Key ingredients to a successful government grant application

Three key ingredients to add to charities’ formulas for successful business grantwriting

The ‘how-to’ of public policy engagement

Whenever policy is made, or is slated to come down the pike, it affects the greater social landscape, and by extension, the charitable infrastructure. But do voluntary sector organizations really understand how to jump into these policy discussions effectively and make their positions and feedback known?

Human Resources Q&A: Job descriptions to find your ideal employee

Tips for writing a job description to attract the right employee.

Do your donors hear voices (in your donation request letters)?

Fundraising letters are about people. People talk. So your fundraising letters should include the voices of people.

Tools for nonprofit leaders: Succession planning in the not-for-profit world

What would happen to your organization if the CEO or senior fundraiser were incapacitated and not able to serve for several months or forever? As part of your planning process you need to plan to replace key people if required to do so. It is called succession planning.

Tools for nonprofit leaders: Using templates

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.

Volunteering at your fingertips!

This article describes how to set your organization up to be able to take advantage of online volunteers.

Creating a volunteer handbook

This article provides a step-by-step process for creating a volunteer handbook for your organization.

Through the media’s eyes: What the media would like nonprofit organizations to know

If you are a nonprofit organization, how do you stand out among all this competition for limited space? Three media representatives explain media relations with the nonprofit sector from their side of the fence, and along the way share insider tips for getting noticed.