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Careers for Dreamers and Doers: A Guide to Management Careers in the Nonprofit Sector

<P>We hope this volume will serve as a source of inspiration and reference to a wide variety of people. This includes students deciding on a field of study, college and university graduates looking for their first job, career changers, volunteers in transition to paid employment, retirees searching for new roles, and those already in the sector who need career advancement strategies. We also hope this book will become a resource for career counseling intermediaries - all the helpful professionals who work in high schools, academic institutions, counseling centers, and libraries who are called on for advice, information and referral.</P>
<P>This book combines resource information and research data with profiles, experiences, and insights of professionals in the field. The material has been organized into eleven sections: Section 1. The private nonprofit economy: A sector of opportunity describes and defines the sector and its subsectors and constituent organizations in legal, economic, historical, theoretical and statistical terms. Section 2. Myths, realities, rewards, and frustrations of working in the nonprofit sector offers a critical perspective on the work life of managers in nonprofit organizations from the vantage point of a seasoned practitioner. Section 3.Compensation patterns in the sector examines and analyzes current research, compares compensation between sectors, and describes differences in nonprofit compensation by subsectors, fields, geographic areas, and by gender. Section 4. Educating and training managers for the sector reviews the dynamic education and training enterprises that are evolving in response to a need for professionalization. Program types, levels, providers and issues are identified. Sections 5-9. Career profiles presents 25 case histories of real managers with diverse responsibilities, talking about who they are, what they do, how they got there, and why their work matters. Section 10. The Sector's Best Kept Secret: Associations as employers and professional development resources describes associations as major providers of job opportunities and identifies specific associations that offer career advancement and career development opportunities for non-profit managers. Section 11. Getting a job in the sector briefly reviews effective job-search strategies for those seeking employment, with an emphasis on what nonprofit employers look for. Helpful resources are identified.</P>
<P>CONTENTS<BR>
Foreword by Robert L. Payton. <BR>
Preface. <BR>
Acknowledgements. </P>
<P>Part One. The nonprofit sector: a review of employment opportunities.<br>
1. The private nonprofit economy by Dennis R. Young. <BR>
2. Myths and realities, rewards and frustrations of working in the nonprofit sector by Henry Goldstein. <BR>
3. Compensation patterns in the sector by Anne Preston.<BR>
4. Educating and training managers for the sector by Lilly Cohen. </P>
<P>Part Two: Career profiles prepared by Lilly Cohen. <br>
5. General managers. <BR>
6. Managers of philanthropy. <BR>
7. Fundraising and development managers. <BR>
8. Marketing, public relations and membership managers. <BR>
9. Service providers to the sector. </P>
<P>Part Three. Practical information for the job hunt by Lilly Cohen. <br>
10. The Sector's best-kept secret: Associations as employers and professional development resources. <BR>
11. Getting a job in the sector. </P>
<P>Appendices: <BR>
A. United Way of America Summary of position classifications. <BR>
B. Foundation position definitions. <BR>
C. Finding work with grantmakers and other nonprofit organizations. <BR>
D. Foundation Center's network of cooperating collections. </P>
<P>References. <BR>
Index.</P>

We hope this volume will serve as a source of inspiration and reference to a wide variety of people. This includes students deciding on a field of study, college and university graduates looking for their first job, career changers, volunteers in transition to paid employment, retirees searching for new roles, and those already in the sector who need career advancement strategies. We also hope this book will become a resource for career counseling intermediaries - all the helpful professionals who work in high schools, academic institutions, counseling centers, and libraries who are called on for advice, information and referral.

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Cohen, Lilly and Young, Dennis R.
0-87954-294-2 (pbk)
237 p.
December, 1988
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The Foundation Center
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