Get to the Point: How to Say What You Mean and Get What You Want

This book outlines the proven program that helps you fight performance anxiety-and communicate with confidence and ease.

The Association Audit Manual, Board Excellence Workbook, and many other useful publications are available for purchase at the Nonprofit Center.

Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over: How Organizations Use Stories to Drive Results

This book showcases how stories are being applied in over 70 organizations to address key business issues and manage daily work. Featured institutions include Levi Strauss & Co., Lands’ End, Interface, Inc., Microsoft, NASA, AARP, Hewlett Packard, the OneVillage Foundation and many more.

Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards

Informed by theories that have transformed the practice of organizational leadership, this book sheds new light on the traditional fiduciary and strategic work of the board and introduces a critical third dimension of effective trusteeship: generative governance. It serves boards as both a resource of fresh approaches to familiar territory and a lucid guide to important new territory, and provides a road map that leads nonprofit trustees and executives to governance as leadership.