Your employees are walking billboards for your organization 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The key to harnessing the positive press is to empower your employees so they’re minimarketers for your organization, whether they realize it or not.
Empower Your Employees to be Mini-Marketers
Measuring economic impact is an often overlooked way to define, measure, and communicate your nonprofit's value. Economic Impact: A New Approach for Proving Outcomes (Stanford Social Innovative Review, 2015) explores how nonprofits can analyze the full scope of their economic contributions to better understand their impact and more successfully communicate their success to build on it moving forwa
Creating Fertile Soil for the Merger Option shows research from several organizations that experienced mergers. It reports their reasons for merging and what happened after they merged. (Nonprofit Quarterly, 2018)
Basic Guide to Outcomes-Based Evaluation for Nonprofit Organizations with Very Limited Resources from Free Management Library provides guidance for basic planning and implementation of an outcomes-based evaluation process (also called outcomes evaluation) for nonprofits, especially small organizations with limited resources.
Paradigm’s report, Managing Unconscious Bias: Strategies to Manage Bias & Build More Diverse, Inclusive Organizations, details how unconscious bias affects organizations, limiting effective decision-making and standing in the way of diversity and inclusion efforts.
Download and adapt this sample sexual harassment policy for your organization.
Do your responsibilities include accounting or fundraising (also known as development or fund development) for your nonprofit? Do you supervise the development and accounting work? These are two critical functions and successful collaboration between them is essential to every nonprofit’s success.
Think about the last time you interviewed a potential new hire. Did you get excited to see someone who went to your school or knew one of your friends? It’s normal for things like a candidate’s degree, alma mater, or mutual connections to influence you; however, those factors may not have anything to do with the job they’re applying for.
"Interim Executive Directors: The Power in the Middle" by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund explains the benefits and basics of using an interim executive director in a leadership transition. Interim executive directors are highly skilled managers who temporarily take the helm of an organization, help the board and staff address important systems and capacity issues, and lay the groundwork for the permanent leader’s success.
Adapt this template called, "Confidentiality Agreement for Service on the Search and Transition Committee" from the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits to help committee members be clear about the do's and don'ts around their committee work.