Recession, Recovery, and Renewal : Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change.
Title:
Recession, Recovery, and Renewal : Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change.
Author:
Raymond, Susan U.
ISBN:
9781118420720
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (290 pages)
Series:
Wiley Nonprofit Authority ; v.249
Wiley Nonprofit Authority
Contents:
Recession, Recovery, and Renewal: Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change -- Contents -- List of Cases -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- Looking Back and Its Dangers -- Looking Forward and Its Challenges -- Organization of This Work -- PART I RECESSION AND RECOVERY -- CHAPTER 2 Cascading Crisis -- The Near-Term Roots -- The Costs in Human and Economic Terms -- The Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector -- CHAPTER 3 Recovery and Near-Term Economic Prospects -- Overall Growth -- Public Finance -- Employment and Jobs -- Household Incomes -- Europe and Asia -- Summary and Implications -- PART II GLOBAL ECONOMIC CHANGE -- CHAPTER 4 A Multipolar Global Economy -- Economic Performance -- The Global Middle Class -- Industrial Structural Change -- Capital Integration -- Trade and Business Patterns -- Summary and Implications -- CHAPTER 5 Changing Corporate Context -- Industrial Structure -- Employment and Skills -- Corporate Markets and Location -- New Firm Formation -- Summary and Implications -- CHAPTER 6 Changing Corporate Context -- Corporate Growth -- Labor Force and the New Employee -- Innovation -- Summary and Implications -- CHAPTER 7 It Depends on What You Mean by "Give" -- Social Enterprise -- Program- and Mission-Related Investing -- Social Franchising -- Impact Investing -- Variations and Applications -- Summary and Implications -- CHAPTER 8 Wealth -- A Glance Backwards for Perspective -- Globalization -- Women and Wealth -- The Rise of the Young -- Summary and Nonprofit Implications -- CHAPTER 9 The Global Benefits of Rising Well-Being -- Education -- Health Status and Its Consequences -- Participation and Connectivity -- Summary and Nonprofit Implications -- CHAPTER 10 Next-Gen Leaders -- Corporate Leaders -- Nonprofit Leaders -- Summary and Nonprofit Implications.
PART III REQUISITE CHANGE IN THE NONPROFIT SECTOR -- CHAPTER 11 The Globalization of Philanthropy in the United States and Abroad -- Individual Giving to the World -- Corporations: Giving Where the Markets Are -- The Rising Strength of Philanthropy around the World -- Summary and Implications -- CHAPTER 12 The Erosion of Place -- Migration -- Borderless Technology -- Summary and Implications -- CHAPTER 13 Will Complexity Erode Trust? -- Taxes and the Relationship with Government -- The Views of the Public -- Summary and Implications -- CHAPTER 14 Programming for the Future -- Global Health -- States, Poverty, and Philanthropy -- The Young and the Old -- Summary and Implications -- CHAPTER 15 The Arc of Philanthropic Innovation -- The End of Definitions -- A Complementary Resource System -- A Word of Caution -- Whence Passion? -- Summary and Implications -- PART IV STRATEGY FOR RAPID CHANGE -- CHAPTER 16 Five Organizing Principles for Strategy amid Rapid Change -- Maintain an Outward Line of Sight -- Create a Culture of Evidence -- Set Reasonable and Measurable Goals -- Ask, Ask, Ask: How'm I Doin'? -- Attend to Brand -- Do Not Act Alone -- Summary and Implications -- CHAPTER 17 The Utility of Fluid Discipline -- Option 1: Run, Shoot, and Holler -- Option 2: Fluid Discipline -- Summary and Implications -- CHAPTER 18 Indicators and Evidence: A Suggested Place to Begin -- Categories -- Possible Partners in Implementation -- Summary and Implications -- APPENDIX 1 Case Solutions -- Case A: Plunging Resources and Community-Wide Crisis -- Case B: Private Resource Strategies for the Long Haul -- Case C: Private Fundraising Strategy in a Newly Open Society -- Case D: Global Company Seeks Global Engagement -- Case E: Public Resources and Private Outreach -- Case F: New Leaders, New Passion, Persistent Problems.
Case G: Strength to Strength: Partnership to Boost Engagement -- Case H: Globalization and Social Media -- Case I: Multichannel Pathways to Reach New Fundraising Markets -- Case J: New Strength through Simplifying Identity -- Case K: Communications Strategy for Shifting Demographics -- Case L: New Institutions for New Demographics -- Case M: New Brand Strategy amid Economic Crisis -- Case N: Measuring Subtle Change in Diverse Organizations -- APPENDIX 2 Self-Assessment Questionnaire -- About the Author -- Index.
Abstract:
The guidance every nonprofit needs to plan the best survive-and-succeed strategy in any economy The slow and uneven climb out from the Great Recession promises nonprofits an economic future that is unlike the past. Get equipped with the tools you need to plan your resilient nonprofit strategy with Recession, Recovery, and Renewal: Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change. This dynamic book reveals how your nonprofit can choose and assess indicators that will anticipate rapid twists in the road. It illustrates how your nonprofit can adapt management, programs, skills, leadership, and governance to take advantage of-rather than suffer through-rapid and constant change. This book is a practical guide that teaches readers to identify, choose and track trend indicators in the market; establish systems to take up and act on both challenges and opportunities surfaced by those indicators; and produce concrete evidence of the impact of paying attention to those indicators. Examines the Great Recession and its effect on government finance Explores economic and industrial structure and performance over the next two decades, domestically and globally Provides a concrete strategic guide toward change, grow capacity, and fulfillment of your nonprofit's mission Offers a practical guide to restructuring the business model of nonprofits to anticipate-not react-to change Documents the nature and levels of current and future economic change Featuring a profile self-assessment questionnaire to help readers determine their readiness to adapt to change and to produce evidence to support innovation and performance and case studies written by agencies of Omnicom, a global Fortune 200 company, together with their nonprofit and corporate partners based on actual strategy development, Recession, Recovery, and Renewal: Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies
for Rapid Economic Change is the first book to provide the nonprofit sector with a concrete guide to organizational strategy based on documented statistical evidence of the future economic and leadership structure-that will eventually become the operating environment.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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