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- General Material
July 2006
Disaster-related Preparedness & Trauma Information Packet
Publisher(s):This packet provides a variety of sample policies and procedures that programs can adapt to help address disaster preparedness.
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- General Material
June 2006
Reshape Issue 19: Collaboration with Government Entities
Publisher(s):This newsletter of the National Sexual Assault Coalition Resource Sharing Project focuses on the ways that Sexual Assault Coalitions are building capacity for community collaborations as well as collaborations with governmental entities.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
April 2006
HarborCOV: One Community's Effort to Build Comprehensive Solutions to Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):This paper describes how one local domestic violence program, located in Chelsea, MA, built an innovative organization that transformed services, improving options for women's safety and their families' well-being.
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- General Material
January 2006
Investing in Our Communities: Strategies for Immigrant Integration
Publisher(s):This toolkit for grantmakers draws on extensive research and interviews with hundreds of foundation, community, business, and government leaders. It incorporates academic research as well as policy and community-based concerns into a resource that also can inform the work of practitioners in the nonprofit, public, and private sectors.
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- Training Tools
- General Material
January 2006
Mission-focused management and empowerment practice: A handbook for Executive Directors of DV Programs
Publisher(s):This handbook presents a brief grounding of the Battered Women's Movement and offers specific ideas and strategies for engaging in mission-focused and empowerment management.
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- General Material
January 2006
Managing Conflict: A Guide for Volunteer Boards
Publisher(s): This seven page guide provides detailed procedures to make sure conflict during board deliberation is productive.
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- General Material
August 2005
Violence Shelter Considers Hiring Male Director
Publisher(s):One of the country's oldest shelters opened a gender-neutral search for a new executive director and hired a man to run the organization in the interim. Some feminists call the move a violation of the founding principles to protect women.
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- General Material
January 2005
Writing a Successful Grant Proposal
Publisher(s):This Minnesota Council on Foundations document provides an excellent source of information regarding the basics and the details of grant writing for non-profit development.
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- General Material
July 2004
Hiring an Evaluator
Publisher(s):This document describes two of the basic choices that must be made when designing an evaluation. The first is about the choice of an evaluation’s design. The second concerns choosing a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed approach.
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- General Material
- Training Tools
January 2004
Logic Model Development Guide
Publisher(s):Nonprofits today are being pressed to demonstrate the effectiveness of their program activities by initiating and completing outcome-oriented evaluation of projects. This guide was developed to provide practical assistance to nonprofits engaged in this process.
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- General Material
January 2004
Staff Screening Tool Kit, 3rd Edition
Publisher(s):The tool kit discusses specific actions you should take, as well as issues you need to consider, before selecting an individual to serve in your organization. The screening process presented is based upon four overarching principles: legal compliance, systematic application of procedures, matching level of screening with position-specific risk factors, and applying uniform selection criteria to all applicants for a specific position.
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- General Material
January 2004
Performance Management
Publisher(s): This is a comprehensive guide on developing and implementing effective performance management systems that bring visible, value-added benefits in the areas of performance planning, performance development, feedback, and achieving results.









