Does your organization need a strategic plan or a refresh of your current plan? Use this framework for a basic strategic plan from Free Management Library to craft a goals-based document.
Sample or Template
An organizational climate survey measures an organization's strengths and areas for improvement on several levels: pertaining to the organization, each work department, and specific jobs/roles. Adapt this sample to conduct a survey of your organization.
Network 180's request for proposal for a strategic planning consultant provides a sample you can adapt for your own organization.
The Center developed a request for proposal for an executive search firm while conducting its executive search for its president & CEO. Use the Center's document as an example and adapt this template for your own.
An outline to devise an emergency preparedness plan for your organization's personnel and facility in case of natural or other disaster. (Centers for Disease Control)
Emergency Action Plan Template
This policy and procedures document gives a frame of reference when creating a policy as it pertains to a particular organization. Conveniently available in an editable Word .doc format, users can customize this template to suit their own needs.
- This scoring sheet allows for the evaluation of the board as it relates to staff. It is a good measure of best practices and helps to pinpoint which areas need attention.
The primary goal of emergency succession planning is to prepare an organization for the unplanned absence or departure of a key manager. Nonprofit organizations can adapt this sample emergency backup succession plan (Raffa, formerly TransitionGuides) for appointing an acting executive director, president or chief executive offider in the event of an unplanned leave.
Board evaluations of executive directors (CEOs) are different from all other performance evaluations in an organization. This difference – especially the limited ability of board members to observe the executive – represents many of the primary reasons why 45% of executives have not been reviewed in the previous year according to CompassPoint's "Daring to Lead" 2011 study.
The board and staff responsibilities chart is meant to help guide nonprofit board and staff as they determine who’s involved in various activities of governing and managing the organization. You may adapt to fit your organization's needs.