Recruitment
Creating a Board Recruitment Plan
To recruit the "right" people you must take a strategic approach.
Building the Perfect Board: A Gap Identification Grid
Use this grid to identify critical leadership gaps on your board.
Expectations Worksheet
If you want board members to meet your organization’s expectations you must be clear about what those expectations are.
Skills and Interest Inventory for Effective Board Service
Inventory for effective board service
Writing Job Descriptions For The Board
Questions to ask about your organization that will give clear and definitive roles for board members.
Planning
Planning For Goal Achievement
Based on Kurt Lewin’s Force Field Analysis, this worksheet helps you identify methodologies for achieving your goal by considering how to maximize the
factors you already have going for you, as well as how to minimize those factors that could inhibit you from achieving your goal.
Options Grid
To ensure that you make the best decision you should always have multiple options from which to choose and criteria against which you can measure the potential effectiveness of each option.
Keeping Your Board Focused On The Future
It is very easy for board meetings to become hobbled by too much attention to
the everyday operations of a nonprofit organization.
Accountability
Governance Documents
Back To Basics: 10 Ways To Romance Your Donors
A friend of ours called one day to tell us she had exciting news to share. She had
just made a pledge for her first $5,000 contribution.
Choosing Fund Development Software
In order to make informed decisions and realistic plans about your fund development program, you need to have current, useful and specific donor and prospect information.
Board Member Activities To Help With Fundraising
Not every board member is willing or able to visit a prospect or donor in person to ask
for a contribution.
Assessing Campaign Readiness
An organization will want to objectively assess whether it is ready to take on a capital campaign, which is a complex, intensive, demanding exercise that requires focus on detail and quality of leadership.
Benefits of a Pre-Campaign Study
A strategic study focused on a select group of organizational stakeholders prior to launching a capital campaign accomplishes several things.
Special Event Sample Planning Timeline
12 months prior, 9-11 months prior, 6-9 months prior, 3-6 months prior, etc.
Creating An Effective List Of Talking Points
It is important that board members “speak with one voice” about the organization.
Giving USA Charitable Giving in 2017
Donations to charitable causes reached an estimated $410.02 billion in 2017, a 5.2% increase over 2016
numbers, adjusted for inflation, and the first time giving went over $400 billion.
Helpful Hints For Successful Planned Giving Donor Seminars
Offering donor seminars on planned giving topics is generally recommended as a part of a comprehensive planned giving program.
How To Overcome Premature Campaign Announcements
The way in which you announce your organization’s capital campaign can set the tone for the entire fundraising drive.
Mission And Vision Statements
Many nonprofits have mission statements that describe what the organization does - its purpose (to....), not
WHY it does it, including its values and its reason for being.
Nonprofit Lifecycles
It is vital to an organization’s success at achieving its mission for its leadership to recognize critical stages in its lifecycle.
Overview Of How A Capital Campaign Generally Unfolds
Your capital campaign should be conducted in momentum-generating phases designed to position the organization as a highly visible, prized community asset and raise the maximum amount of money.
Stakeholder/Pool Of Prospects Exercise
It is very important for your organization to identify and strategize about your various constituencies or stakeholder groups.
Website Consideration 2015
If you would like your website to appeal to and inspire donors, here are some things for you to think about.
Why Do Some Capital Campaigns Fail
It is very important for organizations to understand their strengths and the areas that need improvement as they evaluate their capacity to achieve campaign success.
General
Creating an Effective List of Talking Points
It is important that board members “speak with one voice” about the organization.
Mission and Vision Statements
Many nonprofits have mission statements that describe what the organization does - its purpose (to....), not WHY it does it, including its values and its reason for being.
Nonprofit Lifecycles
It is vital to an organization’s success at achieving its mission for its leadership to recognize critical stages in its lifecycle.
Meeting Management
Succession Planning
Anatomy Of A Search
DETERMINE BUDGET, DEVELOPMENT OF JOB DESCRIPTION, ASSESSMENT OF NEEDS, ASSESSMENT OF ORGANIZATION, IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL CANDIDATES, INITIAL SCREENING, INTERVIEWS, SELECTION AND OFFER, CHECK-BACK