Mission-Based Management: Leading Your Not-For-Profit in the 21st Century (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series) [Hardcover]

Peter C. Brinckerhoff (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 27, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0471390135 | ISBN-13: 978-0471390138 | Edition: 2

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE "BEST NEW NONPROFIT BOOK"!-The Alliance for Nonprofit Management

This practical, comprehensive, and easy-to-use workbook provides key tools to help managers of nonprofits ensure that their organization pursues its mission, meets the changing needs of the community-and has enough money to make ends meet-while also satisfying the demands of funders, clientele, boards, staff, and bankers. Designed to equip nonprofit managers and other nonprofit workers with the guidance they need to do their jobs and run their organizations more effectively and efficiently, this workbook is also a hands-on tool to help implement the ideas in the author's highly regarded Mission-Based Management. Filled with indispensable checklists, worksheets, forms, displays, and hands-on suggestions, and including a companion CD-ROM, the Workbook will show you how to smoothly and successfully:
* Hone your organization's core competencies
* Focus your resources
* Improve overall mission capability
* Get the most out of group discussions
* Utilize self-assessment tools


... and much more to help you and all involved help your organization achieve its mission

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

This significantly updated edition of the McAdams Award—winning classic expands on the invaluable hows and whys of not-for-profit empowerment covered in the original to offer highly effective new ideas and new criteria for success in today’s increasingly competitive nonprofit terrain.

In recent years, radical changes in information technology have occurred, making e-mail and the World Wide Web household words, while managed care has taken hold at the state and federal levels. To win funding and support, nonprofit managers have to be more aggressive and more efficient than ever before in ensuring their organization pursues its mission, meets community needs, and maintains its budget, while juggling the demands of funders, clientele, boards, staff, community, and bankers. This Second Edition of Mission-Based Management ushers nonprofits into the twenty-first century by providing comprehensive, hands-on guidance that addresses the unique concerns of today’s managers in nonprofit organizations.

• Includes an updated list of core characteristics of successful not-for-profits
• Includes a new chapter on how to use technology to improve mission outcomes
• Is written by a nationally recognized expert who has trained thousands of people in hundreds of seminars on the best practices in nonprofit management
• Can be used in tandem with the Mission-Based Management Workbook, further ensuring that nonprofit leaders build success into every initiative
• Includes in each chapter a recap and a list of questions for group discussion

More than ever before, nonprofit managers want and need practical guidance on how to do their jobs and run their organizations more effectively and efficiently. And more than ever before, Mission-Based Management provides the definitive answer.

From the Back Cover

The One Book Every Leader of a Not-for-Profit Organization Will Want to Have–in an Exciting New Edition

Praise for Mission-Based Management

Peter C. Brinckerhoff

"A terrific resource." –Sue Suter, former Commissioner, Rehabilitation Services Commission, U.S. Department of Education; Board Member, World Institute of Disabilities and Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities

"Brinckerhoff demonstrates remarkable insight into the needs, functions, and output of not-for-profit agencies. He is uniquely practical and pointed with his recommendations based upon institutional missions. I find Brinckerhoff’s comments of immense help in achieving our mission here." –Thomas A. Mackey, RNC, PhD, Clinical Director, University of Texas Nursing Services and Employee Health Services

"Mission-Based Management will serve as a reference and guide for not-for-profit administrators who do not have the luxury of consulting Peter on a daily basis to access his sage advice and keen insights. He has consistently found fresh, innovative, but logical resolutions for our seemingly insurmountable problems." –W. Winfield McChord Jr., Executive Director, The American School for the Deaf

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (September 27, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471390135
• ISBN-13: 978-0471390138
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #377,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Peter Brinckerhoff has spent his entire adult life working in, around, and for not-for-profits. He is dedicated to the concept that a not-for-profit organization is a mission-based business, in the business of doing its mission.

When Peter formed his firm, Corporate Alternatives, inc. in 1982 it was the first consulting and training company in the United States dedicated exclusively to the management concerns of 501(c) (3) organizations.

A former VISTA Volunteer, Peter knows how not-for-profits work from his experience as a volunteer, his work as a staff member and later as executive director of two regional not-for-profits, and from his service on numerous state, local, and national not-for-profit boards. He brings this understanding of the many perspectives in a not-for-profit organization to his work.

Peter is an award-winning author, with eight books and two workbooks in print, and over 60 articles published in the not-for-profit press. Three of his books, Mission-Based Management, Financial Empowerment and his newest, Generations, The Challenge of a Lifetime for Your Nonprofit, each won the prestigious Terry McAdam Award from the Alliance for Nonprofit Management. The award is given for "The Best New Nonprofit Book" each year. He is the only author to win the award multiple times. Peter's books are used as texts in courses at the undergraduate and graduate nonprofit management programs in over 100 colleges and universities worldwide.

Peter is also a highly acclaimed speaker and lecturer, presenting his ideas on how to make not-for-profits more effective to dozens of audiences across the United States as well as overseas each year.

From 2003-2007, Peter was an Adjunct Professor of Nonprofit Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He taught the core graduate course in the Nonprofit Management program at Kellogg. In addition, Peter has guest lectured at the graduate level at Boston University, University of Colorado, University of Illinois, and Vanderbilt University.

Peter received his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Master's Degree in Public Health Administration from Tulane University. Raised in Connecticut, Peter and his family lived in Springfield, IL from 1977-2007. Peter and his wife now call Union Hall, VA home.

Peter can be contacted by email at [e-mail]

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must not-for-profit manager read, October 27, 2001

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David Duea (Tacoma, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mission-Based Management: Leading Your Not-For-Profit in the 21st Century (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series) (Hardcover)

I took a seminar from Peter Brinckerhoff about 5 years ago. I went out and bought his book Mission-Based Management right away. It is by far the best Not-For-Profit Management book I have read. I have since purchaced his entire series. The books have given my some great steps in improving our agency.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great direction for not-for-profits, May 6, 2007

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Marykathryn Clay (Boulder, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mission-Based Management: Leading Your Not-For-Profit in the 21st Century (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series) (Hardcover)

This book gives great insight into motivation, organization and function of a not-for-profit organization. The fundraising section lacks a thorough understanding of philanthropy and it's role in funding not-for-profits, however, the overall business approach to management can shift an organization to greater success.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Must for Non-Profit Managers, July 14, 2001

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Sari R. Revkin "Robert L Fenton" (Jerusalem, Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mission-Based Management: Leading Your Not-For-Profit in the 21st Century (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series) (Hardcover)

This book is a practicle, no-nonsense guide to running a not-for-profit organization. I have been involved in not-for-profit organizations both as an executive director,chairperson,and consultant for over 20 years and still learned a great deal from this book. The writer focuses on 'mission' in the organization but goes much further in relating it to the every day operation and management of the organization including: board fundction, managing people, technology, social entrepreneurship and more. It is a straight forward, practicle, and filled with answers to some of the more complex questions in running a not-for-profit.

The chapter on the role of the board of a not-for-profit was especially helpful. I passed it on to an organizations new chairperson and it helped her in clarifying her role as board chair, and how to bring in and orient new board members.

The book discusses the responsiblity of the not-for-profit to to make money, outlining the fiscal responsiblity of the director and board. It touches on the issue of setting up a profit making arm of a non-profit, and the important, yet complex relationship between the a not-for-profit and government.

This book is a must for new directors and administrators in the not-for-profit world and important reading for those who have been in the not-for-profit world for years. I borowed a copy from a friend and wanted a copy for my own library.