Books & articles that have made the biggest
difference in my life in philanthropy

Building Community by Gardner, John W. Independent Sector, Washington, D.C., September 1991.

Built to Last Collins by James C. and Jerry I. Porras. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.

Clicks and Mortar by David S. Pottruck and Terry Pearce. Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, 2000.

The Commons: Our Mission If We Choose to Accept It by Roger Lohmann. The Nonprofit Quarterly. Summer 2003.

The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of a Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge. New York: Doubleday, 1990.

The Greatest Leadership Challenge: Renewing our Belief in Democracy and Political Advocacy by Scott Harshbarger. The Nonprofit Quarterly, Summer 2003.

The Living Company by Arie De Geus. Harvard Business Review, March-April 1997.

Robin Hood Was Right: A Guide to Giving Your Money for Social Change by Chuck Collins and Pam Rogers. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.

Who’s Promoting the General Welfare? by Jeff Madrick. The Nonprofit Quarterly. Summer 2003

Fund development books

Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising, Henry A. Rosso and Associates, ISBN 1-55542-387-6

Building Donor Loyalty: The Fundraier's Guide to Increasing Lifetime Value, Adrian Sargeant and Elaine Jay, ISBN 0-7879-6834-X

Capital Campaigns: Strategies That Work, Andrea Kihlstedt and Catherine P. Schwartz, ISBN 0-8342-0794-X

Corporate and Foundation Fund Raising: A Complete Guide from the Inside, Eugene A. Scanlan, PhD, CFRE, ISBN 0-8342-0936

Developing Major Gifts: Turning Small Donors into Big Contributors, Laura Fredricks, ISBN 0-8342-1829-1

Direct Marketing for Nonprofits: Essential Techniques for the New Era, Kay Partney Lautman, CFRE, ISBN 0-8342-1959-X

Donor Focused Strategies for Annual Giving, Karla A. Williams, ACFRE, ISBN 0-8342-0896-2

Fundraising Basics: A Complete Guide, 2nd edition, Barbara L. Ciconte, CFRE and Jeanne G. Jacob, ISBN0-8342-1890-9

Fund-Raising Cost Effectiveness, James M. Greenfield, FAHP, ACFRE, ISBN 0-421-10916-9

Grassroots Fundraising Journal, 3781Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611, www.grassrootsfundraising.org (And eliminate it from the bigger list.)

High Impact Philanthropy: How Donors, Boards and Nonprofit Organizations Can Transform Communities, Kay Sprinkel Grace, CFRE and Alan L. Wendroff, ISBN 0-471-36918-7

Membership Development: An Action Plan for Results, Patricia Rich, CFRE and Dana Hines, ISBN0-8342-1971-9

Planned Giving Essential: A Step by Step Guide to Success, Richard D. Barrett and Molly E. Ware, ISBN 0-8342-0900-4

Relationship Fundraising: A Donor-Based Approach to the Business of Raising Money, Ken Burnett, ISBN 0 - 9518971-0-1

Strategic Fund Development: Building Profitable Relationships That Last, 2nd edition, Simone P. Joyaux, ACFRE, ISBN 0-8342-1898-4

Successful Special Events: Planning, Hosting, and Evaluating, Barbara R. Levy, ACFRE and Barbara H. Marion, CFRE , ISBN 0-8342-0935-7

The Mercifully Brief Real World Guide to Raising More Money With Newsletters Than You Ever Though Possible, Tom Ahern, ABC, ISBN 1-889102-07-5

Governance / board development

Carver, John. Boards That Make A Difference: A New Design for Leadership on Nonprofit and Public Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1991. See also The Policy Governance Fieldbook, Caroline Oliver, General Editor. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999.

Chait, Richard P., William P. Ryan and Barbara E. Taylor. Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards, BoardSource and John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Conger, Jay A., David Finegold and Edward E. Lawler III. “Appraising Boardroom Performance,” Harvard Business Review, January - February 1998.

Dayton, Kenneth N. “Governance is Governance,” Occasional paper from the Independent Sector, Washington, D.C., 202-223-8100. 1983, 2000, 2001

Herzlinger, Regina E. “Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors,” Harvard Business Review, July-August 1994.

Light, Paul C., The Four Pillars of High Performance: How Robust Organizations Achieve Extraordinary Results, McGraw Hill Publishers, 2005.Lorsch, Jay W. “Empowering the Board,” Harvard Business Review. January  - February 1995.

Taylor, Barbara E., Richard P. Chait, Thomas P. Holland. “The New Work of the Nonprofit Board,” Harvard Business Review, September-October 1996.

Organizational development / management / marketing / communications / change

Andrews, Kenneth R. “Ethics in Practice,” Harvard Business Review, September-October 1989.

Argyris, Chris. “Good Communication That Blocks Learning,” Harvard Business Review, July-August 1994.

Bartlett, Christopher A. and Sumantra Ghoshal. “Changing the Role of Top Management: Beyond Strategy to Purpose,” Harvard Business Review, November-December 1994.

Block, Peter. Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1993.

Bolman, Lee G. and Terrence E. Deal. Leading with Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1995.

Collins, James C. and Jerry I. Porras. “Building Your Company’s Vision,” Harvard Business Review, September-October 1996.

Collins, James C. and Jerry I. Porras. Built to Last. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.

Colllins, James C., Good to Great, Harper Business

Drucker, Peter F. Managing the Nonprofit Organization: Principles and Practices. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990.

Duck, Jeanie Daniel. “Managing Change: The Art of Balancing,” Harvard Business Review, November-December 1993.

Eisenhardt, Kathleen M., Jean L. Kahwajy, and L.J. Bourgeois III. “How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight,” Harvard Business Review. July - August 1997.

Ellinor, Linda and Glenna Gerard. Dialogue: Rediscover the Transforming Power of Conversation. NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1998.

Gibson, James L., John M. Ivancevich and James H. Donnelly, Jr. Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes. 6th edition. IL: Business Publications Inc., 1973.

Gladwell, Malcolm, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Little, Brown and Company, 2005.

New book: Gladwell, Malcolm, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference, Little, Brown and Company, 2003.

Godfrey, Joline. Our Wildest Dreams: Women Entrepreneurs Making Money, Having Fun, Doing Good: A Whole New Definition of Success and an Entirely New Paradigm of Working Life. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992.

Harrison, E. Frank. The Managerial Decision-Making Process. 3rd edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987.

Katzenbach, Jon R. and Douglas K. Smith. The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization. HarperCollins Publishers, 1993.

Katzenbachk Jon R. and Douglas K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High Performance Organization, HarperBusiness, 1993.

Kotler, Philip and Alan R. Andreason. Strategic Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations. 3rd ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1987. (I think there is a newer edition now.)

Kotter, John P. “Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail,” Harvard Business Review, March-April 1995.

Lancaster, Lynne C. and David Stillman, When Generations Collide: Who They Are. Why They Clash. How to Solve the Generational Puzzle At Work, HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. (Remo, no space between the publisher name)

Majchrzak, Ann and Qianwei Wang. “Breaking the Functional Mind-Set in Process Organizations,” Harvard Business Review, September-October 1996.

Marion, Barbara H. “Decision making in ethics,” Ethics in Fundraising: Putting Values Into Practice, Marianne G. Briscoe, editor. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, Number 6, Winter 1994.

Porter, Michael E. “What is Strategy?” Harvard Business Review, November-December 1996.

Putnam, Robert D., Bowling Alone: THe collapse and Revival of American Community, Simon and Schuster, 2000.

Ross, Bernard and Clare Segal, Breakthrough Thinking for Nonprofit Organizations: Creative Strategies for Extraordinary Results, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2002.

Senge, Peter M. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of a Learning Organization. New York: Doubleday, 1990.

Senge, Peter M., Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Richard B. Ross, and Bryan J. Smith. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization. New York: Doubleday, 1994.

Thomas, David A. and Robin J. Ely. “Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity,” Harvard Business Review, September-October 1996

Leadership

DePree, Max. Leadership is an Art. New York: Dell Publishing, 1989.

Farkas, Charles M. and Suzy Wetlaufer. “The Ways Chief Executive Officers Lead,” Harvard Business Review, May-June 1996.

Gardner, John  W. On Leadership. New York: The Free Press, 1990.

Heifetz, Ronald A. and Donald L. Laurie. “The Work of Leadership,” Harvard Business Review, January-February 1997.

Keshavan, Nair. A Higher Standard of Leadership: Lessons from the Life of Gandhi. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1994.

Kim, W. Chan and Renée A. Mauborgne. “Parables of Leadership,” Harvard Business Review, July-August 1992.

Kotter, John P. “What Leaders Really Do,” Harvard Business Review, May-June 1990.

Leader to Leader. Quarterly publication of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers. 888.378.2537.

Perdido: Leadershp with a Conscience. Homewood, IL: Trinity Foundation/High Tide Press, 708-206-2054

Planning

Hamel, Gary. “Strategy as Revolution,” Harvard Business Review, July-August 1996.

Joyaux, Simone P., Strategic Fund Development: Building Profitable Relationships That Last. Very comprehensive section on strategic planning.

And P.S. Here are a few recommendation from my marketing/communications consultant husband.

Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. (ISBN # 0-7897-2310-7) Apparently Krug is the guru of web usability.

And Tom also says, check out The Motley Fool’s Rule Breakers, Rule Makers: The Foolish Guide to Picking Stocks, by David and Tom Gardner. The book talks about what makes a business effective, including mission.