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Resources
Optimal Solutions
Consulting has organized some valuable resources
that can help you create a high performance organization.
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Audio Files
Recommended Reading
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Links to Useful Web
Sites
Collaboration
National Network
for Collaboration – A collection of links to other web sites that
contain information and tools on collaboration.
Community Building
Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets
and Your Organization’s Capacity – A community building workbook from
the Assets-Building Community Development Institute in cooperation
with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Focuses on how organizations can
enhance connections with the community’s assets, investing in the
community’s assets and strengthen current and future community based
projects, activities, and proposals.
Neighboring – Resources and templates for building stronger
families and communities. Web site produced by The Points of Light
Foundation and Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Management Resources
Free
Nonprofit Management Library – Online library of valuable
information in 675
different topic areas.
Get Ready, Get Set: What You Need to Know Before Starting a Nonprofit
– Information to help you understand what it takes to start and run a
nonprofit.
Program
Planning and Evaluation
American Fact Finder – Fast access to census data presented in
brief Fact Sheets, tables or maps. Data available at national level,
all the way down to census tracts.
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation – Research Articles on various areas
of research conducted by Wilder Research. Includes links to tip
sheets for conducting program evaluations.
Child
Trends Databank – Keep up with national trends and research on
over 90 key indicators of child and youth well-being. Receive e-mail
notices on new and pending data releases.
Harvard Family Research Project – Provides information and
research on strategies to promote the educational and social success
and well-being of children, families, and their communities. HFRP
publishes the Evaluation Exchange, a quarterly newsletter that
highlights innovative methods and approaches to evaluation, emerging
trends in evaluation practice, and practical applications of
evaluation theory.
Resource Development
Discover Total Resources: A Guide for Nonprofits – A guide to help
boards, staff and volunteers assess the degree to which they are
tapping a full range of community resources: people, money, goods and
services.
Philanthropic Capacity Building Database – Searchable database
containing 332 descriptions of capacity-building programs being
carried out by U.S. foundations.
Technology
TechAtlas – Information and tools to help you develop a technology
plan.
TechSoup – Free
information, resources, and support on technology issues specifically
for non-profits. Also offers a product philanthropy service called
TechSoup Stock where nonprofits can access donated and discounted
technology products that are provided by corporate and non-profit
technology partners.
Miscellaneous
AWeber
Communications – Develop effective e-marketing campaigns with this
service that makes it easy to build e-mail lists and broadcast
newsletters.
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. Spencer Johnson, M.D. (2002) New York: G.P. Putnam Sons
. Michael Allison and Jude Kaye. (2003) New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
. Thomas A. McLaughlin. (2002) New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
. Jan Masaoka. (2003) Saint Paul: Amherst H.
Wilder Foundation.
. Peter C. Brinckeroff. (2000) New York:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
