The Foundation Center's Judith Margolin reviews this practical guide to evaluation methods and their applications by the vice president and director of evaluation at TCC Group, a New York-based management consulting and strategic planning firm, who uses real-life examples to illustrate how grantmakers can help their grantees use evaluation as a capacity-building tool....

Dym and Hutson, executive coaches and organizational development consultants, have drawn from their experiences as well as those of colleagues and leaders they've known to produce a research-driven analysis of how nonprofit leadership differs from leadership in other sectors....

The third and final volume of Taylor Branch's America in the King Years series, At Canaan's Edge brings memorably to life the events and people (Martin Luther King, Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson, Andrew Young, Stokely Carmichael, Robert Kennedy) who changed the face — and soul — of a nation at a watershed moment in its history....

With sixty years of accounting experience between them, Dropkin and Halpin, certified public accountants and co-editors of Nonprofit Report, have written a practical soup-to-nuts guide to the art of nonprofit bookkeeping....

Clift, a scholar, writer and journalist who has worked on women's, health, communication, and development issues, provides a selection of essays in her new book that chart the growth, characteristics, and future of the women's funding movement through the eyes of women in the movement's forefront....

The Foundation Center's David Holmes reviews the book by the founder and former CEO of Business Volunteers Unlimited in Cleveland, Ohio, whosuggests that both sides of a private sector-nonprofit partnership can benefit from the experience....

Walker-Kuhne offers both an instruction guide to bridging the gaps between performing arts organizations and multicultural audiences who are typically uninterested in the work they present and a look at specific audience cultivation strategies she used to help the Dance Theater of Harlem grow from a relatively misunderstood African-American ballet company into one of the most reputable arts institutions in the country....

According to Sharpe, today's elderly have the lowest volunteer rate of any demographic group in the country —— and the highest rate of depression, though it has been proven that even limited amounts of time volunteering can improve one's sense of well-being....

The Foundation Center's Jonathan Miller reviews Hopkins' analysis of a movement towards a more effective, more efficient and more organized form of grantmaking, one marked by funder collaboration, and one that has the capacity to change the practice of philanthropy in a fundamental way....

Clark focuses on the role of class in the three Arab, and predominantly Muslim, countries where philanthropy and religion seem inextricably linked — a relationship that is not accidental, given the countries' histories of incorporating Islamic ideals into all other aspects one's life, including charity — although Islamist philanthropy is not entirely religious, and provides jobs, services, and social networks to the Muslim middle class....

While the importance of arts in the curriculum and in children's lives is not a new idea, the authors raise the question of whether "art for art's sake" —— field trips, art and music lessons ——— is enough, arguing for "art for learning's sake" — that arts education, to be effective, must be completely integrated into the curriculum....

Goldstein's book is designed to give a 360-degree view of the current-day public art world in the United States and offer city and community governments, art agencies, and artists a practical introduction to all steps of the public art process from idea to installation and beyond....

Allison and Kaye utilize a case study involving a fictional organization (ASO/USA), as well as sidebars drawn from their experience with nonprofit organizations, to illustrate questions raised and issues encountered in the process of developing and implementing strategic plan....

Written from a Christian perspective by Hybels, a pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, the book draws largely from his experience in recruiting church volunteers, and can be a motivational read for anyone who is looking to serve their church but is not quite sure where to start, or a stimulating resource for church leaders who manage volunteers.....