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Performance Assessment: Setting the Stage for an Effective Process
Publisher(s): Making the most of the performance assessment process requires making the part of them organizational culture and includes at least goal setting, continuous feedback and coaching, and an annual review. This article outlines the challenges of creating an effective process and suggests steps nonprofits can take to build the best process for their own organizations.
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Why Inclusiveness? Inclusiveness and Its Benefits for Nonprofit Organizations
Publisher(s): This publication from the Denver Foundation discusses the value of inclusiveness in nonprofit organizations.
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Domestic Violence: A Competency-Based Training Manual for Community Mental Health Staff
Publisher(s):Aside from setting screening guidelines, this manual discusses barriers faced by women in rural communities when attempting to protect themselves from domestic violence and presents guidelines for coordinating community response to domestic violence.
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Safety and Security Concerns
Publisher(s):There are some smart, strategic solutions to the risks of domestic and sexual violence at work. This page offers four sections detailing ideas for strengthening an employer’s overall workplace violence prevention procedures to deal with domestic and sexual violence threats.
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Shelter Support Project
Publisher(s):The Shelter Support Project is a supportive resource for people making day-to-day decisions about the management and operation of domestic violence shelter programs. Shelter management resources including articles and model protocols are provided.
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Latinas and Sexual Violence
Publisher(s):This fact sheet addresses cultural and linguistic considerations for improving outreach into Latin@ communities with a special focus on Latinas. It promotes greater awareness of the barriers to services that Latina victims face and tools for removing those barriers.
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Roles & Responsibilities of the Board of Directors
An excellent outline of the basic responsibilities of a board of directors can be found within this general overview. The document describes the three primary governing responsibilities as well as the supportive role of individual board members.
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Basic Elements of Grant Writing
Publisher(s):This easy to follow guide to the basic elements of grant writing provides strategies for each stage of the process, including how to prepare to write a proposal, how to create a well-written and compelling proposal, and what do to as follow-up to proposal submission.
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Adding It All Up: Nonprofit CFO Study
Publisher(s):This report from a survey of nonprofit finance professionals discusses findings in the areas of 1) CFO profiles, 2) staffing the finance function, 3) concerns, and 4) other miscellaneous issues.
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Can You Afford a New Employee?
While written from the for-profit business perspective, this article contains useful information for nonprofits as well in its short overview of the financial costs to consider when deciding whether to hire a new employee.
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Nonprofit Financial Policy Guidelines and Example
Publisher(s): Financial policies clarify the roles, authority, and responsibilities for essential financial management activities and decisions in a nonprofit organization. This resource provides guidance on how to develop financial policies, as well as an example policy.