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Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity: Core Concepts in Capacity Building
Capacity building enables nonprofit leaders and organizations to develop the skills and resources they need to improve their work. Since each situation is unique and circumstances are always changing, effective capacity-building support is tailored to best suit the needs of grantees. This publication offers practical guidance and considerations to help grantmakers design an effective approach.
Can Self-Compassion Overcome Procrastination?
Most procrastination-fighting techniques focus on changing your behavior: just get started, take action, any kind of action. But a recent study suggests a different approach: being kind to yourself.
Structuring Roles in the Hiring Process
Tips for effective search strategy in designing the search structure, which refers to the people who will be involved in each hiring process and the roles that they will play.
The Common Sense of Compensation
When questions about a nonprofit leader’s exceptionally high salary make the front page of the paper, we wince. A single nonprofit is being criticized for being an outlier, but it feels as if all charitable nonprofits and their values are being questioned.
Building Community Capacity to Meet Public Needs
Identifies benefits that local governments receive from working with small community nonprofits, challenges that these nonprofits often face in developing internal strength, reasons that governments help address these challenges, and strategies that governments use to provide such assistance.
The Ps and Qs of Performance Reviews
Doug Blizzard from Capital Associated Industries, Inc. presented this session on evaluating the process you currently use for performance appraisals at a Center Conference.
Battling Burnout
Doing good is tough work, and consensus shows that many do-gooders face more resource restraints than their private sector peers. With the stress of impressing your manager or your peers, the pressure to produce superb programs, and the weight of scrutiny from regulatory bodies, funders, and the general public, it's easy to burn out fast.
Vice President, Finance and Operations Job Description Sample
A sample job description including responsibilities of finance and operations.
What is Capacity Building?
Nonprofit capacity building refers to many different types of activities that are all designed to improve and enhance a nonprofit's ability to achieve its mission and sustain itself over time.
Workers Compensation
Find out whether your organization is required to provide workers' compensation coverage.
Working with Consultants
A fact sheet on working with consultants. Includes considerations before hiring, tips for working with a consultant, and evaluation.
A Healthier Kind of Happiness: Health from Meaning and Purpose
Researchers have long known that happiness and good health go together. Happier people have less depression and stress, stronger immune systems, lower heart rates, and longer lives.
Take a Vacation Without Guilt
Many nonprofit professionals find it difficult to ask for a break.
You Hired Who? Top 10 Nonprofit Employment Mistakes
Nonprofit employers face a unique set of challenges. They are always trying to do more with less — fewer staff members, less support, less funding. A combination of these pressures can result in poor employment practices, even when one thinks they are doing “the right thing.”
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