Exciting, energizing, engaging… Would you guess this describes strategy work? Learn how to get you, your board, and your staff aligned about what matters most: Your organization’s future.
Read MoreResource: Crisis Management Matrix
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
Read MoreQuick Win: Basic Program Evaluation and Easy Outcomes Tracking
This Quick Win is designed to help you introduce a basic program evaluation into your nonprofit.
Quick Win: Programs
Read MoreMasterclass: Goals, Strategies, Tactics… Oh My!
The members of the Village have been asking for me to help to clarify the distinctions between these things for some time.
Course: Strategy
Read MoreQuick Win: Not Your Grandma’s SWOT Analysis
Analyze your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Ask these questions and then dig on the answers that are unclear, too vague, or aren’t really getting to the heart of the matter.
Quick Win: People
Read MoreMasterclass: How to Create a Theory of Change
In this masterclass, Kathleen Kelly Janus shares her “theory-of-change” playbook for nonprofit organizations based on an amazing five-year research project interviewing hundreds of top performing social innovators.
Course: Strategy
Read MoreMasterclass: Using Logic Models
In this Masterclass, Lindsay Hoffman teaches us how (and why) to create and use a Logic Model diagram for a program.
Course: Programs, Strategy
Read MoreAssessment: Is This New Program a Good Idea?
A funder has an idea. It comes with a check. This resource is intended to give you the tools you need to figure out if you should say “yes” or “no.”
Resource: Programs
Read MoreMasterclass: Strategic Planning With Limited Resources
An 9-part mini-course that will walk you step-by-step through an effective strategic planning process even if your resources are very limited.
Course: Strategy
Read MoreChecklist: A Guide to Surviving a Crisis
This guide is the checklist you probably don’t want to download. But please do so anyway. It’s like buying insurance. You hope it was a waste of money and you never use it. But you should buy it all the same.
Template: People, Narrative
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