The Executive Director's Survival Guide: thriving as a non-profit leader, by Mim Carlson. We don't have this book, so I looked it up on WorldCat and found the following subject headings that may be useful to find similar books:
- Nonprofit organizations -- Management.
- Organizations, Nonprofit -- organization & administration.
- Financial Management.
- Decision Making, Organizational.
- The Foundation Directory, by David G. Jacobs, also available at Foundation Center (fdncenter.org)
- Guidestar- from the about page: "we gather and disseminate information about every single IRS-registered nonprofit organization. We provide as much information as we can about each nonprofit's mission, legitimacy, impact, reputation, finances, programs, transparency, governance, and so much more."
- Associations Unlimited - My current system carries the print reference Encyclopedia of Associations, published by AU/ Gale. (as well as the International Organizations set and the Regional, State and Local Organizations set) It is a three volume set, volume one being so large, it is divided into three separate books. Entries include contact info, when founded, number of members, staff, languages for conducting business, a description, awards they give, price to join and more.
- v. 1. pt. 1-2. National Organizations of the U.S. -- Descriptive listings:
- Trade, Business and Commercial;
- Environmental and Ag;
- Legal, Gov'tal, Public Admin, & Military;
- Engineering,Tech & Natural and Social Sciences;
- Educational;
- Cultural;
- Social Welfare;
- Health and Medical;
- Public Affairs;
- Fraternal, Nationality, & Ethnic;
- Religious;
- Veterans', Hereditary, & Patriotic;
- Hobby and Avocational;
- Athletic and Sports;
- Labor Unions, Associations, and Federations
- Chambers of Commerce, Trade and Tourism
- Greek and Non-Greek Letter Societies, Associations and Federations
- Fan Clubs
- v. 1. pt. 3. Name index (I'm disappointed b/c the Name index is pre-sorted into the various keywords and then the org.s are listed alphabetically. I would have liked a straight alphabetical list of the Names, with the page number of where to find it in the main parts 1 or 2) and keyword index. --
- v. 2. Geographic and executive indexes. - Organizations listed by their location and a listing of the execs and the organization they work for.
- v. 3. Supplement - updates of v.1 parts 1& 2, printed between editions.
- The Annual Register of Grant Support, a print publication published by Information Today
- And while there's no end of books helping people to write a grant proposal, the PDF Writing a Successful Grant Proposal by Barbara Davis for the Minnesota Council on Foundations comes recommended.
- Opportunity Knocks - I'm not terribly impressed with this site. Basic keyword searches for "librarian" found nothing, for "information" brought up many director positions, for "research" other director positions, as well as chief exec officer. This kind of site I would think would be more used by lower level workers. People in the upper levels have other types of recruitment sources, so there's a mismatch in the type of simple search query to the upper job positions. There are some useful filters on the left-hand side, so you can weed out the jobs by salary or education, geographic location, etc.
My preferred job search strategy is to identify organizations that I would be interested in working for and then contact them directly for their job openings. This way there's more of a connection of employee to employer. It is way more work, but is also more focused. A site like this one is such a shotgun in the barrel and though you never know what gems may come floating up, those gems are obscured by the trash. - Idealist.org
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