Welcome to CultureADD’s Resource Library. Listed are a variety of web resources to help you with your nonprofit organizational development efforts. These resources are not an endorsement, nor can we guarantee their accuracy, effectiveness or functionality. However, many business practitioners have found these resources useful when assisting nonprofit organizations. We hope you find these resources helpful as you ADD (Assess. Diagnose. Develop.) organizational capacity by improving business practices.
Strategic Planning
http://www.mapnp.org/library/plan_dec/str_plan/str_plan.htm
This is a section of the Management Assistance Program’s Nonprofit Library that is completely devoted to Strategic Planning.
http://www.allianceonline.org/FAQ
The Alliance for Nonprofit Management is a group of professionals who seek to improve the management and governance capacity of nonprofit organizations. Check out their frequently asked questions section on Strategic Planning. (Check out their other sections in financial management and board development).
http://www.nonprofits.org/
Internet Nonprofit Center has a variety of resources for nonprofits. Check out their frequently asked questions section to get information on Strategic Planning and more.
http://www.planware.org/strategy.htm
Check out the white paper on strategic planning.
Financial Management
http://www.nonprofitfinancial.org/index.htm
The Nonprofit Financial Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building capacity in the arena of financial management. In addition to their consulting and training services, they have a number of informational resources that focus on nonprofit financial management.
http://www.iknow.org/
IKNOW stands for Interactive Knowledge for Nonprofits Worldwide. Check out the section on financial management.
http://www.mapnp.org/library/finance/np_fnce/np_fnce.htm
This is a section of the Management Assistance Program’s Nonprofit Library that is completely devoted to Financial Management.
http://www.wcnwebsite.org/practices/financial.htm
This website is sponsored by the Whatcom Center for Nonprofits. This section of the site focuses on best practices in financial management.
Marketing Communications
http://www.artsmarketing.org
ArtsMarketing.org is a product of the National Arts Marketing Project. This website is a comprehensive guide to marketing the arts. It includes practical lessons on audience development, marketing strategy, publicity and more, as well as a variety of case studies.
http://www.benton.org/publibrary/toolkits/stratcommtool.html
This website is dedicated to best practices in strategic communications. They provide a variety of issues to think through as well as how-to articles. The Benton Foundation’s Communications Capacity Building Program sponsors this website.
http://www.spinproject.org
SPIN, the Strategic Press Information Network, provides nonprofit public interest organizations with media technical assistance. They offer PR consulting, training and strategy, as well as resources for media planning. Check out the resources section of the site.
http://www.internetnewsbureau.com/medianet/
This is an online tutorial in media relations. It is a joint project of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services and the Internet News Bureau.
http://www.newstips.org/
This website has information on media relations. It is a project of the Community Media Workshop. Check out the Media Relations Center portion of the site for articles and "how-to’s".
http://www.wcnwebsite.org/practices/marketing.htm
This website is sponsored by the Whatcom Center for Nonprofits. This section of the site focuses on best practices in Marketing.
Human Resources
http://www.hrgopher.com/
This website has a great many links that deal with human resource practices. Though the focus is not specifically nonprofit, the information is useful.
http://www.wcnwebsite.org/practices/resources.htm
This website is sponsored by the Whatcom Center for Nonprofits. This section of the site focuses on best practices in human resources.
http://www.iknow.org/
IKNOW stands for Interactive Knowledge for Nonprofits Worldwide. Check out the section on human resources.
http://www.mapnp.org/library/hr_mgmnt/hr_mgmnt.htm
This is a section of the Management Assistance Program’s Nonprofit Library that is completely devoted to human resources.
Board Operations
http://charitychannel.com/enewsletters/nbgr/
This is one section of the charity channel site that houses a variety of articles on nonprofit boards. It is called the Nonprofit Boards and Governance Review.
http://www.boardsource.org
BoardSource, formerly the National Center for Nonprofit Boards, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building effective boards. In addition to their consulting and training services, BoardSource hosts conferences and has an online bookstore that sells material related to nonprofit governance. Members of BoardSource receive discounts on all materials.
http://www.wcnwebsite.org/practices/board.htm
This website is sponsored by the Whatcom Center for Nonprofits. This section of the site focuses on best practices in Boards.
http://www.mapnp.org/library/boards/boards.htm
This is a section of the Management Assistance Program’s Nonprofit Library that is completely devoted to board operations.
http://www.businessvolunteers.org/
Business Volunteers Unlimited offers a variety of services for board development for nonprofit organizations.
http://www.governanceprofessionals.org/governnfp/board.shtml
This is a summary of organizational governance principles for directors of nonprofit organizations.
Information Technology
http://www.techsoup.org/
Techsoup is a technology resource designed for nonprofits. It has a variety of articles in areas such as technology planning, hardware, software, and developing a presence on the web. It also has an online store that can be used to purchase a variety of applications at a substantial discount, in some cases as much as 90%.
http://techatlas.org/tools/
TechAtlas provides nonprofit organizations with a method for evaluating their current technological performance and generating a comprehensive technology plan. The site offers a number of different assessment and planning tools.
http://www.networkforgood.org/npo/technology/
Networking for Good is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing capacity, reaching new audiences and building Internet strategies. Take time to browse the entire website; they have a great number of ideas for using the web.
http://www.nyfa.org/level2.asp?id=36&fid=2&sid=161
This section of the New York Foundation for the Arts website provides information and an online curriculum to arts organizations on how to integrate technology into their work.
http://www.nonprofit-tech.org/
This is a new technology site for nonprofits. Check out their Tech Library for additional resources.
Overall Organizational Development
http://venturephilanthropypartners.org/learning/
Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP) brings some common language to the discussion of capacity building and offers insights and examples of how nonprofits have pursued building up their organizational muscle. See Effective Capacity Building for Nonprofit Organizations.
http://www.managementhelp.org/
The Free Management Library is a library of management resources for for-profit and nonprofit organizations. It has information in a variety of areas including but not limited to, human resources, marketing, communication, strategic planning, and finance. The project is a joint venture of Authenticity Consulting and the Management Assistance Program for nonprofits.
http://www.innonet.org/?section_id=4&content_id=16
The mission of InnoNet is to build the evaluation and learning capacity of nonprofits so that they can better serve their communities. They have developed Point K, a suite of online evaluation and planning tools for nonprofit program planning. Point K is a product of Innovation Network on the web at www.innonet.org.
http://www.genie.org/
The Nonprofit Genie is hosted by the California Management Assistance Partnership and offers resources on board development, strategic planning, and finance, among other things. From this site users also have access to Board Café, a monthly newsletter for board members.
http://www.iknow.org/
Interactive Knowledge for Nonprofits Worldwide. This website is equipped with information on a number of the topic areas above, as well as tax and legal issues.