Organizational Development

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.

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)