Nonprofit Resources & Toolkits

The arrival of spring brings more daylight hours, but not more hours in the day. Time spent frantically searching for a template to revise your bylaws or a sample calendar to guide your communications plan can mean time not spent delivering programs or meeting your mission.

The good news is that templates, guides and other helpful resources are just a few clicks away. The Center for Nonprofit Excellence website links to several online Nonprofit Management Resources and Learning Libraries . These are a launch point for materials, tutorials and other learning tools and can be your go-to place to find what you need.

Board Transformation Toolkit

For board members, the “Board Transformation Toolkit” provides 13 topics to help you build a strong, effective board. Toolkits contain such resource items as a template to build a board manual, a guide to create a board recruitment packet, and tools for evaluating the executive.

Nonprofit Resources

Other quick go-to resources we like include:

 The Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Wiki where you will find an Evergreen Editorial Calendar.

TechSoup curates a list of technology trainings for nonprofits.

Explore these resource libraries and more on our website: www.cfmco.org/cne.

Susie Polnaszek is a Program Officer for the Community Foundation for Monterey County, where she delivers programs and services for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, including LEAD Institute. She enjoys helping people access information and resources that can make a difference in their work.