| 1. |  | The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
from Penguin Press HC, The
Price: $18.45
Customer Review:
Well researched and very well written critique of foreign development aid. Very useful in challenging the conventional wisdom of much strategic aid policy | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
from Viking
Price: $16.47
Customer Review:
Thanks for the excellent service; I'm sure the book will be appreciated by the person who will receive it. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives)
from Tufts
Price: $23.10
Customer Review:
What is new in Dan Pallotta's book is not really important, and what is important, isn't really new. Mr. Pallotta's main reason for writing the book is to expose what he feels were unfair critiques of his commercial fund raising company. His rendition of his company's experience provide the only... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment, Fully Revised and Updated
from Free Press
Price: $23.10
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| 5. |  | Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits
from Jossey-Bass
Price: $19.77
Customer Review:
I finished reading Forces For Good a few months ago. Yet I hadn't written about it, because I was observing how the concepts captured in it started to sink in and permeate into the way that we manage our own work in the Diabetes Hands Foundation. I am seeing the truth in the six forces described by... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need: Top Grant Writers and Grant Givers Share Their Secrets
from Basic Books
Price: $12.89
Customer Review:
This is a fantastic book on how to write grants. I am still reading it, but it tells you every detail that you need for the chore of writing a grant. Very well done.
| 4.5 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Managing the Nonprofit Organization
from Collins Business
Price: $11.53
Customer Review:
"Don't be afraid of strengths in your organization," writes Peter Drucker. "This is the besetting sin of people who run organizations. Of course, able people are ambitious. But you run far less risk of having able people around who want to push you out than you risk by being served by... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Grant Writing For Dummies (For Dummies (Career/Education))
from For Dummies
Price: $14.95
Customer Review:
Excellent source for getting started.. The web-links resource lists start an avalanche of available resources. Very practical suggestions on how to organize and establish a grant writing process. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Accounting for Governmental and Non-profit Entities
Customer Review:
This is a horrible book! Do not buy it. It is a student's nightmare. If you want to learn about government and nonprofit accounting, you're NOT going to gain much, if any, knowledge from this book. The authors do not use plain language, but talk back on themselves in sentences so that the flow of... more info | 3.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compasionate Conservatism Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why It Matters
from Basic Books
Price: $18.46
Customer Review:
The Author negates most of his premise by starting off saying that Danes are the happiest people on earth. Denmark is very socialist, has incredibly high taxes, and is also very secular. Only 5% of Danes regularly attend Church compared to 43% of Americans.
The author's conclusion based on his... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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