A new edition of one of the most popular Certified Association Executive (CAE) Authoritative Literature titles: covers all the core areas of association and nonprofit management. New chapters on Knowledge Management, Sustainability, Technical/Scientific Publications, and Diversity have been added and other chapters updated to reflect the changes in core areas since publishing the first edition. Put the experts to work for you with this essential resource--written by association professionals and experts with 300 years of cumulative experience! Major topics include governance and structure, leadership processes, management and administration (including finance and human resources), internal and external relations, and programs and services. You'll get coverage of 34 critical subject areas, which were selected based on the CAE Exam Content Outline.

Professional Practices in Association Management: The Essential Resource for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations

Business & Money

John B. Cox

CAE and leading industry experts

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership

Some organizations have a clear sense of how they will shape their future, but many do not. Most are at the start of a new era, with uncertainty about the future being the only thing they count on. How does your organization scan the external environment to identify key trends, issues, and developments that could be of relevance? How do you, as an association or nonprofit leader, use future-focused information to drive future thinking,strategy development, and innovation within your organization and at the board levels?Keeping abreast of current events is one thing; viewing trends through the lens of implications and action plans for your organization is another. That's where Designing Your Future can serve as a valuable resource. Identifying and analyzing trends, issues, and events that are likely to cause transformational change within the association and nonprofit sector are critical undertakings if organizations are to pinpoint and execute their options and opportunities for sustainability, growth, and responsive strategies. Designing Your Future: Key Trends, Challenges, and Choices Facing Association and Nonprofit Leaders is a milestone in ASAE & The Center's Association of the Future research program. It is the first release in a series of planned resources to provide associations with perspectives on the future global environment, including competitive and market issues to formulate plans to capture opportunities rather than react to threats.Thinking through the implications of the environment that is continually evolving around your organization is not a one-time exercise. It is a continual process of reflection and action. Designing Your Future began with the analysis of several hundred trends. Association leaders and other experts and practitioners have winnowed the lengthy list of impacts to the most critical trends ranging from social to economic to political to environmental to technological impacts likely to affect associations. Use Designing Your Future and subsequent resources to prepare yourself, your board, and your staff to anticipate and plan for the realities of the world in which we all work.

Designing Your Future: Key Trends, Challenges, and Choices Facing Association and Nonprofit Leaders

Fast Future

This edition is written specifically for Non-Profit Organizations How much time is wasted daily in your workplace due to behavioral issues? While some executives disesteem what they see as soft stuff, others are realizing they can no longer afford to ignore relationship problems. Emotional and distracting, such problems interfere with productivity and impose negative impacts on business operations. That's not soft stuff! That's millions of dollars in lost productivity and revenue! By identifying the causal links between your and others' behavior, Versatility reveals that your success with others is contingent on decisions you make prior to engaging them. Through candid, real-world descriptions of the toughest-to-deal-with behaviors, you will recognize yourself and colleagues and get the tools you need to secure prioritized business results. In an ever-increasingly diverse workforce, this is a must-have handbook for every professional. Complete with exercises and specific, easy-to-use adapting techniques, Versatility will sharpen your ability to: - Quickly recognize the style you're dealing with - Customize your approach to each style-on the spot, and - Achieve needed business results more quickly and more easily The solution is a teachable, sustainable quality of leadership that evokes and values each person's strengths without simultaneously provoking their weaknesses - a quality of leadership that wins committed human spirits. Versatility is that solution. Take the VersatilityTest here: versatilitytest.com/Pages/Signup.aspx

Versatility: How to Optimize Interactions When 7 Workplace Behaviors Are at Their Worst

Francie Dalton

The Newest Form 990 Tax Return Could Change Your Organization. Are You Ready? Chances are, you do not personally prepare your organization's annual tax return. But you most certainly do manage, influence, or assume accountability for the policies and practices the IRS wants to know about. And whether you do or do not prepare the return, you need this guide. Here s why. The latest Form 990, revised and effective for tax years 2008 and beyond, incorporates the most substantive changes to the exempt organization information return in 30 years. The IRS is requiring more reporting related to governance, compensation, and other areas than ever before. Hence, your organization's Form 990 will present a very public face, shaped in no small part by decisions and operating protocols for which you and other leaders in your organization are responsible. In short, the revised return reflects the government's increased focus on organizational transparency and accountability. And the IRS has made it clear that public closure of Form 990 is one of the agency's primary enforcement tools. Those are some pretty good reasons to give your attention to the 990 and more importantly, to the policies, procedures, and practices that inform the required disclosures. Consider the following:The IRS wants to know how many of your voting board members are not independent, a term it defines through a three-part test, because in the agency's view, an independent governing body is a component of a well-run tax-exempt organization.For reporting purposes, the definition of key employee has been significantly expanded, meaning your organization may need to disclose the compensation of far more employees than it has before. Clearly, the newest 990 has implications for the public face and operation of your organization. Understanding what the newest 990 means will help you and your board make informed decisions. That's where this guide comes in. Guide to the Newest 990, developed by CPAs from the respected accounting firm Tate and Tryon, takes aim at the changes most relevant to associations and similar organizations, and it goes beyond instruction, to the meaning. You get practical interpretation and insight that you won t find in the IRS preparation instructions. This guide digs into understanding, interpreting, and working with the 990.

Guide to the Newest IRS Form 990: Interpreting and Complying With the New Tax Reporting Requirements for Transparency and Accountability

Charles F. Tate

Deborah G. Kosnett

Douglas A. Boedeker

Subrina L. Wood

Frederick U. Longwood

At the heart of a data-driven organizational strategy is dependable data. And data will only be dependable if it resides in a reliable database--one that is well-managed and understood by not only the IT staff and the membership department but by everyone who uses it. In Put Your Data to Work, membership database wiz Wes Trochlil gives us a user-friendly guide to better databases. Among the practical advice found in his 52 tips and techniques:
<li>Banish data redundancy--and its ugly aftermath.</li>
<li>Seek and destroy shadow databases.</li>
<li>Test early. Test often.</li>
<li>Pursue success, not perfection.</li>
<li>Open the database--once and for all.</li>
<li>Query your database. Use the answers to refine strategy.</li>
It doesn't matter whether you're the CEO providing the vision of what will be important to your community in the future, and therefore what data should be captured, the chief technology officer with overall responsibility of your information management systems, or the marketing or membership director, both of whom would undoubtedly benefit by knowing as much about your members as possible, implementing the sound tips in Put Your Data to Work will help your organization operate more efficiently.

Put Your Data to Work: 52 Tips and Techniques for Effectively Managing Your Database

Wes Trochlil

Effective, successful associations know that they need to minimize bureaucracy, improve decision making, and use their financial and human resources more strategically to adapt, survive, and thrive in a world that moves and changes faster every day. One way to accomplish these goals is to improve committees. Committees gather intelligence, process information, provide recommendations, and complete assignments; in other words, they are how the business of an association gets done. This second edition of Enhancing Committee Effectiveness enables committees to be more nimble, accountable, and competitive by providing 
<li>Clear definitions of different types of committees </li>
<li>The nuts and bolts of establishing and administering a committee </li>
<li>Checklists and role descriptions for effective committee chairs and staff liaisons </li>
<li>Tips for participating as a member of a committee </li>
<li>Task lists for running meetings, communicating results, and following up on commitments </li>
<li>Sample forms and agreements.</li>
 With these practical tools, Enhancing Committee Effectiveness delivers actionable advice that s easy to digest and apply; ultimately enhancing the success of committees and the associations they serve.

Enhancing Committee Effectiveness: Handbook for Committee Chairs, Staff Liaisons, and Committee Members

John F. Schlegel

Management & Leadership

It's the most trusted industry measure of competitive association and nonprofit compensation and benefits available. Complete with data on salary levels and employee benefits for 78 executive-level and administrative positions in trade associations and individual membership organizations throughout the U.S., this best-selling publication provides more than 150 tables of valuable benchmarking information. Countless individuals rely on this powerful resource to compare and contrast compensation, benefits, and perks of association executive positions based upon specific organizational characteristics, including: membership type  budget and staff sizegeographic locationIRS tax statusindustry sectorand moreThe executive summary, offering an in-depth analysis of key data, helps you to accurately interpret trends and changes in compensation and benefits. Other features include: Compensation data for the CEO, deputy CEO, and 76 other senior-level management and administrative positions Tracking of salary changes and trends Employment contract and performance evaluation practices Details on medical, life, accident, and disability insuranceInformation about retirement planning and benefits Find out if your organization is offering competitive compensation and see how your benefits package measures up to those of your counterparts.

Association Compensation and Benefits Study, 2010-2011 Edition

ASAE Research

Reference

Negotiating your compensation, benefits, and contract?You've made it to the top... but are you being paid what you're worth? It's time you tapped into one of ASAE's most valued resources, the Blue Chip Association Executive Compensation & Benefits Study. Year after year, this objective tool has successfully increased the compensation for countless highly paid association CEO's and deputy CEOs. If you're a chief executive officer who earns at least $150,000 in total compensation, don't sit at the negotiating table without it.  RELIABLE TREND ANALYSIS. You can count on this data. ASAE retains a core group of responding organizations from one edition of the Blue Chip Study to the next, so compensation increases can be tracked from year to year.  DATA YOU CAN'T GET ANYWHERE ELSE. Are your salary expectations too high or too low? Learn how staff size, total income, and type of organization affect compensation levels. You'll come to negotiating table with the right expectations and the data to back them up.  BENCHMARKING DATA ON BENEFITS AND PERSONNEL PRACTICES. Your paycheck is only part of the story. Compare your benefits; including annual leave, insurance, and retirement plans; to those of your counterparts at other associations. Do most of your colleagues have employment contracts and how are their performance evaluations handled? It's all in the Blue Chip Study.

2010-2011 Blue Chip Association Executive Compensation & Benefits Study

Quickly learn how to read and understand nonprofit financial statements with this essential reference. Whether you're a volunteer leader or an executive with new budgetary responsibilities, this book will walk you line-by-line through the financial reports key to every nonprofit organization, including the statements of Financial Position, Activities, and Cash Flow. If reviewing financial statements is required to fulfill your responsibility to your organization, this book is a must-have resource.

How to Read Nonprofit Financial Statements

Andrew S. Lang

Wayne Berson

Providing Meaningful continuing education is a big part of what most membership organizations do. And people certainly do turn to them for it according to the recent The Decision to Learn study. If you're involved in or influence your organization's education-program development , then get this resource. For as little as 12 cents or so an idea, you can't miss!
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199 Ideas: Enhancing Learning Experiences

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