A regular E.D. review is one of the best ways to ensure your nonprofit’s leadership is performing in a way that best serves your community and organization. Find out how this at times pain-staking process can be smooth and productive with this streamlined resource.

This resource is a guide for taking inventory of all meetings and gatherings at least once per year to ensure they are all productive for everyone.

Can you imagine leaving a board meeting uttering the words “Wow, that was a great meeting?” Download this simple recipe to put your meetings on a path to ignite your board members to be full-throated ambassadors for your work.

In an effort to get you as a nonprofit leaders to face “worst case scenarios,” here’s a template you can use to think through challenges that could befall your organization.

Template: People, Narrative

If you don’t have an application, get in line. In a query of ten nonprofits, many of which had budgets of $1 million (and some over $5 million!), only TWO had actual application forms.

Checklist: People

When it comes to words like “governance” and “oversight,” it can be hard to know when you are getting it right.

Template: People

This template is intended to walk you through writing your first Fundraising Plan. You’ll end up with realistic fundraising goals, and a plan that shows your board and staff how they can achieve those goals.

Template: Money

One of the single most important responsibilities of the Board of Directors is the Annual Review of the staff leader. This template will both facilitate the review and help all E.D.s understand their most important tasks.

Template: People

Exit interviews are a must. While board and staff turnover are part of the deal in any organization, understanding the WHY is critical to a thriving nonprofit. But what questions should you ask?

Template: People, Staff, Board

Who interviews when? Who decides? What does the board candidate know and when?

Template: People