What Your Non-Profit Management Organization Chart Should Look Like:
Executive Director
(You)
Finance Director
(Warren Buffet)
Fundraising Director
(Oprah Winfrey)
Operations Director
(Bill Gates)
Program Director
(Mother Theresa)
Communications Director
(Steven Spielberg)
What It Probably Does Look Like:
Executive Director
(You)
Finance Director
(You)
Fundraising Director
(You)
Operations Director
(You)
Program Director
(You)
Communications Director
(You)
What It Could Look Like:
Executive Director
(You)
Finance Director
(Board Treasurer)
Fundraising Director
(Board FR Chair)
Operations Director
(You or Staff)
Program Director
(You or Staff)
Communications Director
(Board Member)
IMPORTANT
URGENT
NOT URGENT
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CRISES
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Preparation
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PRESSING PROBLEMS
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Prevention
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DEADLINE-DRIVEN
PROJECTS, MEETINGS,
PREPARATIONS
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Values Clarification
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Planning
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Relationship Building
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INTERRUPTIONS
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trivial or busy work
SOME MAIL, EMAIL, &
REPORTS
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some phone calls
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SOME MEETINGS
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irrelevant mail and email
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purposeless web-surfing
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Start here. Basic information to address a range of general needs for nonprofit management.
Info Central
A collection of many important management, fundraising, and legal resources,
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organized primarily around the Principles and Practices for Nonprofit Excellence.
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http://www.mncn.org/infocentral.htm
Annual Report
Nonprofit financial management
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Loans, financial management workshops, and financial management assistance
How to Apply
offered to strengthen the financial capacity of nonprofit organizations in
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Minnesota. (Nonprofits Assistance Fund)
Program Spotlight
http://www.nonprofitsassistancefund.org/
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Financial glossary
A list of common financial terms used by foundations and nonprofit organizations.
(Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
http://www.rwjf.org/grantees/howtotools/financialglossary.jsp
Free Management Library
A wealth of practical information about personal, professional, and organizational
development for nonprofit leaders. Check out the series of 13 Learning Modules,
tutorials on topics from organizational start-up to evaluation. (MAP for Nonprofits)
http://www.mapnp.org/library/index.html
Managing in Hard Times
Best practices and tools for environmental and conservation nonprofits in a tight
economic and shifting political situation. Make tough decisions fairly with the best
interests of the organization in mind. (Institute for Conservation Leadership)
http://www.icl.org/toolkits/hard-times.php
Nonprofit Good Practice Guide
One-stop-shop for preferred practices and pitfalls, glossaries, resources, trends,
and website profiles—from accountability and advocacy to fundraising and
technology. (Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership)
http://www.npgoodpractice.org/Resource/GoodPracticeGuide.aspx
Planning a Great Meeting
Five main steps of the planning process, format and content tips, planning
timeline, sample conference site inspection checklist, sample slide templates, and
a glossary. (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
http://www.rwjf.org/publications/howtotools/meeting.jhtml
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Develop your key messages, and then share those messages with the media, the public,
and policymakers.
Arts Marketing
Full Site
In-depth tutorials explain marketing clearly and concisely with examples,
Grantees
exercises, and worksheets geared toward the novice marketer, but also refreshers
the more advanced. (Arts & Business Council of Americans for the Arts)
http://www.artsmarketing.org/includes/section-
Annual Report
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Browse Grantees
How to Apply
Community Toolbox's Organizing for Effective Advocacy
Meeting Space
Over 6,000 pages of practical information to support nonprofit work in promoting
Program Spotlight
community health and development. (Work Group on Health Promotion and
Site Feedback
Community Development at the University of Kansas)
http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents
Interactive Smart Chart
Free, interactive tool to help nonprofits make smart communications choices, by
helping to assess strategic decisions during planning, evaluate communications
strategies already in progress, and review completed efforts. (SpitfireStrategies)
http://www.smartchart.org/
Media Advocacy Manual
Free media advocacy manual, written from the perspective of public health issues,
is a good general guide to using the media to gain attention from decision makers
and influence policy change. (American Public Health Association)
http://www.apha.org/about/news/mediaadvocacy.htm
Media Tips and Training-Placing op-eds
Tips for placing opinion-editorials and letters to the editor in the nation's 100
largest newspapers. (Communications Consortium Media Center)
http://www.ccmc.org/oped.htm
Nonprofit Resources
Links to articles, resources, tools, and success stories that offer great tips and
best practices for online advocacy. (Network for the Good)
http://www.networkforgood.org/npo/advocacy/
SpinProject
Online tutorials on effective media strategies and tactics to support social change
work. (Independent Media Institute)
http://spinproject.org/search.php
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