In Leveraging Good Will: Strengthening Non-profits by Engaging Business, author has delivered the text that is of great importance for non-profit governance improvement. Korngold has poured the light over the facts that how the non-profit organizations must recruit, attract, orient and deploy the volunteers from different enterprises, persistent with their potential responsibilities as board members.
Her book is the good and most effective part of the guidance for those people who want to learn about the non-profit organization’s rules and deployment of the employees for successful committed workforce production in non-profit organizational scenario. New insights are packaged in the book as it is written for the practitioner audience, on the basis of standard good practices. It format is entertaining and the reading is user friendly that makes it more popular among the business class. A matchup of the business organizations and volunteers for non-profit organizations is the crux dealing of this book.
The author has the writing power being a large time frame matchmaking ability holder. Grounded upon the inner flap and the title of the book jacket, I perceived that a reader can find a descriptive analysis of non-profit organizations and business also including but not confining to the volunteers projects regarding services, marketing of cause relating issues, along with the joint ventures. Readers who are interested in the books might be
disappointed about book’s limited nature. A wealth of the advice is given in this book regarding strengthening power of non-profit boards and motivates business for facilitating workforce’s involvement in the volunteer factors like non-profits, mainly as board members, with a later emphasis on working as the consultants of volunteer management.
A cheerleading and positive tone of the book with some potential problem’s acknowledgement and possible responses towards them is best about book. Each chapter is started with the inspirational quotes and success stories about judicial cases are cited in the parallel manner with all concepts. My cynical nature was at restlessness by the ending of book reading about more sticky issues and controversial issues regarding board of governance. More than I do expect from author in various issues and problems uncovered include stakeholder’s representation by board of members, appropriate differentiation strategy for staff responsibilities and board and the employer’s interest consideration for the non-profit organization by board of members.
Logical progression is followed in chapters. Each of chapter has the primary and secondary audience with the range of business leaders, newly recruited board members, and organization’s employees working for the board member selection, and non-profit organization’s mangers as well as leaders.
First 2 chapters of the book require using deployment of members in board or non-profit organization with those of business expertise about demand changing phenomenon for non-profit organizations. Alice argues that there is more than ever need for non-profit organizations to adopt practices for business, and involvement of community along with the business goals and desires. I have no issues on the critical analysis of the Alice about non-profit organizations that they do need figure out perspective implication for their board members selection and their acquiring procedure. I do feel it really unsupportive that how it is possible that the reported trends about non-profit organizations are so accurate for business expertise needs and benefits mutually required for non-profit organizations and their employees.
Chapter 2 is about the motivation factors for volunteers for non-profit organizations as well as the leader’s role in measuring and getting all of the employees involved in the non-profit organization bond. Korngold’s knowledge as a matchmaker can be achieved and analysed in perfect manner from chapter three. Few pitfalls regarding the mismatches are also described in this chapter. Readers are primed in this chapter discussion about the matchmaking services required in any scenario.
Forms of the available services, their relevant values, and the key targets in the procedures of match making are discussed by Alice in this chapter. Compatibility problems are solved in this chapter including training needs of board members, and development of board are also discussed on the whole. Local services of matching and their funding are also discussed in a receptive argument form in this chapter.
Sets of perspectives are argued and discussed in the middle chapters of this book. In chapter Four, board member’s needs of information and planning are discussed as well as the role of executive board in helping board members in this regard are also discussed in a detailed manner. Formal responsibilities and roles of board members are discussed in chapter five, apart from the grounded discussion like other texts regarding red flags and what should be and should not be included at all steps. Board structures, addressing about board member’s number, meeting considerations and frequency, and necessary committees are poured light over in chapter six. Moreover, chapter six discussed in detailed manner the procedures of board assessment and analysis and strategic improvement in the composition of board. Chapter seven has the change in mind set and discussion turned in u shape to consider meeting management of board, development of board and the volunteer’s involvement in the non-profit organization development. Chapter eight is about the rich needs and reader’s attention catcher. Alice provided the rights, duties, practices, and primary responsibilities of all key leaders in non-profit organization. These members are including board office members, board members, board chairs, executive directors and committee chairs. Interdependencies of these roles are taken into consideration by author along with the potential problem highlighting, offering ideas about improvement in the current leader’s and the future leaders.
Chapter nine is the walking through the iterative process of strategic planning and visioning. It is the emphasis on the vision development of any board members and it also caused a surprise for me to have the board members are the leading and supporting roles in this chapter. In going for this chapter reading only apart from the other chapters, I might be detracted that executive board members might only be the leading role player in concerned organizational development. Last chapter is the return towards the primary and only theme of book. There is reiteration of the author’s argument by herself that there is a new opportunity about international advancement in the volunteer involvement in non-profit organizations. Her conclusions were ringing a positive tones, that reflected about the leading role and cheerleading experience of Alice as a non-profit organization’s volunteer leader (Korngold, 2005).
To be clearly stating, there is no scholarly remedial actions provided by the author for non-profit organizations and volunteers in them. There is no empirical case or rigorous theoretical references regarding the well trained volunteers and their relation with the organizational goals in a non-profit organization. Readers wishing for the resources and expertise management in any organizational set up will find the best way to organize their strategies through this book.
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This book has provided a great approach towards the management of business issues and problems pertaining to the board members, volunteer employees and non-profit organizations. More the organizations are getting their employees involved in their working and structural needs, more they will be satisfied and committed towards the organizational objectives. Straight and to the point approaches are adopted by the Alice in writing up all these objective and subjective arguments. Structuring the needs and systematic sources will conceptualize the resources in specific procedures of getting management involved in the working criterion.
Author has grab over the entire match making she is involved in the book. Writing up the book and maximization of the resources are two needs that require highly conceptualized ideas and innovative powers. Shareholders, leaders, board members, and managing authorities are discussed in this book in an effective way to provide all sort of material information in an objective manner. There is no empirical analysis that can also not be referred because of issues pertained to empirical evidence’s authenticity and implication in future time periods.
