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Joan Garry's Guide to Nonprofit Leadership: Because Nonprofits Are Messy

ISBN: 978-1-119-29306-4

February 2017

256 pages

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PRAISE FOR JOAN GARRY'S GUIDE TO NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP

"When Joan Garry says messy, she really means messy! This book pulls no punches! It's a tell-all expose of the 501c-3 underbelly, a guide from the inside for anyone involved, or thinking of becoming involved, with a non-profit organization. What's a bigger surprise though, is the wit and heart and passion on every page, and the spirit of kindness that comes from someone truly passing on wisdom."
—ALAN CUMMING, Celebrity

"I have had the pleasure of working with the incomparable Joan Garry on NBC's GIVE, a show that highlights small non-for-profits doing big work. Joan Garry's Guide to Nonprofit Leadership, like Joan herself, uses irreverence and approachability to shake things up in the non-for-profit world. There is no voice in the world of philanthropy today, I would rather listen to than Joan."
—JENNA BUSH HAGER, NBC's Today/GIVE

"Joan's unique and engaging perspective is honed from years of working with non-profits, and that expertise comes through loud and clear in her new book. Her insights on how to harness the passion of thousands of committed leaders, staff, volunteers, and board members should be required reading for anyone tasked with—or considering—a leadership role in a non-profit today."
—JIM CLARK, President of the Boys and Girls Club of America

"Joan Garry is the Dear Abby of the nonprofit sector, dispensing practical and brilliant advice to nonprofits with her trademark humor. Her book is a must-read for every nonprofit executive (and their board members) who want to harness their super powers to change the world and become a high performing organization."
—BETH KANTER, Trainer and Author, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact Without Burnout

About the Author

JOAN GARRY began her career as part of the management team that launched MTV. After a successful eight-year tenure, she became an executive at Showtime Networks. In 1997, Garry left corporate America and was named the executive director of GLAAD, one of the largest organizations working for LGBT equality.

Since leaving GLAAD, Garry has worked as a consultant for hundreds of nonprofits, teaching them, with wisdom, joy, and humor, the keys to effective nonprofit leadership. She is a regular panelist on NBC's nonprofit reality show Give. Garry is also the founder of The Nonprofit Leadership Lab; an instructor at the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches nonprofit media strategy; and a sought-after speaker on nonprofit leadership.

She blogs regularly at the popular website www.joangarry.com and hosts one of the top nonprofit podcasts on iTunes, Nonprofits Are Messy.

Garry lives in New Jersey with her wife of 34 years and their three grown children.