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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.

Honesty is the quality most often cited around the world as the #1 most important characteristic for leadership. This page from the National Council of Nonprofits offers practice pointers to help nonprofit organizations to demonstrate ethical leadership.

This 3-part webinar series from Futures Without Violence's Supporting Organizational Sustainability (SOS) Project explores shared leadership models within survivor-serving organizations.

This is a basic guide to all aspects of staffing, from workforce planning to recruiting to retaining employees.

This outline by the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence (FCADV) provides guidance to local centers on disaster planning to ensure that domestic violence services continue statewide, uninterrupted, despite the occurrence of a disaster.

This resource provides answers to some basic questions about how board meetings should run, including whether to use a consent agenda, how long meetings should last, whether staff should attend meetings, and what to include in minutes, among other things.

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.

Grassroots fundraising efforts can be a valuable tool for diversifying funding sources, building community investment in your organization, and developing grassroots leadership. This guide from RoadMap offers responses to some of the most commonly asked questions about grassroots fundraising.

Assessing organizational culture and structure is a key step in dismantling harmful practices that perpetuate racism and building an organization based on racial equity. This page from Racial Equity Tools includes resources about the processes of engaging in organizational racial equity assessments, tools and examples of organizational assessments.

This overview provides a basic orientation to the roles of shared leadership between the board of directors and the chief executive. A chart is provided that outlines guidance on specific responsibilities between both parties in several key governance areas.

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.

A well-planned budget demonstrates a nonprofit’s ability to responsibly manage its financial resources—an important factor for donors, corporate investors, and grantmaking institutions. This template provides a pre-formatted spreadsheet that can be used to document projected income and expenses.