21st Century Skills for Non-Profit Managers
Don MacDonald, "21st Century Skills for Non-Profit Managers"
English | ISBN: 1947098187 | 2017 | 140 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1947098187 | 2017 | 140 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The non profit sector in the UK encompasses charities, social enterprises and friendly societies, employing 820,000 staff and 15 million volunteers and raising £19 billion a year from individuals. With gross income of over £70 billion and additional voluntary effort, it is bigger than the motor industry. However severe cuts in funding since 2010 have made the process of leading and managing third social sector organizations even more challenging indeed. Leadership and management skills in the sector therefore become both more important and more demanding. Hence the need for a book directed at managers, who may be either new to the sector, new to the role ort taking on specific new duties such as fundraising. Readers will therefore have a wide range of previous experience and knowledge, which the book has to encompass to ensure there is something relevant and useful for managers at different levels. I adopt a practical rather than an academic approach;