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Is a report written by Bob Searle, Alex Neuhoff and Andrew Belton. Multi-service organizations (MSOs) -nonprofits that provide services across multiple categories such as substance abuse, housing, and education - are uniquely positioned to provide holistic help to clients. While nonprofits that provide a single service (from mentoring to job training) often draw more media attention, perhaps because they are easier to profile, MSOs have tremendous potential to help people struggling with complex

Is a project of CompassPoint, created to assess and advance coaching as a strategy for building effective nonprofit organizations. It reviewed the nonprofit sector's support for and use of coaching, as well as the coaching field's knowledge of and work within the nonprofit sector. Its publications were created as a resource for and about coaching in the nonprofit sector. Each contains relevant information for a particular audience - funders, nonprofits, and coaches.

By Carolyn J. Curran is an article addressing key questions about coaching such as: why is there a discrepancy between interest in, and practice of, coaching; what is the difference between coaching and consulting; when is a nonprofit leader ready for coaching; what happens in a coaching session; how can coaching top executives impact a whole organization; and how to pay for coaching.

This 2-page VNR paper provides a summary of strategies for promoting effective collaboration among nonprofit organizations and other entities.

This is an article written by Cari Cho for Forbes Nonprofit Council. In the article, Cho shares some of the mistakes a nonprofit’s management team can make in the communication department and the lessons that can be learned from such experiences.

Is a book by Janet Levine and Laurie A. Selik, which gives professional and volunteer fundraisers the tools to learn about donors through personal interaction, using conversation guides. It starts with a values-based approach in Chapter 1, then zooms in on the all-important one-to-one conversations necessary to be a successful nonprofit development officer or volunteer fundraiser.

It is crucial for human resources to establish appropriate compensation and implement best practices for benchmarking to recruit and retain talent. Candid’s Nonprofit Compensation Report makes benchmarking compensation easier than ever by providing details on executive compensation in each budget band. Another great way to get an accurate picture of over or under compensation is to review a specific organization’s financials via Candid’s GuideStar. By staying abreast of the latest nonprofi

This is a resource compiled by the IRS to help nonprofit organizations stay out of trouble and protect their status. It covers activities that may jeopardize a charity's exempt status, returns and forms that must be filed, required public disclosures - and much more.

Often the "conflicts of interest" of nonprofit board members do not involve personal financial gain. Consider the board member whose commitment to rights for people with disabilities leads her to serve on the boards of two such organizations. At Board A she hears about a new grant opportunity that is opening up at a local foundation. Should she tell Board B about it, or is she obligated not to mention i?

Connecting Valley Nonprofits to Interpersonal Violence (IPV) Resources is a free guide providing information and referral resources if a nonprofit’s staff member, volunteer or client might have an IPV challenge. It was developed by Strength United in partnership with VNR through a year-long project that also included educational workshops, and was funded by a grant from Kaiser Permanente.

Is an article written for The Nonprofit Quarterly. The article identifies the benefits and drawbacks of a number of crowdfunding platforms and how they pertain to nonprofits.

It is not uncommon for organizations to enter into consulting contracts with individuals who should legally be hired as employees. It is sometimes difficult to know how to define which is which.

Highlights five key factors that will shape the social sector of the future. Based on extensive review of existing research and in-depth interviews with thought leaders and nonprofit leaders and activists, it explores the trends (Demographic Shifts; Technological Advances; Networks Enabling Work to be Organized in New Ways; Rising Interest in Civic Engagement and Volunteerism; and Blurring of Sector Boundaries) and looks at the ways nonprofits can successfully navigate the changes. The monograph

Each year, hundreds of thousands of court-ordered community service workers are placed in nonprofits to fulfill their sentences. Although the image is typically one of a teenager sentenced to picking up litter, court-ordered volunteers perform a wide variety of roles in nonprofits. This article discusses why and why not to accept such volunteers, and how to do it right.

This is an article written by Adrienne Day for Stanford Social Innovation Review. Examining the experiences of prominent nonprofit organizations, Day examines why nonprofit leaders should think less about the technology and more about the people who will use it and the goals they hope to achieve.