Companies are beginning to track the correlation between associates’ pro bono participation and their skill development, and leveraging employee engagement surveys such as Gallup and Towers Perrin to identify causal patterns. Taproot and True Impact’s evaluation guide, are helping us to effectively quantify the impact of pro bono on the nonprofits they support.
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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
How to Conduct a Chief Executive Performance Assessment in 10 Steps by BoardSource outlines steps to guide boards and chief executives through the chief executive assessment in a thoughtful, planned, and constructive way.
Leading a nonprofit is a tremendous responsibility for both boards of directors and executives. Boards that don’t pay attention to executive evaluation and compensation are opening the organization up to serious risk.
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
A Practical Guide to Integrated Communications - When you've finished with this interactive guide from Idealware (now Tech Impact), you will understand how to create a cohesive integrated communications plan to keep people in the loop about your organization and the amazing things it accomplishes and more.
Holding the chief executive accountable is a critical board role. BoardSource's Core Competencies of Nonprofit Chief Executives ensures both the board and CEO understand expectations and the chief executive is properly executing his/her core roles.
Article 11 of the state of North Carolina's Chapter 55A Nonprofit Corporation Act outlines information regarding nonprofit mergers.