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Best Practices/GrantMaking Tools

• Family Philanthropy Online Knowledge Center (AGM members only)
  Resources for family foundations.
  
• Grantmakers & Best Practices
  A bibliography of resources that provide best practices.
• Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
  Locate reports, tools, and best practices.
• GM Guide
  The Guide will lead you through the entire grantmaking process, sharing common practices, templates, and resources to help you create new policies and procedures, verify that your current practices are aligned with industry standards, and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of grants management at your organization. Its straightforward language helps to demystify legal and tax issues and supports better compliance, which is critical to meeting today’s exacting audit standards.
• Grantmaking Tools & Techniques
  An AGM Resource Guide
• Grantmaking Basics Online (Council on Foundations)
  This fee-based ($80) self-study course can be used as an orientation to grantmaking or a refresher course. It covers the day-to-day operational issues that grantmakers face. It includes practical knowledge (tips), strategies, sample documents, resource links, and glossary.
• New Foundation Guide
  Created by the Association of Small Foundations.
• Using Competitions & RFPs (Grantcraft.org)
  The why, when, and how of using RFPs.

Board Development

• Board Source
  Practical information and tools for board members of nonprofit organizations.
• Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership
  The Johnson Center for Philanthropy is a university-based academic center serving nonprofits, foundations, and others that seek to transform their communities for the common good, and is adapting constantly to changing conditions.
  

Evaluation

• Innovation Network
  Innovation Network is a nonprofit evaluation, research, and consulting firm that provides knowledge and expertise to help nonprofits and funders learn from their work to improve their results.
• Basic Outcomes-Based Evaluation Guide for Nonprofits
  This document provides guidance toward basic planning and implementation of an outcomes-based evaluation process (also called outcomes evaluation) in nonprofit organizations -- particularly for small nonprofits with very limited resources.
• Additional Evaluation Resources
  A list of publications focused on nonprofit evaluation practices, provided by The Foundation Center.
  

Finance

• Nonprofit Finance Fund
  As one of the nation's leading community development financial institutions, Nonprofit Finance Fund® makes millions of dollars in loans to nonprofits and pushes for fundamental improvement in how money is given and used in the sector. They provide financing, consulting, and advocacy services to nonprofits and funders nationwide.
• Basic Financial Management for Nonprofits
  Financial analysis shows the "reality" of the situation of a business -- seen as such, financial management is one of the most important practices in management. This site will help you understand basic practices in financial management, and build the basic systems and practices needed in a healthy business.
• How Grant Makers Can Help Nonprofits Deal with Cash Crunches
  This article from The Chronicle of Philanthropy gives suggestions on how you can help the nonprofits you fund during the current economic slump.
  

Governance

• Building Community Inside & Out (Grantcraft.org)
  Provides discussion and samples of grant monitoring tools, site visits, and RFPs.
• Handbook on Counterterrorism Measures : What U.S. Nonprofits and Grantmakers Need to Know
  Provides a good basic primer on this topic.
• Interviews on Due Diligence: Foundation Representatives Offer Their Perspectives on Due Diligence
• Nonprofit Governance in the U.S.: Findings on Performance & Accountability
  Urban Institute. June 25, 2007.
  To help inform current policy debates and initiatives to strengthen nonprofit governance, the Urban Institute conducted the first ever national survey with over 5,100 participants. This report presents the survey findings.
  

Nonprofit Management/Issues

• National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise
  Research for managers to enable better decision making.
• Nonprofit Good Practice Guide
  Trends, research, and best practices for nonprofits and foundations.
• Yale School of Management – The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures
  "Research and business tools to nonprofit organizations interested in commercial ventures, and offers ways for nonprofits to share their own experiences with others in the field."
• Employment Law Guide for Nonprofit Organizations
  This manual has been prepared for leaders of nonprofit organizations who are not expert in employment law. It should provide useful guidance in the preparation of human resource policies, and employee and supervisory manuals or handbooks.
  
  

Technology

• TechSoup
  TechSoup is a nonprofit focused on providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities. As part of that goal, it provides technology products and information geared specifically to the unique challenges faced by nonprofits and libraries.
• National Council of Nonprofits Technology Resources
  This site supplies additional resources to help nonprofits excel at using technology, specifically via social media, websites, and new software technologies.