The Nonprofit Collection is located just outside the Indiana Room at the Downtown Branch. Use this collection to support your nonprofit development. Below are a list of titles to curated to help build a successful nonprofit.
Nonprofit Collection
Accounting
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Nonprofits enjoy privileges not available to other organizations. But these privileges come at a price: Nonprofits must comply with special IRS rules and regulations. This book covers what your organization must do to maintain its tax-exempt status.
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The quintessential step-by-step guide to creating and operating a solid and reliable bookkeeping system, relaying must-know information to board members and avoiding unnecessary attention from the IRS. This handy reference guide explains nonprofit accounting in digestible bites. Get the confidence and security you need to build a system which keeps your finances and donations.
Board/Staff/Volunteers
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Practical advice on such vital activities as fundraising, team-building, communications, and management.
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A complete resource for the skills and knowledge needed to excel in your board position. Each chapter leads you to achievement in all aspects of your expected duties. You will learn how to read financial statements, understand various investment strategies, and fundraise and plan events.
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How to build a powerhouse board, create an impressive and sustainable fundraising program, renew your passion for your mission and organization, and become a bigger difference in the world.
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The six attributes of a nonprofit that bring in new supporters and helps you retain them. Stories about nonprofits that consistently draw in and keep donors, volunteers, and staff
Fundraising
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A handy, easy to use handbook that you'll want to have within reach. Ideal for someone starting out their career in fundraising, or someone who wants to bring their charity's digital program up to speed.
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Pagnoni's answers to recurring dilemmas and the choices you must make.
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Rachel's easy approach to building reliable revenue streams for nonprofits works. All you have to do is follow her simple steps to build a loyal donor base that keeps giving—the money will follow!
General
Best practices across the nonprofit sector from industry veterans.
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Tools that leverage leadership and add value to create success.
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Specific, actionable steps readers can take to find, craft, and leverage the stories they already have and aren't telling, teaching them that the moment they take control of their stories, they take control of their businesses and their lives.
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Lynn Malzone Ierardi blends the latest science with her extensive experience to show readers how stories facilitate fundraising.
Grant Writing
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Every essential grantwriting topic: finding funding, writing needs statements, finding or developing evidence-based programs, developing logic models, writing evaluation plans, describing implantation plans, budgeting, sustainability planning, and submission to the funder.
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A framework for you to present your project in a clear and confident style, establish a rapport with funders and succeed with your proposal. It reveals how individuals, non-profits, local governments, and community organizations build bridges with funders.
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The classic book on grant seeking, providing a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for government, nonprofit, and individual grant seekers.
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The myths and truths about grants, the different grant categories, the grant mindset, and the five basic parts of writing a grant.
Social Media/Media
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Everything you need to know to conceptualize, build, and maintain a mobile and social fundraising strategy to dramatically increase donations.
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Your guide for building and carrying out an effective modern media-relations strategy. While there are plenty of other books that offer instruction on media relations, this one is written specifically for those who work for nonprofits and foundations.