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| Boards | ||
| Dealing Effectively with Board Conflicts (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, December 7, 2005) Board conflicts are among the most challenging conflicts a nonprofit executive faces. Here are tips for handling these conflicts effectively. |
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| Eleven Cool Ideas for Finding Hot New Board Members (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, November 1, 2007) Simple, inexpensive ideas for finding people to join your board. |
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| Capacity Building | ||
| Capacity Building Defined and Demystified (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, June 20, 2006) The term "capacity building" is well-worn and used by many. But what do we mean by it? What are we doing when we build capacity? |
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| Consultant Survey Results (197K PDF) Professional Development Needs of Consultants Serving the Nonprofit Sector La Piana Associates, Inc. and Fieldstone Alliance jointly conducted a survey of 322 consultants from around the U.S. The objective was to learn about the types of professional development opportunities available, how useful consultants considered them to be, and what opportunities consultants would like to have. |
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| Organization
Assessment: Stepping Back...Taking Stock Organization assessment is a data gathering and diagnostic process in which you step back from the day to day details of life in the organization and try to see the bigger picture, the trends, patterns and dynamics that have made the organization what it is today. This article gives an overview. |
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| The Organization-Consultant
Relationship: Making It Work A brief article with tips on how to hire the right consultant, at the right time, for the right reason. |
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| Six Components of Organizational Capacity Six components of organizational capacity that are critical for high performance. |
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| Six Keys to Successful Organizational Assessment (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, January 10, 2006) These factors have implications for the approach you choose and the resources you will need to do assessment well. |
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| Collaboration | ||
| Collaborating with a For-Profit: Some Risks but Huge Potential Tom Triplett describes different forms that for-profit and nonprofit collaborations can take and offers advice about what to avoid. |
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| Collaboration
Bibliography A free list of resources dealing with the topic of collaboration. This list is useful to collaborations and collaboration consultants. |
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| Collaboration
Factors Inventory Use this tool to help you assess your collaboration's strengths and weaknesses. (Excerpted from Collaboration: What Makes It Work). |
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| Four
Keys to Collaboration Success An article by Carol Lukas, consultant to more than 50 collaborations in the past ten years. Carol has identified four keys that—while not a guarantee to success—are essential to a well-functioning collaboration. |
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| How to "Nimble-ize" a Collaboration (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, July 25, 2007) Ten principles for creating a resilient collaboration structure and why they're critical to success. |
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Lower Intensity Alliances (Part 1): When Less is More |
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| Lower Intensity Alliances (Part 2): What to Do When Your Partnership Is on the Rocks (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, September 13, 2005) How to understand and manage the relationship dynamics within an alliance. |
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| Six Best Practices for Complex Collaborations (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, September 12, 2006) Practices for helping collaboration with a large number of partners and a long time frame succeed. |
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| Tips for Managing Conflict in Collaborations (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, July 23, 2008) Typical sources of conflict in collaborations and ways to resolve them. |
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| What Makes Collaborations Succeed (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, January 26, 2005) Describes The Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory and how to use it to see if your collaboration has the necessary ingredients to succeed. |
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| Community Building | ||
| 28 Factors for Successful Community Building (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, April 6, 2006) Several years ago, we commissioned the Wilder Research Center to delve into the studies on community building. They found 28 factors that influenced the success of any community building effort. Excerpted and adapted from our book, Community Building: What Makes It Work . |
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Creative Uses of Community Forums |
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| Four Pivot-Points for Rebuilding Local Economies (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, August 8, 2007) Identifies four strategies, or “pivot points,” and shows how community-based organizations can turn them into economic engines for community impact. |
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Helping Communities Succeed: Community Coaches and What They Do |
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| Tapping Local Arts and Culture to Revitalize Communities (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, July 27, 2006) Lists ten economic and social capital development strategies and highlights one example of how a strategy played out. Get started thinking about ways you can help strengthen your community. |
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| Three Keys to Being an Effective Community Leader (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, February 8, 2006) The leadership principles described here are useful whether you are galvanizing your staff, your organization, a collaborative, or an interstate coalition. |
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| Cultural Competence | ||
Starting Steps for Improving Cultural Competence |
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| Working with Refugees: Tips for Dealing with Three Major Challenges (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, November 2, 2006) Practical advice for dealing with 1) language barriers, 2) lack of cultural competency, and 3) lack of experience working together. |
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| Finance & Social Enterprise | ||
| 185 Cutback Strategies A list to help you think creatively about your organization, its mission, its future, its response to immediate financial crises, and its long-term preparation for a changing culture. (Excerpted from Coping with Cutbacks.) |
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| Building
a Better World—One Balance Sheet at a Time (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, March 29, 2005) How to use finance as a tool for protecting and growing your nonprofit's assets, so that you can accomplish as much mission as possible with those resources. |
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| The Busy Person's Guide to Four Essential Finance Reports (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, May 14, 2008) Get accurate and timely information so you know exactly where you stand and what corrections are needed. |
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| Collaborating with a For-Profit: Some Risks but Huge Potential Tom Triplett describes different forms that for-profit and nonprofit collaborations can take and offers advice about what to avoid. |
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| Does Your Organization Have What It Takes to Start a Business Venture? (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, August 22, 2007) 11 questions you should answer before embarking on a social venture. |
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| Financial
Terminology Demystified Definitions of key financial terms. (Excerpted from Financial Leadership for Nonprofit Executives.) |
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| Financing for the Long-Term (Field Tip direct mail card, January, 2008) Beyond the bake sale: innovative long-term sustainability options. |
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| Have
You Hugged Your Bookkeeper Lately? (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, March 8, 2005) Why the bookkeeper's role is so important and what managers and bookkeepers need to know to stay out of trouble and keep the organization on track. |
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| Hybrid Business Model Gives Social Causes Access to Venture Capital (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, June 18, 2008) Enactment of the L3C law is a huge step forward for the movement to broaden the base of funding sources available to nonprofits. The goal of laws like this is to bring together access to equity capital that for-profits now have with the social missions inherent in nonprofits. |
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| Managing the End of a Funding Relationship (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, January 24, 2008) Recommendations for creating an effective funding exit that adds value to a project and leaves grantees in a strong position. |
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| Nonprofit Decline and Dissolution Report (197K pdf) This report sheds light on an important, and yet poorly understood potential phase of an organization's life cycle—going out of business. |
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| Opportunities in Lean Times (Field Focus - October 2008 "In-depth information on specific topics") This web page is devoted to the economic crisis. It offers resources to help you frame the issues, find facts and trends, consider options, and arrive at the best strategies for your organization and mission. |
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Short and Long-Term Approaches to Finding Revenue Sources |
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| Six Signs That It's Time to Consider Going Out of Business (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, April 23, 2008) Shedding light on an important, and yet poorly understood potential phase of an organization's life cycle—going out of business. |
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| Things to Do When the Budget Squeezes (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, February 16, 2005) Discusses strategies that are often overlooked when a nonprofit is struggling or expanding. Yet they can be the keys to long lasting mission success. |
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Tips for Getting Technology Funding |
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| Two Guiding Principles for Effective Budgeting (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, December 19, 2007) Two guiding principles that will help you lead a successful budgeting process that results in a useful tool for your organization. |
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When Layoffs Are Necessary, Nonprofits Need to Be Planful |
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| When Times are Tough, Get Creative and Strategic (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, October 23, 2008) A logical, practical process to help you think through options and arrive at the best strategies to help your organization's mission survive in tough times. |
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| Grantmaking | ||
| Managing the End of a Funding Relationship (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, January 24, 2008) Recommendations for creating an effective funding exit that adds value to a project and leaves grantees in a strong position. |
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| Policy and Advocacy Resources for Grantmakers and Nonprofits (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, April 4, 2007) A list of key resources related to all aspects of public policy participation. |
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| Three Ways to Involve Foundations in Public Policy (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, January 31, 2007) Foundations have ample opportunity to be part of advancing policy to benefit the causes they serve. This tool outlines three phases of policy work and suggests ways foundations can be involved at each phase. |
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| Lobbying, Advocacy, and Organizing | ||
| Advocacy Success: Know How Laws Are Made and Who Controls What Decisions (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, April 9, 2008) You can’t advocate successfully without a basic understanding of the structures, systems, and people that make laws happen. This issue gives you an overview of the process and specific tips for gathering information about your area. |
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| Harnessing the Power of Public Policy (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, January 10, 2007) A summary of legal rules for private and community foundation involvement in public policy and civic activity. |
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| Policy and Advocacy Resources for Grantmakers and Nonprofits (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, April 4, 2007) A list of key resources related to all aspects of public policy participation. |
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| Stakeholder Analysis Tool (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, March 15, 2006) The Stakeholder Analysis tool is used not just by people involved in lobbying, but by any group wishing to understand, influence, and mobilize its constituents. |
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| Three Ways to Involve Foundations in Public Policy (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, January 31, 2007) Foundations have ample opportunity to be part of advancing policy to benefit the causes they serve. This tool outlines three phases of policy work and suggests ways foundations can be involved at each phase. |
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| Management & Leadership | ||
| Avoiding Knee-Jerk Reactions to a Crisis (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, September 5, 2007) Checklists of things to do and questions to ask when times suddenly get very bad. |
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| Benchmarking
101 for Nonprofits (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, April 26, 2005) The basics of benchmarking including what it is, how it can be useful, and how it differs from evaluation. |
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| Communicating Clearly: It's Not What You Say, It's How Others Hear You (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, August 20, 2008) The biggest danger in communication is assuming that it has taken place—that shared meaning has already been created. But getting to shared meaning isn’t always easy or obvious. Here's a process for creating shared meaning that you can use in all your work—including diagnosing a current problem speaking with or listening to a specific person. |
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Create a "Culture of Evaluation" |
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Diagnosing Problems to Avoid "Ready, Fire, Aim" Syndrome |
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| Do-It-Yourself Market Research Part I: Analyzing the Competition (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, September 24, 2008) Features the Competitor Analysis Tool. This tool helps you compare your nonprofit to other organizations in your market competing for the same resources. The comparison helps you identify your nonprofit’s strengths and those of competitors. It also reveals areas where your nonprofit may want or need to strengthen its organizational capacity. |
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Do-It-Yourself Market Research Part II: Tracking Trends |
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| Five Life Stages
Bibliography Resources related to organization developmental stages. (Excerpted from The Five Life Stages of Nonprofit Organizations.) |
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| Five Secrets for Managing Rapid Growth (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, July 11, 2007) Tips from the experiences of CaringBridge. |
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| Four Impacts of Generational Change (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, March 7, 2007) Four impacts what they mean relative to your work. See also, Six Trends that Will Affect Your Nonprofit. |
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| Four Ways to Create a Compelling Vision (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, May 2, 2007) How to create a truly inspiring vision. |
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Getting the Most from Evaluation |
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| How to Run Useful, Inexpensive Focus Groups (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, December 5, 2007) Describes the ten steps for doing focus groups—without a lot of money or special expertise. |
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| Leading Through a Change Without Losing Your Mind (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, October 6, 2006) Ten myths, mindsets, and motivators you'll find indispensable when guiding an organization through change. |
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Logic Models: What Are They and Why Would Anyone Except Spock Care? |
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| Managing at the Intersection of Generational Change and Policy (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, May 16, 2007) This issue profiles one organization that—in planning for coming generational changes—saw the need for public policy changes in order to fulfill its mission. |
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| Nonprofit
Life Stages Assessment (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, January 10, 2005) (See also: Nonprofit Life Stage Assessment online) Describes how the Nonprofit Life Stage Assessment can help you anticipate some of the challenges you'll face, and plan for some of the changes you’d better make. Includes links to other useful resources. (Excerpted from The Five Life Stages of Nonprofit Organizations.) |
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| Nonprofit Life Stages: Knowing What's Normal and What's Next (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, October 17, 2007) This is an overview of Judy Sharken Simon’s organizational life stages model from her book: The Five Life Stages of Nonprofit Organizations. Armed with the knowledge of nonprofit life cycle stages, staff, management, boards, and funders can project future needs, make decisions proactively, and anticipate challenges. (It’s also comforting to know that the stress staff and organizations are experiencing is normal and inevitable—not a sign of incompetence or impending disaster!) |
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Real-Time Strategic Planning in a Rapid-Response World |
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| Six Signs That It's Time to Consider Going Out of Business (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, April 23, 2008) Shedding light on an important, and yet poorly understood potential phase of an organization's life cycle—going out of business. |
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| Six Steps to Deal with Generational Change in Your Organization (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, April 18, 2007) While there are many things you might do to prepare for the huge generational changes coming, six stand out. Author Peter Brinckerhoff calls these the “Six Big Actions” because taking them will smooth your ride through the coming transition. |
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Six Generational Trends that Will Affect Your Nonprofit |
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| Stewardship Helps Get More Mission for the Money (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, May 24, 2005) What it means to be a nonprofit steward and how this helps you make decisions that are best for the people your organization serves. Includes Peter Brinckerhoff's Stewardship Decision Tree and a link to the stewardship self-assessment from Nonprofit Stewardship: A Better Way to Lead Your Mission-Based Organization. |
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Who to Consult for What Decisions |
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| When Layoffs Are Necessary, Nonprofits Need to Be Planful (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, November 5, 2008) If your nonprofit is faced with making job cuts, it is critical to get good counsel, plan the process, and articulate a clear message to all concerned. These steps will not make a layoff easy, but they can minimize damage and maximize the likelihood of a solid recovery. |
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| When to Consider a Merger (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, November 15, 2007) Is a merger right for your organization? This issue describes what mergers can and can't do and gives you tools to help you decide if a merger is the best option given your nonprofit's goals. |
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| Why Traditional Strategic Planning Isn't Strategic (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, March 5, 2008) Strategic planning is still a useful tool—just not for setting strategies. Here's a look at the problems with traditional strategic planning. |
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Winning the "Talent" Competition: How to Recruit the Next Generation of Nonprofit Leaders |
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| Marketing | ||
Assessing Your Communication Goals |
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| Five Keys to Creating Motivating Messages (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, September 19, 2007) What exactly makes for a message that motivates people to fund you, vote your way, participate in your program, buy your service, volunteer for your organization, quote you, adopt a best practice, or take other specific actions. |
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| Four Key Roles Your Supporters Can Play in Fundraising and Marketing Campaigns (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, April 26, 2006) This tool describes four roles your staff, volunteers, board members, and other supporters can play to promote your mission. |
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Marketing Magic Turns Lackluster Event into Record-Breaking Success |
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| Positioning Your Organization for Success (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, October 25, 2005) Defines positioning and walks you through six steps that help you craft a positioning statement for your organization. |
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| Reputation Builders (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, November 15, 2005) Steps every organization should take to claim and maintain its position. These should be helpful whether you already have a well-established position or you are still struggling to formulate your position strategy. |
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| What Makes for a Good Nonprofit Salesperson? (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, May 18, 2006) Seventy-four of our subscribers responded with their insights of people who are good at "selling" a nonprofit's vision. |
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| Trends | ||
| Do-It-Yourself Market Research Part II: Tracking Trends (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, October 8, 2008) Features the Trend Analysis Worksheet. Why it's important to keep abreast of trends and tips for doing a trend analysis. |
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| Five Nonprofit
Trends and Their Implications for Capacity Builders Bryan Barry identified trends that will affect how capacity building work is done in the future and the implications for capacity builders (i.e., how might we respond?). |
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| Four Impacts of Generational Change (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, March 7, 2007) Four impacts what they mean relative to your work. |
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| Six Generational Trends that Will Affect Your Nonprofit (Tools You Can Use e-newsletter, February 21, 2007) Six critically important generational trends you need to know about in order to keep your nonprofit relevant and able to meet the changing needs of your staff, volunteers, donors, and the community you serve. |
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| Articles | ||
| Collaborating with a For-Profit: Some Risks but Huge Potential Tom Triplett describes different forms that for-profit and nonprofit collaborations can take and offers advice about what to avoid. |
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| Four
Keys to Collaboration Success An article by Carol Lukas, consultant to more than 50 collaborations in the past ten years. Carol has identified four keys that—while not a guarantee to success—are essential to a well-functioning collaboration. |
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| Organization
Assessment: Stepping Back...Taking Stock Organization assessment is a data gathering and diagnostic process in which you step back from the day to day details of life in the organization and try to see the bigger picture, the trends, patterns and dynamics that have made the organization what it is today. This article gives an overview. |
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| The Organization-Consultant
Relationship: Making It Work A brief article with tips on how to hire the right consultant, at the right time, for the right reason. |
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| Six Components of Organizational Capacity Six components of organizational capacity that are critical for high performance. |
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| Assessment Tools | ||
| Collaboration Factors Inventory Use this tool to help you assess your collaboration's strengths and weaknesses. (Excerpted from Collaboration: What Makes It Work). |
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| Nonprofit Life Stages Assessment Use this assessment to see how your organization is doing in seven areas of development - governance, staff leadership, finance, administrative systems, staffing, products and services, and marketing. (Excerpted from The Five Life Stages of Nonprofit Organizations.) |
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Organizational Stewardship Assessment Peter Brinckerhoff's Organizational Stewardship Assessment is a tool to determine how your organization practices the stewardship model described in Nonprofit Stewardship: A Better Way to Lead Your Mission-Based Organization. It is based on the nine characteristics of a successful not-for-profit. (Excerpted from Nonprofit Stewardship.) |
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| Booklets | ||
| Little Book
of Peace, English Version (167K pdf) Spanish Version (769K pdf) |
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| Take Care! booklet
(112K pdf) A free booklet for caregivers on how to “take care” of themselves and avoid burnout. |
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| Research Reports | ||
| Consultant Survey Results (197K PDF) Professional Development Needs of Consultants Serving the Nonprofit Sector La Piana Associates, Inc. and Fieldstone Alliance jointly conducted a survey of 322 consultants from around the U.S. The objective was to learn about the types of professional development opportunities available, how useful consultants considered them to be, and what opportunities consultants would like to have. |
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Research on Immigrant- and Refugee-led Organizations (IRLOs) Crossing Borders, Sharing Journeys (1,515K PDF) Nexus Research Report |
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| Nonprofit Decline and Dissolution Report (197K pdf) This report sheds light on an important, and yet poorly understood potential phase of an organization's life cycle—going out of business. |
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| "Nonprofit Tools You Can Use" e-newsletter issues by date | ||
| Issue | MM-DD-YYYY Date |
Title |
| 1 | 01-10-2005 |
The Nonprofit Life Stage Assessment |
2 |
01-26-2005 |
What Makes Collaborations Succeed |
| 3 | 02-16-2005 |
Things to Do When the Budget Squeezes |
| 4 | 03-08-2005 |
Have You Hugged Your Bookkeeper Lately? |
| 5 | 03-29-2005 |
Building a Better World—One Balance Sheet at a Time |
| 6 | 04-26-2005 |
Benchmarking 101 for Nonprofits |
| 7 | 05-24-2005 |
Stewardship Helps Get More Mission for the Money |
| 8 | 07-27-2005 |
Logic Models: What Are They and Why Would Anyone Except Spock Care? |
| 9 | 08-23-2005 |
Lower Intensity Alliances (Part 1): When Less is More |
| 10 | 09-13-2005 |
Lower Intensity Alliances (Part 2): What to Do When Your Partnership Is on the Rocks |
| 11 | 10-04-2005 |
Tips for Getting Technology Funding |
| 12 | 10-25-2005 |
Positioning Your Organization for Success |
| 13 | 11-15-2005 |
Reputation Builders |
| 14 | 12-07-2005 |
Dealing Effectively with Board Conflicts |
| 15 | 01-10-2006 |
Six Keys to Successful Organizational Assessment |
| 16 | 02-08-2006 |
Three Keys to Being an Effective Community Leader |
| 17 | 03-15-2006 |
Stakeholder Analysis Tool: How to Understand, Influence, and Mobilize Your Constituents |
| 18 | 04-06-2006 |
28 Factors for Successful Community Building |
| 19 | 04-26-2006 |
Four Key Roles Your Supporters Can Play in Fundraising and Marketing Campaigns |
| 20 | 05-18-2006 |
What Makes for a Good Nonprofit Salesperson? |
| 21 | 06-20-2006 |
Capacity Building Defined and Demystified |
| 22 | 07-26-2006 |
Tapping Local Arts and Culture to Revitalize Communities |
| 23 | 09-12-2006 |
Six Best Practices for Complex Collaborations |
| 24 | 10-06-2006 |
Leading Through a Change Without Losing Your Mind |
| 25 | 11-02-2006 |
Working with Refugees: Tips for Dealing with Three Major Challenges |
| 26 | 01-10-2007 |
Harnessing the Power of Public Policy |
| 27 | 01-31-2007 |
Three Ways to Involve Foundations in Public Policy |
| 28 | 02-21-2007 |
Six Generational Trends that Will Affect Your Nonprofit |
| 29 | 03-07-2007 |
Four Impacts of Generational Change |
| 30 | 03-21-2007 |
Helping Communities Succeed: Community Coaches and What They Do |
| 31 | 04-04-2007 |
Policy and Advocacy Resources for Grantmakers and Nonprofits |
| 32 | 04-18-2007 |
Six Steps to Deal with Generational Change in Your Organization |
| 33 | 05-02-2007 |
Four Ways to Create a Compelling Vision |
| 34 | 05-16-2007 |
Managing at the Intersection of Generational Change and Policy |
| 35 | 06-06-2007 |
Getting the Most from Evaluation |
| 36 | 06-20-2007 |
Create a "Culture of Evaluation" |
| 37 | 07-11-2007 |
Five Secrets for Managing Rapid Growth |
| 38 | 07-25-2007 |
How to "Nimble-ize" a Collaboration |
| 39 | 08-08-2007 |
Four Pivot-Points for Rebuilding Local Economies |
| 40 | 08-22-2007 |
Does Your Organization Have What It Takes to Start a Business Venture? |
| 41 | 09-05-2007 |
Avoiding Knee-Jerk Reactions to a Crisis |
| 42 | 09-19-2007 |
Five Keys to Creating Motivating Messages |
| 43 | 10-03-2007 |
Assessing Your Communication Goals |
| 44 | 10-17-2007 |
Nonprofit Life Stages: Knowing What's Normal and What's Next |
| 45 | 11-01-2007 |
Eleven Cool Ideas for Finding Hot New Board Members |
| 46 | 11-15-2007 |
When to Consider a Merger |
| 47 | 12-05-2007 |
How to Run Useful, Inexpensive Focus Groups |
| 48 | 12-19-2007 |
Two Guiding Principles for Effective Budgeting |
| 49 | 01-09-2008 |
Diagnosing Problems to Avoid “Ready, Fire, Aim” Syndrome |
| 50 | 01-24-2008 |
Managing the End of a Funding Relationship |
| 51 | 02-06-2008 |
Creative Uses of Community Forums |
| 52 | 02-20-2008 |
Marketing Magic Turns Lackluster Event into Record-Breaking Success |
| 53 | 03-05-2008 |
Why Traditional Strategic Planning Isn't Strategic |
| 54 | 03-20-2008 |
Real-Time Strategic Planning in a Rapid-Response World |
| 55 | 04-09-2008 |
Advocacy Success: Know How Laws Are Made and Who Controls What Decisions |
| 56 | 04-23-2008 |
Six Signs That It's Time to Consider Going Out of Business |
| 57 | 05-14-2008 |
The Busy Person's Guide to Four Essential Finance Reports |
| 58 | 06-04-2008 |
Winning the "Talent" Competition: How to Recruit the Next Generation of Nonprofit Leaders |
| 59 | 06-18-2008 |
Hybrid Business Model Gives Social Causes Access to Venture Capital |
| 60 | 07-23-2008 |
Tips for Managing Conflict in Collaborations |
| 61 | 08-20-2008 |
Communicating Clearly: It's Not What You Say, It's How Others Hear You |
| 62 | 09-11-2008 |
Starting Steps for Improving Cultural Competence |
| 63 | 09-24-2008 |
Do-It-Yourself Market Research Part I: Analyzing the Competition |
| 64 | 10-08-2008 |
Do-It-Yourself Market Research Part II: Tracking Trends |
| 65 | 10-23-2008 |
When Times are Tough, Get Creative and Strategic |
| 66 | 11-05-2008 |
When Layoffs Are Necessary, Nonprofits Need to Be Planful |
| 67 | 11-19-2008 |
Short and Long-Term Approaches to Finding Revenue Sources |
| 68 | 12-04-2008 |
Who to Consult for What Decisions |
