Accounting Procedures Manual Template
An Accounting Procedures Manual template created by Deborah Cooper and Meredeth Clark of the California and Steve Zimmerman, C.P.A.
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Advancing Community Leadership Through Donor Engagement
Advancing Community Leadership Through Donor Engagement highlights five community foundations working creatively with donors.
Annie E. Casey Foundation's Kids Count Data Center
Through the Kids Count Data Center you can access hundreds of measures of child well-being, incluing all those regularly used in the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Data Book.
Assessment Tools: Performance Assessment Worksheet
This worksheet is intended to help foundation staffs and boards establish indicators of foundation performance in four areas: achieving impact, setting the agenda/strategy, managing operations, and
Basic Guidelines and Sample Agenda for Board Training Session
Online resource from Free Management Library, includes a guideline and agenda for board training sessions.
Best Practices for Family Foundations with Geographically Dispersed Board Members
This study by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University investigates how family foundations manage governance, decision making, and, especially, daily work activities when the number of loca
Beyond the Jitters: When Foundations and News Media Connect
How can foundations move from interest to action in developing media relations?
Beyond the Recycling Bin: Greening Practices of Grantmakers
This report from Grants Managers Network presents a summary of survey findings about "greening" grantmaker practices.
BoardSource Knowledge Center
Gateway to an extensive array of information dealing with nonprofit governance from BoardSource.
Budgeting Toolkit
Budgeting is key to financial management. Learn how to plan, develop, and use budgets for your organization in a budgeting toolkit from Civicus.
Building Capacity of Nonprofits to Better Serve Older Adults
Mary O'Donnell, a program officer at the Retirement Research Foundation, provides an overview of how the foundation works to build capacity of nonprofits to serve older adults.
Building Environmentally Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Inclusivity
This white paper examines the relationship between encouraging sustainable communities and enhancing access to opportunity for lower-income people and people of color.
Building Financial Strength and Program Quality
How can a grantmaker covert a concept into a specific request for proposals?
Building Stronger Nonprofits Through Better Financial Management
This report from the Wallace Foundation that recommends that funders boost payments for overhead, reduce burdens and invest in building nonprofits' financial management capabilities in order to hel
Business of Change: A Resource Guide for Corporate-Nonprofit Collaboration
A guide for enhancing collaborative dialogue between nonprofits and corporations developed by the Gill Foundation.
Capturing the Power of Leadership Change: Using Executive Transition Management to Strengthen Organizational Capacity
Learn about the challenges associated with executive transitions and opportunities for funders to better cope with executive management transitions from the Annie E Casey Foundation.
Collaborative Funding for Greater Impact
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations' Collaborative Funding for Greater Impact explains the mechanics of forming and managing a co-funding partnership and offers takeaways for how this experienc
Communication for Social Change: An Integrated Model for Measuring the Process and Its Outcomes
How can grantmakers measure if communications for social change are working?
Cone 2010 Shared Responsibility Study
The 2010 Cone Shared Responsibility Study presents findings on what Americans believe the role of business in society should be and consumers' desire to be engaged in helping to influence corporate
Confronting Systemic Inequalities in Education
This report from NCRP discusses how philanthropy can more effectively use limited resources to help reform and improve school systems, with specific focus on inequality in access and opportunities