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What is Capacity Building?
Nonprofit capacity building refers to many different types of activities that are all designed to improve and enhance a nonprofit's ability to achieve its mission and sustain itself over time.
Workers Compensation
Find out whether your organization is required to provide workers' compensation coverage.
Working with Consultants
A fact sheet on working with consultants. Includes considerations before hiring, tips for working with a consultant, and evaluation.
A Healthier Kind of Happiness: Health from Meaning and Purpose
Researchers have long known that happiness and good health go together. Happier people have less depression and stress, stronger immune systems, lower heart rates, and longer lives.
Take a Vacation Without Guilt
Many nonprofit professionals find it difficult to ask for a break.
You Hired Who? Top 10 Nonprofit Employment Mistakes
Nonprofit employers face a unique set of challenges. They are always trying to do more with less — fewer staff members, less support, less funding. A combination of these pressures can result in poor employment practices, even when one thinks they are doing “the right thing.”
Use Linkedin to Power Your Nonprofit Organization
LinkedIn for Nonprofits: Find the talent and connections you need to change the world.
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.
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.
Sample Organizational Climate Survey
An organizational climate survey measures an organization's strengths and areas for improvement on several levels: pertaining to the organization, each work department, and specific jobs/roles. Adapt this sample to conduct a survey of your 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.
Emergency Action Plan Template
A sample outline to devise an emergency preparedness plan for your organization's personnel and facility.