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235 really practical toolkits, templates and guides for nonprofit and NGO leaders, and the consultants and funders who support them. A mix of the classics and newer methods.
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AI Policy Health Check
A free online check for an AI policy you already have. You paste the policy (or upload it as a text file), answer a few questions about your organization, and in about a minute get a score out of 100 against 40 questions that staff, funders and regulators tend to ask, with the policy's top strengths and gaps. Adding an email unlocks a fuller roadmap with one gap drafted in full, and a paid version drafts every fix. AlignIQ says it doesn't store the policy text; remove names and emails before you paste, all the same.
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Good Practice Review 8: Humanitarian Security Risk Management
The 3rd edition of a widely used reference on security risk management for humanitarian organisations. Practitioner experts revised it over 3 years. Its 7 chapters cover foundations, ecosystems, organisational and operational elements, people, technology, and specific threats. The 2025 edition adds a person-centred approach, the security burden on national and local actors, partnership security, access and deconfliction, and digital risks such as disinformation and surveillance. Security managers use it to design policies and plans.
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Managing Stress in Humanitarian Workers
Guidelines that help humanitarian organisations build policies and systems for staff care. They set out key principles and standards for staff psychosocial wellbeing across the deployment cycle, and apply to both national and international staff. HR teams and managers use them to review their staff care system and plan improvements. Available in 5 languages.
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A New Look at Strategic Pathways for Solving Social Problems at Scale
The research companion to Bridgespan's "Three Questions" article. The team reviewed the strategies of about 80 organisations in the US, Asia and Africa and interviewed leaders of 11, then grouped what they found into eight main pathways to impact at scale, from expanding direct services to shifting policy and practice. Leaders and funders use it to see which routes exist and which fit their model. It updates Bridgespan's 2014 work with new cases.
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Equitable Compensation Playbook
A playbook for HR and reward professionals in international NGOs who want to rethink pay policy. It aims to help organisations reduce pay inequality, including gaps between national and international staff, and make reward more transparent. It comes with a companion Excel worksheet, a video on how to use it and a podcast discussion. Organisations use it to review their current approach and plan changes to compensation policy and practice.
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Charities and risk management (CC26)
Guidance from the charity regulator for England and Wales on how trustees identify, assess and manage risks to their charity. It defines a risk as any event that could stop a charity achieving its aims or carrying out its strategies, with examples such as reputational damage, lost funding, poor investments and policy changes. Trustees use it to set up and review a risk register and to report on risk in their accounts.
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