Starting a Nonprofit Organization & Nonprofit Management

Selected Books

The following resources are located in the Grants Information Collection (GIC) and are shelved by call number. The GIC is located in Room 262 D/E of Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.


Starting a Nonprofit Organization

Complete Guide to Nonprofit Corporations: Step-by-Step Guidelines, Procedures and Forms to Maintain a Nonprofit Corporation. Newly revised. By Ted Nichols. Chicago, IL: Enterprise-Dearborn, 1993. (GIC: HD62.6/N53/1993)

How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation. By Anthony Mancuso. 5th ed. Berkeley, CA : Nolo, 2002. (GIC: KF1388 Z9 M36 2002)

Legal Guide to Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization. 2d ed. By Bruce R. Hopkins. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 304 p. (GIC: KF1388/H66/1993)

Nonprofit Kit for Dummies. By Stan Hutton and Frances Phillips. New York, NY: Wiley Publishing, 2001. (GIC: HD 62.6 H88 2001)

Starting and Running a Nonprofit Organization. 2d ed. By Joan M. Hummel. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. 153 p. (GIC: HD62.6/H85/1996)


Nonprofit Management

Best practices of effective nonprofit organizations : a practitioner’s guide By Philip Bernstein. New York : Foundation Center, 1997. (GIC: HD62.6 B48 1997)

The Nonprofit Handbook: Management. Edited by Tracy Daniel Connors. 3rd ed. New York : Wiley, 2001. (GIC: HD62.6 N662 2001b)

The Nonprofit Manager’s Resource Directory. By Ronald A. Landskroner. 2nd ed. Publisher: New York : Wiley, 2002. (GIC: HD62.6 L25 2002)

What a Difference Understanding Makes: Guides to Nonprofit Management. Washington, DC: Accountants for the Public Interest, 1994. (GIC: HD62.6/W5/1994 v.1-5)

A compendium of booklets published by Accountants for the Public Interest under one title which includes the following:
  • Tracking Special Monies by Wayne G. Bremser
  • Filing Nonprofit Tax Forms by Margaret A. DeBoe
  • Making Public Disclosures by Wayne G. Bremser
  • Selecting Software for Financial Management by Thomas J. O'Hora
  • Classifying 501(c) Nonprofits by Margaret A. DeBoe