Ebook: Recession, Recovery, and Renewal: Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change

The guidance every nonprofit needs to plan the best survive-and-succeed strategy in any economy

The slow and uneven climb out from the Great Recession promises nonprofits an economic future that is unlike the past. Get equipped with the tools you need to plan your resilient nonprofit strategy with Recession, Recovery, and Renewal: Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change. This dynamic book reveals how your nonprofit can choose and assess indicators that will anticipate rapid twists in the road. It illustrates how your nonprofit can adapt management, programs, skills, leadership, and governance to take advantage of?rather than suffer through?rapid and constant change.

This book is a practical guide that teaches readers to identify, choose and track trend indicators in the market; establish systems to take up and act on both challenges and opportunities surfaced by those indicators; and produce concrete evidence of the impact of paying attention to those indicators.

• Examines the Great Recession and its effect on government finance
• Explores economic and industrial structure and performance over the next two decades, domestically and globally
• Provides a concrete strategic guide toward change, grow capacity, and fulfillment of your nonprofit's mission
• Offers a practical guide to restructuring the business model of nonprofits to anticipate?not react?to change
• Documents the nature and levels of current and future economic change

Featuring a profile self-assessment questionnaire to help readers determine their readiness to adapt to change and to produce evidence to support innovation and performance and case studies written by agencies of Omnicom, a global Fortune 200 company, together with their nonprofit and corporate partners based on actual strategy development, Recession, Recovery, and Renewal:Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change is the first book to provide the nonprofit sector with a concrete guide to organizational strategy based on documented statistical evidence of the future economic and leadership structure?that will eventually become the operating environment.

Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–5):
Chapter 2 Cascading Crisis (pages 8–25):
Chapter 3 Recovery and Near?Term Economic Prospects (pages 27–41):
Chapter 4 A Multipolar Global Economy (pages 45–57):
Chapter 5 Changing Corporate Context (pages 59–71):
Chapter 6 Changing Corporate Context (pages 73–81):
Chapter 7 It Depends on What You Mean by “Give” (pages 83–97):
Chapter 8 Wealth (pages 99–113):
Chapter 9 The Global Benefits of Rising Well?Being (pages 115–127):
Chapter 10 Next?Gen Leaders (pages 129–137):
Chapter 11 The Globalization of Philanthropy in the United States and Abroad (pages 141–158):
Chapter 12 The Erosion of Place (pages 159–170):
Chapter 13 Will Complexity Erode Trust? (pages 171–184):
Chapter 14 Programming for the Future (pages 185–200):
Chapter 15 The Arc of Philanthropic Innovation (pages 201–210):
Chapter 16 Five Organizing Principles for Strategy amid Rapid Change (pages 213–223):
Chapter 17 The Utility of Fluid Discipline (pages 225–241):
Chapter 18 Indicators and Evidence: A Suggested Place to Begin (pages 243–251):