Nonprofit Management and Operations

Running and working in nonprofits can be incredibly rewarding and also exhausting. Managing grant budgets, creating systems, filing 990s, and supervising staff all while running programs and serving your mission, requires wearing multiple hats and can leave you bleary eyed and tired.

But having greater impact isn’t about working harder, it’s about working smarter.

Explore the below resources to help you work more effectively and efficiently and join the Nonprofit Management and Operations Discussion Group to connect with your peers around this topic.

Featured Resources

Title	Author	Description	Year	Tags
Stages of Board Development	N/A			Nonprofit Management and Operations
Board Self-Assessment Tool	McKinsey and Company			Nonprofit Management and Operations
What are the Basic responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards?	BoardSource		2009	Nonprofit Management and Operations
Milestone Example Budget	N/A	With sample project budget, income & expenditure budget, cashflow forecast, capital budget, and consolidated budget.		Business Operations, Finance, Nonprofit Management and Operations
Nonprofit Chart of Accounts with Food and Farming Notes	Poppy Davis	This is a sample chart of accounts for nonprofits which can offer guidance on how …	2002	Farms, Finance, Nonprofit Management and Operations
Finance and Related Matters Reference Book	MAF Europe		2006	Business Operations, Finance, Nonprofit Management and Operations
Agenda template for staff meetings	National Farm to School Network	Agenda template for staff meetings		Nonprofit Management and Operations
Nonprofit Budget Template	N/A	Nonprofit Budget Template	2018	Finance, Nonprofit Management and Operations
Nonprofit Earned Income Strategies-Where to Start	Social Enterprise Associates	From the Social Enterprise Associates, this brief is for non-profits interested in new methods of …		Finance, Nonprofit Management and Operations
Supervision-Partnering for Success	Marla Cornelius		2018	Nonprofit Management and Operations
Strategic Planning Filter	Farm to Institution New England		2019	Nonprofit Management and Operations
Defining Racial Equity and Food Equity Assessment Questions	N/A	Draft set of questions that can be asked when planning or rethinking a project to …		Nonprofit Management and Operations, Racial Equity
Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity	Government Alliance on Racial Equity	Racial equity tools are designed to integrate explicit consideration of racial equity in decisions, including …	2016	Nonprofit Management and Operations, Racial Equity
Peer Coaching Group Process	Otto Scharmer and Peter Senge	Step by step guidance for conducting a peer coaching session	2016	Facilitation, Management, Systems Leadership
Evaluating VCC Convenings	Sarah Rocker	Convening groups of stakeholders is an important facet of value chain coordination work. Meetings offer …	2019	Monitoring and Evaluation, Value Chain Coordination

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