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How Are We Doing? A 1-Hour Guide to Evaluating Your Performance as a Nonprofit Board
by Gayle L. Gifford, ACFRE

Gayle wrote this book?to help open the sensitive conversation about change and higher effectiveness among board members.

Volunteer boards deserve tested standards, models and methods that inspire them to higher achievement, not another scolding. ?Board members often tell us that the brevity, readability and friendly relevance of Gayle?s book dramatically changed their outlook on board service. Order directly from the publisher.

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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.