This general overview provides helpful tips and suggestions for how to effectively give a media interview and can be used to guide an in-person media training for your organization.
Below is a sample publicity report showing one way of capturing and reporting on media coverage of your organization.
This guide provides recommended questions to ask when writing a staff biography.
Have you read your grant agreement or grant award letter recently? Don’t just scan it to make sure the reporting dates have been updated. Read every paragraph or clause to make sure the agreement says what you think it says…and what you want it to say.
Online communications and social media offer nonprofit organizations new, inexpensive, and easy-to-use tools for connecting with members and the public in a more personal way. These tools help small nonprofits wield a powerful megaphone previously available only to the largest organizations. At the same time, they enable members of large organizations to connect with peers across the country on the issues closest to their hearts. Social media allows for fun innovation while being a vital part of community organizers and communication professional’s jobs.
For years, certain kinds of nonprofit activities have received relatively little attention in the evaluation arena. Learn how to take advocacy out that “hard to measure” bucket.
This report is designed to help organizations and their leaders take practical steps to reflect on their assumptions, motives and needs in order to create workable solutions for choosing and managing an extended executive exit. The insights, advice and tools are all designed from a fundamental recognition that there are three sets of interests that need to be balanced in any solution –the Board representing the organization, the exiting leader, and the incoming leader. These are the key decision-makers about whether the departing director will stay in the organization after they leave positional power.
This report includes key findings from a series of interviews in which pairs of leaders (exiting and incoming) were questioned about the quality and impact of their experience with extended transition. You’ll also find five tools for assessment and reflection.
The Emerging Leaders Playbook offers a comprehensive guide for emerging leaders and their supervisors to help them make sense of the changing nature of leadership. The Playbook offers practical tools grounded in research, and accompanied by systems of support to guide reflection, growth, and organizational best practices.
The Playbook also includes numerous, additional resources related to each objective.
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Use this template to help create an operational plan.
There are many people in your town who have a wealth of knowledge and energy that would be a boon to your community planning efforts. Conducting a community network analysis is key to unlocking unrecognized potential and talent. Use this tool when conducting a stakeholder assessment to examine who to connect with and how.
Below is a sample Community Network Analysis. Please, visit Orton Family Foundation for the complete toolkit.
This tool is part of a larger collection of Heart & Soul resources by the Orton Family Foundation.