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Consulting With Nonprofits: A Practitioner's Guide

by Carol A. Lukas
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At last! A comprehensive guide to the art, craft, and business of consulting with nonprofits and community groups

Nonprofit consulting requires specialized skills and knowledge of how the sector works. This guide gives you the resources and tools to help you provide quality assistance throughout your career: experienced consultants will find it an invaluable reference; new consultants will get oriented to the sector and find step-by-step guidance through the entire process; technical specialists will gain insights into the larger processes that shape nonprofit organizations; for-profit consultants and business sector volunteers will discover how to shift their expertise to match the unique culture of nonprofit and community work; students in public administration, organization development, and nonprofit management will find it a useful guide for fieldwork, service projects, or future career search.

With this illustrated guide you get: an overview of the nonprofit sector and unique elements of consulting with nonprofits; the six-stage process of consulting with concrete steps and challenges in each stage; the art of consulting, including roles, dynamics, and ethics; lessons from the field—stories from thirty skilled consultants offering sage advice on common challenges from setting up contracts to cross-cultural consulting to choosing a consulting role that matches the client's needs; when team consulting makes sense; key differences between internal and external consulting; how to run your business; marketing your services; setting fees, estimating costs, and billing; managing your career growth; working with funders; nine worksheets, sample proposals, professional standards, annotated bibliography; and much more!

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Book details

Author
Carol Lukas
Imprint
Fieldstone Alliance, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Formats
Paperback, Hardcover
Subjects
Reference › Questions & Answers
Business & Economics › Nonprofit Organizations & Charities
Topics
nonprofit organizations · community groups · nonprofit sector · fees and billing · marketing · career development · team consulting
ISBN-13
9780940069176 (Paperback)9781630263034 (Hardcover)

About the author

CAROL A. LUKAS is a nonprofit consultant with more than 25 years of consulting and training experience and the author of Consulting with Nonprofits: A Practitioner’s Guide. Her recent books include A Funder’s Guide to Organizational Assessment, Conducting Community Forums: Engaging Citizens, Mobilizing Communities and Strengthening Nonprofit Performance: A Funder’s Guide to Capacity Building.

Lukas holds a degree in urban geography and served as President of Fieldstone Alliance, formerly the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation Consulting Services and Publishing Center.

When she’s not writing, Lukas draws on experience as an executive director of nonprofit organizations, a trustee of a community foundation, a consultant within a Fortune 500 company, and a small business owner. Her work specializes in helping organizations plan and manage change in strategic direction and organizational capacity.

Carol lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Format: Paperback