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January 2012
Vision for Change: A New Wave of Social Justice Leadership
Publisher(s):This report details the specific findings of the Building Movement Project's conversations with diverse younger nonprofit leaders, focusing on what it takes to do their jobs and makes recommendations for concrete change that will support their visions, and help to build a stronger progressive infrastructure for all stakeholders.
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January 2012
The Community Toolbox Chapter 8: Developing a Strategic Plan
Publisher(s):This chapter of the online toolbox provides an overview of strategic planning, developing vision and mission statements, creating objectives, developing successful strategies and an action plan, gathering feedback, and identifying action steps to bring about community and system change.
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January 2012
Self-Care and Trauma Work
Publisher(s):This document provides a brief overview of vicarious trauma and how to take care of yourself when working to address sexual violence.
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January 2012
Islamic Marriage Contracts: A Resource Guide for Legal Professionals, Advocates, Imams & Communities
Publisher(s):This guide was developed as a resource for legal professionals and advocates working with Muslims, and for Muslim leaders and community members.
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January 2012
Best Practices for Fundraising Success: Diversifying Giving Channels
Nonprofit organizations that rely on just a few sources of funding often struggle financially and have a hard time sustaining their efforts. Assuring that an agency has diversified revenue is vital to its future. This resource provides information on best practices for various revenue streams.
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January 2012
Entering the Brokenness
Publisher(s):Whenever the trauma of domestic violence occurs within a faith community, it is a gross violation of not only the victim of the violence and the immediate family; it also violates the spiritual integrity of the whole community of faith and each of its members. This packet provides guidance to church leaders coping with domestic violence homicides in their own communities.
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January 2012
Reading, Understanding, and Evaluating Research: Glossary of Terms
Publisher(s):This glossary is presented to assist advocates in understanding commonly used terms when reading, understanding and evaluating research. This glossary drew from several sources, which are listed at the end of this document. These resources can be helpful to advocates who wish to learn more about understanding and evaluating research.
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January 2012
Creating Trauma-Informed Services Tipsheet Series
Publisher(s):These tipsheets provide practical advice on creating trauma-informed services at domestic violence programs and working with survivors who are experiencing trauma symptoms and/or mental health conditions.
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January 2012
Sheltering Animals & Families Together: Start-Up Manual
Publisher(s):This manual provides simple, how-to methods for starting SAF-T at a domestic violence shelter. SAF-T is available to encourage every domestic violence shelter throughout the United States and other countries to keep people and their pets safe.
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December 2011
An Executive Director’s Guide to Financial Leadership
Publisher(s): This article from Nonprofit Quarterly provides information on how executive directors of nonprofits can guide their organization to sustainability, rather than just managing its finances.
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December 2011
Moving beyond Penn State: Bystander training as leadership training
Publisher(s):Jackson Katz shares lessons from the Penn State University sexual abuse case in this three-part series on bystander intervention as a continuation of their support of and focus on this approach to sexual violence prevention. This article discusses building male leadership.
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December 2011
The Nuts and Bolts of Lobbying for 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6) Exempt Organizations
Publisher(s):This presentation from Venable LLP outlines tax rules for lobbying, special restrictions for organizations receiving federal funds, definitions of lobbying terms, and ethics. It also addresses some basic “dos” “don’ts” for 501(c)(3) organizations that wish to participate in lobbying activities.