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235 really practical toolkits, templates and guides for nonprofit and NGO leaders, and the consultants and funders who support them. A mix of the classics and newer methods.
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Hiring a Strategic Planning Consultant
A short essay for nonprofit leaders about to engage a strategy consultant. It sets out 4 distinct purposes for strategy work, depending on whether the need comes from inside the organisation or from shifts outside it, and whether the audience for the strategy is internal or external. It then explains how to find, choose and work with a consultant who fits that purpose, including how to build skills in internal staff.
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Working with Consultants
A short set of answers to the questions nonprofits and funders ask most often before and during a consulting engagement, from the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation's Working with Consultants series. It covers what consultants do, how to find and select one, solo practitioner or firm, what to expect to pay, how to keep a project on track and on budget, how much staff time it takes, what changes when a foundation pays for the consultant, who owns the reports, and what to do when the work is not going well.
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Fundraising for Social Change
A 496-page how-to handbook for small and mid-sized nonprofits that want to build a broad base of individual donors, written with racial, economic and climate justice groups in mind. It covers fundraising infrastructure, hiring a development director, working with consultants and coaches, budgeting and planning, and handling financial trouble. Spotlight sections carry reflections from working fundraisers. Teachers get a free instructor's manual and online extras.
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