How to Create a Low-Cost Web Presence for Your Nonprofit
Having a presence on the web for your nonprofit organization is as important as being listed in the telephone book or printing a brochure. A basic website isn’t difficult to create either. You want an [more…]
How to Make Customer Service a Daily Habit in Your Nonprofit
The trick to providing exemplary customer service in your nonprofit is to work at it in little ways all the time. Every staff member and volunteer needs to be aware of the importance of customer service [more…]
How to Survey Customers of Your Nonprofit
People with whom you directly communicate can be identified and surveyed to gain substantial insight into the customers or funders of your nonprofit organization. Start by defining your core group — your [more…]
How to Design a Useful Customer Survey for Your Nonprofit
Developing a picture of the current clients of your nonprofit is critically important to creating a marketing plan, and a good survey can be your camera. If you’re going to go to the effort to conduct [more…]
How to Research Prospective Donors to Your Nonprofit
Find out as much as possible about a prospective contributor to your nonprofit organization before you send a fundraising letter, submit a proposal, or visit a corporate giving director. Do you have anything [more…]
How to Keep Good Records about Donors to Your Nonprofit
After you begin attracting contributors to your nonprofit organization, your donor records become your most valuable fundraising tools. Individuals who give to your organization once are likely to continue [more…]
Tips for Raising Money for Your Nonprofit
Raising money is essential to managing a successful nonprofit organization. In fact, nothing is easier than knowing you should be raising money — and nothing is more difficult than asking for it. One of [more…]
How to Collaborate with Other Nonprofits to Weather Hard Times
If the field in which your nonprofit works has seen a decline in funding or an increase in competition for staff or clients, it may be time to identify others who provide similar programs and begin to [more…]
How to Close a Nonprofit Organization
Nonprofit organizations generally resist closure, maybe because they're usually founded by people with a vision and a desire to serve the public. Yet, sometimes closing is the right choice. [more…]
How to Adapt When Your Nonprofit Organization Faces Hard Times
It’s likely that you’ll come across problems in the course of managing your nonprofit organization. Everyone does. But sometimes those problems are so severe that you must change the way you do your work [more…]
How to Assess the Performance of Nonprofit Programs
Assessing the performance of your nonprofit programs isn’t easy, but evaluating what you do can help you do it better. Besides, if foundation grants help fund your programs, the odds are good that you’ll [more…]
What to Do with the Results of a Nonprofit Program Performance Assessment
It is hard work to assess the performance of your nonprofit program, but it is even harder to react appropriately to the findings — especially if they are less than positive. Here are some basic steps [more…]
How to Work with the Media to Promote Your Nonprofit
Although some nonprofits pay for advertising to spread the word, most organizations rely on free publicity from the media. Here’s some advice for getting started with the mass media: [more…]
How to Submit Promotional Material about Your Nonprofit to the Media
You can improve the odds of receiving attention for your nonprofit promotional material by providing clear, accurate, and provocative materials in time for consideration and possible use by reporters and [more…]
How to Create Public Service Announcements about Your Nonprofit
Many radio and television stations allot a portion of their airtime to broadcasting public service announcements (PSAs) on behalf of nonprofit causes. Although these stations rarely give away their best [more…]
How to Create Your Nonprofit Organizational Plan
Organizational planning is what people usually think about when they consider nonprofit planning. An organizational plan,usually covering a three- to five-year period, sets goals for the organization and [more…]
How to Use Nonprofit Goals, Strategies, and Objectives to Achieve Outcomes
Getting lost in all the terminology of nonprofit planning is easy. Goals, strategies, and objectives have been a part of planning for many years. Only in the past ten years or so have planning specialists [more…]
How to Create a Nonprofit Work Plan
Each nonprofit objective requires several steps. Here’s where work plans come into play. Work plans break tasks into small steps so they can be easily managed. [more…]
How to Conduct a Needs Assessment for Your Nonprofit Program
A needs assessment is an important part of nonprofit program planning. If you’re thinking of starting a new program, for example, a needs assessment to determine whether the program is necessary should [more…]
How to Assess Your Nonprofit Organization’s Readiness to Start a New Program
Just because a new program is needed doesn’t necessarily mean that your nonprofit should be the one to start it. You need to take other factors into account before taking the leap into starting a new program [more…]
How to Select the Right Evaluation for Your Nonprofit Programs
Evaluation is particularly important to nonprofit organizations because, unlike for-profit businesses, nonprofits can’t evaluate their performance by showing a profit at the end of the year or increasing [more…]
How to Plan for Your Nonprofit Program Evaluation
Setting up an evaluation framework after a nonprofit project has started isn’t impossible, but it’s certainly more difficult. Under the best circumstances, you should determine what you’re going to evaluate [more…]
How to Plan for Nonprofit Volunteers
Most start-up nonprofit organizations depend on volunteers because money to pay staff is unavailable. But a lack of resources isn’t the only thing that drives a nonprofit to run with an all-volunteer staff [more…]
How to Recruit Nonprofit Volunteers
To cast a wide net, you want to use more than one method to find volunteers for your nonprofit, and you don’t want to spend much money on those methods. After all, you’re looking for free help. Persistence [more…]
How to Recruit Nonprofit Volunteers through the Internet
Finding volunteers for your nonprofit may be as easy as booting up your computer. Besides posting volunteer listings on your organization’s website, you also can post on other sites. Several organizations [more…]
