Caroline McDowell, Marketing & Communications Manager, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits
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Internship Toolkit: Planning and executing an effective internship program is an extensive dive into all aspects of creating and deploying an internship program. The toolkit lays out the basics of strategically thinking through the mutal benefits for the organization and potential intern--identifying your organization's needs, developing clear roles and expectations, and navigating HR topics that will come up in recruitment, the hiri
Supervisor Roles and Responsibilities: Helping People Succeed (CompassPoint, 2013) includes sample worksheets and covers the following learning objectives:
“Red folders” are a simple risk management tool that can go a long way. Call a red folder day for everyone on staff – including the CEO. The assignment is for everyone to use no more than two pages to sum up their key activities. It may include a list sorted by daily, monthly, or quarterly tasks or it may make more sense to organize the list by type of duty. It depends on the role, so let people have some flexibility.
Red Folders: A Simple Risk Management Tool
The job description is your primary vehicle for announcing the open position to external and internal audiences, and is a valuable tool for finding candidates best-suited to your organization's needs. The Nonprofit Job Description Toolkit features a wide range of sample job descriptions for senior nonprofit leadership roles--including CEO/executive director, COO, CFO, communications, programs, and more. Provides a template email job announcement. (Bridgespan)
Resources on how to perform exit interviews and discusses common situations that arise when an employee or a board member leaves. Often, exit interviews can prove valuable for gaining feedback for future improvement.
A job description is a useful, plain-language tool that describes the tasks, duties, functions and responsibilities of a position. It outlines the details of who performs a specific type of work, how that work is to be completed, and the frequency and the purpose of the work as it relates to the organization’s mission and goals. Job descriptions are used for a variety of reasons, such as a tool for recruiting, determining salary levels, conducting performance reviews, clarifying missions, establishing titles and pay grades, and creating reasonable accommodation controls.
Staff at many levels support volunteer committees. Read these tips to learn how to "lead from below."
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Find out how to evaluate your procedures to be more effective and efficient.
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Consider these simple ways to keep your staff focused and positive.
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