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McAdam Book Award 2007

Terry McAdam Book Award

For Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Nonprofit Management

What is the most valuable nonprofit management
book published in the last year?

2007 Award Recipients

W I N N E R

Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age

By Allison H. Fine
Published by Jossey-Bass, 2006

Fine’s energetic and entrepreneurial approach to building ownership and influence for activities that create social benefit caught the both the minds and hearts of this year’s jury in an engaging and provocative way. “Momentum,” Fine tells us in the preface, “focuses on how the new Connected Age can increase the ability of people to make social change happen in their communities quickly, positively, and in a sustainable way.” She goes on to offer a road map to the use of new social-media tools to take us beyond the “Bowling Alone” realities many of us fear to the emerging “Better Together” networks that are facilitated and stimulated by the innovative means of connecting offered by new technology.

Members of the McAdam Jury found Momentum an enriching and readable book that helped us see the nonprofit world in a different light, one that illuminated a catalytic way of communicating and building community around what matters most. If widely read and carefully digested throughout the nonprofit world, this book promises to increase the positive influence of the sector in dramatic and beneficial ways.

H O N O R A BL E M E N T IO N

The Community Leadership Handbook: Framing Ideas, Building Responsibilities, and Mobilizing Resources

By James F. Krile, with Gordon Curphy and Duane R. Lund
Published by Fieldstone Alliance

Based on the lessons learned from almost 20 years of leadership development in the Blandin Community Leadership Program, this book identifies three core competencies for community leadership – framing ideas, building and using social capital, and mobilizing resources. A “community leader,” is someone, anyone, who works with others to develop and sustain the health of a community. A healthy community, the authors suggest, is a place where all people can meet their economic, physical, cultural, social, and spiritual needs by working together in creating a good future. The book provides both a robust mental framework for participatory community development through capacity building and a set of practical, easy-to-use tools for implementing their integrated approach.

Members of the McAdam Jury were impressed by the clarity and comprehensiveness with which Krile and his colleagues described the process of developing leaders who can build healthy, sustainable communities that create social well-being. We felt this book would stand the test of time as a great guide to leadership development across the nonprofit sector.

W O R T H Y O F N O T E

The McAdam jury felt the following four books were worthy of note. We encourage you to read these volumes as well, since they address crucial issues in the sector and provide very helpful insights and tools for navigating the increasingly turbulent waters of nonprofit management and success.

Exposing the Elephants: Creating Exceptional Nonprofits by Pamela J. Wilcox (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2006)

Nonprofit Risk Management & Contingency Planning: Done in a Day Strategies by Peggy M. Jackson (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2006)

Preventing Fraud in Nonprofit Organizations by Edward J. McMillan (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2006)

Sarbanes-Oxley for Nonprofits: A Guide to Building Competitive Advantage by Peggy M. Jackson and Toni E. Fogarty (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2005)