Books published by Directory of Social Change

If you are a fundraiser or someone who needs to raise money for your organisation or scheme, you cannot be without this book. Never out of print since it was published in 1992, the book has more than earned its place on your fundraising department's bookshelf.

Grants fundraising has been the mainstay of income for charities for many years making up around GBP3 billion of annual voluntary income in the UK alone. This guide shows you how to maximise the value of this area of fundraising for your charity.

What are vision, mission and objectives? Not a trick question but as the distinctions are befuddling to many and are fundamental to understanding your organisation, you'll want to get them right. This book will help you to understand the difference between these concepts, why each matters and how to develop them within your organisation.

This book is your indispensable aid to setting your fundraising strategy. It shows you how to: * Understand the internal and external fundraising environment * Identify your strategic objectives and key audiences * Structure your tactics * Track, measure and control your plan * Avoid strategic wear-out

Becoming a charity trustee allows you give back to a cause that you care passionately about, but the role could come with personal benefits too - boosting your health, happiness, confidence and career prospects. How To Become a Charity Trustee is a practical toolkit for charity trustee volunteering that gives clear guidance on how to get started.

Practical Project Management is a realistic and easy-to-follow guide to managing projects for voluntary organisations

Being knowledgeable and experienced as a trustee is important, but having the ability to interact effectively with fellow board members is where good governance really starts. With chapters themed by different ABBA tunes and with frank real-life examples firmly to the fore, Debra Allcock Tyler delivers practical advice straight from the shoulder.

A guide for culture and heritage organisations that wish to create, sustain and increase recurring income from individual donors. This book provides information on how to go about improving fundraising from individual donors, and an understanding of what is needed to make it work, in terms of people, techniques and mechanisms, and relationships.

The leading title on the subject for over 14 years (previously called Essential Volunteer Management) and the 'go to' resource for volunteer managers and personnel officers alike. With the involvement of new third author, UK volunteering expert Rob Jackson, the remit of this new edition has been broadened and extended.

Community Fundraising is one of the oldest and most common forms of fundraising and yet in spite of this there is surprisingly little written about this area of fundraising. This book fills that gap.

There will be days when you feel like murdering your bosses, your team or your colleagues!Do not despair -- if you have recently become a manager, or are in need of a skill refresh, this book will guide you to being more effective and confident in your role.

Tells you what a board secretary is and why you need one. It explains the roles, duties and responsibilities depending on your organisation and how an effective board and robust governance depend on having a top board secretary. A must-read for anyone who is or about to become a board secretary. Valuable too for trustees, CEOs and leadership teams.

The charity sector survives and thrives thanks to people like you - people who volunteer as trustees for the benefit of others. The responsibility of trusteeship, and the volume of legal information on what you should and should not do, however, can be overwhelming. This bestselling guide will help you find your way and make good decisions.

This is a key textbook for anyone responsible for fundraising, whether your post covers legacy giving in particular, or you have a wider remit. The guide will also be of use to senior charity staff, chief executives and trustees considering a legacies strategy. New chapters including In-Memory Fundraising and Digital Communications.

This book offers all the advice you need to help your charity create successful and long-lasting partnerships with corporates. In association with the Hartsook Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy at Plymouth University and the Institute of Fundraising.

CIOs are a fundamentally new legal form for charities in England & Wales, under the Charities Act 2006. Registration of new CIOs is now due to be possible from mid-2009. This book is intended to provide the full range of practical guidance needed by voluntary sector practitioners to establish new CIOs or to convert existing charities to CIOs.

Learn how to lead your organisation more effectively, manage it with greater efficiency and govern it with enhanced energy with this fully revised guide to civil society management by your side.

VAT for charities is complex, but this guide makes it simple and jargon-free. It takes you through all the essential knowledge. Written by one of the most experienced finance minds, you'll be sure you're using your VAT entitlements and reliefs to the fullest advantage, while avoiding the pitfalls that could result in a huge and unexpected bill.

Remarkably little is known about effective leadership teams are in UK charities. This publication answers these questions by investigating, for the first time in detail by interviewing 100 of the top charities.

A comprehensive guide for voluntary sector managers and trustees on developing strategy, business planning and change. Packed with tools, case studies and practical advice. It shows how all staff can participate in developing a solid business plan that will increase the effectiveness of your organisation. The new edition has been fully revised.

A book that will challenge, delight and encourage in equal measure, this uncompromising book bemoans the madness of poor donor stewardship that besets the charitable sector and sets to put it right. A no nonsense book and refreshing look at achieving the real worth of charitable donors.