The CHS Alliance's 2015 HR Audit Handbook is "designed to assess the effectiveness of an organization’s human resources and people management policies and practices. Going through a HR audit enables the organization to identify areas for improvement and priority actions.
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Bellwether Education Partners' COVID-19 Strategic Planning Toolkit for Education & Nonprofit Leaders is an easy-to-use resource that aids leaders in making rapid decisions and actionable plans during the global COVID pandemic.
Cybercriminals are becoming evermore sophisticated in their attempts to infect your device or con you out of sensitive information about your organization. Login credentials to your online accounts that host financial information or data about the constituents your nonprofit serves are all valuable commodities to obtain and exploit, particularly by getting one of your staff to reveal a key piece of information when they respond to a malicious email.
The circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated that many organizations move their events and conferences from in-person to virtual. The benefits of online events make them a trend that is likely to continue well beyond the pandemic. For people with disabilities who use assistive technology such as screen readers for the visually impaired or video captioning for the hearing impaired, fully participating in online events can present a challenge.
This Nonprofit Learning Lab resource entitled, Building an Effective Board of Directors, offers detailed information on how to manage a board and avoid potential pitfalls that might arise. This guidebook includes activities and worksheets to help staff and board members create a more effective board.
This Nonprofit Learning Lab resource entitled, Creating & Sustaining a Major Gifts Fundraising Campaign, details how to build a donor pipeline and identify major gift prospects; how to cultivate donors for major gifts and “make the ask"; and offers appropriate stewardship steps to take once a donor has made a major gift.
This Nonprofit Learning Lab resource entitled, Creating a Case Statement: Step-by-Step Guidebook, describes the purpose, development and essential elements of a case statement. This guidebook includes activities and worksheets to help executive leadership, board members, key volunteers and staff with developing their case statement's core content.
How to Succeed at Digital Marketing as a Nonprofit (provided by Mailchimp) discusses why marketing can be challenging for nonprofits; breaks down the steps to create a nonprofit marketing budget; and offers up digital marketing strategies that can be employed along with a list of free marketing tools and marketing grants available for nonprofits.
Humans@Work: How to Successfully Tackle HR Challenges, a white paper published by JER HR Group, includes six separate articles written by HR professionals that cover:
How to Manage When Things Are Not Okay (And Haven't been for Centuries) is an article shared by The Management Center to help managers and leaders support their staff at a time when things are not okay while also honoring the humanity of their fellow teammates—especially those wh