Montana Volunteer Resource Library : bibliography (Volume 1998) online

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Montana Volunteer
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Bibliography as compiled by the
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August 1998

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Montana Volunteer
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The Montana Volunteer Resource Library was created in 1995 by the Governor's Office
of Community Service in conjunction with the Montana State Library. This library was
created to provide all Montanans access to reference materials covering all areas of
volunteerism and to promote the ethic of volunteerism in Montana. The funding for this
project was provided through a grant from the Corporation for National Service.



This bibliography is catagorized by subject matter. Some titles are entered more than once
as they pertain to more than one category. Materials range from accounting to legal and
insurance issues to youth service. These materials in audio, video, and book form are
available to Montanans across the state through the Montana Interlibrary loan Program.



To access the materials in this bibliography through Interlibrary Loan,
contact your local library. Let your librarian know about this program,and
they will be able to assist you in receiving the titles you choose from the
Montana State Library. If the book you request is being used, you will
have to submit a request following its due date. If you have any
questions about the Interlibrary Loan procedure, call the Reference
Desk at the Montana State Library at 406-444-3004.



We would appreciate your input about the Montana
Volunteer Resource Library. If you have any suggestions of
new titles or other comments, please call the Montana
Governor's Office of Community Service at 406-444-5547.



Many thanks to those who dedicated their time and support to
this update project: Kathy Collins, Barbara Pepper Rotness,
Steve Henness, and Brian Magee.







CONTENTS

Section One:
Current Listings

Accounting & Fiscal Procedures 1

Board Members & More 2

Community Issues 4

Educational Resources - Service Learning 5

Fund Raising, Grant Writing & Fund Management 7

FYI - Collaboration, Mergers, Directories & Other Resources 1 1

Leadership Issues (i.e Leading Meetings, Personal Goals & Successful Presentations) 14

Legal & Insurance Issues 16

Motivational, Ethical & Historical Titles 18

Public Relations & Marketing 20

Recruitment, Retention & Selection 22

Seniors 22

Volunteer Centers 23

Volunteer Management 23

Youth Service 29

Section Two:
School Personnel Resources

School Personnel Resources 33





CURRENT
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*All new additions since last printing are indicated with a K?





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ACCOUNTING & FISCAL PROCEDURES



Budgeting and Financial Accountability

O'Connell, Brian cl988 15 p.

"This guide presents standards which will enable voluntary health and welfare organizations to report

their income and expenditures uniformly and in terms the contributing public can understand

Proof Positive: Developing Significant Volunteer Record Keeping Systems

Ellis, Susan J. et al. cl990 60 p.

♦The book leads the volunteer program manager through the steps necessary to create the system most

appropriate for the agency.

Self-Help Accounting: A Guide for the Volunteer Treasurer

Dalsimer, John Paul cl989 104 p.

*This book is for volunteer treasurers, typically not accountants by trade, and organizations to

understand the processes of the financial management of your organization.

Standards of Accounting and Financial Reporting for Voluntary Health and Welfare
Organizations

National Health Council cl988 144 p.

*A tool for fiscal officers of nonprofit organizations in compliance with accepted accounting principles.

Street Smart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Manag ers

McLaughlin, Thomas A. cl995 222 p.

♦Provides the nuts and bolts of nonprofit financial management. Defines terms and concepts, offers

practical budgeting tips and much more.

What a Difference Preparation Makes: A Guide to the Nonprofit Audit

Accountants for the Public Interest cl992 84 p. (with glossary)

*An in-depth look at a nonprofit audit addressed in clear steps with sample forms for accountants'

reports, balance sheets, cash receipt journals and a request for a proposal of audit services.

What a Difference Nonprofits Make: A Guide to Accounting Procedures

Accountants for the Public Interest cl990 73 p.

*This guide clarifies in detail a complex and confusing business issue - accounting procedures.
.Contents include tax exemption for nonprofits, maintaining professional standards, financial
statements, and much more.



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BOARD MEMBERS & MORE



Beyond Strategic Planning: How to Involve N onprofit Boards in Growth and Chang e

Eadie, Douglas C cl993 23 p.

•Presents a strategic plan to ensure all issues are developed and addressed.

Board Manual Workbook: Designed for the Course in Boardmanship at D'Youville College.

Buffalo, N.Y.

Stringer, G.E. et al. cl982 35 p.

♦Helps the user assess board strengths and strengthen organizational structure.

1995 Board Member Manual: Nonprofit Edition

Ed. Elliot, Chuck cl994 56 p.

♦Designed to teach board members what they should - and shouldn't - do as they serve an organization.

Board Member's Book: Making a Difference in Voluntary Organizations.

O'Connell, Brian cl993 198 p.

*This shows how an effective voluntary board can transform an organization's impact. Topics include
roles and responsibilities of the board, volunteers and staff; recruiting, encouraging, and evaluating the
executive director; making the most of meetings; and more.

T-? Board Member's Guide: A Beneficial Bestiary

Bradner, Jeanne cl995 80 p.

*A light-hearted look at the animal characteristics displayed by human board members. Offers

practical guidelines for board members roles and for making meetings more satisfying for all.

V? The Board Member's Guide to Fund Raising

Howe, Fisher cl991 168 p.

*This best-selling book highlights the need for board understanding and responsibility in fund-raising
and examines techniques in seeking support from individuals, government agencies, and foundations;
asking for a contribution; and special issues such as cause-related marketing.

Boardroom Verities: A Celebration of Trusteeship With Some Guides and Techniques to
Govern By

Panas,Jerold cl991 238 p.

♦Provides essential guidelines to having a healthy board and effective trustees.

>r The Board's Role in Effective Volunteer Involvement

Ellis, Susan J. c!995 30 p.

♦This booklet will help your board learn more about today's volunteer world and articulate a positive

vision of volunteer involvement.

\r The Board's R ole in Public Relations and Communications

Fitzpatrick. Joyce L. cl992 16 p.

♦This booklet will help prepare your board to serve as advocates and spokespersons for the
organization. Specific board members and staff responsibilities are provided. Practical tips for dealing
with the media, especially during a crisis, are also featured.



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>? Boards that Make a Difference

Carver, John cl997 256 p.

♦This book outlines a model of board design, board-staff relationships, the chief executive's role,
performance monitoring, and board-management relationships. The book reviews effective policies,
meeting structures, committee assignments, and leadership ideas.

Building Board Diversity

Rutledge. Jennifer M. cl994 52 p.

*This title focuses on basic board practices that are essential to successful identification, recruitment,

and orientation of board members.

Developing Dynamic Boards: A Proactive Approach to Building Nonprofit Boards of Directors

Hardy, James M. cl990 194 p.

♦Provides a clear approach to the building of a board of directors. Includes examples, forms, charts,

checklists and designs.

O Finding and Retaining Your Next Chief Executive: Making the Transition Work

Gilmore. Thomas N. cl993 19 p.

♦This booklet provides an overview of the key stages in leadership transition - from the decision to seek

leadership change to providing support for the new executive during the transition.

Finding. Developing and Rewarding Good Board Members

O'Connell. Brian Nonprofit Management Series #2 cl988 17 p.

*This pamphlet gives a brief overview on finding, developing, and rewarding good board members.

Fulfilling the Public Trust: Ten Ways to Help Nonprofit Boards Maintain Accountability

Bell. Peter D. cl993 20 p.

♦Assists members of nonprofit boards in fulfilling their roles of public trust and accountability. Offers

guidelines for reflection and action that are applicable to nonprofit boards.

Fund Raising

O'Connell, Brian Nonprofit Management Series 7 cl988

♦This pamphlet contains fund raising advice - starting with the responsibilities of the board.

Guidebook For Directors of Nonprofit Corporations

Ed. Overton, George W. ABA Nonprofit Risk Management Center cl993 118 p.

♦Explains board's legal responsibilities and suggests how to conduct board business in conformity with

the law.

Hiring the Chief Executive: A Practical Guide to the Search and Selection Process

Albert, Sheila National Center for Nonprofit Boards cl993 28 p.

How to Recruit Great Board Members: A Guide for Nonprofit Agencies .

Dodson, Dorian cl993 132 p.

♦Information board recruiters need to identify and persuade excellent prospects to sit on their boards.

Instructor' s Guide: Co mpanion to the Board Manual Workbook

Stringer, G.E. et al. cl981 44 p.

♦Provides activities and exercises to help create effective board members.



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Le gal Obligation of Nonprofit Boards: A Guidebook for Board Members

Leifer, Jacqueline National Center for Nonprofit Boards cl992 58 p.

This guidebook provides nonprofit board members a basic understanding of the rules and legal

concepts, their relevance to nonprofit governance, and consequences of noncompliance.

W The Legal Obligations of Nonprofit Boards: A Guidebook for Board Members

Leifer, Jacqueline Covey and Michael B. Glomb cl992 32 p.

♦This guidebook has been updated and revised to reflect changes in the law since it was originally
published in 1992. The guide provides nonprofit board members a basic understanding of the rules and
legal concepts, their relevance to nonprofit governance, and consequences of noncompliance.

>? Public Trust in Private Hands

National Center for Nonprofit Boards cl994 Video - 13 minutes
*This video is a peer-to-peer look at basic nonprofit board work.

Role of the Board and Board Members

O'Connell, Brian Nonprofit Management Series 1 cl988 21 p.

*This pamphlet describes the role of the board and board members; more specifically, board members

and legal responsibility, accountability, governance, and much more.

Six Keys to Recruiting. Orienting, and Involving Nonprofit Board Members: A Guide to
Building Your Board

Nelson, Judith Grummon [1995] cl991 63p.

*A comprehensive handbook which offers a step-by-step approach to help organizations maintain

active growing boards by attracting qualified and committed new members.

>? Speaking of Money: A Guide to Fund Raising for Nonprofit Board Members

c 1 996 Video - 30 minutes

*Hosted by ABC News journalist Hugh Downs, this video walks viewers through a series of candid

interviews in which real board members discuss the importance of effective fund raising.

10 Minutes to Better Board Meetings

Holmgren, Norah Planned Parenthood of America cl994 28 p.



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COMMUNITY ISSUES



Building Bridges: Community Development Corporations and the World of Employment
Training. A Report to the Ford Foundation

Harrison, Bennett et al. Ford Foundation cl995 85 p.

♦Findings and analysis describing Community Development Corporations and their ability to design

programs, force gatekeepers to pay attention, and building bridges to powerful mainstream institutions.

Building Community

Gardner. John William cl991 31 p.

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Building Resiliency: What Works!: A Community Guide to Preventing Alcohol and Other Drug 326.29
Abuse Through Positive Youth Development BUILDIN

National Assembly cl994 93 p.
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O Care and Community in Modern Society: Passing on the Tradition of Service to Future
Generations.

Ed. By Schervish, Paul G .. Virginia A Hodgkinson and Margaret Gates cl995 505 p.

Community Collaboration Manual

National Assembly cl991 76 p.

* Walks the reader through the process of collaborating, maintaining, and working with youth involving

business and media.

Community Service as Values Education

Delve, Cecilia I et al. c 1 990 1 30 p.

"This volume of New Directions for Student Services encourages increased involvement by, and
provides concrete support for, student-affairs professionals, administrators, and faculty as they pursue
programs of community service for their students.

Developing a Community Profile: A Handbook for Using Pre-Existing Data In Prevention
Planning

Gabriel, Roy M. Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory cl993

♦Designed for those building a broadly-based community alcohol and drug abuse prevention program

Provides information, guidelines and a systematic framework to help your community evaluate existing

data.

>r Facing Racial and Cultural Conflict: Tools for Rebuilding Communities

Schoene, Lester P. Jr. and Marcelle E. DuPraw cl994 87 p.

♦Offers an assortment of tools and techniques to bring people together with an emphasis on

collaborative problem solving.

>? Ignite the Community Spirit: 300 Creative Ideas for Community Involvement

Golliver, Joy J. cl991 133 p.

♦Provides 300 ideas in categories such as the environment, busmess-sponsored, large community-wide

projects in community involvement. The last chapter is a ten-step action plan for getting things done.

\r Spirit of Community: The Reinvention of American Society

Etzioni, Amitai cl993 323 p.

♦Explains why the critical institutions of our society are in crisis and shows what we can do to restore
them. Makes a resounding call to action-a call to reinvent and reinvigorate our social and political
institutions and restore our national sense of community.



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EDUCA TIONAL RESOURCES - SERVICE LEARNING



An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and The Future of America

Barber, Benjamin R. cl992 307 p.

♦Offers an original program for effecting change: teaching democracy through education and true

community service.



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Campus Partners in Learning: R esource Manual for Campus Based Youth Mentoring Programs

Campus CompactyCampus Partners in Learning The Education Commission of the States c 1 990
*This manual provides resources and guidelines for campus community service organizations interested
in establishing mentoring programs or adding a mentoring component to existing youth-service
programs.

Connections Kit

US Department of Education c 1 993 (Four booklets, activity worksheets, two posters, two videos,
& one sound cassette relating to children of alcoholics)

♦A compilation of materials designed to build resiliency against alcohol and other drug problems
among children.

Describing Service-Lea rning: A Delphi Study

Shumer, Robert July 1993

*This manual presents the school-based service-learning typology based on the Delphi process to
understand this phenomenon A short discussion is included about each form highlighting the salient
comments submitted by the panel of scholars.

Doing Self -Directed Study for Service-Learning

Shumer, Robert and Thomas H. Barks University of Minnesota Sept. 1992

*This program is designed to introduce practitioners to the evaluation process to improve the practice

of service-learning.

Fostering Resiliency in Kids: Protective Factors in The Family. School, and
Communit y: The Workshop

Beard, Bonnie August 1991 27 p (the manual), June 1992 (the workbook)

♦This manual discusses the major protective factors that research has identified as contributing to the

development of resiliency in youth and the implications of this for building effective prevention

programs. (August 1991)

♦This workbook is an extension of research from August 1991 which looks at research on resiliency

and protective factors. Contains materials to offer a workshop.

5? Growing Hope: A Sourcebook on Integrating Youth Service into the School Curriculum

Cairn, Rich Willits and James Kielsmeier c 1 99 1 247 p.

♦Offers background, definitions, sample program materials and contacts to assist in developing or

improving youth service programs

New Directions for Te aching and Learning

Periodical, Quarterly Jossey-Bass

♦A quarterly periodical - topics vary from issue to issue.

A Practitioner's Guide to Reflection in Service-Learning: Student Voices & Reflections.

Eyler, Janet, Dwight E. Giles, Jr., and Angela Schmiede Vanderbilt University c 1 996



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T-r Practical Guide for De veloping A gency/School Partnerships for Service-Learning

cl995 150 p.

♦This manual guides organizations from the agency perspective on providing service-learning

opportunities for youth. Includes worksheets.

Red esigning Curricula: The Project for Public and Community Service

Campus Compact: The Project for Public and Community Sen ice c 1 994 160p.

♦This book is meant to serve as a model for schools in the advanced and beginning stages of

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Rethinking Tradition: The Project for Public and Community Service

Campus Compact: The Project for Public and Community Service cl993 21 1 p

This manual describes a process for integrating sen ice with academic study through four main

sections: "Beginning," "Strategy," "Pedagogy," and "Institutional Development."

Route to Reform: K-8 Service-Learning Curriculum Ideas

National Youth Leadership Council Sept. 1994 127 p.

*Designed as a year-round idea book for service-learning, not as an exhaustive curriculum.

Route to Reform: Service-Learning and School Improvement

National Youth Leadership Council cl994 Video - Twenty minutes
'Accompanying video to Route to Reform: K-8 Service-Learning Curriculum Ideas

Schools and Communities: Creating Places of Learning

Shumer. Robert cl994 21 p.

♦Examines the role of service-learning in action in America's education system.

Service-Learning Reader: Reflections and Perspective on Service

Albert. Gail cl994 375 p.

*An interdisciplinary anthology for use in classrooms or as a training resource. Topics include roots of

service, global awareness, selfhood and society, interaction, reflection, and dialogue.

Service Learning - The Power of Experience

Volunteer Action Services University of Montana Video

Service Matters: A Source book for Community Service in Higher Education

Cha, Stephen cl994 175 p.

♦Includes trends and statistics on campus service programs, documents the stages involved in program
development, lists service resource organizations across the country and over 500 model programs and
institutional initiative.

Volunteer Youth Training and Leadership (VYTAL)

VYTAL Manual cl993

* A school-based curriculum to help students acquire an understanding of and commitment to

communitv service.



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FUNDRAISING, GRANT WRITING, & FUND MANAGEMENT

101 Wavs to Raise Resources 3617068

Vineyard, Sue and Steve McCurley cl987 63 p. VINEYAR

*A compilation of hundreds of ideas on new ways to raise resources.

Bi g Gifts: How to Maximize Gifts From Individuals With or Without a Capital Campaig n. 361.70681

Williams, M. Jane cl991 330 p. WILLIAM

*A step-by-step guide for interacting with major donor prospects as well as guidelines for fund raising
campaigns and sample charts, campaign brochures, reports, etc...

Complete Book of Model Fund-Raising Letters 361.7

Kumholm, Roland cl995 378 p. KUNIHOL

*A collection of over 350 sample letters and models proven successful to generate higher donations for
any non-profit organization. Includes tips on asking for the right gift amount, structure your fund-
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Conducting a Successful Capital Campaign: Comprehensive Fundraising Guide for Non-Profit
Organizations

Dove, Kent E. cl988 292 p.

*Guidelines for managing a capital campaign in any nonprofit organization - includes specific

fundraising techniques.

Directory of Financial Aids for Minorities 1995-1997

Schlachter, Gail Ann ABC-Clio Information Services cl984-

♦Up-to-date and comprehensive information available in a single source about the special resources set

aside for minorities.

Directory of Financial Aids for Women

Schlachter, Gail Ann Reference Service Press cl978-

*Up-to-date and comprehensive information available in a single source about the special resources set

aside for women.

^Directory of Operating Grants

Research Grant Guides 2nd Edition c 1 995

♦Pinpoints general operating grants available to nonprofit organizations.

\f Directory of Social Service Grants

Eckstein, Richard M , cl995 164 p.

* A reference directory listing social service, child welfare, family service, and related grants available

to nonprofit organizations.

The Effective Grant Office: Streamlining Grants Development and Management

Ferguson, Jacqueline c 1 994 94 p.

Enterprise (For-Profit) Endeavors

The Society for Nonprofit Organizations Leadership Series cl993 124 p.

♦More and more nonprofits are turning to for-profit endeavors to generate revenue and fulfill their

services.

>? Environmental Grantmaking Foundations: Directory

Environmental Data Research c 1 992

"Contains information on independent, community, and corporate foundations that give grants for

environmental projects.

Everyday Ethics - Key Ethical Questions for Grantmakers and Grantseekers

Ed. Gray, Sandra T. cl993 20 p.

♦This workbook provides a series of key questions that can serve as a centerpiece for reflecting on the

ethical behavior of your organization

Foundation Center's User-Friendly Guide: Grantseeker's Guide to Resources

Ed. Collins, Sarah and Charlotte Dion cl994 39 p.

♦Designed for novice grantseekers, it explains the jargon of the field of fundraising and leads the reader

through various research guides.

Fund Raising

Connell, Brian Nonprofit Management Series 7 cl988

♦This pamphlet contains fund raising advice - starting with the responsibilities of the board.