Resource Library

Tips on donor engagement from first contact to acting as an advocate for your organization.

Best practice recommendations on virtual fundraising events.

A 64-page handbook covering all aspects of volunteer recruitment, management, and evaluation.

Taxability and accounting considerations for the trend of accepting blockchain derived currency donations.

A spending policy should unite a nonprofit's endowment with its mission and long-term strategic plan.

Three inclusion guides for the organization, colleagues, and the transgender professional.

Whether you're a user, builder, or funder, you have a responsibility to ensure the equitable use of technology.

Nonprofits must tell their stories effectively to garner attention in a crowded media landscape

Digital storytelling for social change.

Guidelines to be certain your newsletter and other communications are sent legally.

(November 5, 2021 presentation) In the session, attendees will participate in a decision tree exercise, a case study of a client that successfully navigated this decision, and tools to determine the next steps including solutions that could be pursued when launching an app is not the answer. Participants will be given a checklist for them to assess their own program needs to determine if they need an app or not, and a digital sandbox environment where they can design a mockup of an app on their phone or computer and see examples of similar apps and user-generated data.

(November 5, 2021 presentation) What does board commitment to equity look like at this moment in time?  This workshop explores 3 key elements: Board readiness, Recruiting, and Onboarding.

(November 5, 2021 presentation) How can you optimize your audit? We will provide a deep dive into the audit process and how non profits can prepare for their audit as efficiently and effectively as possible. This program will help streamline your back of house operations so that resources can remain focused on the non profits core mission.

(November 4, 2021 presentation) Nonprofit organizations, funders, and the communities they support, must build capacity to work in relationship with each other, set clear goals, share stories of successes and barriers, find common ground, and establish clear and consistent communications pathways – as prerequisites for any collaborative venture to affect real and lasting change. Funders typically determine whether the nonprofits they support are “ready” to grow, strengthen, or scale, when they should be questioning their own readiness to engage collaboratively in ecosystem innovation. Grantee-Funder power dynamics often inhibit trust building that is crucial to the staying power of many local nonprofit organizations. This session will explore “readiness” barriers that prevent funders, nonprofits, and ultimately their community ecosystems from thriving.

(November 4, 2021 presentation) This session will offer a fact-based, nonpartisan framing of the conditions that perpetuate extreme economic inequality in the United States, using language and concepts that are accessible for everyone.  In order to become conduits for social change, nonprofits must be trauma informed and rooted in an understanding of social movements. Organizations of any size can orient services, outreach, and advocacy efforts in ways that foster healing relationships among individuals and communities, while developing skills and capacity for civic engagement. This session offers tangible ways nonprofits can shift their operations and resources, however limited, toward these goals.