Building Nonprofit Capacity – A Guide to Managing Change Through Organizational Lifecycles

Acknowledgments
<p>1 Setting the Stage: Change as a Defining Force in the Nonprofit Sector</p>
<p>Lifecycle: A Framework for Initiating, Anticipating, Managing, and Understanding Change</p>
<p>Our Perspective</p>
<p>What′s in This Book?</p>
<p>2 Back to the Basics: What Is Core </p>
<p>Defining the Core in Core Program</p>
<p>The Established Organization in Core Program: Characteristics and Telltale Signs</p>
<p>To Put a Stake in the Ground, You Need a Good Mission</p>
<p>An Organizational Vision as Your Guide to Success</p>
<p>Values Matter</p>
<p>Be Sure Your Strategy Is ... Strategic</p>
<p>Founder′s Syndrome ... Not Just for Founders Anymore</p>
<p>Taking It to the Next Level: The Importance of Trust</p>
<p>3 Infrastructure/Adolescence</p>
<p>Planning for Organizational Growth</p>
<p>The Role of the Board</p>
<p>Organizational Culture</p>
<p>4 Maturity/Impact Expansion (MIE)</p>
<p>Importance of Resource Development in the MIE Phase</p>
<p>Making the Case</p>
<p>Building Board Accountability in the MIE Phase</p>
<p>Organizational Assessment: The CSE Tool</p>
<p>Impact Expansion and the Question of Scale</p>
<p>5 Decline</p>
<p>Overview of Decline and the Lifecycle</p>
<p>High–Arc and Low–Arc: How Organizations in the Decline Phase Are Affected</p>
<p>The Arc During Crisis</p>
<p>6 Turnaround and Closing</p>
<p>Historical Look at Lifecycle Thought: Closing</p>
<p>The Downward Apex Point</p>
<p>Organizational Turnaround</p>
<p>Closing an Organization</p>
<p>The Mind–Set of Closing Organizations</p>
<p>7 Conclusion</p>
<p>Reflections on This Book</p>
<p>Where Do We Go from Here?</p>
<p>Appendix</p>
<p>Notes</p>
<p>The Authors</p>
<p>Index</p>