Chamber management

Benchmarking in Association Management

Social Media Policies and Procedures By ASAE American Society of Association Executives
This research report provides a useful snapshot of the social media practices of membership organizations and sets the stage to dig deeper into practice, plans, and strategy to help associations adopt and gain leverage from social media tools.

Chief Executive Transitions

How to Hire and Support a Nonprofit CEO By Don Tebbe
When a nonprofit finds itself in need of a new chief executive, managing the transition effectively is crucial to the organization's future impact and continued success. Chief Executive Transitions will not only help boards navigate the hiring process but also oversee a successful leadership transition.

Designing Your Future

Key Trends, Challenges, and Choices Facing Association and Nonprofit LeadersBy Fast Future
Keeping abreast of current events is one thing; viewing trends through the lens of implications and action plans for your organization is another. That's where Designing Your Future can serve as a valuable resource.

Navigating the Organizational Lifecycle

A Capacity Building Guide for Nonprofit Leaders By Paul Connolly
This book teaches board members and chief executives how to assess where their organizations are in their lifecycle; helps determine if capacities are properly aligned with the current stage of development; identifies weaknesses and situations that create change, growth, challenges, and opportunities.

Professional Practices in Association Management

The Essential Resource for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations By John B. Cox
This edition covers all the core areas of association and nonprofit management. Major topics include governance and structure, leadership processes, management and administration (including finance and human resources), internal and external relations, and programs and services.

Six Disciplines Execution Revolution

Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier By Gary Harpst
As a follow-up to the success of Six Disciplines for Excellence, Harpst's new book, Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution, details the elements of a complete strategy execution program, clarifies how it could only have happened now, and explains why such a program will soon become a mainstream requirement for your business.

Strategic Planning Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations

By Bryan W. Barry
In an environment of increased competition, funding cuts, and other pressures, strategic planning is a sound management tool for nonprofits. This workbook provides a guide for developing, implementing, and updating a strategic plan. Sample plan and blank worksheets are included.

The Decision to Learn

By Lillie R. Albert and Monica Dignam
The Decision to Learn provides the information learning providers need to offer professional education opportunities that will appeal to their audiences, including how to draw in people seeking certification, how to structure and deliver educational offerings, what matters to different demographic segments in particular younger generations and how to accommodate for perceived barriers among learners.

The Decision to Volunteer

By Beth Gazley and Monica Dignam
Volunteers are the lifeblood of associations and membership organizations. They allow these organizations to achieve far more than they could if they relied on paid staff alone, bringing new energy and expertise, providing credibility to educational and certification programs as field experts, actively recruiting new members, and filling essential governance roles. The Decision to Volunteer presents the most extensive survey data to date to explain who volunteers are and why they do what they do.

The Volunteer Management Handbook

Leadership Strategies for Success By Tracy D. Connors

Completely revised and expanded, the ultimate guide to starting—and keeping—an active and effective volunteer program Drawing on the experience and expertise of recognized authorities on nonprofit organizations.

Powered by Pro Bono

The Nonprofit's Step-by-Step Guide to Scoping, Securing, Managing, and Scaling Pro Bono Resources By Aaron Hurst
This book shares the Taproot Foundation’s pro bono best practices and shows nonprofit managers how to apply them to their own unique challenges in a low-to-no-cost way. It offers keys to identifying opportunities for using pro bono sources, recruiting pro bono resources, and managing pro bono projects effectively.

Govern More, Manage Less, Second Edition In Govern More, Manage Less, we suggest actions that will help your board balance its responsabilities and understand how to practice macrogovernance and avoid micromanagement, despite increasing demands for procedural accountability. We provide guidance on how to shift the board's central from management to governance, from compliance to performance.

Govern Green

Govern Green provides a step-by-step approach to create an organizational culture that supports a deep commitment to sustainability. We also suggest appropriate entry points for board involvment, explain how to formulate a vision and strategy, develop a sustainability policy, review investments, and provide oversight.

Driving Strategic Planning

Driving Strategic Planning: A Nonprofit Executive's Guide, Second Edition provides insight into the strategic planning process to help you clarify where your organization is going, how it's going to get there, and how it will know when it's arrived. We help you steer your organization's key stakeholders in the same direction with respect to priorities and long - and short - term objectives.