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Key Financial Statements 

This guide for boards of directors introduces the two most important financial documents - the balance sheet and income statement - that help board members meet their fiduciary responsibilities.

Ready to Lead? Next Generation Leaders Speak Out 

Those who care about the health of the charitable sector—those who believe, as we do, that strong nonprofit leaders are the best predictors of organizational success—can draw both warning and inspiration from the results of this national study produced in partnership by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Meyer Foundation, and Idealist.org.

Will We Get There Hire by Hire? 

"We haven’t confronted this elephant in the room: If few people of color want to lead your staff or serve on your board despite the fact that you work in and with communities of color, it is entirely likely that people of color don’t see your organization as a place through which to make social change."

Race Matters, User Guide 

Tools to help organizations understand how racism operates to create disparities that are often maintained inadvertently through policies and practices that contain barriers to opportunity. Provides examples of how to close equity gaps by using strategies determined through an intentional focus on race.

Training for Racial Equity and Inclusion: A Guide to Selected Programs 

Training for Racial Equity and Inclusion: A Guide to Selected Programs provides an in-depth review and comparison of ten race equity training approaches. The Guide is intended to help community leaders, organizations, policy makers, funders and other stakeholders select and support approaches that best suit their needs and goals. It describes why programs do what they do (theory of practice) and how they believe their approaches will produce positive results. Specifically, it examines how programs understand the sources and dynamics of racial and ethnic oppression and what principles and methods they use to address the problems. In addition, it assesses organizational capacities and the connection between programs’ activities and intended outcomes.