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, […]
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 […]
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.
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)
Nine Key Trends Affecting the Charitable Sector
The world is rapidly changing around us. If the nonprofit and philanthropic sector is to thrive in the decades ahead, we must come together to assess the daunting challenges and incredible opportunities that face us. Take a look at the Independent Sector’s view of the nine key trendsthat will shape the operating environment of the charitable […]
The Emerging Leaders Playbook
Working together, Beth Kanter and Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies and have developed the Emerging Leaders Playbook a comprehensive, resource for emerging leaders and their supervisors. They have pulled together essential tools and research on leadership into this practical e-book. Funded by the Packard Foundation, you can download it for free, learn more on Beth’s Blog
DATA USA
For nonprofits working with, or needing access to, data in the United States, Data USA, provides free, open source data that is already packaged into comprehensive visualizations. The M.I.T. Media Lab with support from Deloitte, has accessed years of federal government, state and city data and is making it available free of charge at the DATA […]
