The Nonprofit Manager's Guide to Effective Decision-Making

While they may have different goals and missions, the for-profit and nonprofit sectors have much to teach each other. Ideas, tools, and techniques can be and have been adapted and transferred from one sector to the other. Making Critical Decisions provides nonprofit leaders and decision makers with one of those tools-a decision matrix which offers proven methods for smart, accountable, and ground level'decision making. Roberta Snow and Paul Phillips present a clear and structured way to'manage the challenges of limited resources, competing demands, and the need for accountability while remaining true to a nonprofit's mission.'?Making Critical Decisions offers nonprofit decision makers an effective model for making hard choices that minimize risk while maintaining progress toward the organization's goals as well as a practical framework for understanding and implementing'the decision'making process. The book includes qualitative and quantitative tools and offers illustrative case examples throughout that clearly show how this method can be applied to different types of scenarios within nonprofit organizations. "The book provides an excellent framework for making critical decisions. I was able to immediately apply the matrix to a real-life organizational challenge." -Christine James-Brown, president and CEO, Child Welfare League of America "I was able to use Snow and Phillips's decision-making model to help me think about what was really important and what was less important in terms of a decision that I was about to make. The due diligence process allowed me to remove some of the emotion from that decision and replace it with a more analytical approach." -Ron Z. Opher, founder, Daddy's Spirit Moves Me ForwardSnow, Roberta is the author of 'The Nonprofit Manager's Guide to Effective Decision-Making', published 2007 under ISBN 9780787976361 and ISBN 0787976369.