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Article: Client Centered Models - - Free
A FIO PARTNERS PERSPECTIVE: Client Centered Models: Implications for Management
This article discusses how the involvement of consumers in all aspects of service delivery and service design and the creation of systems of care are among the most promising contributions to service effectiveness of our generation – and what the implies for the management of health and human services organizations.
Article: Developing a Model of Executive Director Performance Appraisal - - Free
A review of five possible models for Executive Director performance appraisal.
Article: Funders as Learning Organizations - - Free
A FIO PARTNERS PERSPECTIVE: Funders of the Nonprofit Sector as Learning Organizations
Funders have the ability to recognize performance gaps in nonprofits that guide areas for improvement. This article explores how this characteristic leads to a responsibility to learn from their practice, including conciously and purposefully look for what has been learned, capturing it, discussing it broadly with other practitioners in the field, and determining how learning should be applied to future practice.
Article: Norm Setting - - Free
A FIO PARTNERS PERSPECTIVE: Norm Setting: Key to Shaping Organizational Culture
What is culture and how can it be influenced? This article explores organizational culture and recommends a proactive collaborative approach for determining and implementing the culture of an organization.
Article: Organizations That Learn Will Survive - - Free
A brief article on how learning organizations are positioned to survive in these difficult times.
Article: Question of Sustainability - - Free
A FIO PARTNERS PERSPECTIVE: The Question of Sustainability: A Challenge for the Decision Makers who make Investments in the Nonprofit Sector
This article addresses the question of “sustainability” and what that truly means for funders and grantees. What we have learned from our experiences with clients may be helpful to any decision maker from any type of funder, whether foundation, corporate or government.
Article: Strategic Management - - Free
A FIO PARTNERS PERSPECTIVE: Our Model of Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations
This article describes our model of strategic management that defines the four key management tasks as: (1)consensus on vision, mission, values and agreement on strategic management tasks; (2)designing or redesigning the organization’s core; (3)safeguarding and supporting the core; and, (4)improving the core.
Article: Systems Participation - - Free
A FIO PARTNERS PERSPECTIVE: Systems Participation: A New Performance Criteria for Nonprofit Organizations
This article addresses the importance of systems participation and encourages the sector to consider systems redesign… specifically the promulgation of consumer centric services as the driving force for systems change.
Article: Thoughts on Funding Collaboration and Consolidation in the Nonprofit Sector - Free
In 2009, The Calgary Community Foundation asked me to address the issue of a foundation’s role in the consolidation of the nonprofit sector. As the nonprofit sector consolidates as a result of the worldwide economic downturn, foundations will play two important roles in the process of supporting collaborative activity. First, they respond to requests from grantees to fund collaborative work. When in receipt of such a proposal, foundation staff and volunteers have to determine whether what is proposed is both useful and feasible. Second, foundation staff and volunteers encourage collaborative approaches, suggesting, even strongly suggesting at times, that a grantee find one or partners to undertake what has been proposed. In this instance, it is important for foundation staff and volunteers to understand the magnitude of what they are suggesting, its impact on cost, timing, and level of effort for the grantee. This article seeks to offer some helpful information to begin to inform these roles.
Board Survey for Growth and Established Stages - $75.00
Designed for organizations operating at the Growth and Established Stages, this survey of Board members is used to engage Board members in the assessment process and test the health of relationships at the leadership level. This tool gathers information about how well the Board is functioning, the health of the relationship with the Executive Director, and the Board’s perception of its own accomplishments. You may download a copy of the survey and administer it yourself, or, the survey can be administered online and interpreted by FIO Partners for an additional fee.
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