Start a Book Group—and Change Your Organization
Real and lasting change is a group effort. If you want to boost the performance of your nonprofit and to maximize its capacity for impact, you can’t go it alone. One way to drive positive change in your organization is by reading Engine of Impact and exploring its lessons in a group setting. To facilitate that kind engagement with the book, Bill Meehan and Kim Jonker have released a Discussion Guide to Engine of Impact, now available online as a PDF document that you can download and then print, copy, and share as you see fit.
Using this guide, people associated with a nonprofit organization—executives, staff members, board members, and donors, among other stakeholders—can conduct a structured conversation about how well that organization is performing with respect to the seven components of strategic leadership. The guide features a set of questions, organized by book chapter, that draw from insights and lessons presented in Engine of Impact. By addressing these questions, discussion participants can begin to identify opportunities for turning insights from the book into an action plan for their nonprofit.
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The More the Merrier: Copies for Your Group
Books make for an outstanding gift. And if the book that you give is Engine of Impact, your generosity can have an outstanding impact. You might buy them as a holiday offering to people in your organization or in your network. Or you might (as noted above) purchase copies of the book for use in a group discussion. Or you might be planning to launch the new year with an initiative to reinvent or rejuvenate your nonprofit—and you want to use Engine of Impact as a roadmap for that effort.
The Engine of Impact team can help you buy multiple copies of the book, whether you intend to distribute them as gifts or to share them at your next off-site event. To enhance this offer, the team has created incentives for those who are considering a multiple copy order. For any order of 30 copies or more, the team will help you receive a 30 percent discount off the cover price. For orders at the 50-, 200-, or 500-copy level, Bill Meehan and Kim Jonker will provide an opportunity for you to engage with them around the content of the book.
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Teaching Social Sector Leaders
The number of academic programs that focus on the social sector continues to grow, and so does the demand for resources to help train future leaders in that sector. Bill Meehan and Kim Jonker have extensive experience in this area, and while the primary audience for Engine of Impact encompasses practitioners—executives and staff members, board members and donors—Meehan and Jonker wrote the book with teachers and students in mind as well.
At the Engine of Impact website, Meehan and Jonker present a collection of resources for educators who focus on social sector leadership. They offer a pair of specially prepared syllabuses for courses that they have taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Each syllabus features a detailed, week-by-week lesson plan, and for each lesson the authors include a list of sources, along with page references to relevant parts of Engine of Impact. In addition, Meehan and Jonker provide links to numerous case studies on organizations that appear in Engine of Impact. Many of these cases are ones that Meehan co-authored with Jonker and other colleagues.
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"Non-profit service is fundamentally meaningful. But to make it count, any social organization has to deliver real performance—which most fail to achieve."
— Bill Meehan, in an interview with Brook Manville
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