# How to Manage an Effective Nonprofit Organization

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/how-manage-effective-nonprofit-organization/
- Published: 2005-08-20T16:19:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**From Writing and Managing Grants to Fundraising, Board Development, and Strategic
Planning**

Are you a staff or board member of a nonprofit organization? Do you want your organization
to be excellent? Are you a busy person?

If you answered all three questions in the affirmative, **How to Manage an Effective
Nonprofit Organization** is a one book you will need, one with more than a thousand
practical tips.

It was inspired by thousands of nonprofit agency professionals who have participated
in workshops the author has led for more than twenty years. Each of the nine chapters
includes numerous practical recommendations:

 * Board members will learn how to run effective meetings and get and keep the best
   people on their team.

 * Busy staff members will learn how to maximise opportunities to obtain grant funds
   while minimising the time spent.

 * Grant writers will learn how to prepare better proposals and how to manage the
   funds once they get them.

 * Agencies will learn how to establish an outstanding volunteer program and how
   to form community coalitions that work.

 * And everyone will learn effective strategies to help improve supervisory, personnel,
   and general management skills.

Is it easy to manage an excellent nonprofit organisation? The answer to that questions
is easily “no.”

Agency professionals at every level will find themselves referring to _How to Manage
an Effective Nonprofit Organization_ anytime they have a problem and need helpful,
practical and to-the-point advice from an acknowledged leader in the field.[](https://fundraising.co.uk/books/how-manage-effective-nonprofit-organization/void(0))