PathFinder

This tool is a guide to help various stakeholder groups (such as funders, grantees, board, staff, and evaluators) to discuss what they hope to do in an evaluation and what they hope to learn. It aims to help stakeholders learn more about each other's perspective and identify ways to make evaluation less frustrating and more useful for everyone. 

This article addresses the basics of fundraising compliance. It is a framework for nonprofits looking to scale their programs and fundraising using a Plan, Do, Check, Act approach.

This master's degree program helps students understand the social, cultural, political, and economic roles played by philanthropy and nonprofit organizations.

This report is a guide for people who have a role in making sure that evaluation is embedded into everyday practice within an organization. It shows how to get staff, volunteers, and trustees to embed evaluation into an organization’s day-to-day work.

This article discusses how to lay the groundwork to ensure grant funds will be spent and accounted for as required and that program obligations will be met. (The link will download the PDF file of the article.)

This article dives into what it takes to steward relationships with staff at grantmaking foundations. It shares some tips and ideas for working within the current system to engage foundation staff in an organization's work.

This article examines the different types of nonprofit executive transitions and considerations for each type of transition.

This article outlines ten things all nonprofits should do by the end of the year to ensure certain responsibilities are met.

This tool is a course library that addresses the critical need for professional development in the nonprofit sector by providing more than 500 online courses and certificate programs for nonprofit professionals and volunteers in all roles, at every stage of their career. Topics range from hard skills such as fundraising, proposal writing, marketing, volunteer engagement, and program management to soft skills such as leadership, communication, time management, unconscious bias, and diversity and inclusion.

This blog shares best practices in marketing, social media, management, technology, and fundraising for nonprofits and other social good organizations.