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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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Improving Your Nonprofit’s Internal Culture

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Improving Your Nonprofit’s Internal Culture: A Mini Guide Imagine you’re an entry-level nonprofit employee. But with the right approach, a positive internal culture is well within your reach. Because of this emphasis on others, it’s natural that, from time to time, the focus on your internal team will slacken.

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Tips for Activating a Culture of Wellbeing in the Nonprofit Workplace

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Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Improve internal information systems.

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Improving Your Nonprofit’s Internal Culture: A Mini Guide

Greater Giving

But with the right approach, a positive internal culture is well within your reach. In this mini guide, we’ll help you get a strong start by looking at the benefits of a strong internal culture and walking through some strategies you can experiment with. These include: Increased employee engagement.

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10 Things to Look for When Evaluating a Grant Proposal

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Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. To help you better review submissions so that you are set up for success, here are 10 items you should look for as you evaluate your grant applications. Program Description. Sustainability Plan.

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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin approaching these difficult conversations. Prevent Internal Injuries The first category includes the situations that we can, and should, prevent. These are internal challenges that might be related to culture, human resources, or operations.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

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As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. Guide to building evaluation capacity.