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Overview of RFP Process for Nonprofits, Charities, and Libraries
TechSoup offers some basic considerations for each phase of the Request for Proposal process.
The M Word: A Board Member's Guide to Mergers
The M Word: A Board Member's Guide to Mergers from CompassPoint is a practical guide to help nonprofit board members, executives, and funders think through a merger.
Strategic Planning Document - Template
Does your organization need a strategic plan or a refresh of your current plan? Use this framework for a basic strategic plan to craft a goals-based document.
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.
Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Social enterprise is about using a market-driven business model to address key social and environmental issues. Often, nonprofits apply ideas and practices from social entrepreneurship to advance their missions.
Small Business Center Network
The Small Business Center Network (SBCN) offers programs, services, and resources to start and grow a business or nonprofit organization - including guiding you through the steps of considering, planning, developing, opening, and operating the organization.
Request for Proposal for Executive Search Firm - Template and Example
The Center developed a request for proposal for an executive search firm while conducting its executive search for its president & CEO. Use the Center's document as an example and adapt this template for your own.
Rediagnosing “Founder’s Syndrome”
The article, Rediagnosing “Founder’s Syndrome”, diagnoses founder's syndrome and its four "symptoms", and explores how boards can address and remedy symptoms for a mission-driven focus and approach.
Nonprofit Strategy and Planning by the Numbers
Increasingly, nonprofits are turning to more flexible strategic frameworks instead of formal strategic plans to guide their board and staff. This infographic outlines the evolution and describes different strategy and planning options.
Effective Meetings Toolkit
Resources to help you set the stage for meetings that are strategic, outcome-oriented, and productive.
Sabbaticals for Capacity Building & Leadership Development in the Nonprofit Sector
One of the most effective and cost efficient ways to prevent intellectual, emotional, creative, and even physical burnout is the sabbatical.
Code of Ethics for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Organizations
Statement of values and code of ethics for nonprofit and philanthropic organization from Independent Sector.
Using Executive Transition Management to Strengthen Organizational Capacity
This report highlights the challenges associated with executive transitions and describes a model of executive management transition.
Board Passages: Three Stages in a Nonprofit Board's Lifecycle
This resource provides brief descriptions of the three nonprofit board types, presented as food for thought only.
Board Manual Contents
As an essential companion to orientation and education, every organization should have a thorough, easy-to-use manual that board members can use throughout their terms.