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Management and Administration

Welcome to our general subject guide about nonprofit Management and Administration. We've pulled together our growing collection of information about nonprofit leadership, organizational management, legal and legislative issues, change and much more.

If you know of a resource that you think we should add to our collection, please send an email to editor@charityvillage.com with the details.

Articles |  Resource Web Sites |  Online Publications |  Government Programs | Books |  Print Periodicals |  Organizations |  Educational programs |  Conferences/Seminars |  Associations | Consultants |  Services/Products |  Book Reviews

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Articles

From the Research Section of the Library at CharityVillage:

• Accountability
  
• Board of Directors and Its Role
  
• Commercial Ventures
  
• Corporate/Nonprofit Partnerships
  
• Ethics
  
• Financial and Investment Management
  
• Foundation Management
  
• Legal Issues
  
• Legislation and Regulation
  
• Organizational Change and Evolution
  
• Organization Management
  
• Partnerships
  
• Personal Development
  
• Professional Compensation
  
• Statistics, Demographics, and Social Trends
  
• Stewardship
  
• Strategic Planning
  
  
• Other Research Articles

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Resource Web Sites

• About.com's Nonprofit Charitable Organizations

  A series of links to articles and resources about a wide range of nonprofit issues.

• Association Resource Centre (ARC)

  Includes articles, resources and an 'Ask the Expert' forum to help associations improve their performance.

• A - Z Directory for Board Governance

  Created by Volunteer BC, this directory offers articles and links to other resources related to every stage of board development, from choosing your first directors to dealing with a mature board.

• Board Development

  A one-stop site to help improve board development training, governance and accountability in the Canadian voluntary sector.

  • FormationCA (French version of site)

• Board Development Program

  A unique service that provides assistance to not-for-profit boards in the area of governance through workshops, consultations, training of volunteer instructors, resource materials, and partnerships between Alberta Culture and Community Spirit and Grant MacEwan College.

• BoardSource

  BoardSource is dedicated to advancing the public good by building exceptional nonprofit boards and inspiring board service. BoardSource strives to support and promote excellence in board service, is the premier source of cutting-edge thinking and resources related to nonprofit boards, and engages and develops the next generation of board leaders.

• Canadian Outcomes Research Institute (CORI)

  Offers resources to assist nonprofit human services organizations to become outcome-oriented. Includes outcome planning tools, change management tools, survey writing tools, and measurement planning tools.

• Center for Nonprofit Management

  CNM helps nonprofit organizations enhance their results by providing educational services, consultation, and information.

• Centre for Cultural Management

  Located at the University of Waterloo, the centre provides leadership in cultural management education and research.

• Centre for Nonprofit Management

  Aims to enhance the ability of nonprofit organizations to manage and govern themselves by offering consultations and training, as well as prepared resources and materials.

• Charities File (The)

  Funded by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to build the capacity of charitable organizations across Canada, the site aims to increase awareness among charities about annual compliance requirements of the Government of Canada, and provide training on how to complete and submit accurate information returns (T3010s), on time.

• Charitytax.com

  Created by lawyer Adam Aptowitzer, this site offers a number of resources related to charity law in Canada, including a free newsletter, charity tax tips, and a charitable contribution calculator for donors.

• CharityVillage Human Resources Management page

  A collection of tools and reference information designed for those whose jobs involve important management tasks and functions.

• Communications Toolkit

  Provided by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, this toolkit helps nonprofit organizations determine the strengths and weaknesses of both their internal and external communications activities.

• CommunityWealth.org

  An online resource to explore and discuss topics such as: nonprofit/for-profit partnerships; cause-related marketing; social entrepreneurship; venture philanthropy; and nonprofit business ventures.

• Community Work

  A diverse collection of resources developed as a volunteer and activist training manual for Toronto's Community Bicycle Network by Regan McClure.

• Conference Board of Canada

  A group of Canadian business, government and public-sector organizations that develop and exchange knowledge about organizational strategies and practices, emerging economic and social trends and key public policy issues.

• echoing green

  A nonprofit foundation that offers full-time fellowships to emerging social entrepreneurs, the site also includes a helpful resource area with links to articles about a wide range of nonprofit issues.

• EmpowerWeb

  A web site by and about nonprofit organizations, researching and funding, how to write letters of intent and grant proposals, working with volunteers, various forms of direct mail and tele-fundraising efforts and publications, networking with other non-profits and much more.

• Free Management Library

  A massive collection of articles on a wide range of nonprofit topics, compiled by Carter McNamara.

• Heartland Center for Leadership Development

  An independent, nonprofit organization developing local leadership that responds to the challenges of the future, with a major focus on practical resources and public policies for rural community survival.

• Idealist

  Works through the Internet and through local chapters to promote and facilitate collaboration, volunteerism and investment in support of building a world where all people can live free, dignified and productive lives.

• IKnow.org

  A helpful series of links to strategic planning resources on the web.

• Imagine Canada

  Imagine Canada is a national registered charity that looks into and out for Canada’s charities and nonprofits. They deliver research that puts the sector on the map and raises its profile in the minds of Canadians. They also deliver tools, resources, and networking opportunities directly to nonprofits and charities to build and strengthen the sector one organization at a time.

• Independent Sector

  A national leadership forum, working to encourage philanthropy, volunteering, not-for-profit initiative and citizen action that help us better serve people and communities.

• Innovation Network, Inc. (InnoNet)

  Offers tools to help your nonprofit with planning, evaluation and fundraising. InnoNet has two services: a search service to find model programs and an evaluation service that guides agencies through a planning and evaluation process.

• International Center for Not-for-Profit Law

  An international organization whose mission is to facilitate and support the development of civil society on a global basis by assisting the creation and improvement of laws and regulatory systems that permit, encourage, and regulate the not-for-profit sector in countries around the world.

• Leadership Knowledge Base

  A resource site with links to articles and web sites focusing on a wide variety of topics relating to effective leadership.
  

• Lessons Learned: A Planning Toolsite

  There are two components of this toolsite from the National Endowment for the Arts: a series of essays about the process of planning; and actual illustrations of organizational change within arts organizations.

• National Center for Charitable Statistics

  The national repository of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States. It is a program of the Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, and its mission is to develop and disseminate high quality data on nonprofit organizations and their activities.

• National Technical Assistance Registry (NTAR)

  A bilingual, multi-purpose information resource - skills and expertise for arts and heritage organizations seeking change. Find help on change as radical as developing a revised mission and a whole new set of programs, or as routine as developing a new fund-raising campaign or a new marketing plan, or updating the human resources policy.

• NetAction

  A national, nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public, policy makers, and the media about technology-based social and political issues, and to teaching activists how to use the Internet for organizing, outreach, and advocacy.

• Nonprofit FAQ

  A project of Idealist, this site contains a number of articles and resources geared to nonprofits and focusing on a variety of topics including organization, management, regulation, and more.

• Nonprofit Genie

  This helpful site from the Support Center for Nonprofit Management contains nearly 100 articles on subjects ranging from Board Development and Fundraising to Strategic Planning and Volunteer Management.

• Nonprofit Resource Center

  A directory for Internet resources of interest and value to Nonprofit organizations, provided as a service of Nonprofit Incorporators, a law firm.

• Nonprofit Zone

  The Nonprofit Zone provides free tools and resources to help nonprofits, including a library of articles and answers on all sorts of issues which nonprofits deal with every day.

• Nonprofnet

  A collection of philanthropy-related information provided by Program on Nonprofit Corporations, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology.

• Not-for-profit Administration Web Site

  Produced by Cowperthwaite Mehta Chartered Accountants in Toronto, the site holds a wide range of resources for Canadian charities and nonprofits including information about the Year 2000 problem, accounting, childcare, financial management, governance and much more.

• Payton Philanthropic Studies Library

  This Library's comprehensive coverage of fund raising, voluntarism, and nonprofit organization management can be located throughout this Web site as well as in various other formats including microfilm, microfiche, monographs (books), video, and audio cassettes. The collection of dissertations in paper format is one of the largest of its kind in an academic library.

• Phillip Walker's Home Page

  Walker started this site in 1994 as a personal to catalogue Internet sites that may benefit nonprofits and those interested in a wide variety of issues. It includes a heavy emphasis on meta-links to other catalogues in a particular subject area which may have more comprehensive links on any one topic.

• Society for Nonprofit Organizations

  Works to serve as a resource for board members, paid staff, and volunteers who lead or help nonprofit organizations all around the world.

• SWOT Analysis

  American fundraising consultant Jeane Vogel has a handy reference feature to help your organization perform a SWOT situation analysis -- look at your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to help plan where you're going.

• University of Notre Dame's Leadership Page

  A handy set of links to articles and web sites dealing with leadership, strategic planning and teamwork.

• Other Online Resources at CharityVillage

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Online Publications

• Chronicle of Philanthropy, from the newspaper of the same name. News, conferences, workshops and seminars, grant deadlines, products and services, job ads, and online resources.
  
  
• Church & The Law Update, updating Churches and Church-related charities on recent legal developments and risk management considerations. Published by Carter & Associates.
  
  
• Grassroots Fundraising Journal Find more than 40 articles and sample book chapters free online from this well-known print publication.
  
  
• Leader to Leader, the Drucker Foundation's quarterly journal, offers cutting-edge thinking on leadership, management, and strategy written by today's top thought leaders from the private, public, and social sectors.
  
  
• Nonprofit Issues, includes past issues, current highlights and links mentioned in the print version of this American newsletter about nonprofit law.
  
  
• Non-Profit Nuts and Bolts, the online companion to Lisa Beach's well-known print newsletter for nonprofit executives.
  
  
• NonProfit Online News, Michael Gilbert's news service devoted to news and commentary relating to the nonprofit online community, with a particular emphasis on issues related to organizational renewal, outreach, and Internet strategies in use by nonprofits.
  
  
• NonProfit Times, a monthly online news service of The Nonprofit Times, a U.S. print publication devoted to fundraising and management issues in the nonprofit sector.
  
  
• Philanthropy News Network, from the publishers of the Philanthropy Journal of North Carolina. Updated weekly, and covering such topics as Fundraising, Foundations, Corporate Giving, Philanthropy Links and Technology.
  
  
• Philanthropy News Digest, a weekly online news service of the Foundation Center, summarizing philanthropy-related articles and feature stories in the U.S. media.
  
  
• Sociological Research Online is a quarterly journal from Britain that examines applied sociology. Some current refereed article topics include organizational transformation, web communication, and social change.
  
  
• Village Vibes, a free, weekly e-letter that alerts subscribers to what's new at the CharityVillage web site.
  
  
• ZimNotes, an electronic newsletter with information, articles, and news on fundraising, marketing, boards and planning published by Zimmerman Lehman, a fundraising consulting firm based in San Francisco.
  
  
• Other Online Publications at CharityVillage

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Government Web Sites and Programs

• Canada Revenue Agency (formerly Canada Customs and Revenue Canada)
  • Information For Charities
    
    • Charities Division Contact Information
      
    • Interpretation Bulletins
      
    • Information Circulars
      
    • Forms
      
    • Newsletters
      
    • List of Canadian Registered Charities
      
    • Search for a charity by name
      

• Information For Nonprofit Organizations
  • Income Tax Guide to the Non-Profit Organization (NPO) Information Return
    
  • T1044 Non-Profit Organization (NPO) Information Return

• Corporations Directorate: Non-Profit Kits and Related Annexes

  If you plan to incorporate a charitable organization federally, you'll want to look at this kit, which includes a sample application, model by-laws, a summary of policies on nonprofit corporations, and checklist and fee information. Please note, this information pertains to incorporation, and not charitable registration under the Income Tax Act.

• Not-for-profit Incorporator's Handbook

  Prepared jointly by the Companies Branch of the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations and the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee for Ontario, Charitable Property Division, this guide walks you through the steps of incorporating a nonprofit corporation in the province of Ontario.

• Other Government web sites at CharityVillage

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Books and other publications

From the Bookstore at CharityVillage

• Board Leadership
  
• Human Resources
  
• Management and Planning
  
• Social Change
  
  
• Other Books listed at CharityVillage
• Other Periodicals listed at CharityVillage

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Organizations

• Other Nonprofit Neighbourhood listings

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Educational Programs

• Nonprofit Management and Fundraising courses across Canada
• CharityVillage Campus
  

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Conferences/Seminars

• Please check our listing of Coming Events
  
  

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Associations

• ACE --- Association of Cultural Executives
  Canada's national network of professional individuals dedicated to improved management of the country's cultural resources. It places an emphasis on the professional development and well-being of its 200 members. Presents the annual ACE Award which recognizes excellence in the area of arts management.
  
  
• HRPAO --- Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario
  A not-for-profit professional association that provides leadership, assistance & education to individuals in the field of human resources.
  
  
• IPMA --- International Personnel Management Association - Canada
  A national association of HR managers that works to promote excellence in the practice of human resource management.
  
  
• Alliance of Nonprofit Management
  A professional association of member organizations and individuals devoted to building the capacity of nonprofit organizations in order to increase their effectiveness and impact.
  
  
• Other Professional Associations listed at CharityVillage

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Consultants

• Board Development Consultants
  
  
• Human Resources Development
  
  
• Organization Development
  
  
• Marketplace at CharityVillage

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Services/Products

• Marketplace at CharityVillage

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Book Reviews

• Board And Administrator's Guide To Better Board Meetings
  
• Collaborative Leadership
  
• Complete Guide to Nonprofit Management (A)
  
• Escape from Management Hell
  
• Executive Speeches
  
• 50 Ways to Motivate Your Board
  
• Leadership and Management of Volunteer Programs: A Guide F or Volunteer Administrators
  
• Managing Assertively
  
• Managing for Excellence
  
• Nonprofit Boards and Leadership
  
• Nonprofit Manager's Resource Directory (The)
  
• Overdrive: Managing in Crisis-Filled Times
  
  
• Other Book Reviews at CharityVillage

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