Managing As Mission

Nonprofit Managing for Sustainable Change

Lori Heninger

• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781351719988
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

Managing As Mission pushes the boundaries of what it means to be a nonprofit manager by making the case that managing, as a reflection of the organizational mission – the cornerstone of any nonprofit – can bring about the change nonprofits were created to achieve: a better world for all. This book contains real-world examples, interview excerpts from nonprofit managers and directors, and a series of self-reflection and organization-wide tools to develop managers and managing as a mirror of the mission.

Themes within this book include: a discussion of the history of nonprofit missions; management tasks and approaches; aligning values; building working relationship and trust; and creating organizational structures and interactions that mirror the organizational mission. It is written in an informal first-person style, utilizing humor that will, hopefully, allow the reader to see themselves in the examples and stories.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments 
• 1: Why Managing As Mission?
• 2: The Mission
• 3: Process
• 4: Managing
• 5: Linking Managing, Mission, and Process
• 6: What Can Come from Managing As Mission
• 7: Tools
• Bibliography
• Index