1. Best Practices: Is Your Organization Resilient?
Four Helpful Briefs from the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
In preparation for its planned 2020 sunset, the California-based
S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation has been researching the best strategies to ensure its grantees can sustain themselves well into the future. The answer, they discovered, is to become
resilient.
After reading the literature and consulting with experts, other foundations and their grantees, the Foundation staff created seven
"resiliency factors": Culture of Learning, Talent & Leadership, Context (Outside-In Thinking), Planning & Execution, Reputation & Communications, Partnership & Alliances, and Financial Footing.
If your nonprofit has an active volunteer component, or holds events, you may want to check out
Signup.com. The free version is fairly robust, with unlimited activity sign-ups, calendar syncing, shift scheduling/swapping, unlimited emails, announcements and thank-yous, and more.
At $10/month, you get a bunch of additional features like volunteer hours tracking reports, participant check-in capabilities and custom registration fields.
Nonprofit Assistance Fund puts the Fine in Finance
Does the idea of nonprofit finance make your eyes glass over? The Nonprofit Assistance Fund does a great job illustrating and simplifying common concepts in these brief videos:
