Resources for teaching nonprofit management and strategy
DEVELOPING STRATEGY
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(Jon Huggett and Amy Saxton; August 2006)
Why did the AAMA decide to expand some but not all of its organization's programs?
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(Alexander J. Cortez and Alan Tuck; April 2006)
How did OPP turn the expiration of its largest contract into the springboard for greater impact?
Keywords: funding, intended impact, evaluating programs, planning, youth services
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MANAGING PERFORMANCE
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(Alexander J. Cortez and Liana Vetter; January 2008)
Data should be a source of strategic value; here's how OPP made it so.
Keywords: data collection, decision making, analyzing data, youth services
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(Don Howard and Susan J. Colby; December 2003)
GVC management needed a simple yet systematic method for determining whether they were on track to achieve their ambitious goals.
Keywords: performance measurement, increasing impact, growing a nonprofit, community services
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FUNDING THE MISSION
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(Don Howard and Abigail Rubin; July 2004)
How could Larkin Street sustain success in a turbulent economy?
Keywords: funding, expanding programs, expanding sites, youth services
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(Mandy Taft-Pearman and William Foster; March 2007)
Evaluating HW-SC’s two main growth constraints revealed untapped funding resources.
Keywords: growth potential, funding sources, at-risk students, youth services
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BUILDING THE ORGANIZATION
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(Amy Saxton and Mike Perigo; February 2008)
How did Aspire strengthen its organization to meet the immediate and longer-term demands of growth?
Keywords: maintaining quality, hiring, decision making, accountability, definining roles, education
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(Margaret Boasberg and Barbara Christiansen; August 2007)
After completing a three-year growth plan in two years, MY TURN, Inc. was primed for more. What were the right next steps?
Keywords: funding, expanding programs, expanding sites, youth services
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ADVANCING PHILANTHROPY
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(Katherine Kaufmann and Robert Searle; September 2007)
How can a foundation better evaluate the difference it's making in the world, when its portfolio is diverse—and it's the grantees who actually deliver?
Keywords: funding, evaluating impact, measuring grantee performance, foundations
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(Susan Wolf Ditkoff, Anna Fincke, and Alan Tuck; March 2007)
What happened when the same approach that created a pioneering hedge fund was applied to the work of a foundation?
Keywords: analyzing grantees, due diligence, grantmaking, foundations
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RECRUITING LEADERS
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(Bridgestar; December 2007)
How the search for the perfect COO helped one nonprofit gain clarity on what the organization really needed—and how it should best fill those needs.
Keywords: hiring a Chief Operating Officer, finding candidates, mental health services
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