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Simplified Risk Registers
Simplified risk planning worksheets from Nonprofit Risk Management Center
How to Fund Nonprofit Tech: A Guide for Funders and Nonprofits
Toolkit compiling resources for nonprofits to make funding pitches for technology and why/how grantmaker organizations should be funding nonprofit technology.
Take 10: Resume and Thrive Strategies
Considerations to build resilience and business continuity into your organization so it can weather any change or crisis.
Capital Campaign Readiness: Can You Answer These 6 Questions?
(March 9, 2022 webinar) Considering a capital campaign? Where do you start? Start by asking and answering six vital questions designed to prepare your nonprofit to enter the process. Designed for executive directors, development leaders and board members, this session will allow you to consider the questions for your own organization while exploring real-world examples from professionals with more than 18 years of capital campaign fundraising experience.
Rainbow Framework to Choose Program Evaluation Approaches
Resources on 25 different approaches to designing the methodology behind a program evaluation.
501(c)ast - Podcast
Web series based on interviews with experts in all aspects of nonprofit management.
The Nonprofit Jenni Show - Podcast
Nonprofit leaders to share their stories and advice for facing common management, marketing, and development challenges.
The Fundraising Talent Podcast
Podcast with over 200 episodes "asking our profession’s most difficult questions."
Board Recruitment - How to Plan for Succession Success
Free webinar giving a thorough overview and tips for managing your nonprofit's board.
New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating Support
Makes the case for a shift in grantmaking foundations' practices to general operating support grants and offers suggestions for making that happen.
Board Recruitment, Engagement, & Management Ebooks
The software company, Boardable, offers many free ebooks and webinars on board governance, recruitment, and engagement.
Infuse Continuity Planning into Your Next Strategic Plan
(December 9, 2020 webinar) In this session, you’ll explore strategic scenario planning, risk management, and continuity planning as part of your strategic planning process; think through incorporating strategic communications, building out the role of your board, and identifying the right expertise to guide your planning; discuss examples from small organizations with six-figure budgets to those with large multi-million dollar fundraising campaigns; and leave with practical examples and ideas for creating your own strategic planning processes to face the future realistically.
Creating Your Community's Future: Start with "Who" and "Why"
(December 9, 2020 webinar) This session will introduce a public values framework and process nonprofits can use to inform your community engagement, strategic planning, capacity building, grant proposals, and program decisions. You’ll also learn how to bring together diverse public, private, and nonprofit agencies to find common ground, build support and create vision for your community’s shared future.
How to Change Your DEI Culture in One Month
(December 9, 2020 webinar) If you want to ignite excitement and purpose around DEI at your workplace, this session will provide actionable steps you can take to spearhead change at any size organization, and share resources including a workplace checklist, tips on how to form a DEI working group, and statistics that help support your case for DEI.