Legal Compliance and Ethics
Who Should Serve on My Nonprofit’s Board?
Nonprofits depend upon effective leadership to successfully enact their missions and programs. Effective leadership consists of a partnership between the board and management, each of which plays an essential role. Understanding and negotiating these shared and...
My Spring Internship At Maryland Nonprofits
Blog by Danielle Brown, Maryland Nonprofits Marketing Intern, Spring 2018 I have only a few more days left in my internship at Maryland Nonprofits and I have learned so much in my time as Marketing Intern. When I first arrived at the office, I was immediately welcomed...
Why Should My Nonprofit Engage in Partnerships and Collaborations?
Nonprofits engaging in strategic partnerships and formal alliances with other organizations should do so within the context of a board-approved policy outlining the goals and parameters of such partnerships. Depending on the type of strategic partnership, nonprofits...
What Is a Logic Model and Why Do I Need It to Evaluate My Nonprofit’s Programs?
A nonprofit should engage in organizational evaluation to ensure that all financial resources and human capital are being used toward fulfilling its mission. Defined, cost-effective procedures must be used for evaluating, both qualitatively and quantitatively,...
What Is Nonprofit Program Evaluation?
A nonprofit should engage in organizational evaluation to ensure that all financial resources and human capital are being used toward fulfilling its mission. Defined, cost-effective procedures must be used for evaluating, both qualitatively and quantitatively,...
How Do We Measure A Nonprofit’s Organizational Effort?
A nonprofit should engage in organizational evaluation to ensure that all financial resources and human capital are being used toward fulfilling its mission. Defined, cost-effective procedures must be used for evaluating, both qualitatively and quantitatively,...
What Are the Steps of a Nonprofit Strategic Planning Process?
Nonprofits should engage in ongoing long and short-term strategic planning activities as necessary to determine the mission of the organization, to define specific goals and objectives related to the mission, and to evaluate the success of the organization’s programs...
What Should Be Covered in a Nonprofit Strategic Plan?
Nonprofits should engage in ongoing long and short-term strategic planning activities as necessary to determine the mission of the organization, to define specific goals and objectives related to the mission, and to evaluate the success of the organization’s programs...
How Do I Create or Revise a Nonprofit Mission Statement?
Nonprofits are founded for the public good and operate to accomplish a stated purpose through specific program activities. A nonprofit should have a well-defined mission, and its programs should effectively and efficiently work toward achieving that mission....
Preserve Nonprofit Nonpartisanship and the Johnson Amendment
Take action today by calling and tweeting your representatives. Congressional leaders are, right now, writing the bill to fund the government through the rest of the current fiscal year. This “must pass” bill is attracting many controversial issues – like anti-Johnson...