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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.
Article: Organizations That Learn Will Survive - - Free
A brief article on how learning organizations are positioned to survive in these difficult times.
Article: Developing a Model of Executive Director Performance Appraisal - - Free
A review of five possible models for Executive Director performance appraisal.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.
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