Resource Library

(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.

Practical information on almost every area of nonprofit communications.

Volunteer Handbooks are a key foundational risk management strategy.

A good mission statement serves as the basis for your nonprofit, guiding its strategy and what groups it serves, and how.

Robert's Rules of Order, commonly known as parliamentary procedure, were created to guarantee that meetings are fair, efficient, democratic, and orderly.

Benchmarks, framework, and tools for measuring progress of equity advocacy

On-demand videos on the essential body of knowledge for nonprofit professionals who want to strengthen core competencies.

Attorneys use real examples to demystify nonprofit advocacy laws to help 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofits be bolder advocates.

Helpful for (re)designing programs, project management, and mission advocacy for nonprofits.

Ten principal areas to address within the nonprofit merger integration process.

Guest speakers on a variety of topics in nonprofit management.

An extensive dive into all aspects of creating and deploying an internship program. 

Web series based on interviews with experts in all aspects of nonprofit management.

Provides fundraising and development ideas, program strategy, considerations for organizational structuring, and grant-making policies and practices.