Leadership and Management
Dive deep into leadership development and successful nonprofit management. These articles center around subjects such as: team empowerment, strategic planning, and ways to best leverage your nonprofit’s resources.
Board Terms: 1 Year – 3 Years – 2 Years
Blue Avocado discusses unusual board terms with Jeanetta Issa, CEO of Child Abuse Prevention in Kansas City.
Knitting Makes Me a Better Executive Director
Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, Executive Director of the Queens Council on the Arts in Jamaica, New York tells what she’s learned from knitting.
All-Volunteer Organization Resources
All-Volunteer Organizations (AVO) are some of the most important nonprofit organizations around; here are some relevant articles for AVOs.
Nonprofit Business Model Statements
Like a mission statement, a business model statement acts as a touchstone: A reminder and guide for the organization’s focus and strategies.
Who is Responsible for the Board Doing a Good Job?
Despite the importance of the nonprofit board, there’s strikingly little clarity about who is responsible for its performance.
True Stories of Grantseeking: A First-Person Nonprofit Story
There are three levels of exchange in the grantor-grantee relationship. Explore one of the least discussed: The one-to-one interaction.
Angry Activist Gets Old & Wise: A First-Person Nonprofit Story
Brenda Crawford, executive director of Mental Health Consumer Concerns, shares strategies that move people to social change.
Nonprofits and Copyrights: What You Need to Know
Copyright attorney Kate Spelman shares how your nonprofit can protect its original material and ensure you’re not improperly using someone else’s material.
Five Internal Controls for the Very Small Nonprofit
Segregation of duties, checks & balances, can be difficult to implement in small organizations. Here are five important, do-able controls.
Nonprofit Self-Esteem Crisis
Jonathan Spack dives into fallacies that the nonprofit sector has internalized, which can contribute both to poor management and self-esteem.