Human Resources

Successful Strategies for Recruiting, Training, and Utilizing Volunteers is a 64-page handbook covering all aspects of volunteer recruitment, management, and evaluation.

Three transgender inclusion guides developed by The American Alliance of Museums are meant to aid organizations, coworkers, and transgender professionals with the HR processes related to gender transitions in the workplace and better implementation of transgender inclusion policies. (LGBTQ+ Alliance Task Force for Transgender Inclusion, 2019)

Equity Guide for Nonprofit Technology (NTEN, 2025) - The guide is divided into three sections reflecting different nonprofit technology categories. Your organization may participate in one or more of these categories:

Societal structures exist in America that enable healthy lives for some and unhealthy lives for others. Leaders are uniquely positioned to drive social movement in the communities they serve. They are also charged with investing in their talent and removing barriers to healthy living within their organizations. Total rewards programs have come a long way for many nonprofits, and yet, one major area where health inequities still exist is in health benefits plan design.

From volunteers, to grant writers, to leadership, to human resource and everyone in between, those in the nonprofit world face unique challenges when it comes to combatting managing symptoms of burnout. The Community Resiliency Model (CRM®) is designed to provide biologically based skills and knowledge to help individuals feel in control when things seem out of control. Through a combination of psychoeducation and experiential activities, participants learn simple and effective ways to help alleviate the impact of stress on mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing. 

With COVID-19 cases rising again in North Carolina, nonprofits continue to deal with a variety of legal and liability issues stemming from the pandemic.

Session 1: Effective Workshop Design

Contributors: Jeanne C. Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits; and an Interim Executive Director currently serving at a nonprofit in North Carolina

Nonprofit IT Staff Training is a free 2021 webinar by the consulting group, Community IT Innovators, which gives tips on how to develop an IT training program specific to your nonprofit’s staff needs, whether that's better on-boarding, improving on-going training efforts, or re-training staff for a major system change. 

The presenters note ways to make this task approachable, such as:

Socioeconomic status is not a protected legal class or group under anti-discrimination laws that govern U.S. workplaces. Moreover, it could likely prove difficult to define class discrimination (which manifests as obvious or subtle expressions of speech, education level, personal wealth, or other indicators of status), but it remains a cultural issue in workplaces and in the hiring process. Below are resources to help define the problem and articles laying out steps to counteract the effect of this bias.

Defining Classism