Non-profit management

Native America at the new Millennium is a Ford Foundation-funded collaboration by the Harvard Project, Native Nations Institute, and First Nations Development Institute that serves as a primer on contemporary American Indian affairs. NANM addresses topics as wide-ranging as tribal government, non-profit organizations, political activism, economic development, housing, welfare, health, arts, and media.

Editor Dennis R. Young offers practical guidelines to help nonprofit managers maximize the effectiveness of their valuable resources. Nonprofit leaders must advance their mission while balancing the agendas of trustees, funders, government, and staff. Here, expert authors explore the core operating decisions that face all organizations and provide solutions that work for nonprofits of any size.

Investing in Capacity Building: A Guide to High-Impact Approaches Improving management practices—the most challenging aspect of capacity building—is essential to increasing the impact of a nonprofit's limited resources. Author Barbara Blumenthal helps grantmakers and consultants design better methods of helping nonprofits, while showing nonprofit managers how to get more effective support.

Author Paul Firstenberg challenges grantmakers to proactively assist their grantee's management in maximizing the nonprofit's social impact, showing grantseekers how potential funders increasingly emphasize organizational capacity building.

2008, 8 pages. National Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., 20506, 202-682-5400, www.nea.gov

http://www.nea.gov/research/TheaterBrochure12-08.pdf

2008, 24 pages. The Wallace Foundation, 5 Penn Plaza, 7th floor, New York, NY, 10001, 212-251-9700, www.wallacefoundation.org

http://www.wallacefoundation.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/
WF/Knowledge Center/Attachments/PDF/arts-for-
all-connecting-to-new-audiences.pdf

2008, 295 pages. Brookings Institution Press, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., 20036, 202-797-6000, www.brookings.edu

http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2008/
searchforsocialentrepreneurship.aspx

2008, 31 pages. The Wallace Foundation, 5 Penn Plaza, 7th floor, New York, NY, 10001, 212-251-9700, www.wallacefoundation.org

http://www.wallacefoundation.org/wallace/
whitepaper_weiss.pdf

Gourd Girls
Priscilla Wilson
2005, 220 pages
Mt. Yonah Press, Sautee, Georgia