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Overview of RFP Process for Nonprofits, Charities, and Libraries
TechSoup offers some basic considerations for each phase of the Request for Proposal process.
Advice and Tips for Nonprofits on Social Media
Whether you are just starting out with social media or you've been using it for a while, NonprofitMarketingGuide offers tips and advice on mastering it.
Case Management Tools
Idealware highlights several affordable tools that can be used by all sizes and types of nonprofits to track, assess outcomes, and report on the information your organization needs to work with a client.
Nonprofit's Guide to Building Simple, Low-Cost Websites
TechSoup provides tools and ideas for building a simple, attractive website without breaking the bank.
Website Hosting Providers
Idealware shares insight from nonprofit internet specialists on the web hosting providers that have worked well for them, and tips for hosting everything from a basic website to a powerhouse web application.
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.
Ten Keys to Successful Strategic Planning
TCC Group's paper offers ten keys to succession strategic planning for nonprofit and foundation leaders, and how it's both remained the same and changed over the past ten years.
Strategic Planning Document - Template
Does your organization need a strategic plan or a refresh of your current plan? Use this framework for a basic strategic plan to craft a goals-based document.
Stage-based Nonprofit Lifecycles
Stage-based Nonprofit Lifecycles (based on the book Nonprofit Lifecycles: Stage-based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity) walks through the various stages of a nonprofit lifecyle and helps organizations determine where they fall.
Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Social enterprise is about using a market-driven business model to address key social and environmental issues. Often, nonprofits apply ideas and practices from social entrepreneurship to advance their missions.
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.
Sample Request for Proposal for Strategic Planning
Network 180's request for proposal for a strategic planning consultant provides a sample you can adapt for your own 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.