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Empower Your Employees to be Mini-Marketers
Your employees are walking billboards for your organization 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The key to harnessing the positive press is to empower your employees so they’re minimarketers for your organization, whether they realize it or not.
Economic Impact: A New Approach for Proving Outcomes
Measuring economic impact is an often overlooked way to define, measure, and communicate your nonprofit's value.
Creating Fertile Soil for the Merger Option
This article shows research from several organizations that experienced mergers. It reports their reasons for merging and what happened after they merged.
Basic Guide to Outcomes-Based Evaluation
Basic Guide to Outcomes-Based Evaluation provides guidance for basic planning and implementation of an outcomes-based evaluation process for nonprofits, especially small organizations with limited resources.
Managing Unconscious Bias
Paradigm’s report, Managing Unconscious Bias: Strategies to Manage Bias & Build More Diverse, Inclusive Organizations details how unconscious bias affects organizations, limiting effective decision-making and standing in the way of diversity and inclusion efforts.
Sample Sexual Harassment Policy
Download and adapt this sample sexual harassment policy for your organization.
Development and Accounting: The Yin and Yang of Nonprofit Finances
Development and accounting are two critical functions of every nonprofit, and successful collaboration between them is essential. Mig Murphy Sistrom, CPA, defines how they relate, intersect, and support each other.
10 Keys to Hiring the Best Candidate While Reducing Biases & Building Partnerships
The most sincere commitment to inclusion and diversity may be derailed by biases that hiring managers don't realize they have. These ten steps help organizations identify unconscious biases and hire the best candidate.
Interim Executive Directors: The Power in the Middle
This monograph explains the benefits and basics of using an interim executive director in a leadership transition.
Confidentiality Agreement for the Search and Transition Team
Adapt this template from the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits to help committee members be clear about the do's and don'ts around their committee work.
Building Leaderful Organizations: Succession Planning for Nonprofits
A white paper from the Annie E. Casey Foundation written to help nonprofits push past resistance to succession planning.
Boards and Onboarding New Nonprofit Executives
Five recommendations for boards to lay the groundwork for a new executive director.
52 Free Professional Development Opportunities
The Bridgespan Group created this list of 52 way you can give your staff the gift of free professional development opportunities.
Capturing the Power of Leadership Change: Using Executive Transition Management to Strengthen Organizational Capacity
A description of challenges association with executive transitions and an effective model that strengthens organizational capacity.
Walking The Talk: Are We Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap?
(March 21, 2018 webinar) Building Movement Project (BMP) co-director Frances Kunreuther discusses Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap, the first report in BMP’s Race to Lead series that explores why there are so few leaders of color in the nonprofit sector.