Local Forces for Good
From Stanford Social Innovation Review | Leslie R. Crutchfield & Heather McLeod-Grant | Summer 2012 Of the more than 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States, the vast majority are local groups striving to achieve maximum results while operating on budgets well under $1 million. Most aim to deepen their impact within the local community, […]
Free Management Library
The Free Management Library provides free, easy-to-access, online articles to develop yourself, other individuals, groups and organizations (whether the organization is for-profit or nonprofit). This comprehensive resource, curated by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, Authenticity Consulting, LLC, is a large, well-organized collection of articles and resources covering all aspects of management. The list below includes the most popular […]
Personifying the Nonprofit Life Cycle
From NPQ Newswire | Rob Meiksins | March 22, 2013 Dr. B.J. Bischoff, a consultant in the Sonoma Valley area of northern California, offers a column (kudos to the Sonoma Valley Sun for featuring a regular column devoted to nonprofits) in which she outlines the stages of a nonprofit organization’s development as a life cycle. […]
Top 100 Nonprofit Blogs
Wondering if there’s anything going on in the blogosphere that you should be following? Here’s a roundup of the top 100 Nonprofit Blogs where there is something for everyone in the nonprofit sector.
Liberating Structures
This website offers an alternative way to approach and design how people work together. It provides a menu of thirty-three Liberating Structures to replace or complement conventional practices. Liberating Structures used routinely make it possible to build the kind of organization that everybody wants. They are designed to include and unleash everyone in shaping the future. This […]
The Nonprofit Business Plan
This Foundation Center Grantspace Business Plans page offers information and links to a variety of resources. LaPiana Associates offer these free resources. View these Business Planning Tools for Nonprofits from SCORE. National Council of Nonprofits Business Planning for Nonprofits offers resources and links.
Building Movement Project
The Building Movement Project develops research, tools, training materials and opportunities for partnership that bolster nonprofit organizations’ ability to support the voice and power of the people they serve.
Essential Strategic Plan
The Essential Strategic Plan Online (ESP) is an online coaching experience for intact planning teams from small and mid-sized nonprofits that supports them in creating their own, complete strategic plan. The Essential Strategic Plan is designed to be: Affordable – About a tenth of the price of hiring a live consultant; Effective – 100% of participants surveyed […]
The Performance Imperative
What does “high-performance” really mean for mission-based nonprofits? And how do executives, boards, and funders get there? The Leap Ambassadors Community, a network of nonprofit executives, has spent a year developing clear, actionable answers to both questions. You can find them in the free — and jargon-free — document “The Performance Imperative: A Framework for […]
What Nonprofit Leaders Need to Know
Recently, the Center for Nonprofit Management in Los Angeles invited a number of prominent economic, policy, and nonprofit leaders together to discuss what the numbers mean for community based organizations and, more importantly, those they serve. Download the report to find out what they learned. (xanax)
