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* Winner of the 2015 Axiom Business Book Awards Bronze Medal for Philanthropy/Nonprofits. Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits introduces nonprofit managers to the basic concepts of project management and provides dozens of templates to help you quickly implement practices to effectively manage your limited resources, financial and volunteer. The book emphasizes using appropriate project management practices, those that are not burdensome but rather agile in their approach. In keeping with this theme, the book explores how you can use social media to assist in the management of time-sensitive projects. You will learn how to apply just enough project management to: Be an active leader and a superior project manager; Respond with agility to change and the unexpected; Focus efforts on what truly matters; Recruit and engage a new generation of volunteers; Build a framework that ensures project success; Keep all stakeholders involved with the project satisfied.The book also addresses nonprofit governance and shows you how project portfolio management can be used to assist in communicating with boards of directors and other governing entities when crucial resource decisions need to be made. Finally, real-world case studies on project planning, portfolio management, and volunteer-managed projects will show you how others have achieved project
Contents
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction by Pamela Puleo, Executive Director, Concord Hospital Trust Part 1: Why Now? 1. Global Economic Impacts on Your Nonprofit 2. The Changing Nature of Volunteerism 3. Your Nonprofit in a Shrinking World Part 2: Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits 4. Nonprofit Projects 5. Project Management Practices 6. Planning, Executing, Planning Some More 7. Becoming an Agile Nonprofit 8. The Superior Project Manager 9. Using Technology in Your Nonprofit Projects Part 3: Volunteer Engagement in Project-based Nonprofits 10. Managing Volunteers 11. Recruiting and Retaining Reliable Volunteers 12. Five Rules of Effective Volunteer Engagement Part 4: Governance in Project-based Nonprofits 13. Project Management Office Functions 14. Leveraging Your Project Portfolio 15. The Role of Your Board and Other Project Sponsors Going Forward References Index About the Author
