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Strategic Planning Resources
A list of resources to help your organization with all aspects of strategic planning.
Guide to Achieving Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Step By Step: A Guide to Achieving Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace (TSNE MissionWorks) provides a seven-phase, step-by-step approach to achieving diversity and inclusiveness in the nonprofit workplace.
9 Truths about Black Holes and Dark Risks
This Common Ground article, 9 Truths about Black Holes and Dark Risks, outlines nonprofits' dark risks - the controversial risks that cause many nonprofit leaders to look away - and strategies to shed light on them.
8 Ways People of Color are Tokenized in Nonprofits
There’s a type of racism in the workplace many of us have personally witnessed, perpetrated, or experienced: tokenism. The Nonprofit Revolution explores 8 Ways People of Color are Tokenized in Nonprofits.
Theory of Change & Evaluation Planning: Logic Model Workbook
A commonly-used tool, the logic model graphically depicts your program, initiative, project, or even the sum total of all of your organization’s work.
Evaluation and Measurement of Outcomes
The National Council of Nonprofits has compiled resources and tools for evaluation and measurement of outcomes to help your nonprofit better evaluate your work, measure outcomes and success, and communicate impact.
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.