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Museum
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Seven Habits
of Highly Effective Nonprofits
Claudia Chouinard of Results Group International outlines seven
critical indicators of financial and management resilience and
health.
Mouseia
An online resource for museologists and museum professionals
compiled by Lynne Teather, Museum Studies Program, University
of Toronto.
Free Assistance
for Archives Projects
Archives and Information Consulting Services provides an excellent
collection of links to useful Internet resources including sample
forms, tools, definitions and help sheets.
Nonprofit
Information Center
A selection of free downloadable reports from The Independent
Sector on volunteering and giving in the U.S.
ManagementHelp.org
The well-known Free Management Library for nonprofits and for-profit
businesses, covering over 650 topics.
Internet
Resources for Nonprofits
Over 500 links compiled and maintained by the United Cerebral
Palsy Association of Greater Utica, NY.
Charity
Village
Canada's wonderful 3,000-page supersite for the nonprofit sector,
featuring lots of articles, resources and links.
Nonprofit
Center at About.com
Articles and links on a wide variety of topics for nonprofits.
Nonprofit Genie
Information and resources for the nonprofit community, including
articles and links.
Economic
Decisionmaking by Nonprofit Organizations in a Market Economy:
Tensions between Mission and Market
Dennis R. Young, of the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise,
examines the similarities and differences of nonprofits and for-profits
in the areas of pricing of services, investment of funds, pursuit
of new ventures, and compensation of workers.
Developing
a Strategic Plan
How
To Conduct An Organizational Self-Assessment
In an excellent article from the website of the National Endowment
for the Arts, Judith Teitelman takes you through the reasons
for and process of conducting an assessment, and includes sample
forms and questionnaires.
Strategic
Planning -- Planning for Organizational Success
Margaret L. May, of Lord Cultural Resources, provides a thorough
explanation of the process required to develop a museum strategic
plan and how it differs from a business plan.
Seven
Sins of Strategic Planning
Every organization starts their strategic planning process with
certain expectations and hopes of what the process will achieve.
There are seven mistakes that if avoided, can dramatically improve
your potential for a successful strategic planning process. An
article for Charity Village by Ron Robinson.
Benchmarking
A term originally used by land surveyors to mark reference points
measuring the distance from a particular spot, the process of
benchmarking can help determine where your organization stands
with regard to its own goals -- and even help you set those goals
in the first place. The Center for What Works website explains
the benchmarking process and includes a glossary and FAQ, as
well as advice to keep you from getting bogged down in the data-gathering
phase.
Trick
or Treat (Or Why Plan?)
If you can come up with a million reasons why planning can't
or shouldn't be done at your organization, read Ed Taylor's insight
and humorous article.
The
Pitfalls of Planning
"Planning cannot guarantee the outcome you want," author
Arlene Goldfarb says. "Instead, it can help you to achieve
something integral to any future success: readiness to face the
challenges that chance presents."
Keeping
the Plan and Planning Alive
If you want your plan to guide your organization and not just
gather dust in a desk drawer, read this article by Gregory Kandel.
It outlines nine indicators of successful planning as well as
the ways a good plan becomes part of an organization's culture.
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