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Five Tips for Building High-Performing Nonprofit Leadership Teams
Publisher(s):According to the author, Nicki Roth, "a great team is the sum of all of its moving parts.” This document provides advice on how to nurture working relationships and build respect of team members in order to build high-performing teams.
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Nonprofit Organizations and Human Resources Management
The decisions we make about who we hire for what positions and how we work with them once hired are crucial for organizational performance. This resource outlines best practices gathered from the field for performance evaluation, recruitment, hiring and retention, staffing, professional development, and resolving problems.
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10 reasons nonprofit work is totally awesome
Publisher(s): Although it can certainly be stressful, nonprofit work can also be full of joy. This article from Nonprofit AF explores some of the positive aspects of nonprofit work.
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Addressing Intimate Partner Violence to Support Participant and Staff Safety and Enhance Outcomes in Maternal Health
Publisher(s):National Healthy Start Association, Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health Community Care Initiative
This free 7 module professional learning series can be utilized by an array of outpatient and social services professionals, both frontline staff and supervisors, to better understand and respond to the needs of women/birthing persons experiencing IPV during pregnancy and beyond.
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Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Secondary Trauma
This article clearly defines trauma, PTSD, and secondary trauma and how secondary trauma affects those who work with traumatized clients.
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Working with Deaf Survivors of Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):In this paper, the author describes her experience in learning to become an advocate for Deaf survivors of domestic violence. She emphasizes the importance of both linguistic and cultural competency, and the necessity of key collaborations towards successful advocacy work.
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Strategy Selection Workbook: Key Steps to Selecting Primary Prevention Strategies
Publisher(s):Deciding which materials (e.g., marketing campaigns, curricula, etc.) or strategies are primary prevention-based is often a difficult and involved process. There are few, if any, clear cut answers. This document is meant to help guide your process of determining if a strategy is likely to be primary prevention-based or not. It is not meant to help figure out which strategies are sanctioned by funding sources or which are the best ones for your community but rather give you a process by which to explore the key factors in strategy selection.
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Culture as a Resource for Organizational Development
Publisher(s):This article highlights a culturally-based organizational structure developed from the perspective of culturally specific organizations. Additionally, the article explores cultural foundations for leadership development, management/administration, governance and organizational accountability using a lens that integrates cultural realities and considerations.
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Sexual Violence Against Asian and Pacific Islander Women Training Manual
This training manual describes the different types of sexual violence perpetrated against Asian and Pacific Islander women. Skits and discussion questions are included to help advocates understand sexual violence in vulnerable populations.
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Lobbying and Nonprofit Status
Publisher(s): This resource provides a brief overview of what kinds of activities are considered lobbying, and how nonprofit domestic violence agencies can be politically engaged without violating federal lobbying regulations.
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Balancing the Work of the Board and Staff
This resource provides additional information on board and staff roles, as well as a look at how those roles change during different stages of an organization’s life cycle and a targeted understanding of roles within each of the board’s governance responsibilities.
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Strategic HR Planning
Publisher(s): This resource explains the importance of connecting HR planning to your organization's strategic plan in order to make HR decisions that support the future direction of the organization.