Saving Money in Nonprofit Organizations: More than 100 Money-Saving Ideas, Tips, and Strategies for Reducing Expenses Without Cutting Your Budget (Jossey Bass Nonprofit & Public Management Series)

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A very practical, walk-away-with-dozens-of-new-ideas book for nonprofit managers who face the constant challenge of increasing income and reducing expenses. The author not only encourages good fiscal management, he motivates the reader and provides a road map for saving a lot of money.
--John Pearson, CEO, Christian Management Association

A straightforward, no-nonsense guide to streamlining expenses without sacrificing valuable programs and services.

Even in a good national economy, nonprofit organizations can have tight financial constraints. And since most nonprofits are already operating close to the fiscal balance line, they feel the financial pinch sooner and more acutely than business or government when the economy takes a downward spin.

This nuts-and-bolts resource will help you find ways to:

--Effectively balance your budget

--Minimize spending through thirty general money-saving principles and opportunities

--Maximize your organization's various assets

--Save money on personnel costs without firing anyone

--Reduce office equipment and supply costs

--Negotiate the best possible price with vendors <--Decrease travel, insurance, and tax expenses

--Develop long- and short-term strategies for expense reduction

--Create an action plan as well as a cost-saving team

The money-saving tips that Gregory Dabel presents in this useful guide will benefit even those organizations whose revenues are thriving. Saving Money in Nonprofit Organizations is for professionals who are ready to take action and improve their financial bottom lines.

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This book saves money AND an organization's existence.......2005-06-09

The upside of working for a non-profit is getting to act on your beliefs for the public good while still getting paid. The downside is that working for the public good necessitates tight budgets. Changing the world IS expensive, but can be done with thoughtful planning.

Sharply at odds with a 'fat cat' image of politics, the non profit MUST know how to make the most use of their organization's resources in order to remain relevant to their service area and organization mission statements. Reading this book reminded me of an organization I had worked with because they started out with noble intentions, but ultimately folded only because the other staff did not understand the necessity of budgeting or how non-profits differ from private-sector corporate charity initiatives.

I'm sure that Dabel has his own horror stories of an organization which forgot to balance idealism with fiscal prudence, but such reminiscing is not the focus of this book. Instead, Dabel provides simple, ready-to-do steps which most non-profits can and should easily undertake. The best organization committed to the best cause in the world will be ineffective when it does not have money for campaign supplies or even an organizing space.

Although he does mention the role which volunteers and interns can play in advancing an organization's goals while lowering the economic overhead, Dabel did not appear to fully appreciate their potential range of contributions in an organization. Having both been an intern and then worked at numerous non-profit organizations where paid staff topped out around 4 people, I ardently believe that unpaid work cannot be underestimated as being one of those practical solutions.

Overall however, this was a good book. I would feel comfortable recommending it to both the non-profit co-worker/colleague and people (such as my family) who need a jargon-free book on the economic/social work environments of non-profits.

15% Saved is 15% Earned.......2000-06-30

The author does deliver on the promise to shave 15% off a nonprofit's budget. All of the 100+ tips (across a broad range of expense areas) for shaving costs are practical and require limited time or money to implement. Though any nonprofit organization will benefit from many of these tested ideas, organizations under $10 million in budget should especially be able to adopt many of the suggestions due to flatter heirarchies and quicker decisions by senior staff. I know of no other text that comes close to being so extensive or so practical.

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Are people around you reinventing themselves, launching successful careers and achieving personal satisfaction, while you feel stagnant? Are you trapped in a dead-end job? Have you been out of work for so long that returning into the unknown business world has paralyzed you with fear?

Do you feel you should be shopping for a new life? How about shopping AS a new life? Get Paid to Shop tells you how to launch a profitable full-time or part-time career by starting your own Corporate Shopping Business and becoming a personal shopper for corporate America.

Get Paid to Shop shows you how to capitalize on executives' time constraints and your shopping ability while:

Making Money;
Gaining independence;
Boosting self-esteem; and
Earning professional recognition.

This 328-page resource packed guide will show you:
How to turn a shopping passion into a thriving business;
How to identify and reach your clients;
How to shop at merchandise marts and the wholesale trade industry;
How to make room in a well-organized home office for Uncle Sam;
How to find a banker and what to expect;
How to choose a business structure that's right for you; and
How to jumpstart your business using the included checklists, letters and business forms.

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This is the original.......2005-03-26

I believe that this book, being the original, by Author Emily S. Lumpkin, is the only resource needed to become a personal shopper. I have personally purchased the E-Book, which is sold at www.fortepublishing.com, and I am well on my way to corporate shopping success!

Thanks so much for writing this book. It's wonderful!.......2000-03-23

A friend and I have just started our personal shopping business. Thanks to Emily's book, we felt like a baby being led by the hand. This book helped us in so many ways.

Want to be a personal shopper? Get this book!.......2000-02-04

Get Paid to Shop (tm) is a great personal shopping book! It was not only helpful, but also the personality Emily Lumpkin gave it made it fun to read. I read it in two nights and now I'm on my way. I actually started my personal shopping business idea before ordering the book and let me just say, I sure wish I had ordered her book first! I followed Lumpkin's directions step by step and already have my first client. Thanks to Emily Lumpkin for the information she made available. Her book has made my dream come true.

Fantastic.......1999-11-04

This book is a sheer joy. Emily Lumpkin's insights are both creative and useful. If you like to shop, this is a must-read. I've memorized it!

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A very good book about State universal jurisdiction

Universal Jurisdiction: International and Municipal Legal Perspectives (Oxford Monographs in International Law)
Luc Reydams
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Universal Jurisdiction: National Courts And the Prosecution of Serious Crimes Under International Law (Penn Studies in Human Rights)

ASIN: 0199274266

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After centuries of near dormancy, the concept of 'universal jurisdiction' has suddenly become an important legal tool in the international campaign against impunity, most prominently in high-profile criminal trials. Among the legal questions raised by the exercise of universal jurisdiction, this book considers two. Under what conditions is a country investigating or prosecuting a foreigner for an extraterritorial offence internationally competent? What is the basis in municipal law for the exercise of universal jurisdiction? Reydams first identifies the international legal issues that arise when a State exercises extraterritorial jurisdiction generally, discerns the different doctrinal concepts of universal jurisdiction, and traces universal jurisdiction in current international texts such as multilateral conventions, resolutions of intergovernmental bodies, and official drafts and studies. He then brings together, and makes accessible in English, detailed accounts of universal jurisdiction in fourteen countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Senegal, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Reydams' point of departure is the need for a context-sensitive analysis. The municipal laws are thus placed in the larger context of a country's views on criminal jurisdiction generally and the case discussions pay detailed attention to the factual and legal context of each case. This approach provides the reader with the reasons why the individual was brought to justice in a third country. The inclusion of (translated) texts of municipal statutes, of (translated) excerpts from judicial decisions, and of commentaries by legal scholars makes this volume an important resource for decision makers and legal practitioners, both national and international.

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A very good book about State universal jurisdiction.......2005-02-21

The book explains over the legal norms that the States have which make them able to exercise jurisdicition over persons from other States.

Mainly about criminal law and the problem of foreign persons being judge by a foreign State. A worth reading.

Universal Jurisdiction : International and Municipal Legal Perspectives (Oxford Monographs in International Law)

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Universal Jurisdiction : International and Municipal Legal Perspectives (Oxford Monographs in International Law)
Luc Reydams
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Over the past decade, our understanding of plant adaptation to environmental stress has grown considerably. This book focuses on stress caused by the inanimate components of the environment associated with climatic, edaphic and physiographic factors that substantially limit plant growth and survival. Categorically these are abiotic stresses, which include drought, salinity, non-optimal temperatures and poor soil nutrition. Another stress, herbicides, is covered in this book to highlight how plants are impacted by abiotic stress originating from anthropogenic sources. The book also addresses the high degree to which plant responses to quite diverse forms of environmental stress are interconnected, describing the ways in which the plant utilizes and integrates many common signals and subsequent pathways to cope with less favorable conditions.The book is directed at researchers and professionals in plant physiology, cell biology and molecular biology, in both the academic and industrial sectors.

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Abiotic Stresses in Plants

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Release Date: 2007-05-25

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This book provides a valuable insight into how the area of plant adaptation to abiotic stresses has progressed through the application of the new technologies. The book consists of eight chapters written by outstanding scientists across the world, who carry out research at the cutting edge of their disciplines. The topics, addressed in up-to-date specific chapters, include effects and responses of plants to stresses caused by such factors as: 1) high temperature, 2) low temperature (chilling and freezing), 3) salt, 4) drought, 5) flooding, 6) heavy metals, 7) elevated carbon dioxide, 8) ozone.

Abiotic Stresses: Plant Resistance Through Breeding and Molecular Approaches (Crop Science) (Crop Science)

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ASIN: 1560229659

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Gain a better understanding of the genetic and physiological bases of stress response and stress tolerance as part of crop improvement programs

Abiotic Stresses: Plant Resistance Through Breeding and Molecular Approaches explores innovative methods for breeding new varieties of major crops with resistance to environmental stresses that limit crop production worldwide. Experts provide you with basic principles and techniques of plant breeding as well as work done in relation to improving resistance in specific important world food crops. This book supplies extensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter, as well as tables and figures that illustrate the research findings.

Abiotic Stresses is divided into two sections. In the first section, you will find:

the general principles of breeding crops for stress resistance

genetic engineering and molecular biology procedures for crop improvement for stress environments

data on genome mapping and its implications for improving stress resistance in plants

information about breeding for resistance/tolerance to salinity, drought, flooding, metals, low nutrient availability, high/low temperatures

The second section of this timely resource focuses on the efforts of acknowledged specialists who concentrated their efforts on important individual crops, such as: wheat

barley

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The first comprehensive treatment of the physiology of plants under stress.

Physiology of Plants Under Stress: Environmental Factors, Volume 1 is a valuable resource for plant physiologists, horticulturists, crop scientists, plant breeders, agronomists, and plant molecular biologists. It provides the most detailed coverage, to date, of the impact of a wide range of environmental variables upon plant structure, development, and growth. Comprehensive in scope, it explores:
* Plant stress physiology fundamentals, including growth regulation, membranes, phytohormones, carbon balance, and the use of stable isotopes in stress studies.
* Relevant physical, chemical, and biological aspects of all forms of environmental stress and their effects upon plant metabolism.
* Multiple levels of adaptation, including behavioral, morphological, anatomical, physiological, and biochemical responses.
* Plant responses to specific environmental stresses such as drought and flooding, light intensity, high heat, chilling and freezing, and other.
* recent advances in microbiology and genetic manipulation in the regulation of metabolic influences.
* And much more.

each chapter concludes with study/review outlines and self-study review questions, making this an ideal text for graduate level courses in plant physiology, horticulture, agronomy, and crop science.

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this is a subject wich represent a biig interress for MI.......2000-02-15

THIS SUBJECT IS THE MAIN EF MY PHD AND I WANT TO REWIEW I

Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants: Toward the Improvement of Global Environment and Food

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The main objective of this book is to provide state-of-the-art knowledge of recent developments in the understanding of plant response to abiotic stresses in a single volume. Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants contains nine sections; Signal transduction, Temperature stress, Oxidative stresses, Phytoremediation, Osmotic stresses, Ion homeostasis, Nutrition, Structural responses, and Genetic diversity and development of biotechnology. Contributions in each chapter are prepared by leading experts in the respective fields and mirror the advancement in the approach. This book contains important future tasks of the particular fields and supplies extensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter, as well as tables and figures that illustrate the research findings. Each chapter reflects how physiologists, biochemists and molecular biologists have caught up with the newer techniques to understand the basic problems of abiotic stress in plant species. All these make this book highly useful and a must read for students, researchers and professionals in botany, plant environmental stress studies, agriculture, plant physiology, cell biology and molecular biology, in both the academic and industrial sectors.

Abiotic Stresses ; Plant Resistance Through Breeding and Molucular Approaches

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Abiotic Stresses ; Plant Resistance Through Breeding and Molucular Approaches
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Ethylene Action in Plants

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The plant hormone ethylene plays a prominent role among several intrinsic and extrinsic factors that control growth and physiology of plants. Its biological activity was discovered over a century ago. However, extensive studies on its mode of action came later.

To date, it is well documented that ethylene is a versatile signaling molecule that plays an important role in many physiological processes - like growth, senescence, fruit ripening, stress responses, symbioses, and photosynthesis. Molecular-genetic analyses have revealed mechanisms responsible for ethylene production, perception, and signal transduction. The present work brings into focus the recent developments on the biochemical, physiological, and molecular basis for ethylene action in plants.

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Physiology of Abiotic Stress in Plants
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Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress (Topics in Current Genetics)

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Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors for agricultural productivity. Apart from biotic stress caused by plant pathogens, there are a number of abiotic stresses such as extremes in temperature, drought, salinity, heavy metals and radiation which all have detrimental effects on plant growth and yield. However, certain plant species and ecotypes have developed various mechanisms to adapt to such stress conditions. Recent advances in the understanding of these abiotic stress responses provided the impetus for compiling up-to-date reviews discussing all relevant topics in abiotic stress signaling of plants in a single volume. Topical reviews were prepared by selected experts and contain an introduction, discussion of the state of the art and important future tasks of the particular fields.

Plant Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses in Agriculture: Role of Genetic Engineering (NATO Science Partnership Sub-Series: 3:)

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Plant Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses in Agriculture: Role of Genetic Engineering (NATO Science Partnership Sub-Series: 3:)

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Environmental stresses represent the most limiting factors for agricultural productivity worldwide. These stresses impact not only current crop species, they are also significant barriers to the introduction of crop plants into areas that are not currently being used for agriculture. Stresses associated with temperature, salinity and drought, singly or in combination, are likely to enhance the severity of problems to which plants will be exposed in the coming decades.
The present book brings together contributions from many laboratories around the world to discuss and compare our current knowledge of the role stress genes play in plant stress tolerance. In addition, strategies are discussed to introduce these genes and the processes that they encode into economically important crops, and the effect this will have on plant productivity.

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