Leadership and Management
Enhance your nonprofit leadership skills with practical advice and expert insights on a wide range of leadership and management topics.
From strategic planning and decision-making to team building and organizational development, discover the resources you need to inspire and empower your team.
How to Unite Your Nonprofit Workforce — and Keep It United Through Misperceptions
Is your nonprofit’s team unbalanced? To correct the balance, there’s some unbiased actions that need to happen.
Forecasting Nonprofit Finances & Pivoting Programs in a Crisis: Download Spreadsheet
Forecasting is financial prototyping, and it’s a tool that will remain as part of our finance strategy. Download the budget forecast template.
How to Be a Great Supervisor: Insights Learned from 20 Years of Managing
How can supervisors help their employees perform at their most productive level and maintain consistency in their approach to managing their employees?
The Power of Shared Power: Co-Directing Nonprofits Through Compassion
Learn how Compassionate Atlanta developed trust with one another through shared power in their nonprofit model.
A Discussion of The Four Principles of Purpose-Driven Board Leadership– Live Q&A
Jim Taylor of BoardSource shares an overview and description of “The Four Principles of Purpose-Driven Board Leadership” – a new board leadership mindset based on four fundamental principles.
To Solve the Problem, Focus on the Desired Outcome: A Formula for Nonprofits
Solving challenges is ultimately about creating the outcomes we want. By asking goal-oriented questions, you’ll come up with better outcomes.
How to Found and Run a Nonprofit Remotely: Free Template
A free, fill-in-the-blanks template for those wishing to found a nonprofit, from someone who founded a nonprofit while stranded in Malta.
The Worst Way to Share an Idea is to Say, “I Have an Idea”
Saying “I have an idea” can cause issues because of the implied ownership. It’s important for us to offer ideas in the right way.
How to Plan and Execute an Emergency Succession
Succession planning gets a bad rap. But in a pandemic, especially in the early days, an emergency succession plan becomes essential to a nonprofit.
Alleviate Accounting Systems & Staff Training Chokepoints to Power Nonprofit Missions: Part 1
A case on how one Oregon nonprofit did it. Part 1 of 2.