A comprehensive checklist of ethical and effective nonprofit management and fund raising practice. Brief homilies and observations honed from 30 years of nonprofit experience are matched with illuminating and witty quotations from notable figures from history, sports, the arts and entertainment. Norvell has provided a fun way to remind ourselves of how admirable organizations work and where others need work. The combination of humor and solid guidance is unique and unbeatable.
The best boards are at the very heart of the institutions that they govern. They nurture, provide an ethical weathervane and serve as a trustee of the "community good." While an organization is given a current identity by the skill and charisma of its paid executives, the heritage and future of the organization is the sole province of the board. With those words Jim Norvell launches us into a valuable collection of statements to remind board memebers of their responsibilities and help them reach their objectives. His use of matching quotes from the famous and nearly so are both humorous and thought provoking. It's a book every nonprofit board member should have within arm's reach.
A comprehensive checklist of ethical and effective nonprofit management and fund-raising practice. Brief observations honed from 30 years of nonprofit staff and consulting experience are matche with illuminating and witty quotations from notable figures from current culture and history. Norvell has provided a fun way for nonprofit executives remind themselves about how admirable organizations work and why theirs may need work. The combination of sage advice and an eclectic selection of insights is unique and informative.
The capital campaign is a statement of will, but it had better be a statement of potantial. A successful campaign has far greater ramifications than the organization's leadership ever foresees. The successful campaign creates a new organization, not just a bigger one - an organization that recognizes its past only as a developmental phase of what is to become. The bar is raised, but the confidence level jumps even while being pressed to keep pace with ever-escalating expectations. Capital campaigns are for achievers, not the mere hopeful. With those words as a sendoff, Norvell proceeds to lay otu some basic insights about how organizations behave in a capital campaign and how to ghet them to operate better. His sage observations are linked with insightful and sometimes witty quotations from the famous and nearly so.
As a board chair, your most important role is to ensure that those who are asked to invest in its future are investing in a sound organization that is ready to deliver on its promises. You must shape the so that its capabilities meet the organization's needs and so that individual board members have the opportunity to utilize their talents in meaningful roles. Your first duties are to provide governance that will result in strong, ethical policy and sound financial support for the chief executive and staff. You must have ambition for the organization but allow the chief executive to create and pursue his or her own vision. If you have high public profile and a commanding public presence, you can help with image building and articulation of the executive's goals; if you do not, you can enable others in those roles. The effcetive chair balances the skill and acumen of the staff with the power and authority of the board-a delicate equilibrium between empowering and leading. With those words Norvell launches you into succinct advice on a range of issues that determine the effectiveness of a nonprofit chairperson. He leavens his observations with the wisdom of famous and near famous individuals that echo his insight. If you are not a better chairperson after reading this book, then you were darn good to when you began.
Cicero said, "Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures." While his intent was to elevate generosity to lofty stature, he inadvertentlt hints that we may perform those good deeds to achieve god-like stature. In that short quote from antiquity is the conundrum that plagues philanthropy to this day-where is the dividing line past which a gift is given more for what it does for the donor than what it can do for the recipient? And is that important? With that opening, Norvell takes us on a brief review of observations and truths he has found in his 30 years work with nonprofits as staff fund raiser and fund-raising consultant. His on the point statements are leavened with sgae and witty comments from the famous and near famous. Norvell has found a way to make us think deeper about generosity and improve its results.
These unique and easy-to-read vignettes about Badger lore include the football exploits of Pat O'Dea and Alan "The Horse" Ameche; the basketball heroics of Wisconsin's 1941 national championship team; and the thrills generated by Badger greats Suzy Favor, Pat Richter, Michael Finley, Mark Johnson, Scott Lamphear, and many more. Includes a complete listing of Wisconsin s nearly 10,000 letter winners and a detailed history of coaches and administrators behind the scenes.
Porcupine, Picayune, & Post examines the history and etymology of newspapers' names. Bernhard focuses on printed general-interest English-language dailies and weeklies, from the Choteau (Montana) Acantha to the Moab (Utah) Zephyr, with everything in between"--Provided by publisher.
During my years as a fundraiser, I have worked with extraordinary volunteers at every nonprofit level. From multimillionaire businesspeople to homemakers, all have had a drive to be useful to their communities and true to their beliefs.This benevolence to not only friends but strangers, too, is a particularly human trait. It is impossible not to be moved by generosity, whether it is an enormous donation of money or a gift of precious time. The predisposition to service and charity is almost genetically coded. Only a rare few are left out of this gene pool, and it diminishes their lives."With that introduction Norvell treats us to over 30 years of accumulated wisdom about how effective nonprofit organizations are built and maintained. at the center is the impotant role that volunteers play and how their personal values are reflected in the organizations they build and serve.
First published in 1973. Movie Serials Their Sound and Fury, invites you to take a nostalgic trip back to Saturday afternoon and remember your local cinema anytime from 1030 to the 1950s. Thrill once again to the spine-tingling adventures of Dick Tracy, Terry and the Pirates, Tarzan, Flash Gordon, The Green Hornet, The Shadow, The Perils of Pauline, and all the other super-heroes and arch-villians of by-gone days.
Before television, radio was the sole source of simultaneous mass entertainment in America. The medium served as launching pad for the careers of countless future stars of stage and screen. Singers and conductors became legends by offering musical entertainment directly to Americans in their homes, vehicles, and places of work and play. This volume presents biographies of 24 renowned performers who spent a significant portion of their careers in front of a radio microphone. Profiles of individuals like Steve Allen, Rosemary Clooney, Bob Crosby, Johnny Desmond, Jo Stafford, and Percy Faith, along with groups such as the Ink Spots and the King's Men, reveal the private lives behind the public personas and bring to life the icons and ambiance of a bygone era.
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER From TSN Hockey Insider Bob McKenzie comes a new collection of hockey stories about the everyday heroes from across the game who are defying the odds and championing the next generation of hockey—on and off the ice. In this uplifting and entertaining volume of stories, Canadian broadcasters Bob McKenzie and Jim Lang bring together hockey players, coaches, and refs, as well as those behind the bench—the parents, scouts, analysts, and agents—to tell us, in their own voices, why they love the game and how they’re shaping its future. Meet Dallas Stars’ winger Andrew Cogliano, who captivated the hockey world by playing 830 consecutive games, despite various injuries, and hear how hockey and his parents instilled in him the strong work ethic that made his streak possible. Learn about how Jeremy Rupke found his passion and created the popular website How to Hockey to help young hockey hopefuls who might not have money for professional lessons develop their on-ice skills and give them the confidence to achieve their dreams off the ice. Read about players like Jack Jablonski, who didn’t let a life-changing spinal cord injury at age sixteen stop him from being a part of the game, and is now using his experience to raise awareness and funds for spinal cord injury research. From LGBTQ players like Jessica Platt who are breaking down barriers to women such as Danièle Sauvageau who are breaking glass ceilings as coaches, refs, agents, and analysts, these are the everyday heroes who are using hockey to inspire change. Featuring incredible stories of comebacks, milestones, and friendship, Everyday Hockey Heroes, Volume II highlights the very best of hockey: the power it has to unite us to be the best we can be—for ourselves and for others.
People who are fortunate enough to work in sports get paid to do what many sports fans would do for free. The questions then become: 1) what can a person do to get that dream job in sports, and 2) what makes someone successful once in the job? A Career In Sports: Advice from Sports Business Leaders answers these questions and many more. This book captures advice from 31 sports executives working in areas such as college athletics, pro sports, sponsorship, and player personnel. Their insights are valuable to students and young professionals starting careers in sports and anyone who is looking to make a career change into the sports industry.
Pro-Wrestling's secrets and greatest moments are immortalized in this graphic novel from legendary wrestling personality Jim Cornette. A true-story style anthology, these insider tales will show the lengths that wrestlers went to uphold "kayfabe" (the old carny term for the presentation of legitimate conflict), as well as the noteworthy cultural, racial, and economic effects these events and characters had on society. This is the graphic novel that old school wrestling fans have been waiting their entire lives for: a no-holds-barred representation of the moments that wrestling insiders couldn't talk about for years.
When Edgar A. Love, Oscar J. Cooper, Frank Coleman, and Ernest Everett Just founded the historically Black fraternity Omega Psi Phi on November 17, 1911, at Howard University, they could not have known how great of an impact their organization would have on American life. Over the 110 years that followed, its members led colleges and universities; served in prominent military roles; made innumerable contributions to education, civic society, science, and medicine; and at least one campaigned for the US presidency. This book offers a comprehensive, authoritative history of the fraternity, emphasizing its vital role through multiple eras of the Black freedom struggle. The authors address both the individual work of its membership, which has included such figures as Carter G. Woodson, Bayard Rustin, Roy Wilkins, James L. Farmer Jr., Benjamin Elijah Mays, James Clyburn, Jesse Jackson, and Benjamin Crump, and the collective efforts of the fraternity's leadership to encourage its general membership to contribute to the struggle in concrete ways over the years. The result is a book that uniquely connects the 1910s with the present, showing the ongoing power of a Black fraternal organization to channel its members toward social reform.
This long awaited textbook, and its companion texts, from The Ola Grimsby Institute provide decades of clinical experience and reasoning, with both historical and current evidence, with rationale for active treatments in orthopaedic manual therapy. Practical guidelines for exercise rehabilitation are presented with this logical and exciting work. Incorporating experience and science, this book provides new approaches and treatment principles to make what you already do more effective. Extensive Content: Over 388 pages and 725 illustrations, photographs and tables Ola Grimsby and his co-authors have compiled a significant resource for the practicing physical therapist and manual therapist. Ideal for both the classroom and clinic.
Whitt offers simple, easy-to-read, two-page inspirations with this collection of 99 purposeful principles to guide readers on the road to reaching their full potential.
Containing the most extensive listing of movies available on video and a multitude of cross-referencing within its 10 primary indexes, this new edition includes 1,000 new movies (23,000 in all), expanded indexing, a fresh new introduction and more of the beloved categories.
A comprehensive checklist of ethical and effective nonprofit management and fund-raising practice. Brief observations honed from 30 years of nonprofit staff and consulting experience are matche with illuminating and witty quotations from notable figures from current culture and history. Norvell has provided a fun way for nonprofit executives remind themselves about how admirable organizations work and why theirs may need work. The combination of sage advice and an eclectic selection of insights is unique and informative.
During my years as a fundraiser, I have worked with extraordinary volunteers at every nonprofit level. From multimillionaire businesspeople to homemakers, all have had a drive to be useful to their communities and true to their beliefs.This benevolence to not only friends but strangers, too, is a particularly human trait. It is impossible not to be moved by generosity, whether it is an enormous donation of money or a gift of precious time. The predisposition to service and charity is almost genetically coded. Only a rare few are left out of this gene pool, and it diminishes their lives." With that introduction Norvell treats us to over 30 years of accumulated wisdom about how effective nonprofit organizations are built and maintained. at the center is the impotant role that volunteers play and how their personal values are reflected in the organizations they build and serve.
The best boards are at the very heart of the institutions that they govern. They nurture, provide an ethical weathervane and serve as a trustee of the "community good." While an organization is given a current identity by the skill and charisma of its paid executives, the heritage and future of the organization is the sole province of the board. With those words Jim Norvell launches us into a valuable collection of statements to remind board memebers of their responsibilities and help them reach their objectives. His use of matching quotes from the famous and nearly so are both humorous and thought provoking. It's a book every nonprofit board member should have within arm's reach.
The capital campaign is a statement of will, but it had better be a statement of potantial. A successful campaign has far greater ramifications than the organization's leadership ever foresees. The successful campaign creates a new organization, not just a bigger one - an organization that recognizes its past only as a developmental phase of what is to become. The bar is raised, but the confidence level jumps even while being pressed to keep pace with ever-escalating expectations. Capital campaigns are for achievers, not the mere hopeful. With those words as a sendoff, Norvell proceeds to lay otu some basic insights about how organizations behave in a capital campaign and how to ghet them to operate better. His sage observations are linked with insightful and sometimes witty quotations from the famous and nearly so.
As a board chair, your most important role is to ensure that those who are asked to invest in its future are investing in a sound organization that is ready to deliver on its promises. You must shape the so that its capabilities meet the organization's needs and so that individual board members have the opportunity to utilize their talents in meaningful roles.Your first duties are to provide governance that will result in strong, ethical policy and sound financial support for the chief executive and staff. You must have ambition for the organization but allow the chief executive to create and pursue his or her own vision. If you have high public profile and a commanding public presence, you can help with image building and articulation of the executive's goals; if you do not, you can enable others in those roles. The effcetive chair balances the skill and acumen of the staff with the power and authority of the board-a delicate equilibrium between empowering and leading.With those words Norvell launches you into succinct advice on a range of issues that determine the effectiveness of a nonprofit chairperson. He leavens his observations with the wisdom of famous and near famous individuals that echo his insight. If you are not a better chairperson after reading this book, then you were darn good to when you began.
Cicero said, "Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures." While his intent was to elevate generosity to lofty stature, he inadvertentlt hints that we may perform those good deeds to achieve god-like stature. In that short quote from antiquity is the conundrum that plagues philanthropy to this day-where is the dividing line past which a gift is given more for what it does for the donor than what it can do for the recipient? And is that important?With that opening, Norvell takes us on a brief review of observations and truths he has found in his 30 years work with nonprofits as staff fund raiser and fund-raising consultant. His on the point statements are leavened with sgae and witty comments from the famous and near famous. Norvell has found a way to make us think deeper about generosity and improve its results.
This is one of a series of Reminders that Norvell has prepared for the various participants in nonprofit organizations. Informed by more than 30 years of hands-on experience in philanthropy as a staff member, consultant and national leader, Norvell has found a unique and entertaining way of passing on the lessons he has learned.His observations and axioms are matched with corresponding quotes from the famous and nearly so in a way that is both entertaining and highly informative.
A comprehensive checklist of ethical and effective nonprofit management and fund raising practice. Brief homilies and observations honed from 30 years of nonprofit experience are matched with illuminating and witty quotations from notable figures from history, sports, the arts and entertainment. Norvell has provided a fun way to remind ourselves of how admirable organizations work and where others need work. The combination of humor and solid guidance is unique and unbeatable.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jim Davidson is a Christian businessman and a native of Gould in Southeast Arkansas. His career as a public speaker, author, and motivational consultant has spanned more than forty-five years. Some of his many awards and achievements include: Arkansas Salesman of the Year, Chairman of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce's Diamond Club sales organization, Justice of the Peace in Pulaski County, Chairman of Speakers Bureau of the Pulaski County United Way, Leadership Gavel recipient as voted by members of his Dale Carnegie Class, and honorary member of the DECA & GCE Clubs of Arkansas. He has also been presented with the "Good Neighbor Award" by the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce and is the 2010 "Distinguished Service Award" winner for Conway Public Schools. In November 2013, Jim was given a Senate Citation and the Conway Community Service Award by Senator Jason Rapert during a ceremony at the Faulkner County Library. In 1980, Jim began writing and producing a daily radio program titled "How to Plan Your Life." It has been broadcast by over 300 radio stations coast to coast and heard by thousands of people each weekday. Later, in 1995, he also began writing a weekly newspaper column for his hometown newspaper, the Log Cabin Democrat, in Conway, Arkansas. With over 375 newspapers in thirty-five states running his column since its inception, it is believed to be the most successful self-syndicated column in the history of American journalism. Jim was a staunch member of the Conway Noon Lions Club for over 20 years, holding every leadership position and winning all their awards, including twice being named a Melvin Jones Fellow, the highest award in Lionism. He also served as Chairman of the Annual Golf Tournament and the Harlem Ambassador Fundraiser Event. Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/JimDavidson
The first-ever collection of interviews with this well-known, prolific writer whose books include twenty-two volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction published over a period of thirty-six years
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