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SBA Business Planning

The US small business administration provides an overview of planning, writing and using a business plan.
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Using Outcomes to Measure Nonprofit Success

An explanation for the focus on overhead might be that it's the only measure of success that most donors have access to. This articles looks at the...
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The Free Management Library - Business Planning

The free management library offers information on a variety of nonprofit management issues including business planning.
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Freecycle: An Easy Way to Recycle Unwanted Items

The Freecycle Network™ is a nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. The Network provides...
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The Downsides of Impact-based Evaluations

As much as nonprofits dislike accounting-based evaluations (the dreaded overhead), there are some advantages to this over impact-based methods.
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Eight Strategic Mistakes with Memberships

If you have members, take a minute to make sure you're not making common but avoidable mistakes.
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Risky Business: Why All Nonprofits Should Periodically Assess Their Risk

Bolder Advocacy provides a suite of organizational capacity assessment tools to help you evaluate the advocacy and organizing you're doing now so that...
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8 Tips to Giving Better Performance Evaluations

The Leddy Group offers these tips to making your performance evaluations more useful for you and your employees.
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5 Management Practices that Kill Creativity

The Leddy Group shared this article about what NOT to do if you want to foster creativity in your workplace.
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Business Plan Worksheet

Record the key aspects of your business plan in this worksheet.
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