Internal climate change: How best to manage transformation

The concept of change management has always been around but today’s nonprofit landscape has made it an increasingly essential skill.

Governance Q&A: Responding to CSR inquiries from grantors

How and why should charities demonstrate corporate social responsibility practices.

Valuing vendors: How to optimize your relationships

How to ensure your relationships with vendors fit into your organization’s mission and how to efficiently find new vendors.

Governance Q&A: When should a charity close its doors?

Is it ethical to shut down a charity when there is a group of people that would like to form a new board, drawing on new contacts and strategies, to help the organization carry on its work?

Getting your not-for-profit organization to go green

Not-for-profit organizations are going green. Here are some tips on how not-for-profit organizations can be environmentally friendly.

Nonprofit-consultant collaborations: What to look for and why

A whole ancillary segment of professional, voluntary sector consultants has sprung up to help make the daily planning and operational structures of nonprofits easier and more effective (in many cases). In fact, in recent years various movements were launched to help consultants and nonprofits find each other and broaden the knowledge base of the sector.

Tools for nonprofit leaders: Conducting an organization review

Many not-for-profit organizations do not have a budget for such a review, and this article offers some tips on how to conduct one in-house.

Using metrics in not-for-profit organization management

Many board members want to see not-for-profit organization metrics in the strategic plan and committee work plans, so this article suggests ways to draft them.

Handing over the reins: How outsourcing management helps nonprofits achieve

Though more common in the for-profit world, outsourcing management is starting to gain a following in the nonprofit sector as organizations focus on pursuing their mission and turn to others to help with activities that support their day-to-day functioning.

What do members really want?

Many not-for-profit organization executives lie awake at night wondering what their members really want.