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Community Management Hack: Create a Community Handbook

Higher Logic

So imagine leaving an organization and attempting to fit your wealth of knowledge into two weeks’ worth of meetings and documentation or, perhaps worse, walking into a new job having to figure out where all of the puzzle pieces fit from a predecessor. Here's how to tackle this project: 4 Steps for Creating Your Community Handbook.

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Funding Your Mission: 4 Nonprofit Financial Management Tips

NXUnite

Create an Annual Operating Budget Jitasa’s nonprofit budgeting guide defines a budget as “a planning document used to predict expenses and allocate resources for your organization.” Compile all of these policies in a shared organizational handbook so that your team members can easily reference them as they go about their daily tasks.

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

.orgSource

Preparing this document is a learning experience. The executive director can help the board to see how, by selecting players with a variety of talent, backgrounds, and personal characteristics, they can lead more effectively in a complex environment. Preparing a board matrix is a learning experience. This seems obvious. Create Synergy.

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When the Staff Leader Is the Only Staffer

Associations Now

One expert offers some advice about how to manage the challenge. If there are challenges to how to implement the board’s vision for how to run the organization, the CEO can always lean on the expertise and creativity of other employees. File IRS documents when they are due.”.

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New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

Beth Kanter

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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How Do You Fix a Board Power Struggle?

Associations Now

Some of them are the documents that drive the board’s work. As an example, they discuss the removal of a nonprofit leader from an organization, and how to some degree it was a function of leaders having a different relationship to the documents that shape the organization.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.10.17

Reid All About it

If you work in an association, I encourage you to think about content strategy for five minutes because the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Foundation is studying how associations use content strategy. This research will: Document which associations are developing and implementing content strategies. Lunch provided.

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