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Be Bold: Create a Career With Impact

By CHERYL L. DORSEY and LARA GALINSKY

This book encourages its readers to consider a career in public service. Echoing Green, a charity that provides fellowships to promising nonprofit leaders, compiles the stories of 12 of its fellows, including the founders of Teach for America, City Year, the Global Fund for Children, and International Bridges to Justice. Each of the first four chapters discusses three fellows: their backgrounds, their causes, and their organizations. The final chapter includes a questionnaire to help aspiring charity leaders define their particular passions, and a list of resources to learn more about careers in the nonprofit world.

Publisher: Echoing Green, 60 East 42nd Street, Suite 250, New York, N.Y. 10165; (212) 689-1165; fax (212) 689-9010; info@echoinggreen.org; http://www.echoinggreen.org; 112 pages; $14.95; ISBN 0-9790116-0-4.

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By LILLY COHEN and DENNIS R. YOUNG

Profiles non-profit executives and managers, fund raisers, and foundation officials, describing their job responsibilities and the career paths that led them to their positions. Also discusses employment and compensation patterns in the non-profit world and offers advice on how to conduct a job search.

Publisher: The Foundation Center, Customer Service, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003-3076; (212) 807-3690 or (800) 424-9836; fax (212) 807-3691; http://fdncenter.org; 237 pages; $33.26 plus $4.50 postage and handling; I.S.B.N. 0-87954-294-2.

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Careers in Fundraising

By LILYA WAGNER

Offers guidance to people who want to work as fund raisers for a nonprofit organization, complete with an overview of the nonprofit field and the crucial role that fund raising plays at different charities. Recommends education and training opportunities available to people who want to become fund raisers and examines the necessary skills and traits needed to be successful.

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1 Wiley Drive, Somerset, N.J. 08875; (800) 225-5945; fax (800) 597-3299; http://www.wiley.com; 332 pages; $26.95; I.S.B.N. 0-471-40359-8.

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Consulting with Nonprofits: A Practitioner's Guide

By CAROL A. LUKAS

Offers advice to non-profit professionals who are considering a career in consulting. Describes what types of consulting work are available in the non-profit world, how the consulting process works, and how to start and manage a consulting business.

Publisher: Fieldstone Alliance, 60 Plato Blvd East, Suite 150, St. Paul, MN, 55107; (651) 556-4500; fax (651) 556-4517; http://www.fieldstonealliance.org; info@FieldstoneAlliance.org, 220 pages; $44.95 plus $5 postage and handling; I.S.B.N. 0-940069-17-2.

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From Making a Profit to Making a Difference:
How to Launch Your New Career in Nonprofits

By RICHARD M. KING

Offers advice to business people who are considering a change from the for-profit to the non-profit world.

Publisher: Planning/Communications, 7215 Oak Avenue, River Forest, Ill. 60305-1935; (708) 366?5200 or (888) 366-5200; fax (708) 366?5280; http://jobfindersonline.com; 192 pages; $29.95 cloth, $16.95 paper, plus $5 postage and handling; 1-884587-16-x cloth and 1-884587-17-8 paper.

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A Guide to Careers in Community Development

By PAUL C. BROPHY and ALICE SHABECOFF

Introduces job seekers to goals and strategies and the types of careers and employers available, with chapters on the day-to-day activities of several types of community-development jobs. Includes profiles of people working in the field, along with sample job descriptions and salaries, and information about internships, fellowships, and volunteer programs.

Publisher: sland Press, 58440 Main Street, P.O. Box 7, Covelo, Calif. 95428; (707) 983-6432; http://www.islandpress.org; 309 pages; $35 cloth, $17.95 paper; I.S.B.N. 1-55963-749-8 cloth, 1-55963-750-1 paper.

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Harvard Business School Guide
to Careers in the Nonprofit Sector

By STEPHANIE LOWELL

Discusses the benefits and drawbacks of a career in the non-profit world, the cultural differences between a charity and a business, and ways of finding a non-profit job.

Publisher: Harvard Business School Publishing, Customer-Service Department, 60 Harvard Way, Boston, Mass. 02163; (617) 783-7450 or (800) 668-6780; fax (617) 783-7664; custserv@hbsp.harvard.edu; http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu; 128 pages; $22.95 plus $4 postage and handling; I.S.B.N. 1-57851-231-x.

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The Nonprofit Career Guide: How to Land a Job That Makes a Difference

By SHELLY CRYER

This hands-on guide includes practical advice from people working at all levels of a variety of nonprofit groups. Profiles examine what their work is like, the career paths they followed, and what they look for when hiring new employees. The book includes information on building professional networks, writing cover letters and resumes, handling job interviews, and negotiating compensation.

Publisher: Fieldstone Alliance, 60 Plato Boulevard East, Suite 150, Saint Paul, Minn., 55107, (651) 556-4500, info@FieldstoneAlliance.org, http://www.fieldstonealliance.org, 300 pages, $16.95, ISBN: 978-0-940069-59-6

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Nonprofit Management Education:
U.S. and World Perspectives

Edited by MICHAEL O'NEILL and KATHLEEN FLETCHER

Essays by scholars and non-profit executives discuss the growth of non-profit management as an academic field, challenges facing the discipline, the use of technology in management education, and the debate over whether these programs should be housed in schools of business or public administration or be organized as independent entities.

Publisher: Praeger Publishers, Customer Service, Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., P.O. Box 6926, Portsmouth, N.H. 03802-6926; (800) 225-5800; fax (877) 231-6980; customer-service@greenwood.com; http://www.greenwood.com; 176 pages; $106.95 plus $4 postage and handling; I.S.B.N. 0-275-96115-x

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Nonprofits Job Finder: Where the Jobs are in Charities and Nonprofits

This book guides readers to more than 1,500 tools to use in a job search for a position with a nonprofit organization or a charity. The guide provides in-depth information on using Internet job and resume databases, job-listing periodicals, directories, salary surveys, job-matching services, and more.

Publisher: Planning/Communications, 7215 Oak Avenue, River Forest, Ill. 60305-1935; (708) 366-5200 or (888) 366-5200; fax (708) 366-5280; dl@planningcommunications.com, http://jobfindersonline.com; 327 pages; $32.95 hardcover, $19.95 paper, plus $5 postage and handling; 978-1584587177 hardcover, 1-884587-06-2.

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The Not-for-Profit CEO: How to Attain & Retain the Corner Office

By WALTER P. PIDGEON JR.

A guide to becoming a successful nonprofit leader, written as much for the student considering a career in the nonprofit world as for the charity executive seeking advice on how to excel in the position. The author draws on his experience as chief executive of the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance-U.S. Sportsmen's Foundation, as well as interviews with nonprofit leaders and research conducted in collaboration with the American Society for Association Executives.

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1 Wiley Drive, Somerset, N.J. 08875; (800) 225-5945;; http://www.wiley.com; 309 pages; $39.95. ISBN: 0471648752

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Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector: Shifting Your Focus From the Bottom Line to a Better World

By LAURA GASSNER OTTING

Ms. Otting walks career changers through the process of finding, applying for, and keeping a charity job. The book focuses on three aspects of job hunting: assessing one's own strengths and interests, knowing where to find the best resources, and understanding the idiosyncrasies of nonprofit organizations and the charity job market. Ms. Otting discusses the different missions of charities, common myths and misunderstandings, salary differences, and job profiles.

Publisher: Kaplan Publishing, 888 Seventh Avenue, 22nd Floor, New York, N.Y. 10106; (212) 492-5800; fax (212) 974-2755; http://www.kaplanpublishing.com; 270 pages; $16.95; ISBN 1-4195-9341-2.

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Women as Fundraisers:
Their Experience in and Influence on an Emerging Profession

Edited by JULIE C. CONRY

This collection of eight essays from the journal New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising reports on the growing number of women in fund raising and looks at the opportunities and obstacles they encounter in the profession.

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1 Wiley Drive, Somerset, N.J. 08875; (800) 225-5945; http://www.wiley.com; 139 pages; $29; I.S.B.N. 0-7879-4268-7.

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