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The Nonprofit Leader's Guide to Hiring and Engaging Consultants
Helps assess your organization's readiness for a consultant, identify and contract with a consultant that meets your needs, and prepare to initiate the consultant's project.
The Essential Guide to Managing Volunteers at Your Nonprofit
Gives an overview of the main elements in a volunteer management program
Managing or Firing Difficult / Low Performing Volunteers
Several resources to help you weigh your options when dealing with volunteers who are disruptive or not performing duties as expected.
Leading a Nonprofit Organization - Tips and Tools for Executive Directors and Team Leaders
Covers leadership styles, implementing strategic plans, and increasing employee retention through team trust building and strategies for project management.
Sample Fundraising Plan Grid
To be used for mapping out the details of implementing a series of fundraising strategies
Sample Development & Fundraising Plan
Sample of a one year comprehensive fundraising and development plan. Inlcudes setting goals for different types of revenue streams--e.g. foundation grants, annual individual giving, special events, merchandise sales, property rentals, etc.
Prepare Your Nonprofit For Disaster
(July 24, 2019 webinar) NC Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) President Daniel Alteneau shares key steps nonprofits can take to protect themselves from the next disaster and craft plans to assist survivors following the event.
New Employee Onboarding Guide
New employee onboarding is the process of integrating a new employee with a company and its culture, as well as getting a new hire the tools and information needed to become a productive member of the team.
What is the Role of an Executive Committee
The executive committee is a small group, commonly with authority to act on behalf of the full board between meetings or in an urgent situation...
Guide to Family Forward Workplaces
The Guide to Family Forward Workplaces provides tools for employers of all sizes with practical tips for selecting and implementing 16 family-friendly workplace practices.
What's White Got to Do With It? Disrupting Race-Based Inequities in Well-Intentioned Nonprofits: Part 2
(June 5, 2019 webinar) Participants will have the opportunity to take a "deeper dive" in exploring more intimately the extent to which white dominant cultural tendencies have been internalized and operationalized within organizations and the role that gatekeepers have in perpetuating or disrupting patterns of exclusionary and non-inclusive practices and policies.
What's White Got to Do With It? Disrupting Race-Based Inequities in Well-Intentioned Nonprofits: Part 1
(May 22, 2019 webinar) Courtney Parker West shares the concept of whiteness by way of the socio-political and historical contexts by which whiteness, and therefore the white dominant culture by which most nonprofits operate, was constructed and has been upheld through policy, legal decisions, and Eurocentric cultural values.
Nonprofits and Compliance with GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation is a privacy law pertaining to online data enacted by the European Union that took effect May 2018. It affects organizations regardless of geographic location. Learn what actions your nonprofit may need to consider taking.
Walking the Talk: White Supremacy Culture - Treachery and Transformation
(April 10, 2019 webinar) Tema Okun shares how we can ground ourselves in a shared understanding of what white supremacy culture is and how it manifests in our organizations so we are better positioned to challenge it.
Jeopardizing Tax Exempt Status
Learn how to protect and maintain your nonprofit's tax exempt status.