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N.C. General Statutes Chapter 55A. Nonprofit Corporation Act - Mergers
This section of Chapter 55A outlines information regarding mergers.
7 Steps To Creating Your Best Nonprofit Marketing Plan Ever
Marketing nonprofits and their missions.
Tips To Maximize Your Nonprofit's Presence On LinkedIn
Learn how LinkedIn can help your nonprofit extend your marketing efforts and drive growth.
10 Best Practices for Making the Perfect Pitch
Best-practice tips for creating the perfect major donor pitch.
CEO Evaluation Sample
Boards of directors can adapt this sample form for supporting and evaluating their executive directors/CEOs.
CEO Compensation Checklist
The CEO Compensation Checklist from BoardSource outlines 11 key items to consider when creating a compensation plan to help your organization recruit and retain the best possible chief executive.
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.
Board Member Evaluation Tool
Use this sample template from the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations to have board members gage their performance and the performance of the organization.
A Portion of IRS Publication 598, Unrelated Trade Or Business - Qualified Sponsorship Payment/advertising
Explanation of qualified sponsorship payments that don't count as unrelated business income.
Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture
Equity in the Center’s publication, Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture, provides insights, tactics, and practices social sector organizations can and have used to measurably shift organizational culture, operationalize equity, and move from a dominant organizational culture to a Race Equity Culture.
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.