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Turn your Passion into your Profession.
Doing that means becoming the administrator of the thing you care about. Passion Turned Profession is ten books that cover everything you need to know as a new founder. You bring the passion. We lead you through the details, and help you build something that outlasts the hard work you put into it.
Ten volumes in PDF and EPUB, plus the forty documents from Volume X as editable Word files.
The ten volumes
- IFounding & Mission
- IIBuilding Awareness
- IIIMeasuring Impact
- IVFundraising
- VBudgeting & Finance
- VIHiring Your First Employee
- VIIBoard & Governance
- VIIILegal & Compliance
- IXSustainability
- XTemplates & Examples
The complete set
Everything a new founder needs, in one download.
All ten volumes, and the forty documents from Volume X as editable Word files.
- All ten volumesIn both PDF and EPUB, so they open on any device or e-reader.
- The forty-document toolkitThe documents printed in Volume X, as editable Word files: articles, bylaws, minutes, policies, budgets, job descriptions and more. Available only in the complete set.
- Delivered by emailA download link arrives at the address you check out with.
Complete set
$149
One payment. Nothing renews.
Get the Set →The volumes are not sold separately. The complete set is the only way to buy them, and it includes the editable Word files. Not what you expected? Refunds are covered in the terms.
What is in them
What you actually get.
Believing in the cause is where every founder starts. Keeping the organization running takes a different set of knowledge: what a bylaw does, when the state expects to hear from you, and how to tell whether the program works. These books cover that.
Three organizations, followed all the way through
A literacy program, a diaper bank and a community kitchen appear in every volume, at every stage, from the first filing to the year somebody has to be let go. By Book Five you know their numbers well enough to argue with them.
Every chapter ends in a case study
An organization that got something wrong, the decision as it looked at the time, and what it cost. The failures are presented as reasonable decisions, because that is nearly always what they were.
The paperwork, printed in full
The tenth volume reproduces the finished documents of those three organizations, annotated: articles, bylaws, minutes, budgets, policies, a mission statement shown in three successive drafts. These are working documents, not blank templates.
It tells you where it cannot help
Where a rule varies by state, or moves, the book says so and names who sets it. Where a question needs a professional, it says that too, and tells you what to have ready before you pay for the hour.
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Every Document a New Nonprofit Needs
Articles, bylaws, minutes, the exemption application, the policies, the filings. The whole sequence a new organization has to produce, in the order it arrives.
Who this is for
People starting from nothing but conviction.
You have never done this before
These books start at the beginning. Every term is explained the first time it appears, so you can follow along without a background in law, finance or administration.
You are the whole organization
One person holding the program, the fundraising, the books and the board. That describes most small nonprofits, and the books are written for that situation.
You want the full picture
The books cover the tedious parts and the parts that cost money. Where a rule depends on your state, they say so.
Who this is from
Twenty years in small organizations.
Ike Wayne has spent twenty years inside small nonprofits, the kind with one paid person, a board that meets four times a year, and a founder who is also the bookkeeper, the grant writer and the person who unlocks the building.
These volumes are written from that experience, for people in that position. Nothing in them assumes a development director, a finance team, or counsel on retainer.
Ready when you are
Start with the paperwork.
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