Articles & Reports

The articles and reports contained within the below categories – and throughout our site – focus on bread and butter issues like creating better financial management systems for your nonprofit to highlighting new trends, like e-communications, that are driving the nonprofit sector in new directions.

Collaboration, Strategic Alliances and Mergers

• Bringing Nonprofits and Funders Together
• Collaborative Learning: Lessons from our Capacity Building Fund
• The Role of a Weaver: Creating Results on Community Issues
• Shared Services and Space: An Update from L.A.

Diversity and Inclusion

• Achieving Diversity in the Nonprofit Workplace: A Step-by-Step Guide
• Be an Active Bystander
• Dr. Michael Eric Dyson on Diversity
• Diversity Initiative Evaluation Report
• Diversity: Sitting in the Fire
• Obama’s Election and the Challenge of Inclusion
• Tips for Building Staff Diversity

Executive Transition

• Do You Need an Interim Executive Director?
• Five Essential Facts for Weathering a Change in Leadership
• A Succession Planning Primer

Fiscal Sponsorship

• How Fiscal Sponsorship Nurtures Nonprofits
• A White Paper on Comprehensive Fiscal Sponsorship
• Who Chooses Fiscal Sponsorship, and Why?

Fundraising and Fund Development

• 8 Steps for Successful Networking
• Fundraising in a Down Economy: Focus on Brand
• Fundraising in Sun and Rain
• Getting Started with Email Fundraising
• How to Raise a Lot More Money Now: 50 Great Ideas from 11 Top Experts
• Integrating Online and Offline Fundraising
• Interview on Donor-Centric Fundraising
• A Little Sympathy for Your Donors, Please!
• Nonprofits Embrace Online and In-Person Auctions
• Tips for Cultivating Donors
• Tips for Seeking Foundation Support
• Turning Crisis into an Opportunity
• Video as a Powerful Development Tool

Getting Started

• How Fiscal Sponsorship Nurtures Nonprofits
• The ABCs of Nonprofit Center Development

Going Green

• Benefits of Green Design
• Eight New Rules for Green Computing
• Going Green: Tips from the NonProfit Center
• Green Printing for Your Promotional Materials
• Green Spring Cleaning
• Green Workplace Tips
• Nonprofit Centers Go Green
• Safe, Fun Biking in Boston
• Sweet and Eco-Friendly Really Do Go Together

Human Resources and Workplace Culture

• Be a Better, Adaptive Supervisor
• Celebrating the Diversity of the Season
• Day Outings for Nonprofits
• Dress for Success: Nonprofit Dress Code Policies
• Employee Retention Post-Recession
• Fair, Consistent Staff Layoffs
• Five Tips for Updating Your Resume
• The Future of Nonprofits: Developing Generation Y
• H1N1 Is Here – Nonprofits Should Get Ready Now
• Hiring for Organizational Success - Part I
• Know the Rules for Hiring Consultants vs. Employees
• Maintaining Employee Morale During Tough Economic Times
• Make the Most of Your Work Week
• May Day Brings New Security Firm to NonProfit Center
• New Year's Resolutions for Job Hunters
• Preparing Your Nonprofit to Recruit Volunteers
• Quick Tips for Getting Your Job Search Together
• Reflections on Facilitation: Tips for Making Meetings Flow and Having Fun
• Stress Reduction Tips
• Ten Steps to a Better Work-Life Balance
• Ten Tips to Improve Your Job Search Results
• Tips for Working Effectively with Temps
• Valuing Our Nonprofit Workforce 2010: A Compensation Survey of and for Nonprofits in Massachusetts and Adjoining Communities
• Working with Interns: Ideas for Success
• Yoga for the Workplace

Leadership

• 10 Things Every Nonprofit Executive Needs to Know About IT
• Considering Organizational Development
• Deriving “Power” from Constituents
• Foundations’ Role in Supporting Nonprofit Leadership Development
• The Future of Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector
• The Future of Nonprofits: Developing Generation Y
• New Nonprofit Leadership
• Nonprofit Financial Management
• Women and Nonprofit Leadership

Legal Compliance

• Navigating the New IRS Form 990
• A Refresher on Receiving Donations

Media and Marketing

• Email Marketing
• Managing the Media
• Power Corrupts and PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely 
• Shaping Your Message
• Seven Steps to Communicating Strategically
• Six Steps to Rebranding Your Nonprofit
• Video as a Powerful Development Tool
• Winning Media Coverage for the Work You Do
• Writing a Pitch to the Media
• Your Writing: Profound or Just Badly Done?

Money Matters

• Approaching an Audit
• Contingency Budgeting
• Financial Analysis in Turbulent Times
• Navigating the New IRS Form 990
• Nonprofit Budget Tips
• Nonprofit Financial Management
• A Refresher on Receiving Donations
• Spending Out Grant Budgets
• Using Key Financial Indicators

Online Communications

• Building an Effective Email List
• Creating Online Surveys
• Donor and Other Emails: You’ve Got Four Seconds
• Eight Steps for Building Your Social Media Fan Base
• Email Marketing
• Getting Started with Email Fundraising
• How Your Nonprofit Can Make the Most of LinkedIn: Setting Up a Company Profile
• How’s Your Web "Sight"?
• Internet Relationship Management
• Open Content for Nonprofits
• Promising Practices in Electronic Advocacy
• Resources for Nonprofit Podcasting
• RSS: Best Practices
• Ten Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Be Using LinkedIn
• Top the Web Search Lists, Pt 1
• Top the Web Search Lists, Pt 2
• Top the Web Search Lists, Pt 3
• Twittionary: A Guide to Twitter Terms and Shorthand Abbreviations
• Use Opt-In Email So You Won’t Lose Out
• Writing for the Web
• Your Writing: Profound or Just Badly Done?

Organizational Development

• Considering Organizational Development
• How Organizational Development Benefits Nonprofits
• Reflections on Facilitation: Tips for Making Meetings Flow and Having Fun

Public Policy and Advocacy

• Prevent a Census Undercount in Underserved Communities
• Promising Practices in Electronic Advocacy
• Time to Choose: Well-Being or War?

Social Justice

• Be an Active Bystander
• Black Gold: Coffee and Fair Trade
• Haiti Relief, First Hand
• Holiday Giving
• International Women’s Day: Women Are Changing the World
• May Day 2009 and Workers’ Rights
• May Day Brings New Security Firm to NonProfit Center
• Nonprofits’ Response to Katrina
• Spring Break in New Orleans, Post-Katrina
• Time for a New Type of Immigration Discourse
• Time to Choose: Well-Being or War?
• A Volunteer’s Perspective
• Women’s History Month and the AIDS Pandemic

Technology

• 8 New Rules for Green Computing
• 10 Things Every Nonprofit Executive Needs to Know About IT
• 2008 NTEN Conference and Social Media
• Before Calling Tech Support
• The Business Case for Videoconferencing
• Creating Online Surveys
• Email Marketing
• Extend Your Computer’s Life
• How’s Your Web "Sight"?
• Internet Relationship Management
• Integrating Online and Offline Fundraising
• New Ways to Collaborate and Innovate at a Distance
• Open Content for Nonprofits
• Power Corrupts and PointPoint Corrupts Absolutely
• Promising Practices in Electronic Advocacy
• Resources for Nonprofit Podcasting
• RSS: Best Practices
• RSS: Demystifying RSS Technologies
• Top the Web Search Lists, Pt. 1
• Top the Web Search Lists, Pt. 2
• Top the Web Search Lists, Pt. 3
• Understanding Web Analytics
• Use Opt-In Email So You Won’t Lose Out
• Writing for the Web