Tools & Resources
Networks
- Building smart communities through network weaving
- Eight Secrets to Collaboration: CGV's “Experiences from the Field” panel at 2008 Philanthropy Partners Conference
- Five lessons learned – the hard way – about community based networks
- Five things that make networks work (PDF - 19 kb)
- Lawrence Community Works: using the power of networks to restore a city
- Net gains: a handbook for network builders seeking social change
- Nonprofit Collaboration: Making It Real and Making It Work: Experiences from the Field
Boards
- 15 characteristics of a great board (PDF - 20 kb)
- Avoiding ten stereotypes that nonprofits have about business people (PDF - 23 kb)
- Board self-evaluation: Asking the right questions (PDF - 34 kb)
- Engaging your board case study: Augment the expertise (PDF - 21 kb)
- Engaging your board case study: It's everyone's job to know customers (PDF - 21 kb)
- Engaging your board case study: When is ok not good enough (PDF - 21 kb)
- Sometimes being nice isn’t “doing good”
- What business leaders need to know about nonprofit leadership
Nonprofit Management
- Creative Economy Nonprofits Give Advice to Funders
- Five steps to take right now for smooth leadership transition - advice from 3 CGV partners
- Listening to the Customer: Applying What Youth Say about How Adults Can Help Them
- The effective exit (Ford Foundation Grantcraft series)
- The leadership deficit
- What nonprofits should know about measurements
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