How to be great at doing good : why results are what count and how smart charity can change the world / / Nick Cooney |
Autore | Cooney Nick |
Edizione | [1st edition] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina | 361.7068 |
Soggetto topico |
Charities
Nonprofit organizations Social change |
ISBN |
1-119-04172-4
1-119-15385-9 1-119-04224-0 |
Classificazione | BUS074000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Schindler's Regret; Chapter 1 Why Charity?; Asking Why; The Goal of Charity; Barriers to Good; The Challenge of "Why?"; Chapter 2 Doing Good or Doing Great?; A Tale of Two Charities; Doing Good, or Doing a Lot of Good?; Chapter 3 Facing the ""Brutal Facts'' on How Much Good We Are Accomplishing; Gritting Our Teeth and Heading Down the Slope; All Charities Are Not Created Equal; Asking the Genie in the Bottle: Making Comparisons When Comparisons Seem Hard; There Are Always Big Differences Between Charities
Accepting the Fact That We Can Always Do Better It's Always Subjective, and There's No Way Around That; But Wait...Does That Mean All Theaters Are Doomed?; Chapter 4 Chasing the Bottom Line: How to Do More Good for Less Money; Defining Our Bottom Line; Doubling Down on Saving Rabbits; Where Following the Bottom Line Leads, and Why It Can Be Hard to Follow; When Following the Bottom Line Means Making Big Changes; Why We Lose Sight of the Bottom Line; Chapter 5 Why Efficiency Means Everything for Donors (and Charities, Too); Bringing It Back to the Bunnies; The Space to Be Human There Are Massive Differences Between Charities in the Same Field Coming to Grips with the Hard Facts; Chapter 6 How We Can Drive Our Favorite Charities to Succeed; The 1,500 Bottle of Soda; The Free Market and the World of Charity; Giving Non-Profits the Incentive to Be Great; It's Not All Donors' Fault; Unhelpful Advice; A New Breed of Charity Advisors; Chapter 7 Our Brains Don't Want Us to Be Great at Doing Good, But We Can Outsmart Them; What Charity Looks Like on the Inside; Questioning Our Motives; Looking Out for Number One, in More Ways Than One Our Biases Try to Rule Us, and This One Is Really Bad Empathy and Evolution; More Biases and Other Mental Quirks; Defeating Our Brains and Doing as Much Good as Possible; Putting Our Self-Centeredness to Work; Chapter 8 The Advice We Are Given About Charity Is Wrong-Here's the Truth; Following Your Passion Is a Bad Idea; Being Great at What You Do Doesn't Matter Unless You're Doing the Right Thing; Not All Charity Work Is Needed or Worth Doing Right Now; We Have to Make Hard Decisions About Who to Help and Who to Ignore; Doing Good Doesn't Always Feel Good; Charity Is All About Winning Chapter 9 Moving Forward with Humility: Admitting What We Don't KnowKnowing What We Don't Know; The Wonderful World of Science; Learning How to Do Good Instead of Guessing How to Do Good; Chapter 10 Nine Steps to Greatness; 1. Get Serious; 2. Never Forget the Goal of Charity; 3. Shun Fuzzy Thinking and Feel-Good Rhetoric-They Are Self-Centered; 4. Be Aware of the Psychological Biases We All Have; 5. Be Willing to Face the Hard Facts; 6. Define and Make Decisions Around a Bottom Line; 7. Measure, Measure, Measure; 8. Give Non-Profits the Incentive to Be Great 9. And Remember: Never Forget the Goal of Charity |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910131309703321 |
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How to be great at doing good : why results are what count and how smart charity can change the world / / Nick Cooney |
Autore | Cooney Nick |
Edizione | [1st edition] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina | 361.7068 |
Soggetto topico |
Charities
Nonprofit organizations Social change |
ISBN |
1-119-04172-4
1-119-15385-9 1-119-04224-0 |
Classificazione | BUS074000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Schindler's Regret; Chapter 1 Why Charity?; Asking Why; The Goal of Charity; Barriers to Good; The Challenge of "Why?"; Chapter 2 Doing Good or Doing Great?; A Tale of Two Charities; Doing Good, or Doing a Lot of Good?; Chapter 3 Facing the ""Brutal Facts'' on How Much Good We Are Accomplishing; Gritting Our Teeth and Heading Down the Slope; All Charities Are Not Created Equal; Asking the Genie in the Bottle: Making Comparisons When Comparisons Seem Hard; There Are Always Big Differences Between Charities
Accepting the Fact That We Can Always Do Better It's Always Subjective, and There's No Way Around That; But Wait...Does That Mean All Theaters Are Doomed?; Chapter 4 Chasing the Bottom Line: How to Do More Good for Less Money; Defining Our Bottom Line; Doubling Down on Saving Rabbits; Where Following the Bottom Line Leads, and Why It Can Be Hard to Follow; When Following the Bottom Line Means Making Big Changes; Why We Lose Sight of the Bottom Line; Chapter 5 Why Efficiency Means Everything for Donors (and Charities, Too); Bringing It Back to the Bunnies; The Space to Be Human There Are Massive Differences Between Charities in the Same Field Coming to Grips with the Hard Facts; Chapter 6 How We Can Drive Our Favorite Charities to Succeed; The 1,500 Bottle of Soda; The Free Market and the World of Charity; Giving Non-Profits the Incentive to Be Great; It's Not All Donors' Fault; Unhelpful Advice; A New Breed of Charity Advisors; Chapter 7 Our Brains Don't Want Us to Be Great at Doing Good, But We Can Outsmart Them; What Charity Looks Like on the Inside; Questioning Our Motives; Looking Out for Number One, in More Ways Than One Our Biases Try to Rule Us, and This One Is Really Bad Empathy and Evolution; More Biases and Other Mental Quirks; Defeating Our Brains and Doing as Much Good as Possible; Putting Our Self-Centeredness to Work; Chapter 8 The Advice We Are Given About Charity Is Wrong-Here's the Truth; Following Your Passion Is a Bad Idea; Being Great at What You Do Doesn't Matter Unless You're Doing the Right Thing; Not All Charity Work Is Needed or Worth Doing Right Now; We Have to Make Hard Decisions About Who to Help and Who to Ignore; Doing Good Doesn't Always Feel Good; Charity Is All About Winning Chapter 9 Moving Forward with Humility: Admitting What We Don't KnowKnowing What We Don't Know; The Wonderful World of Science; Learning How to Do Good Instead of Guessing How to Do Good; Chapter 10 Nine Steps to Greatness; 1. Get Serious; 2. Never Forget the Goal of Charity; 3. Shun Fuzzy Thinking and Feel-Good Rhetoric-They Are Self-Centered; 4. Be Aware of the Psychological Biases We All Have; 5. Be Willing to Face the Hard Facts; 6. Define and Make Decisions Around a Bottom Line; 7. Measure, Measure, Measure; 8. Give Non-Profits the Incentive to Be Great 9. And Remember: Never Forget the Goal of Charity |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811760803321 |
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Mission, Inc [[electronic resource] ] : a practitioner's guide to social enterprise / / Kevin Lynch, Julius Walls, Jr |
Autore | Lynch Kevin <1956 Nov. 15-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., : Ingram Publishers Services [distributor], c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina | 361.7068 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WallsJulius |
Collana | The social venture network series |
Soggetto topico |
Entrepreneurship - Moral and ethical aspects
Social entrepreneurship Social responsibility of business Industrial management - Moral and ethical aspects Quality of work life |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-29909-3
9786612299094 1-57675-618-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The most successful business on earth -- The ten paradoxes of social enterprise -- Doing good versus doing well: balancing impact and profit -- Form versus function: choosing the right structure -- Planning versus practice: working with discipline -- Debits versus credits: creating financial health -- Do-gooders versus good doers: hiring the best people -- Perception versus reality: marketing on higher ground -- Value versus waste: leaning the enterprise -- Metrics versus instinct: measuring success -- Growth versus focus: expanding sensibly -- Sweat equity versus blood equity: caring for yourself. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454187603321 |
Lynch Kevin <1956 Nov. 15->
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Mission, Inc [[electronic resource] ] : a practitioner's guide to social enterprise / / Kevin Lynch, Julius Walls, Jr |
Autore | Lynch Kevin <1956 Nov. 15-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., : Ingram Publishers Services [distributor], c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina | 361.7068 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WallsJulius |
Collana | The social venture network series |
Soggetto topico |
Entrepreneurship - Moral and ethical aspects
Social entrepreneurship Social responsibility of business Industrial management - Moral and ethical aspects Quality of work life |
ISBN |
1-282-29909-3
9786612299094 1-57675-618-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The most successful business on earth -- The ten paradoxes of social enterprise -- Doing good versus doing well: balancing impact and profit -- Form versus function: choosing the right structure -- Planning versus practice: working with discipline -- Debits versus credits: creating financial health -- Do-gooders versus good doers: hiring the best people -- Perception versus reality: marketing on higher ground -- Value versus waste: leaning the enterprise -- Metrics versus instinct: measuring success -- Growth versus focus: expanding sensibly -- Sweat equity versus blood equity: caring for yourself. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782787603321 |
Lynch Kevin <1956 Nov. 15->
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San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., : Ingram Publishers Services [distributor], c2009 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mission, Inc [[electronic resource] ] : a practitioner's guide to social enterprise / / Kevin Lynch, Julius Walls, Jr |
Autore | Lynch Kevin <1956 Nov. 15-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., : Ingram Publishers Services [distributor], c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina | 361.7068 |
Altri autori (Persone) | WallsJulius |
Collana | The social venture network series |
Soggetto topico |
Entrepreneurship - Moral and ethical aspects
Social entrepreneurship Social responsibility of business Industrial management - Moral and ethical aspects Quality of work life |
ISBN |
1-282-29909-3
9786612299094 1-57675-618-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The most successful business on earth -- The ten paradoxes of social enterprise -- Doing good versus doing well: balancing impact and profit -- Form versus function: choosing the right structure -- Planning versus practice: working with discipline -- Debits versus credits: creating financial health -- Do-gooders versus good doers: hiring the best people -- Perception versus reality: marketing on higher ground -- Value versus waste: leaning the enterprise -- Metrics versus instinct: measuring success -- Growth versus focus: expanding sensibly -- Sweat equity versus blood equity: caring for yourself. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812869603321 |
Lynch Kevin <1956 Nov. 15->
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Social entrepreneurship : how to start successful corporate social responsibility and community-based initiatives for advocacy and change / / Manuel London and Richard G. Morfopoulos |
Autore | London Manuel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
Disciplina |
361.7068
361.7068/1 361.70681 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MorfopoulosRichard G |
Soggetto topico |
Social entrepreneurship
Social responsibility of business |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-135-96671-0
1-135-96672-9 1-282-44367-4 9786612443671 0-203-87814-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the Authors; 1 An Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship; 2 What Motivates a Social Entrepreneur; 3 Competencies for Social Action; 4 Steps and Strategies for Social Entrepreneurship; 5 Developing High-Performing Social Action Teams; 6 Overcoming Barriers and Facilitating Social Entrepreneurship; 7 Evaluating Success: Measures of Social Performance; 8 Learning Resources; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457135203321 |
London Manuel
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 | ||
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Social entrepreneurship : how to start successful corporate social responsibility and community-based initiatives for advocacy and change / / Manuel London and Richard G. Morfopoulos |
Autore | London Manuel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
Disciplina |
361.7068
361.7068/1 361.70681 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MorfopoulosRichard G |
Soggetto topico |
Social entrepreneurship
Social responsibility of business |
ISBN |
1-135-96671-0
1-135-96672-9 1-282-44367-4 9786612443671 0-203-87814-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the Authors; 1 An Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship; 2 What Motivates a Social Entrepreneur; 3 Competencies for Social Action; 4 Steps and Strategies for Social Entrepreneurship; 5 Developing High-Performing Social Action Teams; 6 Overcoming Barriers and Facilitating Social Entrepreneurship; 7 Evaluating Success: Measures of Social Performance; 8 Learning Resources; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780812603321 |
London Manuel
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 | ||
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Social entrepreneurship : how to start successful corporate social responsibility and community-based initiatives for advocacy and change / / Manuel London and Richard G. Morfopoulos |
Autore | London Manuel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
Disciplina |
361.7068
361.7068/1 361.70681 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MorfopoulosRichard G |
Soggetto topico |
Social entrepreneurship
Social responsibility of business |
ISBN |
1-135-96671-0
1-135-96672-9 1-282-44367-4 9786612443671 0-203-87814-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the Authors; 1 An Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship; 2 What Motivates a Social Entrepreneur; 3 Competencies for Social Action; 4 Steps and Strategies for Social Entrepreneurship; 5 Developing High-Performing Social Action Teams; 6 Overcoming Barriers and Facilitating Social Entrepreneurship; 7 Evaluating Success: Measures of Social Performance; 8 Learning Resources; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812279703321 |
London Manuel
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 | ||
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Successful strategic planning [[electronic resource] ] : a guide for nonprofit agencies and organizations / / Patrick J. Burkhart, Suzanne Reuss |
Autore | Burkhart Patrick J |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : SAGE, 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (153 p.) |
Disciplina |
361.7068
658.4012 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ReussSuzanne |
Soggetto topico |
Strategic planning
Nonprofit organizations - Management |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4833-2638-1
1-4522-5406-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Overview; Chapter 1 - Getting Started; Chapter 2 - Internal Assessment; Chapter 3 - Internal Assessment Tools and Instruments; Chapter 4 - External Assessment; Chapter 5 - External Assessment Tools and Instruments; Chapter 6 - Identifying Key Issues and Targeting Opportunities; Chapter 7 - Building Consensus for the Mission; Chapter 8 - Setting Goals and Objectives; Chapter 9 - Completing the Strategic Plan; Chapter 10 - Implementing the Plan; Chapter 11 - Using the Strategic Plan to Evaluate Organizational Progress and Performance; Appendix A; Appendix B; Index
About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480498203321 |
Burkhart Patrick J
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London, : SAGE, 1993 | ||
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