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Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity
Toolkit can be used by community-based organizations to engage with government officials to advance racial equity.
Using Project Management Principles to Ensure Successful Collaborations
(December 10, 2020 webinar) In this session, you’ll learn the importance of defining a scope and deliverables; strategies for reaching and maintaining consensus; and using and communicating timelines and tasks. Participants will come away with actionable ideas for improving the effectiveness of collaborative projects and for working better within and across diverse groups.
Creating Your Community's Future: Start with "Who" and "Why"
(December 9, 2020 webinar) This session will introduce a public values framework and process nonprofits can use to inform your community engagement, strategic planning, capacity building, grant proposals, and program decisions. You’ll also learn how to bring together diverse public, private, and nonprofit agencies to find common ground, build support and create vision for your community’s shared future.
How to Change Your DEI Culture in One Month
(December 9, 2020 webinar) If you want to ignite excitement and purpose around DEI at your workplace, this session will provide actionable steps you can take to spearhead change at any size organization, and share resources including a workplace checklist, tips on how to form a DEI working group, and statistics that help support your case for DEI.
Nonprofits Communicating Data to External Audiences
Explores "strategies to effectively communicate program data with external stakeholders such as policymakers, funders, and clients."
COVID-19 Strategic Planning Toolkit for Education & Nonprofit Leaders
A ready-made Excel template presenting a four phase planning approach to "cut through the noise and focus limited time, energy, and resources."
Toolkit: Ensuring Virtual Events are Accessible for All
Circumstances of necessity and broader trends have resulted in many organizations moving their events and conferences from in-person to virtual. The good news is that RespectAbility, a national disability advocacy nonprofit, has authored a toolkit with simple steps to take to make your nonprofit's event inclusive of persons with disabilities.
Logic Model Development Guide
The Logic Model Development Guide provides practical assistance to the underlying principles of "logic modeling" so nonprofit staff and community members can enhance their program planning, implementation, and dissemination.
Evaluation Handbook
The Step-by-Step Guide to Evaluation provides a framework for evaluation as a useful program tool for grantees, nonprofits, and community leaders.
Defeat Planning Dread
Some organizations are reluctant to start the planning process because of vague fears about where it might lead and what it might entail. This article demystifies common concerns and illuminates the benefits planning can bring.
Business Plans for Nonprofit Organizations
Business plans help a nonprofit describe how it intends to implement its mission and achieve its goals.
Working with Consultants
A fact sheet on working with consultants. Includes considerations before hiring, tips for working with a consultant, and evaluation.
Stage-based Nonprofit Lifecycles
Stage-based Nonprofit Lifecycles (based on the book Nonprofit Lifecycles: Stage-based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity) walks through the various stages of a nonprofit lifecyle and helps organizations determine where they fall.
Sample Organizational Climate Survey
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.
Innovation Network
Innovation Network provides program planning and evaluation consulting, training, and web-based tools to nonprofits and funders across geographic and programmatic boundaries. The organization works to make evaluation accessible to all nonprofits, so they have the knowledge and skills to manage and improve their work.