Nonprofit Management

This guide provides specific guidelines for individual organizations to evaluate and improve their operations, governance, human resources, advocacy, financial management, and fundraising.

Toolkit for managers during tough economic times and shifting political environment. While the focus is on conservation and the environment, the best practices and tools provided will assist any nonprofit in making assessments, in tracking finances, and how to make difficult decisions with the organization in mind.

This brief summary from the Council of Nonprofits outlines the board recruitment process with a number of links to help with additional information.

This workbook is designed to help organizations intentionally shape their governance to fit their values, resources and community strengths.

This article discusses the two main types of board conflicts (conflict among board members and conflict between board and executive or staff) and provides guidelines on how to handle the conflict situations.

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.

This webinar teaches ways to satisfy funder requirements and simplify the cost allocation process.

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.

Describes ideas generated from a meeting of executive directors of domestic violence programs who have had success with raising unrestricted funding from their local communities.

This page presents the various theories guiding the work of Men Can Stop Rape, including explanations for Bystander Intervention, Socio-Ecological Model for Prevention, Social and Emotional Learning Theory, and Dominant Stories and Counter-stories of Masculinity.

Members and volunteers produced this manual in an effort to provide a reference and resource document for agencies planning, developing, implementing and improving domestic violence victim service programs.

Domestic Violence Training for New Staff and Volunteers is a basic training curriculum on domestic violence that orients new staff and volunteers to the world of domestic violence services, providing the information needed to begin this important work.

The Conversation Guide Series is designed to provide guidance to domestic violence programs working to build their own capacity to provide accessible, culturally relevant, and trauma-informed services.

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

This basic online guide provides management skills for new managers and supervisors. Topics covered include: core management skills, staffing, employee training, employee performance management, and personnel policies.

Article includes information and links on various aspects of the development and management of volunteer programs including: staffing analysis, job/task descriptions, recruitment, screening, orientation and training, and supervision.

This article discusses the importance of work environment in the development of vicarious trauma problems for domestic and sexual violence workers.

This guidebook explores the response to vicarious trauma within certain communities and cultural groups.

This page contains information on why food and water might not be safe to consume during and after an emergency. Information on how to keep water and food safe after a disaster or emergency is also included.

This planning guide is a tool to support planning for pandemic influenza in the homeless and housing service sector, offering new practices for day-to-day operations that will help during an influenza pandemic or any other emergency.

This guidebook focuses on the increase in violence against women that results from a disaster, and how women’s service agencies can better prepare to meet the ensuing extra demand for service.

This packet provides a variety of sample policies and procedures that programs can adapt to help address disaster preparedness.