Praise for NONPROFIT SUSTAINABILITY "This is much more than a financial how-to book. It's a nonprofit's guide to empowerment. It demystifies mission impact and financial viability using The Matrix Map to provide strategic options for any organization. A must-read for every nonprofit CEO, CFO, and board member." ―Julia A. McClendon, chief executive officer, YWCA Elgin, Illinois "This book should stay within easy reaching distance and end up completely dog-eared because it walks the reader through a practical but sometimes revelatory process of choosing the right mix of programs for mission impact and financial sustainability. Its use is a practice in which every nonprofit should engage its board once a year." ―Ruth McCambridge, editor in chief, The Nonprofit Quarterly "Up until a few years ago, funding and managing a nonprofit was a bit like undertaking an ocean voyage. Now, it's akin to windsurfing―you must be nimble, prepared to maximize even the slightest breeze, and open to modifying your course at a moment's notice. Innovative executive directors or bold board members who want their organization to be able to ride the big waves of the new American economy must read this book." ―Robert L. E. Egger, president, DC Central Kitchen/Campus Kitchens Project/V3 Campaign "Most nonprofits struggle to find a long-term sustainable business model that will enable them to deliver impact on their mission. Thanks to Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka, and Steve Zimmerman help is now in sight. This book offers practical, concrete steps you can take to develop your own unique path to sustainability without compromising your mission." ―Heather McLeod Grant, consultant, Monitor Institute, and author, Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits "At last! An urgently needed framework to prepare leaders to meet head-on the persistent twin challenges of impact and sustainability. This is a practical tool based on good business principles that can bring boards and staff members together to lead their organizations to sustainable futures." ―Nora Silver, adjunct professor and director, Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley "Together, Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka, and Steve Zimmerman equal wisdom, experience, and know-how on sustainability and lots of other things. Buy, read, and learn from this terrific book!" ―Clara Miller, president and CEO, Nonprofit Finance Fund "Wisdom, experience, and know-how. Buy, read, and learn from this terrific book!" ―Clara Miller, president and CEO, Nonprofit Finance Fund

Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability

Business & Money

Masaoka, Jan

Zimmerman, Steve

Bell, Jeanne

Management & Leadership

Jossey-Bass

An Unlikely Hero is set in a magical kingdom that no longer exists-the Bronx during the 1930s and 1940s. But the story really begins at the turn of the twentieth century, when the hero arrives in America with his emigrant family and settles on the Lower East Side of New York. After running away from home at thirteen, the hero acquires his education on the streets before joining the ranks of America's new breed of ambitious salesmen, who use the unparalleled growth of American business in the 1920s as a springboard to make their way in the world. For many years he leads a solitary, hardscrabble life-until, in 1928, at age forty-two, he marries and settles down to raise a family. He manages to survive the Great Depression, and, with single-minded determination, cares for his family and his sickly wife before her untimely death from cancer eleven years later. This is a story about tenacity; about survival; about a father who, without a trace of rancor or self-pity, rises to the occasion and forms a bond with his son based on working-class values and a bedrock of unspoken love. It is a clear-eyed, unsentimental portrait of their years together, and the father's remarkable courage and stoicism in the face of unusual adversity. More than just a father, he becomes the boy's mentor and unlikely hero. Alternately heartbreaking and hilarious, An Unlikely Hero is also a coming-of-age story about the hero's teenage son growing up on the streets of the Bronx. The tale is told with an unerring sense of the time period that shaped the boy's life-a life deeply marked by the death of his mother when he was six years old.

An Unlikely Hero: A Father's Struggle to Raise His Son in the Bronx During the Great Depression and the Golden Age of Radio, Motion Pictures, Comic Books, Stickball, Baseball, and Prize Fights

Biographies & Memoirs

Steve Zimmerman

Although food has been part of motion pictures since the silent era, for the most part food is treated with about as much respect as movie extras: It's always been there on the screen but seldom noticed. From the very beginning, the marginalization of food was based on practical reasons—the cost and the inconvenience of having to place food in exactly the same position in scenes that might require five, 10, or as many as 20 takes. To document how food has been used in movies from the silent era to the present, the authors reviewed over 500 American and foreign films and found that filmmakers had settled on three basic ways to treat food. First, food has been used as a prop and in these situations it's usually obscured by the camera or ignored by the actors who busy themselves with other things to help advance the plot. Second, food has been used as a transition device to compress time so that a meal that might ordinarily take a half hour to eat is completed in a matter of seconds through the use of creative editing techniques. Third, food has been used as a symbol or metaphor to make a dramatic point or to reveal an aspect of an actor's character, mood or thought process. The final chapter is dedicated exclusively to films released theatrically since the late 1980s—like Tampopo, Babette's Feasts and Like Water for Chocolate—that treat food as the star of the film, thus creating food films as a new genre. A filmography is included that lists the film's title, year of release, distributor, producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer and cast, along with a brief description of how food was used in the film.

Food in the Movies

Humor & Entertainment

Weiss, Ken

Movies

McFarland

Although food has been part of motion pictures since the silent era, for the most part it has been treated with about as much respect as movie extras: it's always been there on the screen but seldom noticed. For the most part filmmakers have settled on three basic ways to treat food: as a prop in which the food is usually obscured from sight or ignored by the actors; as a transition device to compress time and help advance the plot; as a symbol or metaphor, or in some other meaningful way, to make a dramatic point or to reveal an aspect of an actor's character, mood or thought process. This hugely expanded and revised edition details 400 food scenes, in addition to the 400 films reviewed for the first edition, and an introduction tracing the technical, artistic and cultural forces that contributed to the emergence of food films as a new genre--originated by such films as Tampopo, Babette's Feast and more recently by films like Mostly Martha, No Reservations and Ratatouille. A filmography is included as an appendix.

Food in the Movies, 2d ed.

McFarland Company

The Matrix Map―a powerful tool for nonprofit strategic decision-making Nonprofit sustainability lies at the intersection of exceptional impact and financial viability. The Sustainability Mindset offers nonprofit professionals and board members a step-by-step guide to move your organization towards this intersection. As outlined in the bestselling book Nonprofit Sustainability, "The Matrix Map" is an accessible framework that combines financial and programmatic goals into an integrated strategy. In this next-step resource, the authors detail a rigorous process to develop a meaningful Matrix Map and engage leadership in setting an organization's strategy. Nonprofits that thrive in today's environment are adaptable with a clear understanding of their impact and business model. This book offers nonprofit boards and staff a framework to do so. Drawing on their in-depth experience, the authors provide an easy-to-follow process complete with tools and templates to help organizations visualize their business model and engage in strategic inquiry. The book provides a variety of illustrative examples to show how the Matrix Map works for all types of organizations. Nonprofit executives and board member are sure to benefit from The Matrix Map analysis. <ul>
<li>Offers step-by-step guidance for creating a Matrix-Map, a visual representation of an organization's business model</li> <li>Helps organizations assess how each of their programs contributes toward their desired impact and their financial bottom-line.</li> <li>Filled with compelling examples of how The Matrix Map helps nonprofits with strategic decision-making</li> <li>Written by the coauthors of the groundbreaking book Nonprofit Sustainability
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This comprehensive resource will give any nonprofit the framework they need to make decisions for sustainability and the templates and tools to implement it and help leaders address the challenges inherent in balancing mission impact with financial viability.

The Sustainability Mindset: Using the Matrix Map to Make Strategic Decisions

Early Chapters give an overview of COM and the use of ATL to develop components, controls, and document objects. Subsequent chapters analyze the key design considerations and explore specific programming techniques for such projects as tear-off interfaces, out-of-proc servers, and applications. Concluding chapters cover debugging and more advanced topics. Finally, the enclosed CD-ROM supplies programmers with the book's sample code as well as abundant sample controls and components.
ATL can help software development professionals accomplish more and be more productive. ""Inside ATL"" shows them how.

Inside ATL (Programming Languages/C)

Computers & Technology

Shepherd, George

Shephard, George

Programming

Microsoft Press

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