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The Board’s Role in a Leadership Transition
In an Executive Director (ED) transition, the board’s role is to ensure organizational continuity, maintain stakeholder confidence, and oversee the hiring and onboarding of the next leader. The board’s role…
Acting vs Interim Executive Director: Board Decision Worksheet
This worksheet is a practical tool designed to help nonprofit boards determine whether their organization requires an Acting Executive Director (ED) or an Interim Executive Director (ED) during a leadership vacancy or temporary absence.
Testing the Strength of Your Theory of Change
This worksheet is designed to help you test whether your strategy is built on a credible and evidence-informed theory of change (TOC).
Executive Director Transition Planning Worksheet
This worksheet can help an Executive Director or Senior Leader organize the considerations, decisions, and handoff tasks involved in a planned transition. The information gathered will help to build the transition plan.
Following a Founder or Long-Term Leader: A worksheet for new Executive Directors
This worksheet is designed to help a new ED step into leadership with clarity, especially when following a founding or very long-term ED whose relationships, decision-making habits, and public identity may be deeply woven into the organization.
Five Things You Wished You Knew Before Becoming an Executive Director
The following are five common reflections from long-term EDs of things they wish they had known when they first started their position.
Power Profile: Exploring My Power
The Power Profile is a tool for leaders increase their understanding of the types of power they possess, and where they lean in or away from power.
Understanding and Building Your Power Intelligence
Power is often an underlying issue in organizational challenges and team dynamics, so it’s important for leaders to increase their understanding of their own power and how to use it ethically. The Power Intelligence resource offers leaders information on how to define power, the positive and negative impacts of power in leadership, and a framework to develop your own power intelligence.
Values Based Leadership
Values exist whether we recognize them or not so there is great power when leaders know and align with their values. The Values Based Leadership activity helps leaders reflect upon and identify their core values.
Reflecting on Your Leadership
The Reflecting on Your Leadership activity offers you an opportunity to consider what motivates and drives you to stay in your work, as well as think about what legacy you want to contribute to the movement.
TREC Leadership Model
This resource provides an overview of TREC’s overall approach to leadership programming and support. TREC’s Leadership Model centers self-awareness as the key driver in achieving sustainable change in our work, and offers a framework for your ongoing leadership growth and development.
From Story to Strategy: Writing Fundable Grant Proposals Rooted in Community
This six-part tutorial series was created for Indigenous-led and Indigenous-serving organizations seeking to strengthen their grant writing in ways that honor community voice, sovereignty, and lived experience.
Essential Components of the Ask
This practical fundraising resource walks you through the essential components of a successful major gift ask — from making a compelling case for support to confidently asking for a specific gift and navigating common donor responses.
Healthy Practices for Online Payments & Digital Finance Systems
Thoughtful monitoring of digital financial processes is a critical factor to prevent fraud or embezzlement. This overview of best practices will help to protect your organization, your employees, and your overall financial health.
Planning to Win: Spitfire Strategy’s Proven Framework for Advancing Your Advocacy, Even in the Fiercest
Designed for changemakers who refuse to cede the moment, this session will help you clarify your strategy to create campaigns that shift behavior, policy, and practice, finding the levers of change even in the most challenging of times.
Board v. Staff Role Guide
One of the most persistent challenges in nonprofit governance is confusion about the respective roles of boards and staff. The table below delineates typical board v. staff roles in a mature nonprofit with a governing board, as well as areas of collaboration.
Legacy Donor Stewardship Guide
Legacy donors are making one of the most meaningful commitments to your mission. This guide helps you honor that commitment with thoughtful, relationship-centered stewardship.
Define Your Campaign’s Success
Start here for resources to define your campaign's success—set clear goals, sharpen objectives, assess your landscape, and align your budget to what matters most
Powermapping
Resources to map relationships and identify your decision-makers – & the people who influence them.
Organizing
How to develop relationships, leadership, and strategy over time that ensures the people most affected by an issue shape the solutions and build momentum for the long run.