Posts in 'Management & Operations'

Tool

Making Organizational Learning Stick

All nonprofits can benefit from internal knowledge capture, surfacing and sharing good ideas and practices. Some organizations engage in external...
Management & Operations
Tool

The Free Management Library - Business Planning

The free management library offers information on a variety of nonprofit management issues including business planning.
Management & Operations
Tool

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...
Management & Operations
Tool

Struck by Duck: Do We Really Need This Data?

The Center for Effective Philanthropy looks at the incredible specificity in medical coding—there are codes for "struck by duck" and "burn due to...
Management & Operations
Tool

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.
Management & Operations
Tool

Eight Strategic Mistakes with Memberships

If you have members, take a minute to make sure you're not making common but avoidable mistakes.
Management & Operations
Tool

Do Competitive Prizes Drive Innovative Solutions?

A new report discusses the increase in government agencies and philanthropic organizations staging competitions as a way to promote innovation in...
Management & Operations
Article

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...
Management & Operations
Tool

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.
Management & Operations
Article

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.
Management & Operations