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Smallwood, Carol, Ed. – ALA Editions, 2011
There's no shortage of library management books out there--but how many of them actually tackle the little details of day-to-day management, the hard-to-categorize things that slip through the cracks of a larger handbook? "Library Management Tips that Work" does exactly that, addressing dozens of such issues facing library managers, including: (1)…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Time Management, Guides, Personnel Management
Special Events from A to Z: The Complete Educator's Handbook.
Jasso, Gayle – 1996
This handbook offers guidelines for coordinating a special school event or activity. Chapter 1 provides answers to frequently asked questions about special events. Chapter 2 describes the benefits and risks of acting as a special-events coordinator. The 12 phases of planning a special event and bringing it to culmination are outlined in the third…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Management Systems, Program Administration
Better by the Year. The FRI Annual Giving Book.
Williams, M. Jane – 1981
Designed for a nonprofit organization executive, this book suggests how to start and run an increasingly profitable program for attracting the kind of gifts that will be repeated year after year. Preliminary preparations, the launch and administration of a campaign, four ways to reach higher goals, and annual giving ideas from education, health…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Higher Education, Innovation, Letters (Correspondence)
Classroom Volunteers: Uh-Oh! or Right On!
Wachter, Joanne C. – 1999
Noting that volunteer programs succeed only with careful forethought and maintenance, this book is designed to provide information necessary to create and operate a successful volunteer program in an elementary school setting. Steps in thinking about volunteers in innovative ways, recruitment, training, maintaining program effectiveness, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Parent School Relationship, Program Administration
From the Top Down. The Executive Role in Volunteer Program Success. Revised Edition.
Ellis, Susan J. – 1996
This book outlines issues of concern to top decision makers in a nonprofit organization that involves volunteers, including the role of the executive staff in supporting the volunteer program. The 12 chapters in the book discuss the following topics: developing a vision for volunteer participation; questions of policy; budgeting and other resource…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Administrator Role, Administrators, Adults
The Volunteer Recruitment (and Membership Development) Book. Second Edition.
Ellis, Susan J. – 1996
This book is designed to help nonprofit organizations recruit and retain volunteers. Following an introductory section covering the recruitment and use of volunteers, it contains 14 chapters organized in 3 sections. The chapters in the first section discuss what volunteer recruiters need to do before actually asking anyone to volunteer. They…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Administrator Role, Administrators, Adults
Enhancing Organizational Effectiveness in Adult and Community Education. Professional Practices in Adult Education and Human Resource Development Series.
Dean, Gary J.; Murk, Peter J.; Del Prete, Tony – 2000
This book, which is intended as a resource for individuals and organizations involved in adult and community education, presents guidelines and activities to assist in enhancing organizational effectiveness in adult and community education. The following are among the topics discussed: (1) experiencing professional and organizational development…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning