Nonprofit Strategy and Management Resources

These powerful concepts can help your organization refine its goals and map the way to accomplish them.

With a program strategy map, nonprofit leaders can make better decisions based on the impact and financial sustainability of their programs. 

A number of social sector leaders, philanthropists, and policymakers are experimenting with ways to deliver impact at a truly “transformative scale.” 

The templates in this toolkit are designed to help your organization develop or refresh your intended impact and theory of change. 

The RAPID^® tool for decision making can help a nonprofit spell out roles to improve its organizational decision-making process. 

A nonprofit’s operating model is the blueprint for how to organize and deploy people and resources.  

For nonprofits, doing evaluation well includes using methods that engage, respect, and benefit the constituents and communities with whom you work. 

A guide to help nonprofits build the mind-set and the muscles needed to identify breakthrough ideas, opportunities, and ways of working—and put them into practice. 

Nonprofits are emphasizing inclusion to make their decision-making processes more effective. It can also be a means of achieving more equitable outcomes. 

With a few simple practices, nonprofits and NGOs can turn a talent development process into an employee retention tool, a leadership pipeline strategy, and a step toward a more inclusive workforce.

The five steps laid out here can help nonprofit executive teams move from underperforming to high-performing in their work to advance their organizations' missions. 

Many nonprofits benefit when they carefully plan an extended role for founders who step down. 

Research finds a systemic gap between the sector’s leadership development aspirations, and the reality of its investments and efforts. 

Developing a funding strategy for financial sustainability is key to any nonprofit's growth. Yet exactly how to create such a model can be unclear.  

Gaining economic clarity around costs is critical to inform key strategic decisions. 

Share of wallet, which measures the amount of customers’ total spending that a business captures, offers a novel approach to achieving fundraising effectiveness. 

Building scenario plans that can help nonprofits continue to pursue their missions even in times of uncertainty.

Social change leaders can create more investment opportunities that can transform the world by following these guidelines.