and medium-sized theatre troupes. The small “city” of Portsmouth, New Hampshire—whose population has never topped 30,000—is a vibrant waterfront city within easy drive north of Boston and has been home to several regional and local theatres for decades. The community seems
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