What do you think?
Rate this book
Nonprofit Guide to Going Green
The definitive, practical, go-to resource guide on helping all charities become more "green" Nonprofit Guide to Going Green is your comprehensive learning tool to guide nonprofits and NGOs towards becoming greener. A desktop reference for any charitable organization to become greener, this essential book gives your organization the support it needs to take proactive steps to protect the environment while fulfilling its mission. Timely and clearly written, with contributions from experts from around the globe, Nonprofit Guide to Going Green leads the way in helping charities in all countries meet this challenge. Nonprofit Guide to Going Green delivers a timely and essential call to action for this new century. Can your organization afford not to "go green?"
456 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
10 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
February 28, 2011
There is great hope that nonprofit organizations will become 'greener' in their operations in the same way other businesses have in the past decade or so. There is little hope that the Nonprofit Guide to Going Green will help them do it.
From the opening chapter to the final resources, instructions and 'guides', the book is a disorganized mess of articles from 'experts' (mostly consultants) compiled by GreenNonprofits.org founder Ted Hart. The articles, masquerading as chapters are for the most part interesting as studies of certain areas of 'going green'. They are not for the NPO leader or board member looking for a step-by-step guide to do so, however.
This compilation encourages some of the right things (recycling, green event procurement) for NPOs to do but never really addresses the who, what, why or how of doing it. It also encourages explicitly and implicity to join the Green Nonprofits organization for 'certification' and more resources. Even the 'certification' application is included in the 'intructions' section of the book (in a hopeless design taken straight from web-pages leaving unintelligible spaces and gaps in the materials).
NPOs can gain from taking steps to green their operations for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that in general, we expect them to. NPOs have been very slow to move in this direction even though many NPO leaders openly wish they could. One can only hope that they don't start their journey by reading this compilation. They will be lost before they start.
From the opening chapter to the final resources, instructions and 'guides', the book is a disorganized mess of articles from 'experts' (mostly consultants) compiled by GreenNonprofits.org founder Ted Hart. The articles, masquerading as chapters are for the most part interesting as studies of certain areas of 'going green'. They are not for the NPO leader or board member looking for a step-by-step guide to do so, however.
This compilation encourages some of the right things (recycling, green event procurement) for NPOs to do but never really addresses the who, what, why or how of doing it. It also encourages explicitly and implicity to join the Green Nonprofits organization for 'certification' and more resources. Even the 'certification' application is included in the 'intructions' section of the book (in a hopeless design taken straight from web-pages leaving unintelligible spaces and gaps in the materials).
NPOs can gain from taking steps to green their operations for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that in general, we expect them to. NPOs have been very slow to move in this direction even though many NPO leaders openly wish they could. One can only hope that they don't start their journey by reading this compilation. They will be lost before they start.
Displaying 1 of 1 review