By Berit Lakey, George Lakey, Rod Napier & Janice Robinson

At last, for directors, board members, staffers and volunteers -- a guide for improving nonprofit groups! This book weaves together theory, experience and context to help leaders deal creatively with the full range of organizational issues. This practical toolkit will help you build diversity, turn your board into a more valuable resource, improve morale, supervise more effectively, banish boring meetings, handle conflict better and much more. 224 pages.

(each file is a little under 2.5MB)

	Chapters 1-4, including the cycle of social movements in relation to your organization, power and empowerment in social movements, the social milieu that translates into social movements, and dilemmas of growth in your group.
	Chapters 5-9, including choosing and inventing your orgnaizational structure, setting up and working with a board of directors, dealing with issues of authority and control, incorporating strategic planning, and creating productive meetings.
	Chapters 10-15, including supervising staff and volunteers, developing and maintaining morale, developing stregnth through diversity, using negotiating skills, and working sustainably for the long run.

Although the book is out of print in English at the moment, is has been published in Arabic in Cairo and in06 the Serbian edition was published in Belgrade. Organizational development consultants have used parts of chapters as handouts in their work, and some organizational leaders have told us they keep the book in their bookshelf adjoining their desks.

The book grew out of a consultation organized by Center for Change with a diverse group of veteran organizers in the activist and nonprofit world, and is partly based on long, in-depth interviews with them. The authors of the book themselves have led nonprofits and have considerable organizational consulting experience.

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