Book Bundles - Expand your library, broaden your toolkit
Fundraising books
Fire Up Your Fundraising Events - How to Make More Money While Having Fun (with online templates)
Drawing on the experience of professional event planners, teachers, parents and community fundraising experts, we've pulled together all the tools you'll need to pull off fantastic event.
The Complete Community Fundraising Handbook - How to make the most money ever for your community organisation
The Complete Community Fundraising Handbook offers advice aimed at improving your community organisation's fundraising efforts and will allow you to take control of your fundraising activities.
The Complete Schools Fundraising Handbook - How to make the most money ever for your school, pre-school or kindergarten
The Complete Schools Fundraising Handbook takes readers through the Six Pillars of Raising Funds - donations; grants; community-business partnerships; alumni; special events; and earned income - showing how each and every one of them can be used to bring in valuable funds.
Winning Grants Funding in Australia - The Step by Step Guide
This practical, step-by-step guide will take you through the grant seeking process assisting you to prepare and research a winning funding application. Includes an overview of grantseeking in Australia, what funding bodies want and need from community groups, how to find relevant grants, write successful proposals and more.
How to Find Money Fast - 50 Great Ideas to Raise $5,000
A guide to help schools, community and non-profit groups come up with innovative ideas to raise money in an increasingly tough market. Includes plenty of tips and advice to boost your current fundraising initiatives as well as a chapter devoted to helping groups establish a balanced and integrated fundraising strategy and a valuable 101-point special events checklist.
How to Manage your Grant after Winning It! (with templates on bonus CD)
This guide is designed to take you beyond the adrenalin of finding out that you've won the grant and help walk you through the process that you'll need to undertake from here on in.
Great Fetes: Fundraising and fun - without the fuss (with templates on bonus CD)
This book is designed to help you run a successful fete with a minimum of fuss. Drawing on the experience of teachers, parents and fundraising experts, we've pulled together all of the tips and tools you'll need to pull off a fantastic event, including a fantastic set of templates on an included CD-ROM.
More than Money: How to get money, resources and skills from Australian businesses
This book will help step you through the process of scoping possible partnership targets, approaching a business, working with them, evaluating the results of your partnership and - finally - winding up or reinventing your partnership.
Governance books
Revitalise Your Community Board: A makeover for community groups that want to lift their game
As not-for-profit boards go, you're competent. You get the job done. Under your benign supervision the organisation jogs along from day to day and month to month and year to year without much fuss, and without much change. You're not breaking new ground, and you're not going out backwards. But... Shouldn't there be more to life? You do seem to spend a lot of time on unimportant items.
The Board Doctor: Expert Diagnosis for Board & Committee Ills
The Board Doctor provides tips, ideas and solutions from a range of experts who have contributed to the Board Builder Newsletter and the annual Board Builder Conference.
Step in, Step up: Everything a new community board director needs to know
Joining a community organisation is good for you and good for the world. And you've carried that to the next level - you've joined the board, where you can really make a difference. This book are about empowering community group board directors with the knowledge that will make their contribution even more effective. It's about being prepared - being able to recognise when issues arise, and having the tools to work your way through them.
The Minutes Handbook: A Complete Guide for Not-for-profit Boards
When it comes to recording meetings, what's what? What must be recorded and how? Who should manage the minutes and how should they go about it? The Minutes Handbook will guide you from minutes-madness to a better way of minuting in no time at all.
Making Meetings Work: Conquering the challenges and getting great results
Making Meetings Work is your guide to overcoming the challenges and complexities that arise in meetings and make them more effective and productive.
Get on a Board (Even better - Become the Chair): Advancing Diversity & Women in Australia
Get on a Board is designed to inspire and empower more women to take the leap into the board arena. There are many insights for men as well, as well as for boards wanting to make their structures more welcoming to women.
Marketing and Management books
The Glutton's Guide to Nourishing Your Not-for-Profit Organisation
This book aims to help your organisation to plan its annual activities. But it's more than a dull roster of tasks you have to tick off to meet your bare minimum regulatory obligations. It's a year's worth of ideas, tips and resources designed to help you get the most out of your meetings, your activities and your people, much of it presented as easy-to-digest lists.
Recruiting for Your Not-for-profit
Recruitment: it's a minefield. In between updating position descriptions, conducting interviews, checking references and negotiating salaries, how's a time-strapped not-for-profiteer to get any other work done? This book highlights the importance of taking a strategic, structured approach to recruitment, and walks readers through the process step by step, particularly as it applies to NFPs.
How to Stand Out from The Crowd: The Complete Marketing & Media Handbook for Community Organisations
Discover the importance of strategic marketing and brand development as well as how to effectively action daily marketing activities such as direct marketing, working with the media and using technology effectively to achieve organisational strategic goals.
Effective Letters: 50 of the Best Model Letters to Help Community Organisations Fundraise, Connect, Lobby, Organise & Influence
Effective Letters provides 50 templates and a multitude of ideas that will assist you to improve your letter writing skills, marketing, and data storage and use.
