Organizational Development

Use this compilation of wage data from the National Compensation Survey to help determine the value of specialized skills when assessing salary levels for a position at your organization. (The Bureau of Labor Statistics)

When an organization seriously considers dissolving – whether voluntarily or involuntarily – it’s a difficult and complex process. Nonprofit Dissolution: What to Do When Closing the Doors (Nonprofit Quarterly) outlines the steps and tasks involved in dissolving a nonprofit with honor and integrity.

Dissolving a nonprofit organization can be a difficult and emotional process, but there are steps you can take to ensure that the process of winding down your nonprofit is as smooth as possible (National Council of Nonprofits).

Most 501(c)(3) nonprofits have conflicts of interest policies to help identify actual or potential conflicts of interest that may arise among board members and staff leadership. Typically, these policies: (a) require board members and staff to disclose annually any personal, business, or organizational interests that they have may create a conflict of interest with their service to the nonprofit; and (b) establish a process for board members and employees with potential conflicts of interest to recuse themselves from taking actions that could jeopardize the integrity of the organizatio

Strategic Planning for Nonprofits - "A strategic planning process identifies strategies that will best enable a nonprofit to advance its mission. Ideally, as staff and board engage in the process, they become committed to measurable goals, approve priorities for implementation, and also commit to revisiting the organization’s strategies on an ongoing basis as the organization's internal and external environments change.

Step By Step: A Guide to Achieving Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace (TSNE MissionWorks) provides a seven-phase, step-by-step approach to achieving diversity and inclusiveness in the nonprofit workplace. While this work is ongoing, creating a better and more productive work environment now equips organizations to face future challenges.

Some of the “truths” about black holes are eerily similar of the traits of “dark risks”‒ the controversial risks that cause many nonprofit leaders to look away. This Common Ground article, 9 Truths about Black Holes and Dark Risks, outlines the dark risks and strategies to shed light on them.

There’s a type of racism in the workplace many of us have personally witnessed, perpetrated, or experienced: tokenism. The Nonprofit Revolution explores 8 Ways People of Color are Tokenized in Nonprofits.

A commonly-used tool, the logic model graphically depicts your program, initiative, project, or even the sum total of all of your nonprofit's work. It also serves as a foundation for program planning and evaluation.

Impact is the difference your nonprofit makes: there's the work you do and the results that flow from it.