Resources
Resources for Managing a Non-Profit in Hard Times
When you need a fresh perspective, take a few minutes to read an article, explore a new management tool, or find out how others cope with similar problems. Here are some web resources you might find useful.
- Fundraising and Administrative Costs: Benchmarking and Best Practices Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
- http://www.urban.org/content/PolicyCenters/NonprofitsandPhilanthropy/Overview.htm
- This article is particularly good: "Getting What We Pay For: Low Overhead Limits Nonprofit Effectiveness”
- http://nccsdataweb.urban.org/kbfiles/311/brief%203.pdf
- Independent Sector Interim Report to Congress (March 1, 2005) Stay up-to-date on what’s happening. It will impact your agency and board.
- http://www.independentsector.org/media/20050301_panel_interim.html
- Leader to Leader Institute – The Self-Assessment Process – an excellent article by Peter Drucker that introduces an agency self-assessment process.
- http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/sat/process.html
- GuideStar: the National Database of Nonprofit Organizations: complete due-diligence and research tools created especially for grantmakers. They make your agencies data available to grantmakers and donors.
- http://www.guidestar.org/index.jsp
- Why Ratios Aren’t the Last Word, GuideStar article
- http://www.guidestar.org/news/features/ratios.jsp
- Cutback strategies: 185 Cutback Strategies, Excerpted from: Coping with Cutbacks: The Nonprofit Guide to Success When Times Are Tight,
- https://www.wilderpubs.org/client/client_pages/articles_tools/cutback_stragtegies.cfm
- Managing in Hard Times, Institute for Conservation Leadership www.icl.org
- A good overview article can be found at http://www.icl.org/public/hard_times/
- Hard Times Toolkit: contains specific tools, like the MacMillan Matrix, examples of contingency budgets, sample cash flow budgets.
- http://www.icl.org/public/hard_times/tools/HardTimes-tools.pdf
- Good to Great – Jim Collins’ website. Great concepts and discussion questions – But, if you haven’t read the book, get it now.
- www.jimcollins.com
Other Useful Websites
Fiscal Management Associates, LLC, http://www.fmaonline.net/
Independent Sector: The Resource Center for Effective Corporate-Nonprofit Partnerships http://www.independentsector.org/about/about-is.htm
Alliance for Nonprofit Management › Resource Center: http://www.allianceonline.org/ARC/search?search=&type=&category=&submit=Search
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