Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector

The largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history will soon be under way, bringing with it the potential for huge increases in philanthropic funding. Engine of Impact shows how nonprofits can apply the principles of strategic leadership to attract greater financial support and leverage that funding to maximum effect.As Good to Great author Jim Collins writes in his foreword, this book offers "a detailed roadmap of disciplined thought and action for turning a good nonprofit into one that can achieve great impact at scale."William F. Together, these components form an "engine of impact"a system that organizations must build, tune, and fuel if they hope to make a real difference in the world.Drawing on decades of teaching

A 'how and when to do it' guidebook, it is also a pleasure to read." (Joel Fleishman Professor of Law and Public Policy Sciences, Duke University, co-author, Give Smart)"Engine of Impact is an indispensable tool for today's nonprofit leader. We're awash in business books, but the nonprofit sector has been wanting for its own evidence-based guide. By applying lessons in management excellence, this book will help nonprofits achieve significantly better results." (Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder and Chairperson BRAC)"In an era when the work of nonprofits is ever more essential, Me

Kim Starkey Jonker is President and CEO of King Philanthropies and the former Executive Director of the Henry R. Kravis Prize in Nonprofit Leadership. Together, they co-authored the popular Stanford Social Innovation Review series "Fundamentals, Not Fads." . William F. Meehan III is the Lafayette Partners Lecturer in Strategic Management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a Director Emeritus