Publications and Reports

Our publications for nonprofits, especially the Executive Directors Guide and the TSNe-Bulletin, provide practical, "how-to" experience that helps managers and other non-profit professionals continuously improve their organizations’ ability to create concrete, beneficial social change.

Executive Directors Guide

Image: Front cover of the Executive Directors GuideThe Executive Directors Guide: The Guide for Successful Nonprofit Management is loaded with practical, real world information to help executive directors create and sustain healthy, effective organizations.

Creative Disruption

Image: Cover of the Creative Disruption reportSabbaticals for non-profit leaders can be a relatively inexpensive but highly productive capacity-building tool that yields measurable results. Creative Disruption: Sabbaticals for Capacity Building and Leadership Development in the Nonprofit Sector provides emerging evidence of the benefits to non-profit organizations, leaders, funders and the sector.

Image: Diversity & Inclusion Initiative iconA Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Diversity in the Workplace 

In this guide for non-profit organizations, Diversity & Inclusion Initiative Director Tyra Sidberry and writer Pat Dixon provide a step-by-step approach – in 7 phases – to achieving diversity and inclusiveness in the non-profit workplace.

Valuing Our Nonprofit Workforce 2010: A Compensation Survey of and for Nonprofits in Massachusetts and Adjoining Communities

Image: Valuing Our Nonprofit Workforce logoThird Sector New England has released preliminary findings from Valuing Our Nonprofit Workforce 2010: A Compensation Survey of and for Nonprofits in Massachusetts and Adjoining Communities.

The report provides, in many cases, a first glimpse at data on pay for staff at small to medium sized nonprofit organizations in the survey area. TSNE commissioned the survey in response to frequent requests from non-profit executive directors, board members and consultants for compensation data relevant to staff and management positions at smaller non-profit organizations. Prior to the release of Valuing Our Nonprofit Workforce, few of the salary surveys available in the targeted region were specific to small to medium sized nonprofits with social service or social justice missions.

Photo: Cover of the Shared Services GuideShared Services: A Guide to Collaborative Solutions for Nonprofits

Filled with step-by-step guidelines, case studies and sample documents, Shared Services draws from the experiences of people across the non-profit and philanthropic world to help you build your own successful shared services program.

TSNe-Bulletin

The TSNe-Bulletin is sent to subscribers once a month (except for August). It provides tips and ideas to help non-profit professionals manage more strategically to build strong democratic communities.

Recent issues addressed topics such as tips for seeking foundation support, creating online surveys, winning media coverage and Generation Y entering the non-profit workforce.