Summer Reading: Building a Better Religious Organization

Almost every religious organization has the same basic challenges: how to recruit volunteers, how to get (and keep) new members, and how to raise funds. “How to Manage an Effective Religious Organization: The Essential Guide to Improving Your Church, Synagogue, Mosque, or Temple,” by Michael Sand, offers practical tips to address these issues for any type of religious organization.

The book covers a wide variety of topics, including:

• hiring religious leaders,
• conducting performance reviews, of religious leaders,
• increasing volunteers,
• establishing a religious leader liaison committee,
• increasing membership,
• firing volunteers, and
• knowing your members.

“How to Manage an Effective Religious Organization: The Essential Guide to Improving Your Church, Synagogue, Mosque, or Temple” (pages: 224, price: $15.99) is published by Career Press. The book is available at Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon.com, and many other booksellers. Visit the author's site sandassociates.com/book.html.