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211 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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    Executive Team Effectiveness Toolkit

    A free set of tools for nonprofit chief executives and their senior teams. It contains a CEO checklist for managing the executive team, an interdependence and stakes matrix for picking the decisions the team should own, key questions on team composition, meeting agenda templates with wrap-up and written update formats, and steps for agreeing team behavioural norms with examples. CEOs and consultants use it to review and restructure how the top team works.

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    Influencing for Impact Guide

    An 81-page Oxfam guide for civil society organisations, activists and campaigners who design influencing strategies for programmes or stand-alone campaigns. It gives steps, tools and examples on context analysis, power analysis, setting objectives, building narratives and choosing tactics. Further sections cover research, lobbying, digital and social media, mobilisation, and changing behaviours and social norms. Teams use it to plan, run and learn from influencing work.

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    Systems Change Crash Course

    A free, self-paced course from Ashoka Changemakers and Ashoka Globalizer. Through short videos and worksheets it walks you through how to spot the system behind a social problem and design a strategy to shift it. It draws on Ashoka's decades of work with social entrepreneurs who tackle root causes. Founders and teams use it to plan how their work can change policies, markets or norms.

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