Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs: Enhancing the Performance of Your Enterprising Nonprofit

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A complete set of tools for applying entrepreneurial strategies and techniques to your nonprofit

As a follow-up to their book Enterprising Nonprofits, the authors of Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs provide a full set of practical tools for putting the lessons of business entrepreneurship to work in your nonprofit. The book offers hands-on guidance that helps social sector leaders hone their entrepreneurial skills and carry out their social missions more effectively than ever before. This practical and easy-to-use book is filled with examples, exercises, checklists, and action steps that bring the concepts, frameworks, and tools to life. Detailed explanations of all the tools and techniques will help you personalize and apply them to your nonprofit organization-making it stronger, healthier, and better able to serve the needs of our communities.

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"I search constantly for resources that can help provide insight and guidance to take Teach For America to a higher level; Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs does this and more. The book takes the best practices of for-profits and social enterprises and adapts them to the needs of entrepreneurial, mission-driven nonprofits. Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs is a tremendous contribution to social entrepreneurs and to the nonprofit sector-many thanks to the authors for identifying this need and filling it!"
-Wendy Kopp
Founder and President, Teach For America

All of the royalties from this book will be used by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to support continuing work on social entrepreneurship.

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Turning nonprofit idealism into a reality

Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs is a toolkit for nonprofit organizations on developing real-world strategies for value creation, income generation, and growth. Chapters contain "Action Steps" that put concepts to work immediately; icons identifying key concepts, buzzwords, and pearls of wisdom; and end-of-chapter concept checks. With contributions from some of today's best and brightest social entrepreneurs-including James L. Heskett, Jerry Kitzi, Shirley Brice Heath, Fay Twersky, Melissa Taylor, Kay Sprinkel Grace, and Steve Roling-and profiles of successful enterprising nonprofits, the book is easily the most comprehensive work of its kind.

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Social Entrepreneur.......2002-03-04

Very helpful, Offers valuable tools for thinking strategically about value creation, income generation and growth. This book is a must have to keep up with the new changes and challenges arising in the non-profit sector.

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Volume XXVI (2002) of the Government Finance Statistics Yearbook contains statistical data on government financial operations for 130 IMF member countries. Detailed annual data (extending through 2000 or 2001 for most countries) are presented on revenue, expenditure, and financing transactions. All data conform to standards set forth in A Manual on Government Finance Statistics and are comparable from country to country. This yearbook provides data on budgetary operations, extrabudgetary operations, social security transactions, and consolidated financial operations of central governments. When available, data are also presented for state and local governments. Institutional tables list information on government units. A section of the Government Finance Statistics Yearbook is devoted to a cross-country presentation of data classified by topic.

International Financial Statistics Yearbook 2002 (International Financial Statistics Yearbook English Edition)

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International Financial Statistics Yearbook 2002 (International Financial Statistics Yearbook English Edition)
International Monetary Fund
Manufacturer: International Monetary Fund
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A complete library of continuously updated financial information from countries around the world delivered each month.

• Understand global financial conditions
• Develop solid financial strategies and analyses
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• Interpret the latest economic and trade developments in over 175 countries
• Formulate authoritative global economic and strategic projections
• Prepare forecasts for individual countries as a part of your country risk analysis
• Determine possible future trends
• React quickly to changing environments

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This monthly publication is a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. Information is presented in country tables and in tables of area and world aggregates. Approximately 900 pages each issue.

Yearbook Issue
The yearbook, usually published in September, contains available annual data for over 30 years for countries appearing in the monthly issues of IFS. There are some additional time series in country tables and some additional tables of area and world aggregates.

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Consumer Bankruptcy and Overindebtedness is an emerging field throughout the world. This book provides a comparative appraisal of global developments in this area. It will be one of the first book length publications focusing on comparative consumer bankruptcy and overindebtedness. It combines theoretical and empirical studies of bankruptcy regimes and consumer credit in civilian and common law jurisdictions as well as exploring current reform trends. The book will be of interest to academics, policymakers and law reformers as well as to practitioners.

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Hardbound. Compiled by Food Law Research Centre, Institute of European Studies, University of Brussels.

The publication of this volume completes the updated edition of the Food Additives Tables, the first edition of which proved highly successful. Since it appeared in 1975, the world-wide increase in legislative control of the use of food additives has accelerated with new additives expected to pass more stringent toxicity tests than ever before.

This updated edition, using a computerized system to facilitate future updates, comprises details of the legal status and conditions governing the use of direct food additives in 20 countries. The division of the complete work into 15 classes of food products has remained the same with the main change being the replacement of the horizontal and vertical columns by a systematic classification which gives the details of regulations per category of additives - country by country - in the form of run-on tex

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This story is told through the eyes of a very human and humorous priest who enjoys his martinis and is not swayed by what he considers meaningless convention. The Reverend Sam Adams is the Episcopal priest of a rapidly growing parish on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. His Bishop insists he take an assistant who, after some trial and error, turns out to be a young woman, Rachel, bright and attractive, but with a turbulent emotional background. In love with a man reported missing in Nepal, she is, at the same time, thrown together with a young convict she had befriended years ago. Rachel feels compelled to rehabilitate Ben in the face of the parish's growing displeasure. Sam's support and sympathy sustain Rachel, but can only slow the inevitability of a tragic ending.

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A Surprising Pleasure!.......2003-06-05

The Vicar of Afton proves to be a thoroughly enjoyable read! With a little bit of genre mixing, Brewster manages to give us a mystery, a romance, a solid Christian fiction book and even throws in a little cross-cultural insight. Though the pace occassionally slows down, Brewster has created likable characters and an interesting story with an ending you may 'think' you suspect, but it still comes with a shock. I'm looking forward to the next book featuring the two main characters, Sam and Rachel. The ending leaves open the possibility of a continuation, so Mr. Brewster better get to it! If you're into solid reads with some mystery and a little theology thrown into the mix, you'll do well to read "The Vicar of Afton".

Willing to re-read........2003-06-02

The rating I have given this book reflects the fact that I would enjoy re-reading it.

Without the use of the perennial excitements of sex, vulgarity and violence, the author draws one into experiencing life with others in a changing, exciting world.

The Rev. Canon David E. Pettengill

Tradition.......2003-05-31

Like looking through a prism. This book keeps the reader looking over his shoulder as another strand has been drawn into the story. Well written indeed.

life-lines.......2003-05-31

Woven into the backdrop of the Eastern Seaboard.The characters in this book are pulled from everyones life experience. Ride the momentum of the story and crash into an unexpected ending. A good read.

life-lines.......2003-05-30

Woven into the backdrop of the eastern seaboard, this story draws the reader in with characters pulled out of everyone's life experience. The book carries lots of momentum that crashes into an unexpected ending. A good read.

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Find out what really goes on after "lights out" in the homophobic yet intensely homoerotic world of masculine men in uniform!

Tantalizing, explicit, sometimes disturbing, and always genuine, A NIGHT IN THE BARRACKS delivers the goods. Former Marine Alex Buchman lays it on the line in this steamy collection of real-life sexual adventures related by the men themselves -- including Buchman -- who lived them.

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Yawn.......2006-05-30

I knew this would be something for reading in bed. I just had no idea that it would so quickly put me to sleep. The pretentious introduction was the first clue, and the stories, well, not exactly well told...

No so good..........2005-10-27

So the description sold me the book - it sounded hot... but it did not turn out that way. I was dissapointed...

Very Sexy.......2005-10-18

This collection of "authentic accounts" sizzles with steamy sex, repressed longings, and blantant activity. It is a hard hitting, and at times poignant look at being gay and in the military. That combination is difficult at best, but when one decides to act out one's passions while in the service of the United States Military, one has placed himself and his
partner(s) in a non-literal "line of fire". The sheer audacity of the acts make them more dangerous, and as a result, more fulfilling.

I have only one argument with the book. The last two "stories" are not in keeping with the theme of book, i.e., gay sex in the military. They are simply out of place, as far as this reader is concerned, and should have been edited out. Nonetheless, buy the book and ditch the last 2 entries.

Not impressive.......2004-01-20

As someone who spent a number of years in a military establishment, I bought this book hoping it would explain a few things about gays in the military and whether men who are secluded from other men, unconsciously become attracted to one another. Alas! Little did I know that I was buying a book which was bound to do everything but provide answers to my curiosity. Some of the people in this book need to visit a psychiatrist to have their mental states checked. I really mean it! For a man to pick up another man who is a total stranger (save that they are both Marines) and engage in wild sex on top of his car in the middle of the night is too much to be called `acceptable or normal' behaviour. And for a married man, with a wife and a child to engage in same-sex relations in his own house when his wife is at home, is blatantly stupid. The author nevertheless might has done a nice job in collecting these stories but from my point of view, a book like this adds nothing to one's knowledge except providing vague and meaningless fantasy!

As one of the writers,I'm proud to be a part of this book..........2003-08-05

I'm one of the two women who contributed to this book (the now-ex "Marine Wife"), and I'm proud to have been a part of it. I love the rawness and richness of the stories of my fellow contributors. I'm also glad to have the chance to show the world that many, many women also hunger for a hard male body in uniform...especially a Marine body. I still think that Marines are the most beautiful creatures on earth...as well as the most passionate and responsive. Believe me, I would so love to really crawl panther-like through a formation of prone Marines!

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Reid Barbour's study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625 1649). In the decades leading into the civil war and the execution of their monarch, English writers explored the experience of a Protestant life of holiness, in terms of heroic endeavors, worship, the social order, and the cosmos. This broad ranging study offers an extensive reappraisal of crucial seventeenth-century themes, and will be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars of the period.

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Reid Barbour's study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625-1649). In the decades leading into the civil war and the execution of their monarch, English writers explored the experience of a Protestant life of holiness, looking at it in terms of heroic endeavours, worship, the social order, and the cosmos. Barbour examines sermons and theological treatises to argue that Caroline religious culture comprises a rich and extensive stocktaking of the conditions in which Protestantism was celebrated, undercut, and experienced. Barbour argues that this stocktaking was also carried out in unusual and sometimes quite secular contexts; in the masques, plays and poetry of the era as well as in scientific works and diaries. This broad ranging study offers an extensive reappraisal of crucial seventeenth-century themes, and will be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars of the period.

Reid Barbour. Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book Review): An article from: Albion

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Reid Barbour. Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book Review): An article from: Albion
P.E. McCullough
Manufacturer: North American Conference on British Studies
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ASIN: B0008E23AS
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Title: Reid Barbour. Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book Review)
Author: P.E. McCullough
Publication: Albion (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2003
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Volume: 35 Issue: 2 Page: 290(3)

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Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England

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Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
Barbour Reid
Manufacturer: Cambrige University Press
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Basic treatment of the theory of analytic functions of a complex variable, touching on analytic functions of several real or complex variables as well as the existence theorem for solutions of differential systems where data is analytic. Also included is a theory of abstract complex manifolds of one complex dimension; holomorphic functions; Cauchy's integral, more. Exercises. 1973 edition.

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my favorite intro to complex analysis.......2006-12-11

This is a masterful treatment of the subject, including power series, integration, the homotopy version of cauchy's theorem, residue calculus, differential equations, harmonic functions, and intro to riemann surfaces.

i confess i do not recognize the book i read from the first review here however, as mine begins with formal power series and has rather little on several complex variables. I have both the 1963 hardback and the recent dover reprint and they are identical, but i have not seen the french version.

a translation of a classic.......2006-08-06

This elegant little book by Henri Cantan covers both complex functions on one and several variables, and in that way (by the inclusion of several variables) it differs and stands out from most other books on complex variables at the beginning US-graduate level. It is a translation of an original French language version. I can recommend both the original and the translation. It is readable, and the exercises are plenty and excellent. Thanks to Dover, the translation is now readily available and cheap.

Cartan's book starts with complex numbers, power series, and a review of the standard complex functions of one variable, e.g., the exponential, and the complex logarithm. Then follow holomorphic functions, Taylor and Laurent expansions, singularities, Cauchy's theorems, residues, analytic continuation, lots of examples, and beautifully illustrated. Included are also geometric topics, elementary complex geometry, Mobius transformations, automorphisms, transformation groups, differential forms, harmonic and analytic functions, Riemann surfaces, and infinite products, and a brief chapter on conformal mappings.

The book is divided pretty evenly between one and several variables, with the second half being several variables. However each part can be read pretty much independently of the other.

The book in its French edition was published first in the 1950ties, and the first English edition in 1963, and then starting 1995 reprinted by Dover. It is suitable as a text for a course or as a supplement in a standard beginning graduate course in complex function theory. While it contains the standard elements in such a course, we note that a systematic treatment of power series comes relatively late, in Chapter 10, beginning on page 195 (halfway into the book.) Some readers might want to begin with that.

Of other Dover titles on the same subject, but considerably more elementary we recommend the books by Fisher, Volkovyskii et al, Silverman, Schwerdtfeger, and Flanigan. These books however only cover the case of a single variable. Review by Palle Jorgensen, August 5, 2006.

A good introduction.......2002-01-17

At first the book appeared to be too difficult. Indeed, it is designed for students with some familiarity with Algebra and Topology. However, the more I read the book, the better it appeared. It's chapter on integration is one of the best I've seen. It doesn't seem to cover much, but the addition of some facts from several variables is in very good taste.

Good and affordable........2001-05-30

Cartan's book on complex analysis is not brand new, but that does not matter as the subject itself has been "stabilized" for a long period of time. It is indeed good to see that this "lovely" book being available at the modest price of [price]. The fact that the author was among the founders of Bourbaki may intimidate some would-be readers, but you don't have to be worried. The treatment of the subject is no pedantic and quite accessible for beginners.

Elementary Theory of Analytic Functions of One or Several Complex Variables

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Elementary Theory of Analytic Functions of One or Several Complex Variables
Henri Cartan
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Notes supplementary to Henri Cartan, Elementary theory of analytic functions of one or several complex variables

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Notes supplementary to Henri Cartan, Elementary theory of analytic functions of one or several complex variables
L Schoenfeld
Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on October 27, 2003. The length of the article is 731 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ruling puts bazzar out of business: national concessionaire wins rights for Old Town.(concession's operating contract)
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