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This book providesguidance on working effectively with your manager, including tips and techniques on where to focus your energy.

This shortguide will help you to understand what your decisions aremeant to achieve. It looks at the factors that influence the quality of thosedecisions and outlines the key actions to take in making the decision,implementing it and learning from it.

Trying to understand your charity's finances is enough to keepyou awake at night. This no-nonsense guide unpacks the jargon, the processes and the systems that makes the world of charity finance such a tricky one to navigate.

This book shows you how you can set a charity investment policy and think clearly about your financial goals and measures of success. It will help you make sensible and well-informed investment decisions and, ultimately, empower your charity to do more with its valuable resources.

Finding new grant-makers is a time-consuming and intricate business. The Guide to New Trusts takes the legwork out of the process to help you beat a short path to new funders who might support your cause.

The Porcupine Principle is your unique companion that provides thought-provoking insight into the art of fundraising and also a fresh and engaging take on how to be an outstanding fundraiser. Invaluable for all voluntary and paid fundraisers, this book will make you reflect deeply on how and why you fundraise.

Inbox management can be the bane of your working life. If you are not careful, it can quickly become your main task and push aside the truly valuable work that you do. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Networking can fill you with trepidation if you are new to it, or complacency if you have been doing it for too long. Either way working at it and taking it seriously every time can pay dividends for you and your organisation.

Advising Philanthropists explores the developing role of philanthropy advisor, the practicalities involved in the job and the wide range of skills and knowledge needed to start and excel at working with donors.

The Guide to New Trusts takes the legwork out of the process to help you beat a short path to new funders all registered in 2022/23who might support your cause.

Grants fundraising has been the mainstay of income for charities for many years making up around GBP3 billion of annual voluntary income in the UK alone. This guide shows you how to maximise the value of this area of fundraising for your charity.

What are vision, mission and objectives? Not a trick question but as the distinctions are befuddling to many and are fundamental to understanding your organisation, you'll want to get them right. This book will help you to understand the difference between these concepts, why each matters and how to develop them within your organisation.

This guide shows that increased diversity offers so many advantages to forward-looking organisations including improved performance, greater creativity, a wider perspective and increased legitimacy and accountability. It will be invaluable for all charitable boards passionate about improving diversity and thereby organisational effectiveness.

This book is your indispensable aid to setting your fundraising strategy. It shows you how to: * Understand the internal and external fundraising environment * Identify your strategic objectives and key audiences * Structure your tactics * Track, measure and control your plan * Avoid strategic wear-out

The guide includes details on companies' giving strategies and advice on how to identify those companies most likely to support your organisation. It also contains a full description of each company's community activities and a separate section on around 130 corporate grant-making charities

Becoming a charity trustee allows you give back to a cause that you care passionately about, but the role could come with personal benefits too - boosting your health, happiness, confidence and career prospects. How To Become a Charity Trustee is a practical toolkit for charity trustee volunteering that gives clear guidance on how to get started.

Practical Project Management is a realistic and easy-to-follow guide to managing projects for voluntary organisations

Being knowledgeable and experienced as a trustee is important, but having the ability to interact effectively with fellow board members is where good governance really starts. With chapters themed by different ABBA tunes and with frank real-life examples firmly to the fore, Debra Allcock Tyler delivers practical advice straight from the shoulder.

The leading title on the subject for over 14 years (previously called Essential Volunteer Management) and the 'go to' resource for volunteer managers and personnel officers alike. With the involvement of new third author, UK volunteering expert Rob Jackson, the remit of this new edition has been broadened and extended.

CIOs are a fundamentally new legal form for charities in England & Wales, under the Charities Act 2006. Registration of new CIOs is now due to be possible from mid-2009. This book is intended to provide the full range of practical guidance needed by voluntary sector practitioners to establish new CIOs or to convert existing charities to CIOs.

A guide for culture and heritage organisations that wish to create, sustain and increase recurring income from individual donors. This book provides information on how to go about improving fundraising from individual donors, and an understanding of what is needed to make it work, in terms of people, techniques and mechanisms, and relationships.

Community Fundraising is one of the oldest and most common forms of fundraising and yet in spite of this there is surprisingly little written about this area of fundraising. This book fills that gap.

The Guide to Educational Grants contains over 800 sources of non-statutory financial help for people in education, offering a total of around GBP55 million each year to the people you work with.