# New book aims to help non-profits stay sustainable, resilient & relevant

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/10/04/new-book-aims-to-help-non-profits-stay-sustainable-resilient-relevant/
- Published: 2019-10-04T10:43:38+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**[⌊Making a Lasting Difference COVER⌉⌊Making a Lasting Difference COVER⌉[Non-profit 
consultant Graeme Reekie has published _Making a Lasting Difference_: a book exploring
the challenges facing the sector and the capabilities non-profits need to ensure
they can fulfil their mission and purpose.**

In _Making a Lasting Difference_, Reekie sets out the main challenges to survival
and growth faced by non-profit organisations of all shapes and sizes and provides
practical tools they can use to audit their capabilities, identify any shortcomings
in their business strategy and work out how to overcome them, ensuring they have
strategies around each of these five essential capabilities:

 * Involvement – how to generate buy-in from people, communities, staff, board members
   and partners
 * Income generation – how to ensure you take a holistic approach to raising revenue
 * Innovation – how to nourish and encourage incremental innovation
 * Improvement – do your systems and structures inhibit or encourage improvement?
 * Impact measurement – how to monitor, evaluate and measure the difference you 
   are making

The book is available [on Amazon](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Lasting-Difference-Sustaining-organisations/dp/0954150651),
priced £14.99.

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Reekie has 30 years of experience in the UK public and voluntary sectors. Based 
in Scotland, his business Wren and Greyhound specialises in helping non-profit organisations
devise long-term strategies and plans for organisational sustainability and success.
In 2016 he launched the [Lasting Difference](https://www.thelastingdifference.com/)
toolkit: a guide to sustaining organisations and their impact.

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