Financial administration is a critically important and foundational element of a sound and healthy nonprofit.  If done poorly, every day can bring a new emergency or crisis, which can impair the credibility of the organization’s message or impede its ability to carry out its mission effectively.  That said, Mike Batts’ Nonprofit Finance: The Field Guide for Financial Operations of Ministries, Schools, and Other Public Charities, was designed specifically to provide the clarity and guidance needed to successfully navigate financial administration while effectively pursuing your nonprofit’s purpose.

Serving on a nonprofit board can be an incredibly rewarding experience for the properly prepared board member. This book is for the generous and busy people who agree to give of their time and talents by serving on nonprofit boards. Nonprofit boards often fail to do a good job of board member orientation for a variety of reasons. It takes a significant amount of time and effort to plan and conduct quality board member orientation programs, and every time a new board member arrives, it’s time to do it again! Because of the challenges associated with providing quality board member orientation, many nonprofit organizations do not do it at all, leaving their board members to wing it. This book provides help and support to the truly great men and women serving on nonprofit boards whose service makes a positive difference in the lives of countless people every day.

Nonprofit Financial Oversight is designed to serve as a resource for nonprofit board members, officers, finance committee members, audit committee members, and anyone else with financial oversight responsibilities in a nonprofit organization.

Special features of the book include sample policies, a sample finance committee charter, audit committee guidelines, and an annual board financial oversight checklist. The checklist serves as an annual checkup to help nonprofit boards make sure their financial bases are covered.

New professionals, get ready!  In one hour or less, you can apply a handful of simple, largely forgotten practices that could dramatically boost your career.  In this little book, Mike Batts draws from more than 30 years of professional leadership experience to address the growing disconnect between the expectations of employers and the expectations of their new professional employees...a disconnect that often leads to frustration on both sides.  If you identify with that challenge, then the powerful but basic practices that Mike describes in Reclaiming the Power of Professionalism are here for you.  Mike explains these practices in a concise, straightforward manner...practices like maintaining character and integrity, properly handling mistakes, exhibiting proper humility and respect, being timely and responsive, effectively managing time and priorities, and more.  Reclaim the Power of Professionalism and watch your career go to new heights!