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  • Sample RFP for Executive Search Firms

    Example documents for finding sample language when drafting a Request for Proposals during the process of hiring executive search services to aid your organization with hiring a President/CEO.

  • Is Your Director Leaving?

    The job of the nonprofit executive is one of the most rewarding. It's also among the most challenging, requiring a deep passion for the work and the ability to juggle competing demands, sustain multiple relationships, and manage a very possibly under-resourced infrastructure. Failed executive transitions often cause repeated executive turnover, loss of organizational focus and momentum, and extended periods of underperformance. This resource outlines how to approach executive transitions intentionally and mitigate these negative outcomes.

  • Endowment and Investment Policies

    Investment Policies for Nonprofits - "The board of directors of a nonprofit has a fiduciary responsibility to protect the assets of the nonprofit and ensure that the nonprofit's operations and activities use the assets to further the nonprofit’s mission.

  • Financial Management for Boards

    Financial Management - Basic principles of nonprofit financial management for nonprofit boards illustrated by the National Council of Nonprofits.

    (Recursos similares disponibles en español.)

     

  • Guidelines for Hosting Effective Multi-lingual Meetings

    The Redwood Community Action Agency in conjunction with the Humboldt Area Foundation of northern California composed a short checklist of considerations when planning a multi- or bilingual meeting.

  • New Board Member Orientation

    Few things are more satisfying to new board members than the realization that they have not only made a smart decision to join a board but that they can immediately begin to make meaningful contributions. And nothing fosters that certainty more than a dynamic, interactive board orientation.

  • Sample Board Nominations and Elections Process

    Board and staff leaders can adapt this template from the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits to develop the board nomination and election process for your organization.

     

  • Sample Bylaws for Organization with Voting Members

    Sample bylaws for a nonprofit with membership.

  • Sample Bylaws for Organization with Self-Perpetuating Board

    Sample bylaws for a nonprofit with a self-renewing board of directors.

     

     

  • Sample Bylaws for Organizations without Members

    Adapt from these sample bylaws only for organizations without members.

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