Tools for nonprofit leaders: Tips for improving your website
If you’d like some ideas on the big picture of website planning, you you might find this article helpful.
IT, Management & Governance, Marketing & Communications
Management & Governance, Succession planning
Tools for nonprofit leaders: Succession planning in the not-for-profit world
What would happen to your organization if the CEO or senior fundraiser were incapacitated and not able to serve for several months or forever? As part of your planning process you need to plan to replace key people if required to do so. It is called succession planning.
Management & Governance, Operations
Tools for nonprofit leaders: Using templates
As we build our inventory of tools for leaders of nonprofit organizations, we devote this month’s article to templates. A template is document or file having a preset format, used as a starting point for a particular application so that the format does not have to be recreated each time it is used.
Volunteer Engagement, Volunteer Management
Creating a volunteer handbook
This article provides a step-by-step process for creating a volunteer handbook for your organization.
Board of directors, Governance, Human Resources, Management & Governance
How staff can support their board of directors
Steps for staff to take to support the board.
Board of directors, Governance, Management & Governance, Operations
Tools for nonprofit leaders: Policies and procedures
This is the third in a series of articles offering tools to not-for-profit leaders. Policies and procedures set out the rules for both volunteers and paid staff, consultants, and other outsourced individuals.
Management & Governance, Strategic planning
Tools for Not-for-Profit Leaders: The Strategic Plan
A well articulated, concise strategic plan is a roadmap for everyone involved in an organization to follow.
Board of directors, Governance, Management & Governance
Should you have a competency-based board?
An explanation and evaluation of competency-based boards.
Marketing & Communications
How to Conduct Your Own Member Survey
Your organization’s leadership supports your plan to survey members; regrettably your financial position does not allow you to pay an expert consultant to help you. This article provides ideas for you to consider as you set out to conduct your own member survey.
Governance, Management & Governance
Risk management: Exercising your due diligence
In this final article about risk management, we offer suggestions on preventing regulatory risks and offer you a crisis management plan template.
