Championing sustainable financing: Progress following the National Summit

What progress has been made since Imagine Canada’s National Summit six months ago?

The balanced scorecard: From strategic plan to effective execution

To effectively and comprehensively execute a strategic plan, organizations should create a balanced scorecard.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it

Is it still important to have a mission statement in 2012?

Making room for space: How nonprofits are optimizing their physical environments

The role that physical environment plays in shaping the culture or mood of an organization cannot be ignored, and is increasingly taken into account by both client-based and non-client-based agencies.

The case for interim staff leadership

At times when the chief staff executive position suddenly becomes vacant and the issues before the board seem too large, too overwhelming, and too systemic to be fixed without a different approach, it may be appropriate to consider interim management.

Evaluation: Your tool to volunteer program success

This article describes a comprehensive and multi-faceted approach to volunteer program evaluation.

Implementing a strategic plan

This article offers advice for overcoming typical stumbling blocks to the effective implementation of a strategic plan.

Asking the right question

This article shows why problems would be more easily solved if managers only asked the right questions.

Are you ready for a crisis?

It’s not just high-profile celebrities, corporations and organizations that need to have a crisis communication plan, all nonprofits should have one.

Strategic planning made simple

Strategic planning doesn’t have to happen with an outside facilitator. Jack Shand shows how nonprofit leaders can take control of their strategic plan, creating a simple planning process.