How to manage a voluntary organization : the essential guide for the not-for-profit sector / David Hussey & Robert Perrin.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Kogan Page, 2003.Description: xiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 computer optical disk (4 3/4 in.)ISBN:- 9780749437800
- 658.048 HUS
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Many of those working in the voluntary sector have management experience, but little of working for a charity while others have experience of the sector, but no management experience. This practical work aims to bridge these knowledge gaps, serving as a handbook on day-to-day management in the voluntary sector. It features activity boxes designed to make the reader think about real-life situations that frequently arise, with case studies and a free CD-ROM containing templates and documents. Topics addressed include: the importance of having a realistic vision; organizational and management structures of charities; human resource issues; accounting; marketing; how to make use of the Internet; and how to deal with the prospect of mergers and takeovers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
System requirements for accompanying computer disk: Adobe Acrobat reader.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword
- 1 The voluntary sector
- What is the voluntary sector?
- The size of the voluntary sector
- A picture of great variety
- The variety of voluntary organizations
- Ongoing or one-off
- Conclusion
- 2 Beginning with a vision
- Definition
- Vision at different levels
- A model for transformation
- The case studies
- Some points about vision
- Maintaining commitment to the vision
- A vision does not last for ever
- 3 Strategies and policies
- Concepts and reality
- Strategy and the nature of the charity
- A strategy model
- Key success factors for strategic success
- Consultations and involvement
- Implementation
- The integrated organization
- The importance of a framework of policies
- 4 Matters of governance
- Legal form of organization
- The constitution
- The duties of trustees
- Formal meetings
- Ethics and social responsibility
- 5 Management of people
- 10 universal qualities of effective management
- Recruiting the right people
- Trustees
- Patrons and occasional use of celebrities
- Board of management (or management committee)
- Paid staff
- Seconded staff
- Volunteers
- 6 Financial accounting and record keeping
- Concepts of accounting
- Accrual or cash accounting?
- Record keeping
- Some legal requirements
- Supporting procedures
- Setting up an accounting system
- 7 Management accounting
- Budgetary control
- Financial ratios
- Decision making
- Evaluating capital expenditure projects
- 8 Marketing: basic concepts
- The business approach to marketing
- Adapting marketing concepts to 'non-business' activities
- Public relations
- To be continued
- 9 Marketing and fund-raising
- Rolling marketing campaigns compared to special appeals
- The rolling marketing campaign
- The one-off special projects campaign
- Grants
- 10 Rationalization, consolidation and closure
- Restructuring
- The problem of small and struggling charities
- Mergers
- Achieving a change through custodian and management trustees
- 11 Epilogue: the future
- Retirement age, life expectation and physical fitness
- The attitudes towards volunteering and personal donations
- Higher-calibre staff and professionalism needed
- A more litigious, technical and bureaucratic society
- Structure of the third sector
- Improving the viability of the sector