Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits

Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits introduces the reader to the basic concepts of project management. It provides approaches and dozens of templates to help nonprofit managers quickly implement practices to help them manage their limited resources, both financial and volunteer. The book emphasizes using appropriate project management practices, those that are not burdensome but rather agile in their approach. In keeping with this theme, the book explores how social media can be used to assist in the management of time-sensitive projects.

The book also addresses nonprofit governance and shows how project portfolio management can be used to assist in communicating with boards of directors and other governing entities when crucial resource decisions need to be made. Development office managers can easily implement portfolio management to facilitate the assignment of volunteers and to visually portray project activities to stakeholders.

Karen White is the founder of Applied Agility, an organization focused on helping nonprofits achieve success with their strategic objectives. She has managed numerous projects for small and large nonprofits and is the author of Agile Project Management: A Mandate for the 21st Century and contributed to The AMA Handbook of Project Management and Project Management Maturity Model.

Introduction by Pamela Puleo, FAHP, CFRE