English or Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income

English: One Tongue, Many Voices

Author: Jan Svartvik

This readable textbook tells the fascinating story of the English language in three ways. It begins by tracing the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago and follows up by showing the geographical spread of the language and its increasing diversity. Finally, it looks at the present state of English as a global language and problems and uncertainties of its future.  Students interested in the history of the English language will be well-served by this valuable introduction.

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Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income: A Guide to Successful Strategies, Yale School of Management-The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures

Author: Bill Bradley

"Bringing together the best experts in the business, Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income offers up critical advice and insights to help even the most experienced social entrepreneurs improve upon enterprise performance; A critical addition to any practitioner resource library."
—Jed Emerson, lecturer in business, Stanford Business School and senior fellow, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation

"We live in a world that begs for the creation of new models of economic justice and opportunities. This book provides valuable information to support the efforts of nonprofit entrepreneurs to succeed in creating and operating ventures that are both sustainable and replicable while meeting economic and societal needs. Go for it!"
—Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders, Ben & Jerry's

"Nonprofit ventures have few of the traditional supports that are available to other types of organizations. Straddling the for-profit and nonprofit cultures, they inhabit a world not officially recognized, where roadmaps do not exist. Life on the thin strip between one land and another is always a precarious existence, full of trials and tribulations, but also charged with opportunity. This book provides the best thinking to help nonprofits capitalize on that opportunity."
—Bill Shore, chairman, Community Wealth Ventures

In collaboration with the Yale School of Management-The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures, this comprehensive guide identifies best practices for generating a reliable income stream and ultimately reducing nonprofit organizations' dependence on traditionalsources of funding. Edited by renowned scholar and consultant Sharon Oster and Cynthia Massarsky and Samantha Beinhacker, deputy directors of The Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures, Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income: A Guide to Successful Enterprise Strategies will teach readers sound business planning strategies that can significantly benefit their organization's internal capacity and financial health.

Table of Contents:

	Tables, figures, and exhibits
	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	The editors
	The contributors
1	Putting nonprofit business ventures in perspective	3
2	Building organizational capacity	19
3	Leadership strategies for managing a nonprofit enterprise	29
4	Targeting the market and developing a marketing plan	42
5	Pricing goods and services	61
6	Legal and tax considerations	77
7	Nonprofit ventures and governance issues	96
8	Securing financial capital	113
9	Pitching your venture	130
10	Forming strategic alliances	147
11	Growing your business with a high-engagement funder	161
12	Supporting nonprofit enterprise in emerging markets	181
13	Fundamentals of implementation	207
14	Real world challenges of implementation	224
15	Deploying resources effectively	247
16	Using performance metrics to assess impact	269
17	Taking your venture to scale	281
	Index	303