A revised chapter on Contingency and Emergency Public Affairs.
New chapters on such topics as Making your Data Collection Meaningful, Sales for Non-Profits, Strategic Leadership of Volunteer Organizations in an International Context, and Organizational Culture and Not-for-Profit Organizations.
Thirty years after his publication of the Nonprofit Organization Handbook, the first handbook focused exclusively on better management of nonprofit organizations, Tracy D. Connors continues to share that visionary perspective through consulting, teaching and publishing in the field of management of nonprofit organizations.
For over thirty years Connors has maintained an unsurpassed publication record in the field of not-for-profit management, a field that he himself largely defined in his break through Nonprofit Organization Handbook, the first of its kind, published in 1979 by McGraw-Hill--establishing for the first time that regardless of the specific public service provided, not-for-profit organizations shared seven areas of management--from fund raising to volunteer administration (First and Second Editions, McGraw-Hill, 1980, 1988).
These pioneering works compiled the fundamental management information needed by NPO leaders in one volume for the first time.
At the time, few would have agreed there was such a professional area as "nonprofit management" or a "nonprofit executive." Since then the number of nonprofit organizations in the United States has doubled, even as the field of nonprofit management has emerged and evolved to support improved professional development.
Nonprofit organizations provide the majority of human services in the United States--collectively called "quality of life." Better management and leadership within these organizations directly contributes to an improved quality of life for millions of Americans.
In 1995, Connors published the first Volunteer Management Handbook (John Wiley & Sons), a work that he is now expanding and updating into a second edition.
The first edition of the Volunteer Management Handbook offered " a wealth of practical, how-to information in the art and science of volunteer development, administration, and law-related areas. Particular attention is given to pointing out the similarities and differences in volunteer policy and law in various states."
Professional staff members of all nonprofit organizations found the groundbreaking new management handbook useful, particularly those having responsibilities involving volunteers. For the first time, they had available, in one volume, the fundamental principles of volunteer management explained and illustrated using examples and case studies specific to nonprofit organizations.
When the second edition of the John Wiley & Sons Volunteer Management and Leadership Handbook is published in 2010, it will be his eighth major nonprofit management handbook (not including annual supplements or foreign language editions)--nonprofit organization management being a recently recognized field that he himself defined when he published the first such management handbook in 1979.
He has also published two major works of military history--Truckbusters From Dogpatch: the Combat Diary of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing in the Korean War, 1950-1953 (BelleAire Press, 2005) and Baited Trap, the Ambush of Mission 1890 (BelleAire Press, 2008).
Successful careers and senior management experience in all three sectors of the American economy--for-profit/business, government (both military and civilian), and the "Third Sector," nonprofit, public service organizations--give Connors a unique perspective on management and effective leadership.
Captain Tracy D. Connors, USN (Ret), attended Jacksonville University, and earned degrees from the University of Florida (BA) and the University of Rhode Island (MA), with additional graduate study at the University of Maryland and Bowie State University.
Connors is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Florida. He is designing and teaching several new course offerings, including: Volunteer Management for Nonprofit Organizations and Leading to Excellence for Nonprofit Organizations.
