The Coaching and Philanthropy Project is an effort by The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund and CompassPoint to promote greater understanding of coaching in the nonprofit sector. The project includes a video series which provides firsthand accounts about the value and impact of coaching, and how it works best.
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The Nonprofit Overhead Toolkit by the California Association of Nonprofits gives a thorough crash course on the conversation around attempts to shift the overhead paradigm. The toolkit covers accounting techniques, overhead and profitability, indirect costs in government contracts, indirect costs and foundation grants, raising the issue with your funders, and messaging to the public about overhead.
The Change Agentz podcast is hosted by consultant Tracy Allen. "We are helping social enterprises/entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and small businesses shift their mindsets, stay focused, and informed on their path to success. We discuss tips and strategies to build and grow a profitable, sustainable, and compliant infrastructure that builds capacity to create and maximize impact."
Supervisor Roles and Responsibilities: Helping People Succeed (CompassPoint, 2013) includes sample worksheets and covers the following learning objectives:
Board Development: Real-World Insights from the Haas Leadership Initiative reflects on case studies to demonstrate how "board development has to be about more than simply equipping boards with the skills and the systems to do their work more effectively. It has to be about answering this question: 'What does this organization need its board to be – and do – in order to succeed?' " (Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, 2014)
Whether for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok – or whatever platform rises to popularity next – your nonprofit will need a coordinated strategy to maximize the benefits from the hard work invested in managing your organization's online presence.
Volunteer Management Process: 4 Effective Strategies, written by software company VolunteerHub, outlines tactics to "deploy a strategic volunteer management process [...] to increase volunteer engagement, improve retention rates, and free up their volunteer coordinators time to focus on other aspects of the organization." The four strategies are:
Get an overview of the latest federal COVID-19 relief plans – including the American Rescue Plan Act – the state budget and major legislation affecting nonprofits, and potential policy solutions that could help nonprofits during the 2021 NC legislative session.
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Seeing is Believing: A Guide to Visual Storytelling Best Practices provides tips on harnessing the power of images and other visual mediums to tell your nonprofit's story.
Triangle Community Foundation hosts the podcast series, What Matters, that are conversations between TCF staff members, community leaders, and people doing incredible things in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in our community.