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Make your Board dramatically more effective, starting today.

by Gayle L. Gifford, ACFRE

JUST RELEASED. Revised version of How are we Doing?

Can you put your average or good board on the road to greatness? Indeed you can, says Gayle Gifford in How to Make Your Board Dramatically More Effective, Starting Today. And you’re closer than you think. Gifford’s approach is ingenious. She doesn’t lecture, doesn’t scold, doesn’t harangue. Instead she challenges your board to transform itself by answering a series of straightforward but provocative questions.

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You and Your Nonprofit.  Practical advice and tips from the CharityChannel professional community

Forty-three contributing authors at the top of their game (Gayle among them) share their hard-won expertise in this easy-to-read, down-to-earth book. In his foreword, Bob Carter, Chair-elect, Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), writes, “This is surely the book I wish I had decades ago.”

The contributing authors cover a variety of subjects. You will learn about planning issues relating to governance, fundraising, administration and marketing. You will learn about leadership, and other topics as well. The editors’ goal is for you to enjoy reading about nonprofit management, leadership and fundraising and in the process learn ways to add value to your own work as someone who is, or will be, engaged in the nonprofit sector.

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Bringing a Development Director on Board
by Susan E. Geary, CFRE and Gayle L. Gifford, ACFRE

This handy guide will help you and your organization find and attract just the right candidate to the critical job of managing and growing your philanthropic revenues. Gayle and a colleague wrote this handy guide pro-bono for the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

This book is available only by mail from AFP.

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Meaningful Participation, A Citizens Guide to Collaborative Policy-making
by Gayle L. Gifford, ACFRE

Business and government use collaborative processes to avoid drawn-out battles with citizen activists. When should citizens agree to collaborate and how can they be sure their needs will really be part of the solution? This handbook for citizens is a long-needed addition to a literature of public participation dominated by powerful organizations. $9.95 Download for free.