How does an umbrella organization fulfill its stated goals and satisfy its members who entrust it with their confidence and, sometimes even their fees?
As we build our inventory of tools for leaders of nonprofit organizations, we devote this month’s article to templates. A template is document or file having a preset format, used as a starting point for a particular application so that the format does not have to be recreated each time it is used.
Whether it’s an over-saturated market, increased competition for sponsors, fickle attendees, escalating financial costs or inclement weather, the number of obstacles facing festivals today are many. So, how do the Shaw and others avoid festival landmines and achieve success?
To deploy a PMO, you need to start with a Terms of Reference (ToR). This article will serve as a guide to creating a basic outline for a Terms of Reference for a PMO.
Nonprofit organizations may even have a harder time making purchases and getting supplies because they exist to serve their communities. They must be more mindful of the ethics of retaining suppliers or materiel while drawing on fewer resources.
No business, nonprofit or otherwise, can do its work without incurring some administrative and other operational costs along the way. Administrative and operational costs are one area where dollar-stretching and saving is most important and very achievable.
Whether speaking with individual consultants, consulting firms, those who focus entirely on the nonprofit sector and those who split their business between the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, consultants all say the same thing about working with nonprofit clients: “It’s a partnership.”
Understanding the legalities and ramifications of providing your board of directors with any sort of compensation.
This is the third in a series of articles offering tools to not-for-profit leaders. Policies and procedures set out the rules for both volunteers and paid staff, consultants, and other outsourced individuals.
This article looks at what a PMO is and what it does, and provides you with a basis for determining whether your organization would benefit from implementing one.
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