Finance Fundamentals for Nonprofits Building Capacity and Sustainability

Finance Fundamentals for Nonprofits: Building Capacity and Sustainability By Woods Bowman(auth.)
2011 | 215 Pages | ISBN: 1118004515 | PDF | 3 MB
A complete guide to the financial requirements a nonprofit organization must follow to indefinitely maintain the volume and quality of their services 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):