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Nonprofit Build Up - Podcast
Provides fundraising and development ideas, program strategy, considerations for organizational structuring, and grant-making policies and practices.
Nonprofit Utopia - Podcast
Topics include nonprofit management, community development, capacity building, and organizational development.
Coaching and Philanthropy Project: The Power of Coaching
Resource collection from a partnership working to advance the understanding of coaching as a strategy for building effective nonprofits.
Nonprofit Overhead Toolkit
A thorough crash course on the conversation around attempts to shift the overhead paradigm.
Supervisor Roles and Responsibilities: Helping People Succeed
Guide to understanding supervisory role in improving employee performance.
Board Development: Real-World Insights from the Haas Leadership Initiative
Case studies answering the question: 'What does this organization need its board to be – and do – in order to succeed?
Nonprofit Social Media Strategy: How to Implement a Plan and Measure Success
Guide for creating social media goals, staging online campaigns, and measuring outcomes.
Volunteer Management Process: 4 Effective Strategies
Four strategies to increase volunteer engagement, improve retention rates, and maximize the efficacy of volunteer coordinators.
2021 Nonprofit Policy Briefing
(March 15, 2021 briefing) Get an overview of the latest federal COVID-19 relief plans – including the American Rescue Plan Act – the state budget and major legislation affecting nonprofits, and potential policy solutions that could help nonprofits during the 2021 NC legislative session.
Seeing is Believing: A Guide to Visual Storytelling Best Practices
Filled with examples of what to do and what to avoid, the guide seeks to help you select images that will create impactful campaigns, fundraise for your cause, and effectively raise awareness.
What Matters - Podcast
Conversations between doing incredible things in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in our community.
A Resilience DIET: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Transformation for Rebuilding After Emergencies
(December 9, 2020 keynote presentation) In this keynote, participants will experience an engaging session on what an equitable recovery means. Dr. S. Atyia Martin will provide knowledge and tools to support participants’ role in the ongoing practice of equitably improving the ability of people, communities, and organizations to face the complexities involved.
Using Project Management Principles to Ensure Successful Collaborations
(December 10, 2020 webinar) In this session, you’ll learn the importance of defining a scope and deliverables; strategies for reaching and maintaining consensus; and using and communicating timelines and tasks. Participants will come away with actionable ideas for improving the effectiveness of collaborative projects and for working better within and across diverse groups.