Finance Fundamentals for Nonprofits: Building Capacity and Sustainability
Woods Bowman(auth.)An organization may have plenty of capacity in the long run, but in the short run, donor restrictions and limited financing options are constraining. Here-and-now liquid assets are the only resources available. Finance Fundamentals for Nonprofits: Building Capacity and Sustainability shows how to measure a nonprofit organization's financial capacity in different time frames and how to measure its ability to sustain capacity in each case.
- Explains how nonprofits differ from businesses and how they promote values-centered management
- Reveals how to improve financial capacity and sustainability
- Written by a nonprofit scholar
Filled with real-world case studies and actionable advice relating financial health to financial capacity and sustainability, this book is essential reading for every nonprofit professional.Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction: How Nonprofits are (and are Not) Like Businesses (pages 1–14):
Chapter 2 Accounting: Measuring Past Performance (pages 15–32):
Chapter 3 Investing: Looking to the Future (pages 33–47):
Chapter 4 Budgeting: Taking Control of the Present (pages 49–64):
Chapter 5 Nonprofits in History and Tax Law: Why Nonprofits Do What They Do (pages 65–80):
Chapter 6 Ordinary Service Providers: Serving the Public Today (pages 81–95):
Chapter 7 Membership Associations: Serving People with a Common Purpose (pages 97–106):
Chapter 8 Endowed Service Providers: Serving the Next Generation, Too (pages 107–119):
Chapter 9 Grantmaking Organizations: Serving Service Providers (pages 121–134):
Chapter 10 Beyond Sustainability: Managing Revenue to Maximize Growth (pages 135–147):
Chapter 11 The Nonprofit Difference: Doing Good Well (pages 149–158):