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227 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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The Future Is Collective
A practical guide by Niloufar Khonsari for nonprofit and social justice leaders who want their workplace to reflect their values. It shows how to decentralise power and set up collective governance, build transparency, equity and mutual care into daily operations, and explain structural changes to funders. It also covers everyday conflict, difficult team dynamics and job terminations, handled with a compassionate, justice-centred approach.
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When Shift Happens: Navigating Toward a Framework for Responsible Philanthropic Exits
A journal article that sets out a framework for responsible exits when a foundation stops funding a field or grantee. Learning leaders from the Skillman Foundation, the California Health Care Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts drew on literature, focus groups, interviews with foundation staff and nonprofit leaders, and their own experience. The result is 7 core elements meant to keep a field resilient after funding ends.
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Holding People and Teams: An Organizational Handbook for Growth, Care & Accountability
A free handbook from Change Elemental for organisations that want systems which support shared leadership, care and accountability at the same time. It covers team agreements, feedback practices, role clarity and accountability processes, and how they fit together so people can grow without accountability becoming punitive. Written for teams working on equity and collaborative ways of working, and shared as an open Google Doc.
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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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Employee Wellbeing Survey for Nonprofit Organizations
A 12-question staff survey template for nonprofit teams that takes about 5 minutes to complete. It covers retention, workload and boundaries, burnout risk, purpose, psychological safety, manager and team support, pay fairness and organisational care, plus 1 open question. Responses are anonymous. Leaders run it twice a year, or quarterly in periods of change, then pick 1 or 2 actions and report back to staff within 2 weeks.
Start hereEmergingTool or templateFree with sign-upNonprofit Builder tool - 4.4C230
The Four Elements of Strong Relationships
A manager's guide to building strong working relationships with staff, from The Management Center. It sets out four elements: authenticity, showing up as yourself and seeing staff as whole people; trust, built through care, integrity and competence in daily actions; power and difference, navigating identity, power and privilege with intention; and shared purpose, agreeing what the team is trying to achieve and how. Free to read online or download.
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Mental Health & Wellbeing
A themed resource page from GISF that treats staff wellbeing as part of an organisation's duty of care. It collects guides, toolkits, papers, articles and tip sheets on stress, burnout, resilience, traumatic stress, mindfulness, psychological first aid and mental health and psychosocial support for aid workers. Security and HR staff in humanitarian and development NGOs use it to find guidance and tools.
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Holistic Security: A Strategy Manual for Human Rights Defenders
A strategy manual that helps human rights defenders plan for their security and well-being. It joins self-care, digital security and information security with traditional security management. The online version has 4 sections that form a cycle: Prepare, Explore, Strategise and Act. Chapters cover context and threat analysis, security plans, organisational security and protests. Exercises, further reading and a separate Trainers' Manual support group workshops.
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