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  • Nonprofit Social Media Policies Toolkit

    External communication policies for the organization's official use of social media

  • Volunteer Management Tip Sheets

    The Massachusetts Service Alliance offers a Volunteer Management Tip Sheet Series that includes the following materials:

    Targeted Recruitment Messages Techniques for Long Term Volunteer Engagement Assessing Your Volunteer Program Tips for Stress-Free Volunteer Supervision Volunteer Recognition Resources Build Staff Buy-In for Your Volunteer Engagement Program
  • Nonprofit Social Media Strategy: How to Implement a Plan and Measure Success

    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. 

  • Fiscal Sponsorship: An Overview

    Fiscal Sponsorship: An Overview is a video in the Nonprofit Accounting Basics educational webinar series, where D.C. attorney Benjamin Takis discusses nonprofit fiscal sponsorship arrangements, including best practices (e.g. the "Model C" or Pre-Approved Grant Relationship) and pitfalls to avoid (e.g. earmarking). (Nonprofit Accounting Basics, 2016-2020)

     

     

  • Board Recruitment - How to Plan for Succession Success

    Board Recruitment - How to Plan for Succession Success is a free, one-hour webinar from October 2020 by the software company Boardable. It covers:

  • IT & Cybersecurity Vendor Questionnaire Checklist

    Choosing a vendor to meet your information technology or cybersecurity needs is not an easy task. To help, the National Cybersecurity Alliance created a Security Vendor Questionnaire checklist of critical questions you should ask current or potential vendors.

  • New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating Support

    New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating Support makes the case that "multiyear general operating support (GOS) provides nonprofits with the flexibility to use funds to fulfill their missions and the ability to plan for the long-term sustainability of their organizations, programs, and services" and should become a standard grantmaking practice.

  • Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity

    Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity can be used by community-based organizations to engage with government officials to advance racial equity. The appedix also includes a "Racial Equity Tool Worksheet" for guiding discussions. (The Local & Regional Government Alliance on Race and Equity, 2015)

  • Volunteer Management Process: 4 Effective Strategies

    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:

  • How the Board Can Support Legacy Giving

    How the Board Can Support Legacy Giving is a free, one-hour webinar from January 2021 by the software company Boardable. It covers why legacy giving can be important to an organization, why board members are key to the program's sustainability, and how to engage your board in establishing a legacy giving program. 

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