Starting a Nonprofit at Your Church (Book)
Joy Skjegstad, Author.  Herndon, VA: Alban Institute, 2002.

When a congregation decides to form a nonprofit organization to help develop a ministry, usually two types of people are involved: "big picture" types and "managing" types. These two types are almost at opposite ends of the Myers-Briggs scale! But Joy Skjegstad shows how the gifts of both types—dreamers and implementers—are needed for a successful venture.

Starting a Nonprofit at Your Church begins with the big picture, and then gets more and more specific as it progresses—from dreaming to deciding on a board to finding a lawyer to ensuring the right name for a Web site. Each project has a complete checklist, enabling you to see what needs to be done and when. It seems like the author is sitting there, talking to you out of her well-grounded experience in this area, providing the help one usually expects only from friends. For example, she asks about the potential interactions between church and the proposed organization: are they close or distant? Is this something new or something that has been developing for a long time? Helpful charts and graphs illustrate her points.

This type of book is needed for any congregation seeking to start a nonprofit the correct way the first time. It also assists congregations in deciding if this is really what they need to be doing at all. "Big picture" and "managing" types alike will find it very useful.

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