Managing and Raising Money that is Not Your Own focuses on two critical issues in the operation of non-profit charitable organizations, namely, financial management and fundraising. There is no other text that considers these seemingly disparate subjects together - and yet one has been needed for a long time. Such a text is needed because three distinct groups of people, namely, non-profit professional managers and executives, Board members of charitable organizations, and both graduate and undergraduate students looking forward to careers in such organizations, need a basic understanding of these two topics because they currently - or will in the future - supervise these two activities and not necessarily have to actually do them. It is precisely this need to which this text is addressed. According to one reviewer, the text is eminently readable: ...I like the fact that the author seems as if he is talking to you. The tone is conversational and uses limited jargon. As a result the text reads more like a novel than a text book.... So making this subject matter something of a "page turner" is a substantive coup on Mr. Zerwin's part.... (Alice E. Smith, Ph.D.) The same reviewer goes on to say:...there is really no reason that I can see that a solid argument could not be made (as the author has) to put the two topics [financial management and fundraising] together in one text. For those of us who run nonprofit businesses, it makes a great deal of sense to have the tw...