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Turn your Passion into your Profession.
Passion Turned Profession is ten books on starting and running a nonprofit. You bring the passion. The books cover the rest: the filings, the money, the board and the paperwork.
Ten books in PDF and EPUB, plus the forty documents from Book X as editable Word files.
The ten books
- IHow to Start a Nonprofit With Almost No Money
- IIHow to Get a New Nonprofit Noticed
- IIIHow to Tell If Your Nonprofit Program Works
- IVHow to Raise Money for an Unknown Nonprofit
- VNonprofit Budgets and the Overhead Myth
- VIHow to Hire Your First Nonprofit Employee
- VIIHow to Build a Nonprofit Board of Directors
- VIIIKeeping Your Nonprofit’s 501c3 Status
- IXNonprofit Founder’s Syndrome and Burnout
- XNonprofit Bylaws, Budgets, and Policies
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The complete set
The ten books and the forty documents, in one download.
All ten books, and the forty documents from Book X as editable Word files.
- All ten booksIn both PDF and EPUB, so they open on any device or e-reader.
- The forty-document toolkitThe documents printed in Book X, as editable Word files: articles, bylaws, minutes, policies, budgets, job descriptions and more. Available only in the complete set.
- Delivered by emailA download link arrives at the address you check out with.
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What is in them
What you get.
Believing in the cause is where every founder starts. Keeping the organization running takes a different set of knowledge: what a bylaw does, when the state expects to hear from you, and how to tell whether the program works. These books cover that.
Three organizations, followed all the way through
A literacy program, a diaper bank and a community kitchen appear in every book, at every stage, from the first filing to the year somebody has to be let go. By Book Five you know their numbers well enough to argue with them.
Every chapter ends in a case study
An organization that got something wrong, the decision as it looked at the time, and what it cost. The failures are presented as reasonable decisions, because that is nearly always what they were.
The paperwork, printed in full
The tenth book reproduces the finished documents of those three organizations, annotated: articles, bylaws, minutes, budgets, policies, a mission statement shown in three successive drafts. These are working documents, not blank templates.
It tells you where it cannot help
Where a rule varies by state, or moves, the book says so and names who sets it. Where a question needs a professional, it says that too, and tells you what to have ready before you pay for the hour.
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Every Document a New Nonprofit Needs
Articles, bylaws, minutes, the exemption application, the policies, the filings. The whole sequence a new organization has to produce, in the order it arrives.
Who this is for
People starting from nothing but conviction.
You have never done this before
These books start at the beginning. Every term is explained the first time it appears, so you can follow along without a background in law, finance or administration.
You are the whole organization
One person holding the program, the fundraising, the books and the board. That describes most small nonprofits, and the books are written for that situation.
You want the full picture
The books cover the tedious parts and the parts that cost money. Where a rule depends on your state, they say so.
About the author
Written by someone who has done this for twenty years.
Ike Wayne has spent two decades helping start and run small nonprofits. These books cover what founders get wrong, what it costs them, and what to do first.
Nothing in them assumes a finance team or a lawyer on retainer.
Ready when you are
Start with the paperwork.
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