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Shared Leadership Models at Nonprofits
Decrease burnout through careful implementation of a collaborative leadership model with the executive roles split between two leaders.
Nonprofit Succession Planning Checklist in 5 Simple Steps
Short guide to preparing for the departure before the individual ever leaves your organization.
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.
Board Recruitment - How to Plan for Succession Success
Free webinar giving a thorough overview and tips for managing your nonprofit's board.
Board Recruitment, Engagement, & Management Ebooks
The software company, Boardable, offers many free ebooks and webinars on board governance, recruitment, and engagement.
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.
Leveraging LinkedIn as HR Professionals
(May 18, 2020 webinar) This webinar will explore the power of networking through LinkedIn, using your LinkedIn business page as a jobs board, and attracting strong candidates for your organization.
Crisis Management: 5 Steps to Equip and Fortify Your Nonprofit to Thrive During a Crisis
(April 22, 2020 webinar) This webinar presents five strategies to equip your diverse team to weather an active or future crisis.
Emergency Succession Planning Template
This easy to use Emergency Succession Planning template will help you make organizational decisions and gather pertinent information to prepare for an emergency transition, while helping you keep your mission on track.
Toolkit for Effective Succession Planning and Executive Transitions
Tips, guides, and case studies to aid organizations in effective succession planning and executive transitions.
Successful Nonprofits - Podcast
Successful Nonprofits podcast episodes feature a conversation with one nonprofit expert; the series covers on a wide range of topics.
Nonprofit Leadership - Podcast
Nonprofit Leadership Podcast tells the stories of experienced nonprofit professionals and what made them successful, effective leaders.
The Next Dimension of Equity: Including People with Disabilities as Part of Nonprofit Diversity Work
(August 21, 2019 webinar) This webinar offers a framework to help leaders consider disability in equity planning and identify ways their nonprofit can better include people with disabilities on its staff and board, and among its target population.
What's White Got to Do With It? Disrupting Race-Based Inequities in Well-Intentioned Nonprofits: Part 2
(June 5, 2019 webinar) Participants will have the opportunity to take a "deeper dive" in exploring more intimately the extent to which white dominant cultural tendencies have been internalized and operationalized within organizations and the role that gatekeepers have in perpetuating or disrupting patterns of exclusionary and non-inclusive practices and policies.
What's White Got to Do With It? Disrupting Race-Based Inequities in Well-Intentioned Nonprofits: Part 1
(May 22, 2019 webinar) Courtney Parker West shares the concept of whiteness by way of the socio-political and historical contexts by which whiteness, and therefore the white dominant culture by which most nonprofits operate, was constructed and has been upheld through policy, legal decisions, and Eurocentric cultural values.