Culture audit and values work for nonprofits
There is a palpable gap between the values on your website and what it actually feels like to work there — staff notice it even if leadership doesn't.
What you'll achieve
A clear picture of your actual organisational culture, with a co-owned plan to close the gap between stated values and lived experience.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Conduct a culture audit through surveys and focus groups, facilitate a leadership reflection process, and co-design a values alignment plan with staff involvement.
Key deliverables
- Culture audit report, values alignment gap analysis, facilitated leadership and staff sessions, culture development plan, suggested metrics for tracking progress.
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From the resource library
Free tools and guides to get started
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Trust-Based Philanthropy Self-Assessment Tool
A self-assessment that helps a grantmaking organisation reflect on how far it has put trust-based philanthropy into practice. It covers 4 areas: culture, structures, leadership and grantmaking practices. Each section gives reflective prompts on how trust shows up and where practice needs work. It is available as an online interactive tool and a fillable PDF. Foundation teams use it to plan changes.
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The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change
A do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators who help organisations develop in healthier and more human ways. Written by a collective of development practitioners, it covers how to read an organisation, how to facilitate change, leadership, relationships, power and building a learning organisation. A library of downloadable exercises, readings, case studies and diagrams sits on the Barefoot website. Facilitators use it to plan OD processes and run sessions with teams.
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