Böcker av Melissa Newman

Managing Stakeholder Relationships in Nonprofits provides practical information, rooted in Organizational Behavior theory, for the effective and successful management of nonprofit organizations ad key stakeholder groups. The book enables the reader to identify the ways in which application of management principles and theory varies between nonprofit and for-profit organizations. It also offers a path to develop the skills necessary to lead a nonprofit, enact organizational change and create strategic plans, as well as recognize and engage with revenue mechanisms. Using case studies and narrative examples the book provides the basis for the key skills including marketing, accounting, entrepreneurship, governance, fundraising and of course leadership and management. Structured around the key themes of staff, volunteers, donors, and community, topics include: diversity, ethics, decision-making, culture, conflict, volunteer engagement, fundraising and stewardship, grants, foundations, PR, lobbying and government relations, and others.This book is ideal for college students undertaking a nonprofit management course.

An invitation to the private world of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, one of America's most iconic couples, in a lavishly illustrated oversize photo book affectionately curated by their daughter Melissa Newman. Their love story is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman became not only movie stars and stage actors, but also artistic collaborators, political activists, and philanthropists whose legacies are expansive and enduringly modern.

Eighty-seven-year-old Viola Garland has secrets that have tormented her for over sixty years. She has remained silent to protect her family. When human remains are discovered at a Rayes County building site, a choice Viola made as a young woman hides no more. The lie has kept the family disjointed but Viola knows the truth will surely destroy it. What is unearthed shakes the family foundation leaving those behind wondering who they are and how they fit into the only family they've ever known.Set in the 1936 rural south, Sister Blackberry is a story about women, who are friends, sisters, mothers, daughters, and granddaughters, and how their relationships are affected by secrets, a lifetime of omissions and outright lies from the past.