Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits : Approaches and Templates to Help You Manage with Limited Resources.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction by Pamela Puleo, FAHP, CFRE -- Part 1: Why now? -- 1 Global Economic Impacts on Your Nonprofit -- 2 The Changing Nature of Volunteerism -- 3 Your Nonprofit in a Shrinking World -- Part Two: Project Management in Your nonprofit -- 4 Nonprofit Projects -- 5 Project Management Practices -- 6 Planning, Executing, Planning Some More -- 7 Becoming an Agile Nonprofit -- 8 The Superior Project Manager -- 9 Using Technology in Your Nonprofit Projects -- Part Three: Volunteer Management in Your Project-Based noprofit -- 10 Managing Volunteers -- 11 Recruiting and Retaining Reliable Volunteers -- 12 Five Rules of Effective Volunteer Engagement -- Part Four: Governance in Your Project-Based nonprofit -- 13 Project Management Office Functions -- 14 Leveraging Your Project Portfolio -- 15 The Role of Your Board and Other Project Sponsors -- Going Forward -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.

* Winner of the 2015 Axiom Business Book Awards Bronze Medal for Philanthropy/Nonprofits. Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits introduces nonprofit managers to the basic concepts of project management and provides dozens of templates to help you quickly implement practices to effectively manage your limited resources, financial and volunteer. The book emphasizes using appropriate project management practices, those that are not burdensome but rather agile in their approach. In keeping with this theme, the book explores how you can use social media to assist in the management of time-sensitive projects. You will learn how to apply just enough project management to: Be an active leader and a superior project manager; Respond with agility to change and the unexpected; Focus efforts on what truly matters; Recruit and engage a new generation of volunteers; Build a framework that ensures project success; Keep all stakeholders involved with the project satisfied. The book also addresses nonprofit governance and shows you how project portfolio management can be used to assist in communicating with boards of directors and other governing entities when crucial resource decisions need to be made. Finally, real-world case studies on project planning, portfolio management, and volunteer-managed projects will show you how others have achieved project success.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.