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National Geographic brings 114 years of incomparable travel expertise to today's sophisticated globe-trotters. Each practical and portable National Geographic Traveler features:

Detailed background and site descriptions plus fascinating vignettes on history, culture, and contemporary life
Mapped walking and driving tours
A complete directory of visitor information, including notable hotels, restaurants, entertainment, and shopping
Foldout end flaps, printed with maps and quick reference information that serve as handy bookmarks
Top-rated travel writers who bring sophisticated, authoritative guidance and a strong, individual voice to each book
Superior photography and artwork

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an excellent travel companion for Amsterdam.......2006-01-02

this book had the clearest, easiest and most pertinent and useful information of any of the five Amsterdam travel books we bought. make sure to get the most current timetables and route listings for mass transit once you arrive in the city, as these things change often, but the main info in this book was our lifeline to the city and made the trip much easier and more fun.

Amsterdam (The National Geographic Traveler)

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Amsterdam (The National Geographic Traveler)
K. Ketling
Manufacturer: AST
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ASIN: 5170292384

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This is one of the only books available that addresses financial and managerial accounting within the framework of the three major areas of the public sector. Clear and comprehensive, Finkler's unique and accessible text provides the fundamentals of financial management for those who lack a financial background so that readers can access and apply financial information more effectively. Details the many aspects of strategic and budgetary planning. Outlines the processes involved in implementing and controlling results. Features aspects of accounting unique for Health Care, not-for-profit organizations and state and local governments. Explains balance sheets, operating and cash flow statements. Provides basic foundation for financial analysis. For managers and policy-makers in public service organizations who want to make more efficient use of their organization's financial information.

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Financial Management for Public health.......2007-05-07

Not for beginners. Not much help for my UOP MSN class.

Financial Empowerment: More Money for More Mission : An Essential Financial Guide for Not-For-Profit Organizations (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance, and Management)

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Financial Empowerment: More Money for More Mission : An Essential Financial Guide for Not-For-Profit Organizations (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance, and Management)
Peter C. Brinckerhoff
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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Binding: Hardcover

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In order to make sure that a not-for-profit is able to best complete its mission, a manager of the organization must determine how to allocate the resources it has today, and ensure the financial future of the organization by managing the funds to work for them in the long-term. This second volume of the widely-respected Mission-Based Management(r) Series outlines a not-for-profit organization's plan for financial success. It highlights the eight characteristics of financial empowerment, and provides the skills and concepts that a nonprofit organization and its managers will need to survive, including estimating cash needs, treating funders like valued customers, developing money-making businesses, determining the financial options that are available, and implementing an empowered budget process.

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Mission-Based Management: Leading Your Not-for-Profit into the 21st Century

Named "Best New Nonprofit Management Book" by the Nonprofit Management Association. The Association said, "The Nonprofit Management Association is pleased to spotlight the extraordinary work of Peter Brinckerhoff in his newest publication, Mission-Based Management: Leading Your Not-for-Profit Into the 21st Century." The book was cited by the Nonprofit Management Association as "a great overall manager's and board member's guide to non-profits—quite laudable in that it's eminently readable and downright enjoyable."

Mission-Based Marketing: How Your Not-for-Profit Can Succeed in a More Competitive World

A direct, practical guide that shows how you can lead your not-for-profit to success in a more competitive world. The book provides the knowledge and skills to build a market-driven organization that holds onto its core values, does more mission better, and successfully competes for funding, clients, referral sources, staff, and board members.

In this direct, practical guide, Peter Brinckerhoff shows how you can have more money to do more mission. You will learn:

How to get more funds from current sources
How to find and develop new sources of funds
How to keep more of what you get
How to use your funds to do more mission over the long term

In the book you will learn the eight characteristics of financial empowerment and then explore each one in depth. Peter gives you ideas and techniques you can begin to use tomorrow. The book shows you:

How to estimate cash needs
How to treat your funders like valued customers
How to develop a money-making business
How to make your financial reports into valuable tools
What financing options are available—and what to avoid
An empowering budget process
How to price your services effectively
When to set up a subsidiary corporation
The role of the CEO in financial empowerment
The role of the board in financial empowerment
Specific steps you can begin now to achieve financial empowerment
A sample empowerment plan
How to keep what you earn so you can do more mission
All of this and more presented in Peter's own direct and helpful style, honed over hundreds of seminars and workshops

Peter is the author of two award-winning books, Mission-Based Management and Financial Empowerment, both published by Wiley. His newest book, Mission-Based Marketing, was released in September 1997. Peter's books are used as the core texts in over 50 graduate and undergraduate university programs in nonprofit management. Peter's articles have been published in Advancing Philanthropy, NonProfit World, Strategic Governance, The Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, Communications, and The Grantsmanship Center News.

Peter received his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his Master's of Public Health Administration from Tulane. He is a former VISTA Volunteer, and has served as a staff member, Executive Director, board member, and volunteer for numerous local, state, and national not-for-profits. Peter lives in Springfield, Illinois with his wife Chris and their three children, Ben, Adam, and Caitlin.

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High Impact Philanthropy: How Donors, Boards, and Nonprofit Organizations Can Transform Communities (WILEY NONPROFIT LAW, FINANCE, & MANAGEMENT)
Alan L. Wendroff , and Kay Sprinkel Grace
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Binding: Hardcover

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Inspired Philanthropy: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Giving Plan, 2nd Edition

Beyond Fundraising: New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation and Investment, 2nd Edition

The Seven Faces of Philanthropy: A New Approach to Cultivating Major Donors (JOSSEY-BASS NONPROFIT & PUBLIC MANAGEMENT SERIES)

CREATIVE PHILANTHROPY

Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy

ASIN: 0471369187

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High Praise for High Impact Philanthropy

"Successful navigation through today's changing world of philanthropy requires greater understanding by nonprofits and donors. High Impact Philanthropy meets this need."-Roberta W. Gutman, Executive Director, Motorola Foundation

"At a time when the terrain of American philanthropy is so rapidly shifting in new and unprecedented ways, this bright and focused analysis stands as a beacon of innovative thinking for donors and community organizers alike. By sketching in bold strokes the case for more effective collaborative giving, this book may well help transform our communities in the twenty-first century."-Peter deCourcy Hero,President, Community Foundation Silicon Valley

"High Impact Philanthropy provides a thoughtful analysis of how venture philanthropy is changing the way nonprofits run and how philanthropists give. Important parallels are made to the business world, demonstrating how nonprofits and donors can both benefit from putting their business hats on and running their organizations and giving programs like businesses."-Jan D'Alessandro Wadsworth, Vice President, AOL Foundation

"High Impact Philanthropy is an effective and articulate guide to planning a major gifts strategy, soliciting major gifts from individuals in a personable and efficient manner, and integrating this essential task into the very structure of a nonprofit organization."-Claude Rosenberg, Founder, New Tithing Group

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International Fund Raising for Not-for-Profits

International Fund Raising for Not-for-Profits: A Country-by-Country Profile (The AFP/Wiley Fund Development Series)
Thomas Harris
Manufacturer: Wiley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 047124452X

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The only comprehensive reference work of its kind, this book provides complete coverage of everything that a fund raiser must know when preparing for an international fund-raising campaign. Offers an overview of a country's tax and regulatory system, an examination of its not-for-profit sector, what sources of funding are available, and what fund-raising methods are considered acceptable by the culture and the government.

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International Fund Raising for Not-for-Profits.......2000-03-29

An absolutely indispensable guide to the complexities of international philanthropy. Alumni relations, corporate contributions and international organization pros should have this tome on their desks before writing next year's strategic plan. Yes it is expensive! But, it should both save you money and potentially make an enormous impact upon your mission. Although it is a growing field, (in which I am a practitioner) international fundraising has very few seasoned professionals. Wiley should be congratulated in selecting the best person imaginable for this daunting work-in-progress.

I found the definitions to be of value (although I do not always agree with some of the nuances) and quality of contributors to be first-rate. Sure, there a some weaknesses. But, as this is to be the first of several editions, it is bound to grow in value with each printing.

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A well-functioning budget process is more than a set of procedures—it provides a focus for the organization and management to analyze key financial and strategic issues. This invaluable reference addresses the fundamentals of managerial incentives, resource allocation, and practical ways in which these incentives can be managed to serve the strategic goals of the organization by taking an in-depth look at the principles of budgeting for not-for-profit organizations—higher education, charities and foundations, religious organizations, and hospitals and healthcare organizations.

Accounting for Librarians and Other Not-For-Profit Managers

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Accounting for Librarians and Other Not-For-Profit Managers
Stenenson G. Smith
Manufacturer: Amer Library Assn
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Binding: Hardcover

Budgeting and Financial Management Handbook for Not-For-Profit Organizations

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Budgeting and Financial Management Handbook for Not-For-Profit Organizations
Edward J. McMillan
Manufacturer: American Society of Association Executives
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Financial and Accounting Guide for Not-for-profit Organizations (Nonprofit Law, Finance & Management)

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Comprehensive
midnight accounting help
This book is very valuable for Not-For-Profit Organizations
It is helpful to me.

Financial and Accounting Guide for Not-for-profit Organizations (Nonprofit Law, Finance & Management)
Malvern J. Gross
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0471542059

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This extremely accessible resource is packed with expert advice on the financial reporting, accounting and control situations unique to nonprofit enterprises. Provides complete guidance for various types of organizations, tax and compliance reporting requirements, illustrated explanations of diverse types of acceptable statements, a how-to section on setting up and keeping books along with step-by-step procedures and forms plus commentary on computers and accounting software. The revised and updated edition covers SFAS No. 116 and 117 as well as a discussion of a new AICPA exposure draft covering consolidated financial statements of affiliated organizations. Supplemented annually.

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Comprehensive.......2006-05-12

This is a fantastic resource for accountants entering into not-for-profit organizations for the first time or to review further for accountants wanting more clarity in their current management positions. This book covers everything and has excellent sections on accounting and reporting guidelines for the many entity types of not-for-profit organizations. Also has a chapter covering entities on public not-for-profit (GASB). This book truly is worth keeping in the office as a valuable resource.

midnight accounting help.......1999-12-07

Sometimes you may be serving on the board of a nonprofit group and discover that your funder requires GAAP. Well what is that. This book will help you understand the nonprofit world of accounting. This work has been a resource that I have turned to at midnight myself aand have recommended many times. At times it is a little technical. But it helps to use some "accounting" language in the next board or committee meeting that you will be discussing budgets or finalcial presentatons.

Also, I have used this as a guideline when I consulted a small group that needed help with internal controls.

This book is very valuable for Not-For-Profit Organizations.......1999-10-18

I felt this book was basically well written. It at times is a little too technical, but basically is easy to follow. I do find it an invaluable tool for reference information in the not-for-profit industry.

It is helpful to me........1999-05-25

It was lucky to find this book. I'm a college student. I am preparing to take a AICPA exam. The library of my college doesn't have enough books about Not-for-Profit Organization accounting. This book gives me friendly and detailed explanations. well, a shortness of this book is a tedious text, such as one color text, no graphic figures. I just worried about objective judgements, because I didn't study other Not-fot-Profit books. Anyway, this book makes me come to Not-for-Profit accounting more closely. I'd like to recommend this book.

Financial and Accounting Guide for Not-For-Profit Organizations, 1994 Cumulative Supplement (Financial and Accounting Guide for Not for Profit Organizations)

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Financial and Accounting Guide for Not-For-Profit Organizations, 1994 Cumulative Supplement (Financial and Accounting Guide for Not for Profit Organizations)
Malvern J. Gross , William Warshauer , and Richard F. Larkin
Manufacturer: Wiley Law Pubns
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0471587486

Not-for-Profit Budgeting and Financial Management

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Not-for-Profit Budgeting and Financial Management
Edward J., CPA, CAE McMillan
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ASIN: 0471453145

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Here's a system of budgeting that is easy to implement, easy to monitor, will significantly reduce staff time spent on budgeting, and will ensure true fiscal accountability. Written in a nontechnical, understandable, how-to language and format, this handy guide includes dozens of relevant forms and documents.

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The revised and expanded Third Edition of the Budgeting and Financial Management Handbook for Not-for-Profit Organizations describes a system of budgeting that is easy to implement, easy to monitor, will significantly reduce staff time spent on budgeting, and will ensure true fiscal accountability. The Handbook is written in a nontechnical, understandable, how-to language and format, and includes dozens of relevant forms and documents.

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