Recession, Recovery, and Renewal—Long-term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change

The slow and uneven climb out from the Great Recession promises nonprofits an economic future that is unlike the past. Get equipped with the tools you need to plan your resilient nonprofit strategy with Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change. This dynamic book reveals how your nonprofit can choose and assess indicators that will anticipate rapid twists in the road. It illustrates how your nonprofit can adapt management, programs, skills, leadership, and governance to take advantage of—rather than suffer through—rapid and constant change.

This book is a practical guide that teaches readers to identify, choose and track trend indicators in the market; establish systems to take up and act on both challenges and opportunities surfaced by those indicators; and produce concrete evidence of the impact of paying attention to those indicators.

• Examines the Great Recession and its effect on government finance
• Explores economic and industrial structure and performance over the next two decades, domestically and globally
• Provides a concrete strategic guide toward change, grow capacity, and fulfillment of your nonprofit's mission
• Offers a practical guide to restructuring the business model of nonprofits to anticipate—not react—to change
• Documents the nature and levels of current and future economic change

Featuring a profile self-assessment questionnaire to help readers determine their readiness to adapt to change and to produce evidence to support innovation and performance and case studies written by agencies of Omnicom, a global Fortune 200 company, together with their nonprofit and corporate partners based on actual strategy development, Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change is the first book to provide the nonprofit sector with a concrete guide to organizational strategy based on documented statistical evidence of the future economic and leadership structure—that will eventually become the operating environment.

SUSAN U. RAYMOND, PhD, is Executive Vice President for Research and Analytics at Changing Our World, a full-service nonprofit and philanthropy consulting firm. In this role, Susan is responsible for designing and conducting business operating environment research for both nonprofits and foundations, as well as developing business plans and program evaluations for new and existing institutions. Susan is a member of the advisory board of the Center for Global Prosperity in Washington, D.C., and a member of the advisory boards of The Global Index of Philanthropic Freedom and America's Unofficial Ambassadors. In 2012, the Director of the National Science Foundation appointed her to the board of the Civilian Research and Development Foundation. Susan has worked on philanthropy and economic development projects throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, as well as in Russia and Asia and has held positions with the New York Academy of Sciences, The World Bank, Center for Public Resources, and U.S. Agency for International Development. In 2011, Women United in Philanthropy honored Susan with the Women in Excellence and Achievement Award. She has written for many publications, particularly in the areas of economics, healthcare, and corporate responsibility, and is the author of three books with Wiley.