Book Description
With this book, fundraising mistakes are a thing of the past. Or rather, there's no excuse for making a serious mistake anymore.
If you blunder from now on, it's simply evidence you haven't read Kay Sprinkel Grace's book, Fundraising Mistakes that Bedevil All Boards (and Staff Too), in which she exposes the "Top 40" errors that continually thwart board members, volunteers, and staff alike.
Here's just a sampling: • "Tax deductibility is a powerful incentive." In reality it isn't much of a motivator at all, as you'll learn. • "People will give just because yours is a good cause." They won't. Donors are far more demanding today. • "Special events are the best way to raise money." They're actually one of the least effective methods. • "You need a powerful board to have a successful campaign." The truth is, you can succeed without an influential board. • "Wealth is mostly what determines a person's willingness to give." Not so. Other factors are equally important. • "We can't raise big money - we don't know any rich people." Don't believe it. You can raise substantial dollars even if you don't travel in affluent circles. • "Without a stable of annual donors, you can't have a successful capital campaign." In fact you can, but your tactics will be different.
And that touches on only seven of the mistakes Grace exposes - and explodes.
Just as anyone in journalism should own Strunk and White's, The Elements of Style, anyone involved in fundraising - board member, volunteer, staff - should have Fundraising Mistakes that Bedevil All Boards (and Staff Too) by their side.
Customer Reviews:
We're Mistake Free Now!.......2006-10-21
My board read this book and it opened their eyes IMMEDIATELY to a slew of mistakes we've been making as far as raising money is concerned. It's a quick read, easy to understand, and digestible even for those new to fundraising.
Book Description
One-Hour Mysteries offers five motivating mysteries that your students can solve using clues and logical reasoning. Your students become "crime scene investigators," analyzing clues found at a crime scene and applying forensic techniques in their analysis.
Each mystery includes a complete set of teacher instructions and blackline masters that may be photocopied for classroom use. This exciting book features the following mysteries: Mystery at the Mall, The Coaster Caper, The Case of Santa's Blackmail, The Case of the Missing Tiara, and A Hollywood Crime.
What better way to motivate critical thinking than with a whodunit? Skills include deductive reasoning, inferring, taking notes, organizing data, and analyzing evidence.
Get ready for real thinking combined with cloak-and-dagger fun!
If you like this book, you'll love the follow-up, More One-Hour Mysteries.
Grades 4-8
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Teachers loved Mary Ann Carr's One-Hour Mysteries and asked for more! In this follow-up to her wildly popular book, Ms. Carr offers five More One-Hour Mysteries. This book offers motivating mysteries that your students can solve using clues and logical reasoning. Your students become "crime scene investigators," analyzing clues found at a crime scene and applying forensic techniques in their analysis.
Each mystery includes a complete set of teacher instructions and blackline masters that may be photocopied for classroom use. This exciting book features the following mysteries: Miss Moneybags' Last Will and Testament, The Doggone Mystery, The Case of Forged Houdini, Who Took the Video Game, and Aunt Sally's Secret.
What better way to motivate critical thinking than with a whodunit? Skills include deductive reasoning, inferring, taking notes, organizing data, and analyzing evidence.
Get ready for real thinking combined with cloak-and-dagger fun!
Grades 4-8
Book Description
Until now, almost all books dealing with board evaluation have had an air of unreality about them. The perplexing graphs, the matrix boxes, the overlong questionnaires. It took only a thumbing through to render a judgment: "My board's going to use this? Get real!"
Enter Gayle Gifford. Inhale the fresh air. See the ground break. Watch the clutter clear.
This nationally respected author and board consultant has pioneered an elegantly simple and enjoyable way for boards to evaluate and improve their overall performance.
It all comes down to answering a few dozen straightforward questions - questions that, as Graham Greene would say, get to "the heart of the matter."
-Have we set a goal for the good we want to do? -How well do we know our community's needs? -Do we know if our programs are having an impact? -Do we ask the right financial questions? -Do we govern and resist the temptation to manage? -Do we recruit the board members we need? -Have we decided the board's role in fundraising?
It doesn't matter whether the setting is formal, as in a special board meeting, or casual - the chairperson's living room.
It doesn't matter whether you have 75 board members or seven.
It doesn't matter whether yours is an established institution or a grassroots start-up.
All that matters is that the questions are answered candidly and the responses discussed.
Gifford has done nothing less than transform the way boards will evaluate themselves from this day forward.
Customer Reviews:
Questions that all board members need to ask...and answer.......2006-01-16
Gayle Gifford must have been an inquisitive child, because she asks a lot of questions. Really good questions -- the kind that ought to have obvious answers, but then you think about them and realize the answers are more complex, and more important, than you first imagined. Her new book, How Are We Doing?, includes 34 questions that all nonprofit boards should be asking themselves. Questions like, "Do we appreciate our directors for what they do?" and "Are we prepared to respond to a changing world?"
Each of these topics could fill an entire book -- and several have -- but none is this concise: you can read the entire book in an hour. If you serve on a nonprofit board and you're unclear about your role or your impact, read this one -- it might be the most productive hour you spend on board governance issues.
This is a "Gotta Have" for Board Members.......2006-01-07
This is a lot of wisdom in a small space, an easy to read-and-understand approach to determining if a non-profit board is doing what it should be doing. Each brief chapter focuses on one idea, and leaves no doubt in a reader's mind about how to determine what would work best for their organization. I am already using that one sentence, "It's negligent to keep investing money in programs without proof they make a difference," as part of my discussions with clients. This is a book I can, and will, recommend to clients and colleagues, secure in the knowledge that they will thank me for the recommendation.
How Are We Doing? A 1-hour Guide to Evaluating your Performance as a Nonprofit Board.......2006-01-04
I loved this book. It's more than a book about evaluating performance... it's a great how-to for creating a board of any organization's dreams. Broken down into short chapters, it's well written and easy to read. The ideas contained in this small book are BIG and important - definitely on the cutting-edge as related to where the field is going.
A book for busy Board members .......2005-10-13
This book will be an invaluable resource for busy Board members who want to focus their efforts on both the practicalities of their job as well as the greater vision which inspired them to volunteer in the first place. The key to this book is in the sub-title - A 1-Hour Guide to Evaluating your Performance as a Nonprofit Board. It is a rare find - simple, straightforward and designed for busy people. Each chapter is just a few pages long and ends with questions for the reader and/or Board collectively to answer. These questions are then summarized at the end in an Evaluation Survey. Sections include Making Our Community Better, Becoming Good Stewards and Building a Great Board. In an easy format to carry with you, it will surely become a staple for many Board meetings.
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Wouldn't it be nice if you could sit down with a lawyer who normally charges $600 per hour without any concern as to the amount of the legal fees you would incur? To get some expert, straightforward advice for yourself, a family member or friend who is contemplating marriage or divorce? Now is your chance to blow the bank on legal fees without actually doing so. A top family law attorney for twenty years provides hard-won reflections and commonsense advice (with witticisms) on love, marriage, and living together. Don't even think about tying the knot, breaking up or starting all over again without reading this lively, invaluable book.
Customer Reviews:
Promising theses but not much legal advice.......2007-08-07
I wish the author really shared his legal expertise with the reader rather than beating around the bushes. The book could and should be much more succinct and to the point, while still easy to read/listened. Instead we get a lot of common sense notions, and many repetitions of the obvious, and not enough actual legalistic information.
I've listened it in the digital format, and from more than 7 hours of audio, no more than 1 hour can be classified as legal advice. The rest is crowd-pleasing filling. Based on the subtitle $600 per hour legal advice, I defintely didn't got $4200 worth of legal advice.
Must read for all- married or not.......2006-01-24
What were you thinking... we have all asked ourselves that question many times! This book really makes you ask yourself the tough questions that are useful before, during, or after a marriage (or any relationship for that matter). The expertise and insight that Barondess has in regards to marriage and divorce is unique, as well as entertaining! Just the tips on working with an attorney in general are invaluable! I believe everyone who has had, or is thinking of having, a committed relationship (not just getting married), should read this book!
Very insightful on the impact of marriage and divorces.......2006-01-10
The author tends to engage in conjecture at times, but overall, his book is very insightful on the divorce process and it definitely makes one realize all the practical implications of a marriage. People often decide to marry when they are on such an emotional high that they do not realize how tough it is to merge lives and property together.
I would have liked to have seen more commentary by relationship experts such as Dr. Phil instead of celebrities, but I suppose the author is trying to show how even celebrities have the same marital issues as everyone else.
What Were You Thinking?.......2005-10-30
I am only 1/8 through this book and I WISH I had read this when I was 18. I am 52 and have been married to two sociopaths. A lot of the book verbalizes things many of us KNOW but we IGNORE. I recommend reading this to anyONE contemplating marriage. It's a wake up call. Makes you THINK. Some of us need someone to SAY things clearly in black and white. That would be ME. Well here it is... I plan on writing another review after completing reading this book. Stay tuned...
HILARIOUS... BUT TOO LATE FOR ME.......2005-10-19
My bride (we are still writing thank you notes for our wedding gifts) and I sat up until 2am the night we were given this book, laughing and reading parts of it aloud to each other. We both loved the part cautioning readers that whatever bugs you about your intended before the wedding will only get worse as the years pass... so true. The author, a tough divorce attorney, takes a pretty hard line: if you don't want to get divorced, then don't get ever get married. Well, we already did exactly what he advises against, but there was still plenty of valuable reading here. It gave this newlywed lots to think about... particularly enjoyed the interview with Gene Simmons, of all people, about relationships. Funny cartoons. Very enjoyable book.
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An essay by the author of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler, on the need for "Prussianism" in order to save civilization from the "Coloured Peril," based on Spengler's view, just after the Nazi rise to power in 1933, that the white (European) tribes were under attack by colored races through a "war" by various political forces - enemies of the white race. Spengler's writings had a great effect on the racial thinking of Adolf Hitler.
Customer Reviews:
A fascinating read.......2006-10-13
German historian and philosopher Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) is most remembered today for his magnum opus, The Decline of the West. But, much less known is his sequel, The Hour of Decision: Germany and World-Historical Evolution. In this fascinating book, Spengler looks at the decline of the West in the light of the rise of Communism and Fascism. Interestingly, Spengler sees Capitalism, Communism and even Fascism as part of the same trend towards a vulgar leveling of society.
After examining the state of the West, in light of World War I, he then turns to look at the rest of the world. This part is probably at the root of the accusations that the book is racist. Using an old way of thinking that has since been dropped, but was then quite current, Spengler divides the world into the "white world" and the "colored world." If instead of using Spengler's outmoded terms, you substitute "West" and "Third World", you will find that his analysis was penetrating and dead on. It is Spengler's view that the West was (at the time) losing the will and the ability to dominate the rest of the globe, and that those who had been dominated, colonized and exploited by the West would seek to overthrow that domination. That has since come to pass, and indeed, like Spengler suggests, the Third World has not forgotten the colonial past, nor has it forgiven it.
Overall, I found this to be a fascinating read. If you liked The Decline of the West, then you will like this book. I guess I should add at this point that the Nazi's did not like this book, and banned it for its criticism of Nazism! I can't think of a higher recommendation for this book. Get it!
The fate of the West foretold.......2005-06-15
The previous reviewer (who seems to think that Spengler is *advocating* when he is, in fact, *analyzing*) offers a complete distortion of this work. This is a penetrating follow-up to The Decline of the West, a book that takes the theories that Spengler outlined in abstract in his two-volume magnum opus, and applies them to the specific circumstances of his day.
As for the accusation of racism, Spengler means something completely different by the term ''race'' than what we now describe as ''racist'' thinking. As Spengler himself writes in this book:
''[S]peaking of race, it is not intended in the sense in which it is the fashion among anti-Semites in Europe and America to use it today: Darwinistically, materially. Race purity is a grotesque word in view of the fact that for centuries all stocks and species have been mixed, and the warlike -- that is, healthy -- generations with a future before them have from time immemorial always welcomed a stranger into the family if he had 'race,' to whatever race it was he belonged. Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.'' (p.219)
By ''race,'' Spengler means something much more akin to ''character,'' as well as cultural and national vitality. As he indicates in the above passage, he has no use for the more common type of racist thought, which he ridicules as mere ''zoology'' (p.225)
But moving beyond that specific issue, this work is a profound examination of the economic and spiritual crisis that faced Western culture in the 1930s, and continues to face it today.
A racist book which deserves all our censure........2004-03-15
The Hour of Decision was written by the German thinker Oswald Spengler and first published in 1933, the year National Socialism took over power in German. The book is a fizzled and sad sequel, despite foreseeable, to Oswald Spengler's major opus, The Decline of the West, first published in 1918 and one has the feeling that he seemed to grab with both hands the historical window of opportunity to jump into (mainly) Mussolini's autocratic bandwagon, frequently quoting the italian dictator as incorporating many of the qualities of a would-be imperial autocrat, in the shadows of Julius Cesar, Napoleon and a few others, thus fulfilling the natural whole autocrats should have in the History of the West, as per the Decline of the West.
In my opinion, Oswald Spengler's The Hour of Decision is a racist pamphlet against Jews and all minorities, and deserves all the censure for its backward racist points-of-view.
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Customer Reviews:
Feel the Heat of the Sinai 1956.......2003-04-07
S.L.A. Marshall is probably best known for his book "Swift Sword," which chronicled the 1967 "Six Day War" between the Israelis and the Arabs. However, he wrote extensively as a reporter, a foreign correspondent and a writer. Among the best of his many books is "Sinai Victory," which chronicles the complicated 1956 Suez War (often also called The One Hundred Hour War) between Egypt and Israel with France, the UK, and others. Marshall focuses on the combat between the Egyptians and Israelis on the Sinai Peninsula.
Marshall traveled to Israel and spent time with the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) at training, peacetime, and then war in 1956. His accounts are authentic and actual observations. Being a Western reporter at one time an official US Army reporter, Marshall has some very revealing and lucid observations of the Israeli army. He was given very free reign to interview Israeli commanders, troops, and others to make his determination how an inferior outnumbered Israeli army could defeat the massive forces of a nation like Egypt in so short a period of time. His comments on training and operational techniques are an excellent case study of desert warfare and still hold lessons for today's militaries in the Middle East (including the US and UK militaries in Iraq 2003).
The book is a hardback edition and features no photographs other than those on the dust jacket. However, Marshall included many hand drawn maps and illustrations inside, which are extremely cogent. Some of the information I have found in no other reference and is uniquely valuable. The three appendices cover training in the IDF, the air battle in 1956, and an outline and chronology of the war as well as an extremely useful index.
A small side note that I highly appreciated regards "Parker's Memorial," a large monument, which marks the Mitla Pass. It is actually a monument to Col. A.C. Palmer, DSO, and a British officer from earlier times. However, it was erroneously called "Parker's Memorial" so many times that the name has remained in most histories of the area.
While "Sinai Victory" is nonfiction and fact, I also highly recommend the historical fiction novel "Mitla Pass" by Leon Uris for more background on the 1956 Suez War.
This book is an outstanding reference to anyone studying the 1956 Suez War. Its' information would be useful to historians, wargamers, and anyone else interested in the topic.
I highly recommend "Sinai Victory" to anyone wanting to learn more about the 1956 Suez War.
Review by: Maximillian Ben Hanan
Israel defeats Egypt in the Sinai in 1956........2003-04-05
Marshall is an Army historian who has written several good books about America's battles in WWI and Korea. In this book, he writes about Israel's small army taking on the Egyptians during the Suez crisis. The Israeli Army manages to take over the Sinai from the Egyptians. In the book, a heroic Ariel Sharon makes his appearance in one of the central battles for control of the Sinai. All of the battles are covered in this 100 hour war. Marshall details the tactics the Israeli Army used in defeating the Egyptians. Also covered is how the Israeli Army is made up, the training required, and the role of women.
What is not covered in this book is the Egyptian perspective, and what the effects of the war were. This angle was not covered, and one wonders what the reader is missing from this perspective. I have read more thrilling combat history than that covered in this book.
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- Successful Change
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The 24-Hour Turn-Around: Discovering the Power to Change
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The 24-Hour Turnaround challenges people to spend one hour reading and contemplating each of the book's 24 chapters and to make a heartfelt decision to change in the area each chapter addresses. The premise is that decisions made in those 24 hours will transform the reader's career, health, relationships, and overall attitude. The authors provide specific, doable advice, biblical affirmation, and motivating examples to help readers turn their lives around. Topics include improving self-worth, setting achievable goals, controlling anxiety, winning by quitting, making the most of money, discovering excellence, and more.
Customer Reviews:
Successful Change.......2007-03-08
I LOVED this book and bought more copies to pass out to family and friends. Change doesn't happen until You are ready and I like the way this book makes it obvious that good things are waiting for us if we just choose to change. It's easy to ready, easy to implement when you are willing. I'm certain I will buy more of these for others.
more than "self-help".......2005-11-09
This book is encouraging and inspirational without being cheesy and overly smarmy like some stereotypical perceptions of self-help books. It really helps to allow understanding of self, and helps to sort out what it is that may be holding you back in your work or personal life.
The messages and chapters are practical and well-written, and while the words will result in deep personal epiphanies, the book is light enough to be read over and over again. Thoroughly enjoyable.
The best self-help book ever!!.......2005-01-10
If you are suffering from depression, low self-esteem, feelings of helplessness - this book is a "must read". I could not put it down. I have read it, and will again read it. I want to remember the details. I am so very happy that I ran across this book because it has changed my life. I feel ready to take on the world.
Help We Can All Use.......2000-03-30
This is an easy-to-read self-help book which doesn't get bogged down with words. It is subdivided into 24 one-hour segments. The idea is to read each, perhaps one per day, and spend an hour thinking and then acting upon the suggestions.
It differs from many such books in that you can easily put it down and pick it up later without losing continuity. It does have a Christian slant, though could be useful for anyone.
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