Optimal Organizations: How Non-profits Can Cut Costs to Save Programs and People is a 220-page how-to book of practical, proven strategies to help management and operations staff of non-profit organizations reduce expenses without sacrificing programs or staff. The book includes general principles for expense management, analyzing expenses and cost-cutting plans, remedial steps for fiscal crisis, strategies, techniques and tips for effective cost cutting in the operating areas common to most non-profits (human resources, facilities, management and administration, and program), and steps to prevent future financial or management problems. The author draws on her 30 years in leadership roles with a broad range of non-profits and small and mid-size businesses to share proven approaches that she used to rescue organizations in financial crisis and to help others manage better.
Optimal Organizations offers sound cost-reduction strategies that non-profit leaders can use to avoid closure, layoffs, program reduction or government censure. The book provides a positive, comprehensive approach to cost reduction, showing agencies how to reduce expenses while improving operations and programs. In addition to helping to prevent layoffs, Optimal Organizations strategies also help improve overall management practices, including risk reduction. Short-term or even long-term cost-reduction strategies will only make limited improvement if the agency fails to identify risk factors that leave the organization vulnerable to preventable emergencies.
Optimal Organizations methodically examines all of the different areas where non-profits must be able to function effectively and control costs: Human Resources, Facilities, Administration and Management, Finances, Program, Fundraising, and Planning and provides targeted solutions in all these important areas. As a service to the nonprofit community, two cost-savings strategies out of the dozens described in each chapter are provided on the linked pages.
Whole chapters with many more strategies in each of these areas will be available for purchase shortly.
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