Publishing the Nonprofit Annual Report: Tips, Traps, and Tricks of the Trade [Paperback]

Caroline Taylor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 15, 2001 | Series: Jossey-Bass Nonprofit and Public Management Series

Publishing the Nonprofit Annual Report offers your nonprofit organization hands-on guidance to help you create an annual report that goes beyond fulfilling your financial reporting responsibilities and instead becomes a valuable communications, marketing, and image-building tool. Written by Caroline Taylor--a consultant who has more than twenty years of experience producing award-winning annual reports--this essential guide takes you through the report-writing cycle from start to finish. Step by step, she shows you how to create a plan, fit the report process into the overall schedule, assign tasks, develop the executive message, work with designers to integrate visual elements, and get the report printed on time and within budget.

Editorial Reviews

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"This book is a first rate guide at producing a quality annual report on budget and on time." (CharityChannel.com, December 6, 2002)

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"As the former CEO of an educational nonprofit whose heart sank at the sound of the words 'we have to put together the annual report,' I now make only one recommendation-Buy this book and do what it says." —John Agresto, president, John Agresto & Associates, former deputy chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities

"At last, a book that helps nonprofit associations produce annual reports on time, on budget, and on target for their audiences." —J. D. Andrews, chairman, the Council for Professional Recognition

"Timely, relevant, and thorough-every nonprofit that publishes annual reports should have this book, and those that don't should heed its counsel. We'll certainly recommend it to our clients." —George A. Brakeley III, president, Brakeley, Inc.

"Chock full of useful information for nonprofits from small to large. In the course of describing the production process from conceptualization through distribution, Taylor shows how this vital communications tool can be published economically and on time." —David Slater, director of communications, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1st edition (September 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787954101
• ISBN-13: 978-0787954109
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,493,464 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Caroline Taylor recently moved to North Carolina after more than 30 years in Washington, D.C. Her short stories have appeared in several print and online publications, including The First Line, The Greensilk Journal, and The Dan River Anthology. What Are Friends For? is her first novel.