The top nonprofit leadership challenges, from unstable funding and board strain to isolation and succession, each with a dated sector figure and one first step a small organization can take.
Nonprofit Leadership Challenges: The Hardest Parts of the Job and What Helps Read More »
How to evaluate a nonprofit program without an evaluator: the difference between outputs and outcomes, six steps scaled for a small team, a free evaluation plan template filled in for a sample tutoring program, and how results should change the strategic plan.
Nonprofit Program Evaluation: A Small-Team Guide With a Free Template Read More »
How a nonprofit merger works: options short of a merger, the seven process steps, a grouped checklist, documented examples from a study of 25 Chicago-area mergers, and what happens to the executive director.
Nonprofit Merger Guide: Process, Checklist and the Leader’s Seat Read More »
Six real nonprofit mission statements, quoted as each organization publishes them today and run through one test, plus a fill-in sentence and a board process to rewrite yours.
Nonprofit Mission Statement Examples: Six Real Statements, One Test Read More »
An executive director’s financial literacy fits on one page: the four statements, the budget against actual, months of cash and restricted money. This guide shows why confidence lags knowledge and gives a 90-day plan to present the numbers yourself.
Nonprofit Financial Literacy for Executive Directors: Closing the Confidence Gap Read More »
A guide to managing layoffs at a nonprofit without an HR department: what to settle with counsel and the board, the order of the day, what to say in the meeting, a communication plan template and how to lead the people who stay.
Managing Layoffs at a Nonprofit: The Meeting, the Message and the Team That Stays Read More »
The board governs, the executive director manages and staff deliver. One table of nonprofit leadership roles, with who each reports to and what each decides.
Nonprofit Leadership Roles Explained: Who Does What, From the Board to Program Leads Read More »
What a strategic planning consultant does, how a facilitator and a coach differ, what drives the cost, and what to put in the contract and the request for proposals before your board hires anyone.
Strategic Planning Consultants for Nonprofits: Consultant, Facilitator or Coach? Read More »
A one-page nonprofit AI policy template for organizations with no technology lead: eight sections, fill-in wording, a plain data rule, and the decisions the executive director and the board each own.
Nonprofit AI Policy Template and the Decisions Behind It Read More »
A theory of change explains why a program should work. A logic model describes what it uses, does and produces. One fictional literacy program, mapped both ways, shows the difference and which to write first.
Theory of Change vs Logic Model: One Nonprofit Program Mapped Both Ways Read More »
