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Simplified Risk Registers
Simplified risk planning worksheets from Nonprofit Risk Management Center
Going Forward: Best Practices and Considerations for Nonprofit Re-Engagement
Recommendations and considerations for nonprofits to reopen operations throughout or following a public health emergency or crisis
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.
How to Get Your Board to Help You Fundraise—Even if They Don’t Wanna
(March 3, 2022 webinar) Are you a nonprofit trying to fundraise? You have a board – and believe it or not, your board should function as a fundraising machine. If it runs more like a college clunker than a luxury sedan, check out this recording.
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.