- Resource: McKinsey-fullreport.pdf
(PDF)
Description: Full report of McKinsey's Effective
Capacity Building for Nonprofits highly recommended!
Keywords: sustainability, nonprofits, capacity building
- Resource: McKinseyAssessment.pdf (PDF)
Description: McKinsey Capacity Building Assessment
Tool
Keywords: capacity building, assessment
- Resource: Powering_Social_Change.pdf (PDF)
Description: Most nonprofit organizations face
similar challenges, particularly when building new business ventures or
developing strategic partnerships. And without a forum to share lessons
learned, many nonprofits are forced to reinvent the wheel. This report not only
provides such a forum, but it also equips nonprofits with the information and
models they need to build successful, sustainable, revenue-generating
enterprises or partnerships.
Keywords: Lessons Learned
from Nonprofits on Sustainability
- Resource: Self-Assessment_Tool.doc (MS Word®)
Description: This Self Assessment Tool will
help you take stock of how your initiative or program is doing in implementing
the key elements of sustainability. Your stakeholders can use it to rate your
progress on a five-point scale. The process is meant to spur thinking and
discussion and will help you identify strengths and weaknesses to improve your
sustainability planning. Available as part of a workbook at www.financeproject.org/special/engage/resources.cfm
Keywords: Sustainability Self-Assessment Tool
- Resource: Board_Fundraising_Article.pdf
(PDF)
Description: The Board Should Raise Money: True or
False?
Keywords: Article from The Best of the Board
Cafe
- Resource: Board_Service_Orientation.pdf (PDF)
Description: This user guide on principles of
nonprofit governance and board responsibilities accompanies the video: Meeting
the Challenge (available at http://www.boardsource.org/Bookstore.asp?Item=173,
hosted by Ray Suarez, the former voice of National Public Radio's Talk of the
Nation and former board member for the Chicago Council of Boy Scouts,
highlights four basic principles of board responsibility determining
mission and program, ensuring effective oversight, providing resources, and
participating in community outreach. The video features interviews with board
members, chief executives, and experts in the field of board governance as they
share their experiences and insights into nonprofit board service.
Keywords: Board Orientation Tool
- Resource: Dynamic_boards.pdf (PDF)
Description: The Dynamic Board: Lessons from High
Performing Nonprofits McKinsey & Company report on top performing
nonprofits and the lessons learned in creating high performance boards
Keywords: Board of Directors, Assessment, Leadership
- Resource:
www.blandinfoundation.org
Description: The Community Leadership Handbook
Keywords: Community Assets, Social Capital, Volunteer
Management
- Resource: www.boardsource.org/Bookstore.asp?Item=1010
Description: 30-minute video or DVD, plus 20-page user's
guide. ABC News journalist Hugh Downs walks viewers through a series of candid
interviews in which real board members explain why fundraising is an essential
board responsibility; how board members work in partnership with staff; why
each board member should make a personal contribution; and how to ask for a
gift. Suitable for use at board orientation sessions, development committee
meetings, or board retreats.
Keywords: Tool to help board
understand responsibilities
- Resource: www.fieldstonealliance.org/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=4
Description: The Best of the Board Café gives nonprofit
board members guidance to the issues at hand. This book is a compilation of the
most-requested articles from CompassPoint Nonprofit Services' online newsletter
Board Café (www.boardcafe.org).
Because board member's time is scarce, articles are "short enough to read over
a cup of coffee."
Keywords: Structure, Accountability,
Fundraising, Assessment
- Resource: ABAG2003CommonFormatFinal.doc (MS Word®)
Description: The Association of Baltimore
Area Grantmakers provides helpful resources on the grant process. The document
is an application with a common format, including how to organize a budget,
that foundation in Maryland use (and most likely similar to out of state
grantmakers' applications). Visit their site at
http://www.abagmd.org/info-url3989/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=204806
Keywords: Sample Application & Budget, Grant Process
- Resource: www.foundationcenter.org
Description: The Foundation Center's mission is to strengthen
the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge about U.S. philanthropy and it
serves grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the
general public. The Center offers a wide variety of print and electronic
publications, databases and directories, five library/learning centers, and a
national network of free funding information in local libraries and community
foundations.
Keywords: The Foundation Center
- Resource:
Sample_Sustainability_Action_Plan.doc (MS Word®)
Description: This sample sustainability
action plan shows you what action steps you can take during your planning
process.
Keywords: Sustainability Work Plan Sample
- Resource: Template_Sustainability_Plan.doc (MS Word®)
Description: This is a template for a
sustainability work plan. See the sample plan on how to engage in a
step-by-step planning process.
Keywords: Sustainability
Work Plan Template
- Resource: Writing_Your_CaseStatement.ppt (MS PowerPoint®)
Description: How to make a compelling
statement of all the reasons why your organization needs and merits
philanthropic support.
Keywords: Purpose, Components,
Internal vs. External Case
- Resource: www.afpnet.org/resource_center
Description: The Association of Fundraising Professionals
(AFP) is the professional association of individuals responsible for generating
philanthropic support for a wide variety of nonprofit, charitable
organizations. Founded in 1960, AFP (formerly the National Society of Fund
Raising Executives) advances philanthropy through its more than 26,000 members
in 172 chapters throughout the world. AFP provides professional training to be
certified in fundraising. Its Web site http://www.afpnet.org/resource_center/resource_tools offers a number of excellent resources and tools.
Keywords: Association of Fundraising Professionals
- Resource: http://www.financeproject.org/pubs_desc.cfm?id=3155
Description: The Sustainability Planning Workbook offers
a comprehensive process for developing a written sustainability plan. It is
organized into five modules: 1. Building a Sustainable Initiative, 2.
Developing Vision and Results Orientation, 3. Creating a Strategic Financing
Plan, 4. Building Organizational Capacity and Community Support, 5. Developing
and Writing the Plan
Keywords: Step-by-Step Sustainability
Planning Process
- Resource: 2005_Nonprofit_E-learning_Survey.pdf
(PDF)
Description: Results of survey of e-learning in the
non-profit and association sector
Keywords: E-learning,
Survey, Non-Profit organizations
- Resource: Guide_Workforce_Funding.pdf (PDF)
Description: This guide provides an overview of
strategies for gaining access to and using federal funds, as well as a catalog
of 87 funding sources that can potentially support workforce development
initiatives for adults and youth. The guide includes well-known sources of
funding for workforce development efforts (e.g., the Workforce Investment Act,
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Job Corps), and less obvious sources
like the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Community Outreach
Partnership Centers Program.
Keywords: Funding Sources for
Workforce Development Services
- Resource: my.nationalservice.org
Description: A new e-learning course, AmeriCorps*VISTA
and Prisoner Reentry, is currently available through The Resource Center, the
Corporation for National and Community Service's one-stop Web site for tools,
training, and information for volunteer and service programs.
Keywords: E-learning, AmeriCorps*VISTA, Prisoner Re-entry
- Resource: Private_Sector_Partnership_Guide.pdf (PDF)
Description: "Maximizing Program Services Through
Private Sector Partnerships and Relationships: A Guide for Faith and
Community-Based Service Providers" is a new resource published by HHS and
details the process by which FBCOs can build private sector partnerships,
including with businesses and foundations.
Keywords: Assessment, Fund Development, Grant Writing
- Resource: www.independentsector.org/pubs_cart.htm
Description: Independent Sector is the leadership forum
for charities, foundations, and corporate giving programs committed to
advancing the common good in America and around the world. Our nonpartisan
coalition of approximately 550 organizations leads, strengthens, and mobilizes
the charitable community in order to fulfill our vision of a just and inclusive
society of active citizens, vibrant communities, effective institutions, and a
healthy democracy. Check out its Giving and Volunteering in the United States
Signature Series that provides a comprehensive picture of the giving and
volunteering habits of Americans.
Keywords: Resources on
Volunteering and Charitable Giving
- Resource:
www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/198_publication.pdf (PDF)
Description: Public/Private Ventures recently
released a report on effective strategies utilized by Ready4Work sites that
might prove helpful for your organization. This report discusses how to build
effective components of a reentry program including mentoring, case
management, job training and placement, and recruitment.
Keywords: How to Develop an Effective Re-entry Program
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